The British Office

A mockumentary about life in a mid sized suboffice paper merchants in a bleak british industrial town where manager david brent thinks he s the coolest funniest and most popular boss ever.

The british office. The office is a scathing satire of corporate life full of backfiring practical jokes failed flirting and all around bad behavior. The home office ho is a ministerial department of her majesty s government of the united kingdom responsible for immigration security and law and order. Ricky gervais name is on the credits of the american version but he must be busy doing stand up and turning down offers to host award shows.

He s clearly not paying attention. While seinfeld lasted for nine seasons. Above all the british appreciated the cringe worthy realistic characters in the show as well as the brutally honest albeit satirized depiction of office life.

The characters were remained static throughout the length of the show because brits get a kick out of the fact that nothing ever changes. Ricky gervais explains why the british office had such a brief run video jerry seinfeld gets a lot of credit for being the rare comedian to step away from a mega hit comedy while it was still on top. The office is a british television mockumentary sitcom first broadcast in the uk on bbc two on 9 july 2001.

Stirling gallacher from little britain and coronation street stars as. More subtle and yet goofier than american sitcoms the office is a unique slice of british humor. Funny witty and horrifyingly true to life this is a brilliant series.

The office features ricky gervais of meet ricky gervais as david brent and sherlock s martin freeman as tim canterbury. It s a huge disservice to the original british version and that s unfortunate because the british office was fantastic. But ricky gervais has him beat on that score.

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