Michael Schur wrote for the The Office, and created The Good Place, and co-created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. His new show for Netflix, A Man on the Inside, features Ted Danson as a widowed retiree who goes undercover in a retirement community. He spoke with Terry Gross about the series. Later, comic and Silicon Valley actor Jimmy O. Yang talks about his new Hulu series, Interior Chinatown. He plays a waiter who inadvertently becomes central to a crime story. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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The co creator of the series Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn nine nine, who also created the Good Place and wrote for the Office, Michael Shore.
He has a new comedy series called A Man on the Inside.
Like the Good Place, it stars Ted Danson and draws on philosophy and ethics.
Later, a talk with comic and actor Jimmy O.
Yang.
He stars in the new Hulu series Interior Chinatown.
Yang is known for his roles in Crazy Rich Asians and the TV series Silicon Valley.
He's also done stamp up specials and wrote the memoir how to An Immigrant's Guide to disappointing your parents.