{"id":535744,"date":"2026-06-15T04:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/535744\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T04:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:13:13","slug":"rainn-wilson-claims-the-office-was-too-inappropriate-to-be-made-today-seemingly-forgetting-about-peacock-sequel-the-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/535744\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainn Wilson Claims \u2018The Office\u2019 Was too \u2018Inappropriate\u2019 to Be Made Today, Seemingly Forgetting About Peacock Sequel \u2018The Paper\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Office\u201d star Rainn Wilson recently told Fox News Digital<\/a> that the beloved NBC sitcom could\u2019ve never been made in today\u2019s cultural climate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do feel like you couldn\u2019t make \u2018The Office\u2019 today,\u201d said Wilson. \u201cI think that would be too hard to be as politically incorrect as the show was. And I do kind of miss that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added that there was a lot of \u201creally inappropriate\u201d humor in \u201cThe Office,\u201d especially from his character, Dwight Schrute, and Steve Carell\u2019s lead, Michael Scott. Wilson thought, even though Michael and Dwight were portrayed as having no \u201cself-awareness,\u201d their antics wouldn\u2019t fly in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe milked that for a lot of great, really inappropriate stuff,\u201d Wilson recalled. \u201cBut even with the fact that painting that character as just an idiot, I don\u2019t think you could get away with it today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson starred as Schrute across all nine seasons of \u201cThe Office,\u201d which aired on NBC for 201 episodes from 2005 to 2013<\/p>\n

Despite Wilson\u2019s comments, \u201cThe Office\u201d recently received \u201cThe Paper,\u201d<\/a> a sequel series that premiered on Peacock in September 2025. Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Ramona Young, Tim Key and Oscar Nu\u00f1ez, \u201cThe Paper\u201d follows the day-to-day of a struggling Midwestern newspaper. The second season<\/a> is set to launch later this year.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Wilson opened up about how \u201cThe Office\u201d pushed boundaries with its humor. He told \u201cThe Last Laugh\u201d podcast back in September 2025 that \u201cThe Office\u201d could be \u201cjaw-droppingly\u201d offensive<\/a>, and that if it were released today, it would be a \u201cvery, very different\u201d show.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen you know, the Benihana Christmas episode where Michael and Andy draw with a sharpie on one of the Asian women that they\u2019ve brought back to the Christmas party is jaw droppingly kind of horrific,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a tricky conversation, you know? They\u2019re clueless and in their cluelessness they\u2019re racist and insensitive, and they\u2019re always saying the wrong thing. And that\u2019s Michael, Dwight and Andy \u2014 and Kevin for that matter. So it\u2019s a show based around clueless, insensitive, racist, sexist people that kind of mirrors the United States in a lot of ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

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