“Parks and Recreation” star Chris Pratt pushed back against various “mean-spirited” jokes made about his co-star, Jim O’Heir’s, character Jerry Gergich in the hit mockumentary.

For seven seasons of the show, the two co-starred together on the popular show, with Pratt, 45, portraying the lovable albeit idiotic Andy Dwyer, and O’Heir, 62, playing office klutz Jerry Gergich, who was often the butt of the joke. In his new book, “Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation,” O’Heir recalls a previous conversation he had with Pratt.

“I remember you, particularly more than some others, being worried about some of the Jerry bits being … mean,” O’Heir told Pratt, according to the Independent. “I remember you saying, ‘Jimmy, you OK with these?’ … Do you remember that feeling at all?”

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