He\u2019s still not over it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Office\u201d star Rainn Wilson admits that the NBC comedy took it too far sometimes \u2014\u00a0and would need to be a \u201cvery, very different\u201d show if it returned in 2025.<\/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 he said during an appearance on \u201cThe Last Laugh\u201d podcast <\/a>released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Rainn Wilson on a 2008 episode of \u201cThe Office.\u201d \u00a9NBC\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n Rain Wilson on \u201cThe Last Laugh\u201d podcast. lastlaughpod\/Instagram<\/p>\n Wilson starred as the office weirdo, Dwight Schrute, on the comedy, which ran from 2005 to 2013.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThey\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,\u201d he explained further. \u201cSo 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 He added: \u201c[It\u2019s] a tricky conversation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Although Wilson noted that you want to \u201cencourage it,\u201d because, \u201cit\u2019s funny as hell and it also kind of skewers a particular American sensibility,\u201d it still goes \u201cpretty far if you dig deep.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCould it happen today?\u201d he asked. \u201cI think it would have to be very, very different if it were made in this environment.\u201d<\/p>\n Steve Carell and Rainn Wilson in \u201cThe Office.\u201d \u00a9NBC\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n John Krasinski and Rainn Wilson in \u201cThe Office.\u201d \u00a9NBC\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n Earlier this month, \u201cThe Office\u201d spinoff \u201cThe Paper\u201d premiered on Peacock<\/a>, following a new cast of characters in a new workplace.<\/a><\/p>\n Oscar Nunez was the only original \u201cThe Office\u201d star to reprise his role, revealing to The Post that Wilson asked him about the new project.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, Rainn Wilson is always the one who finds out about things. He\u2019s got his finger on the pulse of whatever is going on,\u201d Nunez told The Post.<\/p>\n \u201cI think he was the first one who was like, \u2018Is there something going on?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Rainn Wilson on \u201cThe Last Laugh\u201d podcast on Sept 10. lastlaughpod\/Instagram<\/p>\n Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute, Oscar Nunez as Oscar Martinez and Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone on \u201cThe Office.\u201d NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/p>\n Alex Edelman as Adam, Gbemisola Ikumelo as Adelola, Domhnall Gleeson as Ned, Melvin Gregg as Detrick on \u201cThe Paper.\u201d Aaron Epstein\/PEACOCK<\/p>\n Wilson was originally supposed to star in a spinoff about Dwight, called \u201cThe Farm,\u201d which had a backdoor pilot during a final season episode of \u201cThe Office.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n NBC ultimately didn\u2019t move forward with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cNBC at that time had a new regime that came in and they wanted to do big, bright, flashy, splashy shows that were multi-cams and going back to \u2018Friends\u2019 kind of thing,\u201d Wilson explained on the podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd they were just not interested at all in \u2018Office\u2019 spinoffs at the time. Had they taken \u2018The Farm,\u2019 they\u2019d probably have another billion dollars in the bank,\u201d he went on. \u201cEven now, all the people that have seen \u2018The Office\u2019 20 times, they\u2019re going to watch \u2018The Farm\u2019 at least once or twice.\u201d<\/p>\n Rainn Wilson attends the men\u2019s singles final of the US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Sept. 7, 2025. JOHN G MABANGLO\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n Creed Bratton, Ed Helms, Brian Baumgartner, Leslie David Baker, (middle): Rainn Wilson, Phyllis Smith, Oscar Nunez, Minday Kaling, (front): Kate Flannery, John Krasinski, Steve Carell, Amy Ryan, Angela Kinsey, on \u201cThe Office.\u201d \u00a9NBC\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n He did admit, however, that \u201cThe Farm\u201d would not have been as good as \u201cThe Office.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo. No way. Not even close,\u201d he proclaimed.<\/p>\n \u201cWould it have been good? Would it have been solid? Would it have been a good solid comedy? Yeah, it would have, and we would\u2019ve done some really cool stuff,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd I think they really missed out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s still not over it.\u00a0 \u201cThe Office\u201d star Rainn Wilson admits that the NBC comedy took it too…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,1030,111330,31108,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-221859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-nbc","10":"tag-rainn-wilson","11":"tag-the-office","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115193417846064272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}