The Office’s Michael Scott is a comedy character with unprecedented depth and complexity for a major TV sitcom. Reprehensible yet lovable, naive yet conceited, and painfully offensive yet adorably innocent, Michael is the kind of contradictory central hero you simply can’t take your eyes off. We laugh at him but cry with him, and look forward to what he’s going to say next with excitement and dread in equal measure. I thought I’d never come across another sitcom character as wonderfully, cringingly hilarious until I discovered Veep’s Selina Meyer.