John Krasinski might be a well known entertainer, chief, and maker, yet his children don’t get it. The Jack Ryan star showed up on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night, where he focused on how girls Hazel, 8, and Violet, 6, believe he’s lying with regards to his job on The Workplace, the long-running parody that sent off his profession.

They think he works in a genuine office, as a matter of fact. “I believe that is on the grounds that I because strolling them to school one day, and this person came up, and he was extremely great, he went, ‘John! From The Workplace!,’ ” he started. “I went ‘Definitely,’ and he said, ‘Wow, it’s so great to see you,’ and I expressed profound gratitude, and he continued to walk.”

After the communication, Krasinski’s little girl said as much, ‘you work with him?’ I went, ‘No.’ And she goes, ‘For what reason are you misleading me?’ I went, ‘I’m not deceiving you.’ She goes, ‘No, he just said he knows you from the workplace.’ ” At the hour of the collaboration, Krasinski’s young ladies had just seen one episode of the show, which broadcasted from 2005-2013.

“Their genuine statement — we were driving — and said, ‘So what’s going on with this Office thing?’ ” he reviewed.

“I was like ‘alright, that is a big inquiry, we’ll chop it down in reduced down pieces.’ ” Spouse Emily Gruff, whom he marry in 2010, recommended showing them the pilot.

“They were watching the main episode and my most seasoned, it turns out she’s a screen talker-atter, so she’s conversing with the screen,” he said.

“At the point when Steve terminated Jenna, she goes, ‘What are you doing?,’ then, at that point, she goes ‘You’re a horrendous individual.’ ”

“‘You ought to meet Steve Carell,’ ” he yucked. Krasinski couldn’t persuade Violet all things considered. “My kid continued to ask, ‘Is that you?’ ” he recalled.

“According to furthermore, she, ‘You look totally different.’ I was like, ‘I’ll make an effort not to accept that as something harmful,’ but rather certain, I say, ‘No, that is me, I was simply playing a person, and she went ‘Pfff, that is not you.’ Then we watched two additional episodes, and she goes, ‘That is not you. That person seems as though you however!’ ”

Colbert recommended showing her “the Ricky Gervais variant,” referring to the U.K. variant that circulated from 2001-2003.

“That’s what she’ll adore,” Krasinski sneered. “Then she’ll be like, ‘There’s an English form of you?’ And I’ll be like, ‘Definitely.’ ”

Noticing that Unpolished had an early advantage on cool focuses by playing Mary Poppins, Krasinski conceded, “I think my children thought she had hitched me out of good cause, similar to, ‘You’re so good to wed a bookkeeper’ since they don’t have the foggiest idea what I do.” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs weeknights (11:30 p.m. ET) on CBS.