Mindy Kaling has said that The Office would be canceled today due to its "inappropriate" jokes, as she reflected on the legacy left by the hit TV show.
The Office ran from 2005 until 2013 and was an adaptation of a British show of the same name, produced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
The series featured much-loved characters such as Michael Scott, Dwight Schrute, and Pam Beesly as the mockumentary followed the day in the life of the Scranton branch of paper company Dunder Mifflin.
Mindy Kaling, 43, played Kelly Kapoor in 157 episodes of the sitcom but has recently opened up about how she believes The Office wouldn't thrive in today's world.
Speaking to Good Morning America, the actress was asked whether she would let her children - who are two and four years old - watch the show.
"I kind of think maybe never," Kaling said. "That show was so inappropriate. We always talk about – the writers I’m still in touch with – we talk about how so much of that show we probably couldn’t make now.
"Tastes have changed and honestly what offends people has changed so much now," she added.
The Office actress went on to say that the taboo nature of the show is why she believes it to still be so popular to this day, adding: "There’s something kind of fearless about it."
She later said that she may be more open to letting her kids see her past work once they are teenagers and could understand it more.
Kaling pondered what the characters would be up to nowadays in real life, predicting for her own character Kelly Kapoor: "I think she probably would have quit Dunder Mifflin to be an influencer and then probably would have been canceled almost immediately."
She spoke about the other characters, saying that most of them probably would have been canceled in the modern world too. Well - have you met Michael Scott?!
The Office was "by far" the most streamed show on major streaming platforms in 2020, with viewers accumulating nearly 57 billion minutes throughout the year, per Variety.
Whilst some jokes do push boundaries, it's clear there is still a very large audience for the comedy, even if some of the characters would not last long in today's world.
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