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He'll probably be here in a sec.
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Just... Obviously, quite busy,
you know? Because he's...
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(KNOCKING)
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- Here he is.
- (RICKY) All right. Bradley.
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Marcus. You... Dougie, you reprobate.
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All right, mate. They're all there.
You been waiting long?
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- About 45 minutes...
- I've got my own. Those are shit.
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Shall we start? Yeah?
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- Oh... From the beginning?
- Yes.
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1981. Adam and the Ants. Who could forget?
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- It's not "I Love 1981".
- No?
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- No, it's about "The Office".
- Brilliant.
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I wish it was "I Love 1970".
Spacehoppers! Swizzlers!
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Yeah, we're talking about "The Office".
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- Sorry. Why just "by Ricky Gervais"?
- Well, it is...
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Why not "by Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant"?
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Too long? Just your name's shorter? Thanks.
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The thing is, Ricky's the most
irritating man I've ever met.
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I can't deny that he's got a capacity
to be irritating.
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Why is he irritating? So many reasons.
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Things like going... (SQUAWKS)
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...like that, for literally no reason.
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He's like a child who's had too much tartrazine
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and now needs calming down.
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(SQUAWKS)
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He wilfully tries to destroy scenes.
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He'll keep on until he gets a reaction.
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- He loves it.
- It's... a joy.
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Yeah, he loves it... (SQUEAKS)
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- He loves all that. I go...
- Don't do it now,
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- because I'll go mental.
- Isn't he touchy?
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(MAN) Slate 22, Take 1.
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I remember I had to have a single shot of me
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just looking a bit put out, maybe,and stern, whatever,
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and Ricky was just...
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(BELCHES)
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I'm gonna be sick. Give me that bin. Seriously.
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- That smells like...
- Give me that bin!
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- That smells like a pocket of egg.
- Put it there. Keep it going.
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- You know...
- (STEPHEN) Stop belching.
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My friend Robin says I've got two moods.
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One is... (SQUEALS)
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And the other is, "I'll have someone fired!"
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Yeah, he's a total hypocrite.
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Anyone else makes a noise -
"I can't believe this!"
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- That's not true!
- But him making noise, that's fine.
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There was one bit where...
because it was an empty real office,
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the office next door
came to complain about the noise.
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- That's true.
- It was supposed to be a quiet set,
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and he's there singing, screaming, shouting.
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Because he's the star, he's allowed.
"I'll get stressed if I don't."
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I fired the location manager,
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and said, "Why put us next to a grumpy office?"
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"I've got to squeak and jump around
and let off fireworks."
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He tends to touch, sometimes...
(SIGHS)
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It can be a little bit upsetting.
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He puts his arm around you,
fiddles with your hair.
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And he says, "Come on.
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"Liking a kiss and cuddle with another man
doesn't make you gay,"
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which I've thought a lot about,
and I think it does. I think it does.
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The thing about TV is, literally, time is money.
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- It all has to be right first time.
- That's why... Go on.
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That's why I imagine you deliberately
jeopardise every single take we do.
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- I wasn't going to say that.
- He'll add lines or names.
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- (WOMAN) Action.
- You don't often see silk for £9.99.
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- (WOMAN) Action.
- £9.99. Pure silk. Snapped it up.
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- (WOMAN) Action.
- Wally Burton.
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Two for ten quid. Yes, please.
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- (WOMAN) Action.
- Nobby Burton came. Two for £10.
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- (WOMAN) Action.
- Deaf Nobby Burton with the case...
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(SNIGGERING)
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(STEPHEN) Why are you making it harder?
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OK. I'm sorry. I'll just say Nobby
Burton who comes with the case.
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Two for a tenner. I got four.
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A lot of stuff that ends up in
"The Office" comes from me mucking around
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and annoying people,
so that's what I say in my defence.
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- It's my art.
- I remember when we did the pilot,
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we did a sequence of the talking
heads, then left the camera rolling,
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and I'd interview him, and he'd talk
as though he were Brent.
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Some ideas came out, but mostly,
I'd ruin it by cracking up.
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One of the, I suppose, occupational
hazards of being a laugh
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is that they think
they can have a laugh, and they can,
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but not... at the expense... of me
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and... the company as a whole
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without humour involvement.
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In that sense, I mean, they can't...
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(LAUGHTER IN BACKGROUND)
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I'm sorry.
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...without the humour involvement.
By that, I mean...
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I don't mind a laugh during work,
or instead of work,
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what I don't enjoy is what I call
the anti-laugh, where it's at...
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I'm sorry.
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- (STEPHEN) Can I just leave?
- That won't help.
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It's what is called, by me, the anti-laugh,
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and that is anything goes, thanks very much.
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Have a laugh. Find the funny side
of life in everything, OK?
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Have a laugh at yourself, please.
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Have a laugh at me, because I will with you,
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but don't make the mistake
of the laughter of hate.
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(LAUGHTER)
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(STEPHEN) Right, fuck this. I'm going out.
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I first met Stephen when I was working at XFM,
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a local London radio station,
and I was the head of speech.
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If you've heard him speak, that's ludicrous.
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He had to be involved with all
the speech output - news, competitions...
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You needed a perfect grasp of communication.
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So, I'd blagged the job - well paid, wasn't it?
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- Very good.
- But then I had to do stuff,
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which was annoying, and I knew nothing about it.
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So, I said, "Look. The workload
is mental. I need an assistant."
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And they went, "Sure."
And I met Steve and said, "Listen,
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"I've got to do loads of stuff, filing and stuff.
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"If you do all that,
I'll let you get away with murder,"
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which left me free to do more important stuff.
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- Rolling around on your chair.
- That was one.
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- Boating.
- Golfing.
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I joined the BBC and I was training there.
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I had a training day
where you had to make a short film,
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and most people were doing documentaries,
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but Ricky had this character
that he used to improvise in the office.
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It was a thing called Seedy Boss,
more an observation
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on a lecherous boss, who was smarmy
and... It was David Brent.
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I don't give crappy jobs.
If I give a good job to a good guy,
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and then, after a while,
he says, "Thank you for that job.
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"I've done that. I want to move on,"
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then I can make that dream
come true, too, aka, for you.
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(STEPHEN) We shot itat the University of London
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and used some actor mates of mine.
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- Air-conditioning... computerised.
- So, it's all hermetically sealed.
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That's just Artexed, I think, but, the...
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It knows the temperature, the time,
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whether you're working or not...
No, that's illegal.
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(RICKY) The reason we shot itlike a documentary was time.
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It was quicker. We only had
the camera crew for a day.
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If time's against you
and you just film the character talking,
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it's really simple, but you can
get a sense of the character.
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I really love the talking heads in the show.
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Because it's like a documentary,
we couldn't do people off camera.
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They can't shut the door and snort coke.
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They can't blurt out things they're thinking,
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but, ironically, when they're
by themselves and they're being filmed,
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they're a little bit more honest,
because it's flattering.
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When a camera's pointed at someone,
they think, "This is my chance.
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"I can tell everyone my philosophies on life."
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Of course, they blow it and can't take it back...
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- like now.
- Exactly.
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People... They could come to me
and go, "David," erm...
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"You've been in the business 15 years.
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"Can you give me a couple of words of advice?"
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But they don't. That's the tragedy.
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There were points that were almost
towards the surreal
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that we decided we wouldn't have,
because we wanted a normal person.
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There's little bits and pieces
that wouldn't sit well.
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There's a bit where you put lipstick on.
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(INAUDIBLE)
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That was the first time Ricky
had done any acting properly,
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and once that got made
and the little demo tape existed,
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it got seen, and he got onto the "11 O'clock Show",
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yet he was an absolute nightmare.
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The clock was ticking, and he's like,
"That's fine. Let's go to the pub."
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I've got film of us rehearsing -
just an empty pint glass.
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He's thinking, "Bar closes soon."
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- (RICKY) I'm acting faster.
- Absolute nightmare.
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- Now you're marginally better.
- How weird.
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- You've learned so much.
- People say, "Will fame change you?"
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- You were always obnoxious.
- Yeah.
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Hour and a half. You went at quarter to.
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After the little pre-pilot that
we shot ourselves, the demo pilot,
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the BBC commissioned a script
and then a real pilot, if you like.
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The script seemed quite good. I went
along and originally read for Gareth.
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Then I was on my way out the door,
pretty much, then I read for Tim.
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I was imagining him
more like Norm from "Cheers".
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He was going to be fat and wise-cracking.
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I had three call-backs, I think, for the part,
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but they don't let you know
it's a close thing and you might not get it.
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Some people we ended up with
were not as we imagined originally.
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I remember when Mackenzie came in
as Gareth, I wasn't convinced at all.
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I didn't realise Stephen didn't think I was right.
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I'd imagined him bigger, more militaristic.
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Obviously, the weedy guy won through
in the end... but I can play butch.
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What was exciting about Mackenzie
is that because he looks fragile,
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not how we first imagined,
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we found that we could give him
more ridiculous, horrendous lines,
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and you still didn't mind,
because of his little bird-type face.
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I don't mean like a woman.
I mean like a little fledgling pigeon
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who just hatched too early.
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There's a sort of vulenerabilly
about Mackenzie... Vulenerabilly?
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- Ah, language is your tool.
- Ah... We can cut that.
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- We'll put a subtitle up.
...vulnerability, and that was nice.
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I don't give shitty jobs.
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When a good man comes to me and says,
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"Thank you for the opportunity
and the continued..."
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(STEPHEN) The official BBC pilotis pretty much the same
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as episode one of the series,
but there was a sequence
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where Dawn tells Tim a joke - did you
see that film, "Gaylords Say No"?
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- No.
- That means you're a gaylord.
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See? A classic school playground joke.
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- Oh, yeah.
- Just got it?
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And then they play that joke on the cleaning lady.
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- Say it back to me.
- "Did you see a film, 'Gays"'?
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No. "Did you see that film
last night, 'Gaylords Say No?"'
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- Get it?
- Yes.
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- Ask Gareth.
- Gareth, did you see a film,
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- "Gaylords"?
- What?!
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She was wondering if you saw
that film, "Gaylords Say No"?
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- No.
- That means you're a gaylord.
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I'm not a gaylord. What's a gaylord?
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- Oh, hello.
- Hiya.
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Then there was a sequence
about Gareth finding out
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that there's going to be redundancies,
and he's really upset.
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The old shares.
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Ooh, oil. Somebody got their fingers burnt.
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(KNOCK)
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Listen, I need to know
if there's anything you've heard,
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any rumours, from Head Office...
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- Anything?
- You've got stuff on your face.
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- It's probably ink.
- You're making it worse.
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Have you got a tissue or... Sorry. What's that?
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- It's not mine.
- Is it your mum's?
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- Yeah. Mine are twice as big.
- Without the lace?
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No...
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- You do it.
- I haven't got a mirror. Dawn?
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- They're all talking out there.
- Right. Slow down. Who's talking?
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- Have you got a tissue?
- (DAWN) Whose is that?
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- My mum's. Mine are bigger.
- Without the lace.
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I should be first after you to know.
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Yeah, the first after me to know, OK...
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Don't! What's that?
It's meant to be my spit on my face.
229
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I don't want it now. Don't bother.
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I feel I've got a responsibility to the staff...
231
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- Say what you mean.
- Jennifer was here this morning.
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Now there's rumours...
Dawn, this is a private meeting...
233
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What's this about us losing our jobs?
234
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- This is a private meeting.
- Joan, sit down.
235
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I don't think that I'm being s...
236
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Frankly, I'm a little bit insulted...
237
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(KNOCK)
238
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- Losing jobs?
- Give us two minutes.
239
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- Sit down, Malcolm.
- This was a private meeting.
240
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- It's just...
- Can I just?
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OK...
242
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- (SNORTS)
- As team leader...
243
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- (KNOCK)
- This is pathetic!
244
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Right, I've called this meeting...
Thanks for coming.
245
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- I've called this meeting...
- Gareth, sit down.
246
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All it is is that the powers
that be have deemed...
247
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- You're telling them?
- You don't know what's going on.
248
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- I called the meeting.
- To find out. I'm telling you.
249
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In front of everyone else. No, go on.
250
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(STEPHEN) It felt like a sitcom,with a beginning, middle and end.
251
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In a real documentary,
they piece together that from real life.
252
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We wanted that sense
that we'd cobbled it together.
253
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I panicked. I thought it was
the sitcom that we said we'd never make.
254
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We geed ourselves up and went back
to basics to do something...
255
00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:13,075
We thought we were making
something new. We hoped we were.
256
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We didn't want anything...
257
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You called it
"better than Dickens", didn't you?
258
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Yeah...
259
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It is. And that Shakespeare.
260
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Gaylord.
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- Whassup?
- Hey, whassup? I love that.
262
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(RICKY) I think it lookedquite real because I'm not an actor.
263
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I don't care about hitting marks
or where I stand.
264
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Steve would go, "Can you at least speak up?"
265
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- "Face the right direction."
- "Not really. I'll do it this way."
266
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You do think that everything
you've guessed is the truth.
267
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You assume that's actually how it's done.
268
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- I'm not a trained actor.
- This is amazing.
269
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- Or a trained director.
- His CV is empty.
270
00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,910
- Yeah... I haven't got a CV.
- No.
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Never needed one.
272
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He'll be on a talking head and be
more worried about the lighting.
273
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"Learn the lines. You wrote them. OK?"
274
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The difference between our show
and others set in offices
275
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is that they're always too full of incident.
276
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There's people doing one-liners, doing crazy stuff
277
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and getting into scrapes,
which is not what an office is like.
278
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It's just monotony, if it's a job you don't enjoy,
279
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which is interspersed with somebody
making a joke or something.
280
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So, we wanted lots of sequences
between the jokes of people working.
281
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There's something lovely and empty and boring
282
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about someone sat typing at a computer.
283
00:19:55,520 --> 00:20:00,116
I know drama is life
with the boring bits taken out,
284
00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:04,552
but we left some in,
because they can be the funniest bits.
285
00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,877
So, we didn't top and tail scenes so cleanly.
286
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:13,996
We like dwelling on a bad joke or a nothingness.
287
00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:19,399
What's funny about a bad joke
is the agony of that silence afterwards.
288
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,435
Have you heard Michael Jackson's new song?
289
00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,757
- No.
- He's teamed up with West Ham,
290
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,348
doing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles."
291
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:37,230
The chimp. She doesn't know football.
Tell her later.
292
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The frustrating thing as a writer
293
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is that you had to get around
this camera being there.
294
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Because people couldn't do things
they wouldn't do on camera.
295
00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,675
It was a bind, but what we could use...
296
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The advantage is that it would up the agony,
297
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and that's where that came from.
298
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,636
(DAVID) That was a joke.
299
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(DAWN SOBS)
300
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You find, especially with the romantic plot,
301
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because the camera's filming them,
302
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they can't show their true feelings,
Tim and Dawn.
303
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:24,197
It means it's almost like
some Victorian seething melodrama,
304
00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,517
where just him touching her or her touching him,
305
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,359
that becomes as much as a kiss.
306
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,075
- A kiss becomes a shag.
- You get electricity.
307
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,314
- Can I have this?
- Yeah.
308
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,752
- When do you finish?
- I don't know. We could share it.
309
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,039
Ricky and Steve worked hard
to get that right.
310
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,710
It could have been embarrassing
or simply not worked.
311
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:55,159
The first time I got Tim and Dawn
was after seeing the last episode
312
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on the re-runs the other week,
313
00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:02,634
and for the first time I knew
why people got upset about that.
314
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,796
My mum rang me in tears.
315
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,669
It's not just a farcical comedy.
316
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:13,920
There's poignant bits in it that people care about.
317
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:18,955
When Gareth thinks that David Brent
might be leaving and he breaks down.
318
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,959
That's it, then, is it?
The old team on the scrap heap?
319
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,316
(MACKENZIE) Poor old Gareth.
320
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:32,078
He's a wally... but, yeah, I'm fond of him.
321
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,518
- (GARETH) This is stupid
- Yeah, it is. This is stupid.
322
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,596
Sorry. What do you want?
323
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,995
(MARTIN) Laurel and Hardy references
324
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,358
came out a little bit in Tim's looks to camera,
325
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,436
not that they're completely Ollie-esque.
326
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,676
I never went... Mmm!
327
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,593
I was working last night on something,
328
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,308
and I actually couldn't stop doing it.
329
00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:00,719
I think it might ruin my career.
So, you won't be seeing me again.
330
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,628
Everything I do now, I can't stop going...
331
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,918
Like that, which is a problem for any actor.
332
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,674
The other people in the office,
333
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:16,112
which weren't particularly main characters,
334
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,028
but rather than get extras,they were all proper actors.
335
00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:23,749
Hello, you're through to Keith...
336
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,440
(STEPHEN) Ewan was a real treat.
337
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,439
He was given a few lines,and had this whole character
338
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,309
of this deadpan... I don't know if it's real...
339
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:39,878
We still don't know whether that
was his best naturalistic acting,
340
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,152
and we just found it funny,
or he knew what he was doing.
341
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,989
I'd like to think he knew, 'cause it's great.
342
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,391
He won't mind me saying - he's a freak.
343
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,717
A hundred years ago, he wouldn't be in telly -
344
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,070
not only because it hadn't been invented.
345
00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:02,474
One of my favourite scenes
is in the smoking room, this tight shot.
346
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:07,230
He eats a Scotch egg at the end.His performance is impeccable.
347
00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:09,954
- What did you watch last night?
- A video.
348
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,117
- I watched "Peak Practice".
- Never seen it.
349
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,357
- Bloody repeat.
- Annoying, isn't it?
350
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,438
Not for me. I hadn't seen it.
351
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,679
Boring, isn't it? Just staying in
watching "Peak Practice"?
352
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,270
- Mmm... Yeah.
- Not for me. I like it.
353
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,949
I just stayed in and had a big wank.
354
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,912
Yeah, that scene was... It was very hard.
355
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:44,439
The arm came up on the same point
every time to eat the Scotch egg,
356
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,915
and Martin could see that.
357
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,554
Once you think something's funny, you're done.
358
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,270
After about five takes, I looked through
359
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:58,793
and Ash and Ricky and Steve
were all going, "Come on. Come on."
360
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,993
I thought,
"I might not actually manage this."
361
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,991
Boring, isn't it? Just staying in
watching "Peak Practice"?
362
00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:12,829
- Yeah.
- Not for me. I like it.
363
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,796
I just stayed...
364
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,273
(LAUGHTER)
365
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,356
(MAN) That was so good!
366
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,469
Boring, isn't it? Just staying in
watching "Peak Practice"?
367
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,239
- Yeah.
- Not for me. I like it.
368
00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:30,158
I just stayed in and had a big w...
369
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,633
(LAUGHTER AND SHOUTING)
370
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,189
Not for me. I like it.
371
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,956
Well, I just...
372
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,955
Boring, isn't it? Just staying in
watching "Peak Practice"?
373
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,277
- Yeah.
- Not for me. I like it.
374
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,518
- I stayed in and had a big wank.
- (COUGHS)
375
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:57,040
Boring, isn't it? Just sitting in
watching "Peak Practice"?
376
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,436
- Yeah.
- Not for me. I like it.
377
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,638
(LAUGHTER)
378
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,270
Ricky likes to remind me
that it took 13 takes.
379
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:14,191
Just walking down a corridor for him
took about 40, you know what I mean?
380
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:19,195
I knew when he was going to go,
because he would suddenly go...
381
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,471
and his face would just do that.
382
00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:26,076
What's the difference?
383
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,033
(MAN) A dwarf has disproportionately
short arms and legs.
384
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,390
I'm so sorry.
385
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:36,640
We've been saying that word
for an hour and suddenly it was funny.
386
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:44,870
I couldn't take it. Suddenly, the word
"midget" was... remarkably funny.
387
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:51,477
- Right. Here we go.
- (WOMAN) And...
388
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,114
- Action.
- What's the difference?
389
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,118
(MAN) A dwarf has disproportionately
short arms and legs.
390
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,196
- (WOMAN) Cut there.
- What am I going to do?
391
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,756
What's the difference?
392
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,509
(MAN) A dwarf has disproportionately
short arms and legs.
393
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,955
God Almighty. I am so sorry.
394
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,714
(WOMAN) And action.
395
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,829
God... OK, wait a minute.
396
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:19,913
Sorry, Jo.
397
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,596
- (JO) And action.
- What's the difference?
398
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,918
(MAN) A dwarf has disproportionately
short arms and legs.
399
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,508
I've no idea how to do this.
400
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,911
- (JO) Action.
- What's the difference?
401
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,396
- A dwarf...
- Fucking hell!
402
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,916
You think you'll never be able to do it.
403
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,477
You think, "If I never do this,
what happens? Do we run over by a year?
404
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,672
"What would happen?" It panics you.
405
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,993
Yeah, TV's Ricky Gervais is... not autistic,
406
00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,634
but he is like a sort of...
407
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,548
not even like a girl - that's an insult, too...
408
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:05,118
A... What's the PC word for "giggling buffoon"?
409
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,514
The scene where...
(GIGGLES AND SNORTS)
410
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:14,191
Dawn is eating her lunch.
She's just eating a sandwich.
411
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,911
She's really minding her own business,and David comes up.
412
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,077
I had a bit of a scare earlier.
413
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,715
- Did you?
- I thought I found a lump.
414
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,356
I examine myself regularly.
It's fine, but... terrifying,
415
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,996
testicular cancer... cancer of the old testicles.
416
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,031
What's that? (GIGGLES)
417
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,516
(STEPHEN) Oh, God! That was a great one.
418
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:46,668
- (RICKY) We'll do it again. Damn!
- What made you go?
419
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,756
(STEPHEN) Nobody whatsoever move.
420
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,668
- (MAN) It was my fault.
- (STEPHEN) No, it was mine.
421
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,514
He can barely get through a take
422
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,552
without being so impressed by his writing genius
423
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,069
that he ruins it with laughing.
424
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:05,637
He doesn't even have the humility
to say it isn't that funny.
425
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:11,949
It's like, "I am a genius. I'll ruin
the take... oh, again," you know?
426
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,755
He's not based on any one person.
427
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:31,193
He's a Frankenstein of all those types,
those bosses from hell.
428
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:35,233
The whole programme is basically
nailing types and observations.
429
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:40,480
It's very much ticking off office observations,
430
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,354
and David is one of those.
431
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:50,191
The most important one, sure,
but just one... the main one.
432
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:58,279
People have said to us that David Brent
is rubbish and should be fired.
433
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,597
If you walk around the BBC for a day,
434
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,475
you see people who are rubbish keep their jobs.
435
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,398
In very important jobs, too.
We're talking executives.
436
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:14,514
The only analogy I can use
is the marsupial survives in Australia
437
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,871
because there were no predators,
and that's the BBC.
438
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:23,279
No one has come in from outside
and gone, "What are you doing?"
439
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,789
John Harvey-Jones would decimate it.
440
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:31,233
- There'd just be me and Steve.
- Yeah, doing a lot. Plate spinning.
441
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:38,310
- Why isn't variety still as big?
- I wish it would come back.
442
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,193
You don't see enough song and dance men.
443
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,074
Do people go into plate spinning,
or is it handed down?
444
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,636
"Son, I've broken a couple, but these are yours."
445
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,515
- "I'm going to be a doctor..."
- It's not as popular now.
446
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,278
I don't think they are that unsympathetic.
447
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,234
I think Brent you should feel sorry for.
448
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,871
Gareth is... He's a right wally,
449
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,232
but, you know, he's all right, really. He's harmless.
450
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,029
The only person you could, in real life, not like
451
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,994
is probably Finch, Chris Finch,
because he's a bully.
452
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:25,956
He says funny things and you laugh,
then you go, "It's my turn soon."
453
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:31,069
People say, "Brent's such a bastard,"
but he's not, he's a tit.
454
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,475
He's a twerp. He's a knob.
455
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,273
He's all those things, he's a twerty-tit-knob.
456
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,550
- Exactly.
- A twerty-tit-knob.
457
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,194
I like bosses like that,
because you get away with murder.
458
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,198
All you do is laugh at their jokes,
459
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:53,269
invite them to one in five drinks
and that's it, he's your mate.
460
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:57,473
It's like teachers.
You soon learn that you can go,
461
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,830
"Mr Morris, what's your bike?"
462
00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:03,350
And he'll go, "Well, we...
It's a Harley-Davidson..."
463
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,951
You've got through the lesson.
It's just getting on their good side,
464
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:13,313
because they're not malicious,
and very often, they want a mate.
465
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,149
I don't mean they want to impregnate you.
466
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,635
- Is that a story?
- Well...
467
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:28,993
I was always told, doing English
"O" Level, write about what you know,
468
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,829
and it's so true, it's so much easier.
469
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:38,830
That's why you want our next project
to be set in a futuristic prison.
470
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,509
Well, yeah. I've been... It's called "Brain Jail",
471
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,189
and it's only your own conscience
that keeps you there,
472
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,390
because that's what it'll be like.
473
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,790
I'm working out as well.
474
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,550
I don't want to use the same body
I used for Brent, because...
475
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,958
Well, he's very flabby
and doesn't look so good in a vest.
476
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:05,473
He is. He's a flabby... bloke, Brent,
but this one won't be.
477
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,673
Not just flabby. Fat.
Downright fat. A bit of a bloater.
478
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,635
Whereas Scott Carson... Crime he didn't commit,
479
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,797
probably saving some people
from a burning building,
480
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,514
but he broke a rubbish future law
481
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,269
where you can't have your own thoughts.
482
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:30,235
- "Brain Jail!"
- "I downloaded my own feelings."
483
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:35,115
I wish you could get your dead wife's
memories and bring her back to life.
484
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,391
But the evil bloke, who wasn't even voted in...
485
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,478
- Not Zordon?
- He's got it on floppy disc.
486
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:46,116
Except it's not even a floppy disc
by then, it's a floppy... dot.
487
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,437
It's like a little dot that floats.
488
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,716
It's as good as written.
489
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,635
- It's as good as Dickens.
- Loser.
490
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,910
There wasn't much improvised in the making of it.
491
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,077
Most of it was there in the script.
492
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,154
As a tribute to the writing,
it's writing that sounds improvised.
493
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,073
The script comes out of improvisation, anyway.
494
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,839
As we're writing, we're doing it,
495
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,919
so we're very careful about
the dialogue and realism of that.
496
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,873
It seems more improvised than it is.
497
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:31,956
But within that, there would be times
that Ricky or Steve would come to us
498
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:38,599
and say, "We need a scene quickly,
a bridge from that scene to this one."
499
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:43,277
One of the times,
we had to do flirting improvising.
500
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,552
I thought... Because I love
my hair being played with,
501
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,719
so I thought, "I'll incorporate that.
He can't say no on camera."
502
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:56,636
So, basically, he had to playwith my hair, which was really nice.
503
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,832
- Oh, bless.
- Sorry, I touched your head.
504
00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:03,839
- (STEPHEN) Cut there.
- Carry on. Do my hair.
505
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,152
I'll do that more in the next series.
506
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,955
I might have a massage or something.
507
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,799
I'd never thought of that. Great.
508
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:20,388
Everyone knew their characters
so well that it was easy to ad lib,
509
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:25,799
like where David's on the phone
apparently firing Chris Finch,
510
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,310
and Jennifer presses the button,
and it's the speaking clock.
511
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,516
- Pathetic.
- Is it?
512
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:32,993
(SPEAKING CLOCK MESSAGE)
513
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,272
I checked my watch. I thought
that's the Gareth thing to do.
514
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,710
He checks that it is the right time.
515
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,990
Just filming what's funny is all you need to do.
516
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,076
You don't need to get clever.
517
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,751
Just filming Ricky Gervais's fat,
funny face is bloody hilarious.
518
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,030
- Four-eyes.
- Don't start on me.
519
00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:00,312
- You goggle-eyed freak.
- That's not fair, because I...
520
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:06,436
Also, when you say fat face, this is a condition.
521
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,994
- What condition?
- Greed.
522
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,910
So, before you insult someone,
it may be medically... cheese.
523
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,396
- Right.
- I'm suffering from Cheddar.
524
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:25,679
Well, yesterday, in fact,
on the tube, someone said to me,
525
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,950
"All right, Gareth. Where's Ricky?"
526
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:33,996
I'm like, "Why do I get called Gareth
and he gets called by his real name?
527
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:38,636
"And he doesn't travel
on the tube any more."
528
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,670
When I first started filming the pilot episode,
529
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:48,635
Ash had said to me...
He knew my dad was Jasper Carrott,
530
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,833
and he said, "When did you change
your name to Davis."
531
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:57,112
I said, "What made you think Davis
was the made-up name?"
532
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,318
People have been asking for autographs,
533
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,228
and... you know, they want me
to write something funny,
534
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:09,115
so I found myself writing, "I could
catch a monkey. Love, Mackenzie."
535
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:12,471
Great. That'll be worth something.
536
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:20,476
Er... A lot of people who look
at this extra footage in DVDs are nerds.
537
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,275
- Yeah, geeks. Sure.
- Geeks and losers, yeah.
538
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,790
- Watching this on a sunny day.
- Yeah, curtains drawn.
539
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:33,597
Spotty fat git. So, we'll give them
some behind-the-scenes nuggets.
540
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:37,679
- Interesting stuff. Not to us.
- To them, interesting.
541
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,314
- Erm, what's interesting?
- Your dad.
542
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:45,719
The guy who comes in in episode six
and just stares at the camera,
543
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,992
and who also appears later
at the party, he's my real father.
544
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,874
His name's Ron and my mother's
Elaine, like Donna's parents.
545
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,032
...daughter of my best friends Ron and Elaine...
546
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:02,071
The guy that Ricky's interviewing
at the beginning of episode one
547
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:06,034
is the guy he's firing at the end in episode six.
548
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,593
- Fascinating.
- Oh, you know?
549
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:13,076
You've picked up on it. You know Gareth?
550
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:18,194
That's not his real name. His name
is Mackenzie Crook and he's an actor.
551
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,276
- Yeah.
- So...
552
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:26,236
And you know where I meet Ricky
and pretend I haven't met him before?
553
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:31,309
I have. I cast him. He's an actor.
He's been in other stuff.
554
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,513
- Yeah.
- An illusion, isn't it?
555
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:39,599
Yeah, you know... You're getting a bit confused,
556
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:42,598
because it's obviously not a real office.
557
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:45,553
What's happened to it? Bankrupt?
558
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:50,549
- No one wants paper any more... Go on.
- No, it's fake. It's a set.
559
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,194
- What do they sell?
- Who?
560
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,949
- All the people that work there.
- They're actors.
561
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:02,871
Temping. Acting's hard.
Most of the time, they work in offices.
562
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,879
- Can we switch off?
- I need a Scotch egg.
563
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,956
He needs to lie down.
564
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,674
Can we get Ricky Gervais's hammock?
565
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,036
I'd love a hammock.
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