"I'm not playing the actual media manager of Space Force, but I did find out while filming it that there is someone that has my exact job," he tells us "It's so

"I'm not playing the actual media manager of Space Force, but I did find out while filming it that there is someone that has my exact job," he tells us "It's so funny, I didn't even think about that when it was happening. I've never been a part of something where things are happening so parallel."

There are some definite parallels between the show and the real life progression of Space Force, though Schwartz says the show was actually ahead of real life. It all just started with the idea that Space Force is a funny concept.

"I think they were just playing with the idea that this is a new thing called Space Force, especially when they started writing it. It wasn't even financed until we were done filming, the last week we were filming," he says. "There's so much comedy in the idea of a new military branch that is militarizing space. What does that mean? What can we do with that? And Greg and Steve kind of went crazy with it."

Steve Carell confirmed this in a video Netflix posted on Twitter, saying of the origins of the series "There was no show. There was no idea. It was really based on nothing except the name that made everybody laugh."