The British Office

More subtle and yet goofier than american sitcoms the office is a unique slice of british humor.

The british office. The characters were remained static throughout the length of the show because brits get a kick out of the fact that nothing ever changes. The office is a british television mockumentary sitcom first broadcast in the uk on bbc two on 9 july 2001. As such it is responsible for policing in england and wales fire and rescue services in england visas and immigration and the security service mi5.

Created written and directed by ricky gervais and stephen merchant and produced by ash atalla the programme follows the day to day lives of office employees in the slough branch of the fictional wernham hogg paper company. Funny witty and horrifyingly true to life this is a brilliant series. But ricky gervais has him beat on that score.

The office season 1 29 imdb 8 5 2001 x ray tv 14 in a paper merchants in the heart of middle england david brent ricky gervais is a lower middle ranking manager in charge of a lower middle ranking office. The office is a scathing satire of corporate life full of backfiring practical jokes failed flirting and all around bad behavior. 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.

It s a huge disservice to the original british version and that s unfortunate because the british office was fantastic. Stirling gallacher from little britain and coronation street stars as. 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. The office features ricky gervais of meet ricky gervais as david brent and sherlock s martin freeman as tim canterbury. More start watching the office u k stream thousands of shows and movies with plans starting at 5 99 month.

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.