A few years ago, Greg Daniels was looking for a partner to help executive produce “ The Paper ,” his new mockumentary chronicling the cubicle drones tasked with saving a dying Toledo, Ohio, newspaper. But as he pitched the idea to “Saturday Night Live” alum Michael Koman , he left out an especially key fact: The show was going to be a follow-up to “ The Office .”

“When Greg brought the idea of a documentary covering this newspaper, I just thought it was a good idea. I didn’t know until later that it was going to be connected to ‘The Office’!” Koman says. Here’s what’s makes that even funnier: Koman is married to actress Ellie Kemper, who worked with Daniels as one of the stars of “The Office.”

“I didn’t want to scare Michael off,” Daniels explains. “The notion of doing some follo

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