Steve Carell saved The Office by making sure Michael Scott wasn’t just ‘an asshole’: ‘The whole show turned around’

> Feig continued, “He’s got a humanity about him and everybody figured out, ‘No, he’s not an asshole. He’s a misguided idiot who is an asshole because he’s trying to be funny.’ Right. So you go like, ‘Okay, he means well.'”

> So for the record, Michael Scott, kind of an asshole but with redeemable qualities. David Brent, however, total asshole, no redeemable qualities. And that’s comedy, depending on whether you’re American or British.