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Oh from the beginning yep Oh 90 90 100 them in the arts Oh computer no it's not Oh George I love 981 no no it's certainly the office brilliant that's an excellent I wish it was I love 1970 spikes offers Swedish what's all that about it's not like the office [Music] [Music] so before we start why is it called how I may be off it's just by ricochets why why is it is it is how am i why isn't it having me made the office by Ricky J's and Steve merchant too long just your name sure [Music] think about Ricky is that he's our the most irritating man I've ever met I can't deny these I've got a capacity to be irritating why is he rotating so many reasons you know from things like going like that for literally no apparent reason he's like a child who's drunk too much orange squash with hydrazine in and it's now gonna bit wild and needs calm down ah he does wilfully trying to destroy a scene he's gonna keep doing something until he gets a reaction he loves it though yeah like it's it's a joy yeah he loves it really yeah he was about I dunno yellow ago at night seriously don't [ __ ] dare cuz I'll go mental and he's touchy snake 22:31 fast money isn't funny in offices I remember I had to have a single shot on me just looking really it put out maybe and Stern whatever and Ricky was just look we sick G do you want give that baton seriously that smells like door give me that [ __ ] bin that's nice to know put it over there as well and then then that should keep it going now until we you know don't stop belching stop my friend Robin says I've got two moods one is I can't believe it I've got someone fired what do you mean yeah it's just his total hypocrite it's like you know anyone else makes a single bit annoys boom guy drops the boom in shock I can't believe but here not here gonna click in dancing rare and making noises that's fun there was one bit where the people who it was like a real office that we were an empty real office there was a real office next door with people working and they just came to complain about the noise though it's true and it was like it was supposed to be a set that was desperately quiet with just a little scene being played out yeah and he's their ass it's singing screaming shouting like that it's because like he's the star he's allowed to do that cuz it's not gonna be stressed if I don't do it and that was terrible I fired the location manager and I said why put us next to a grumpy office thanks I know I've got a jumper only and I said I've got to squeak and jump around and that our fireworks he tends to touch sometimes a little bit upsetting puts his arm around you feels fills with the air you know and he says hey come on you know just because you like to get the kiss and a cuddle with another man doesn't make you gay but you know I've thought a lot about but I think it does I think it does but the thing about TV is that they literally tiny as money and so that you know you've gotta get everything right first time you've got to be on the spot because you know the clock's ticking that's why on go on allows you to say that's why I imagine you deliberately try to jeopardize every single take we do but I was gonna say that he'll do things like just add lions or stupid names to try and surprise the other actors you often see pure silk for 99999 pure silk so I have a snap it up okay in there Wally Burton - for 10 points always yes please and Nobby Burton came around - for 10 I went yes please no more and you know def Nobby Burton it comes around with a case - okay okay sorry okay just say I should say Nobby Burton who comes down with a case - potato but for a lot of the stuff that ends up in the office um comes from me mucking around and annoying people so that's what I say in my defense it's my heart but to be fair I would say I remember that we will be making the the pilot we did what whole sequence when we did all the talking heads that Ricky does and then we just left the camera rolling and I would start interviewing as a real interview and he would just kind of talk as though we were Brent and I think a couple of ideas and things come out of that but most of the time he would say something I'd actually ruin it just by cracking up one of the I suppose occupational hazards of being a laugh is that they think they can have a laugh and they can but not at the expense of me and the company as a whole without humor involvement in that sense I mean they can't I'm sorry without the humor involvement by that I mean I don't mind a laugh during work or instead of work what I don't enjoy is what I call the anti laugh where it's at I'm sorry GLaDOS leaving you just carry on talking bit that worked out it's what is called by me the anti laugh and that is anything goes thanks very much have a laugh find the funny side of life in everything okay have a laugh at yourself please have a laugh at me with my blessing because I will with you but don't make the mistake of the laughter of hate I first met Stephen um I was working at X FM which is a local London radio station and I was the head of speech but well you've heard him speak that's ludicrous and the head of speech was like yet to cover layer to be involved with all the speech I put the news the competition's joing he had to have a perfect grasp of of communication so I dragged the interview and got the job well-paid wasn't it pretty good good but then when it launched I had to do stuff which was that was the problem was annoying and I knew nothing about it so I went to look the workload is mental I need an assistant and I went sure this guy knows what he's doing and I met Steve and I basically said listen I don't know what I'm doing here but I'll do loads of stuff finding and stuff if you do that I let you get away with murder and which left me free to do more important stuff like rolling around on your chair in the office that was one of them boating on golfing yeah but then I joined the BBC and I was sort of training there I had to do a training day like when they gave you a camera crew and he had to make a short sort of short film and most people were doing like documentaries and things but we had that kind of this kind of character they used to sort of muck around and improvise in the office when we were it was just a thing called seedy boss which was more an observation on sort of like a lecturers boss who was sort of smarming and I mean it was David Ben I don't give crappy jobs if I give a good job to a good guy and then after a period of time he comes to me and says thank you for that job David I've done that I want to move on I want to better myself then I can make that dream come true - aka for you we shot it with the office that we can used to work out in the University of London and um and just use some actor mates of mine air conditioning computerised totally so a lot of things are mainly sealed in early star texts I think but I mean that the it knows what temperature it is what time of day is whether you're working or not now can do this illegal the reason we shot it like a documentary was time as it was just quicker with any other camera crew per day so that was the quickest way to shoot you everything and then if times against you and you just point a camera at the character and let them talk you'd have to change the camera angle anything is really simple but you get sent to the character so and I really love the Talking Heads in the show because because we shot like a documentary we couldn't do things people wouldn't do in front of the camera they can't shut the door and you know take a line of coke or they can't blur out things they're thinking because it isn't true but ironically when they're by themselves and they're just being filmed they're a little bit more honest people do let their guard down because it's flattering when I can was you know point is that a normal person I think this is my chance this is my platform I can tell the world all my great philosophies on life and of course they open their mouths and and they blow it and they can't take it back like now exactly people they could come to me that go David um sorry to bother you even in the visits fifteen years can you give me a couple of words of advice but they don't that's the tragedy there was some point in it that were almost toward the surreal that we decided that we wouldn't have because we really just wanted a normal person and there's just little bits and pieces that that wouldn't sit well there's I think there's a bit where you put some lipstick on now what right so today that was I think the first time Ricky had done any acting kind of properly and it was you know that once that got made and that little demo tape existed it got passed around and that's how he got onto 11 o'clock show and things like that and yet he was actually nightmare and we only had a the clock was ticking and he was like well we've come it that'll be fine that take would be fine let's go down the pub now I've got the thing which I filmed with Russ just rehearsing just an empty pint glass you can just see he's just thinking barbra closing yeah I'm acting faster cuz I'll go yes absolute nightmare to work with and now you're marginally better in that weird strange good you've read so much yeah people say oh well you know will Fame changer you know you were always obnoxious yeah Erin are went to court to after the little pre pilot that we shot ourselves a little demo pilot the BBC commissioned a script and then a real pilot if you like the script seemed quite good and I went along and originally read for Gareth and then I think I was sort of on my way out the door pretty much actually and then I read for Tim I was imagining him a lot more like norm from Cheers quite we was I think he's gonna be quite fat wasn't Ian yeah I know that's a wisecracking in that way at three callbacks I think foot for the part um but I mean they don't let you know that it's it's a it's a closed thing and you might not you might not get it some of the people we ended up with were not as we'd imagined them originally I mean I remember when Mackenzie came in as Gareth that I was I mean it took some persuasion I wasn't convinced at all but I didn't realise Stephen didn't think I was the right man for the job I'd imagine him as much bigger and much more kind of militaristic obviously the skinny we did i won through in the end but I can play butch what was exciting about Mackenzie is that because he's got this he looks very fragile and vulnerable not like that we first imagined we found that we could give him more and more ridiculous and horrendous lines and you still didn't mind because of his you know little bird typeface um I don't mean like a woman and I have a little baby bird like a little fledgling pigeon who just hatched too early and there's a sort of sweetness and vulnerability about Mackenzie vulnerability ah yes language is your tool ah we can kind of put a subtitle of whose boner ability about Mackenzie and then that was that was nice I don't give she jobs when a good man comes to me and says thank you David for the opportunity and that continued the official BBC pilot that we made is pretty much the same in terms of its plot as episode one of the real series but there was some strands we cut out there was a whole sequence where dawn tells timid joke which is that one did you see that film last night gaylord say no no that means you're a Gaylord you think it's classic school ground school playground joke oh yeah you just got it yeah and as I she tells him that and then they sort of play that that joke on the cleaning lady say it back to me did you say food gate no did you see that though last night Gaylord say no you get it cows did you see a film last night Gaylords what she's running if you saw that film last like gable say no no that means you're a Gaylord okay them once again and then there was a whole different sequence about how Gareth finds out that there's gonna be redundancies it when I'm hogging he's really upset that he's you know the last person to discover this information the old shares all oil somebody got their fingers banned they need high dismissed early do I need to know if there's anything that you've heard any rumors that you've heard from the head office anything like this you got other stuff on your face that's for being from your baby just everything is making it worse have you got teased your sorry be like to was that that's not - the first one I picked up three months yeah - twice as big as that I'm not a nice yeah well um well no oh will you do today I've got a mirror but dawn don't know they're all talking over there like guys going slow down slow down who's talking everyone's talking issue thank you so what look no this is that license it's my mom's my new twice's be without the nice I'm team leader I shouldn't I'd be the first one after you to know yeah but you're the first one after me to know okay what I don't want that as don't put your this I'm meant to spit on it so it's my spit on my face I don't want no don't bother I know I feel I've got a responsibility to the staff to handle gara what's going on say what you mean Jennifer came in here this morning right soon she's got now this all rumors going dawn actually this is a private meeting could you isn't that absolutely no John's sister brighter sedan yes mr. president I don't think that I'm Jun sir frankly I'm a little bit insulted that you noticed why you losing jobs can you give us two minutes ago welcome I thought it's supposed to be a private meeting it's just register okay as team libro this is pathetic well cool this meeting thanks thanks for coming I've called this meeting because South's alone right all it is is the powers that be have dealings now your turn away oh yeah you didn't I was going on it's my meeting I called him to find out what's going on Tom gonna tell you in front of everyone else oh cool we look back at the pilot it just felt a bit too much like it become a sitcom with a beginning middle and an end yeah if you watch a real documentary they've pieced together that from stuff that happened in real life so we want to get that sense like we've cobbled it together and I was genuinely panicked wasn't yeah it was it was the sitcom that we always said we wouldn't make and we just really keyed ourselves offices why we're going back to basics example we really wanted to do something we were sort of thought we were making something new or we hoped we were and we didn't want anything that I remember you described it as better than Dickens didn't you yeah it is and that Shakespeare Gaylord whether he was a little very well I think some of it looked quite real is because obviously I'm not an actor and I don't care about hitting my marks or where I should stand and Steve would go what can you at least just you know speak up a little bit fakes the right direction not really I don't really know I just do it this way hmmm well you do think that everything you've guessed is probably the truth yeah so if you guess it's something you assume that's actually how it's done I'm not a trained actor this isn't mate this is amazing to find out he's not no or a trained director he's got nothing he's CV is empty yeah yeah I've got CV no never needed one yeah he'll be honest sing in a single of him or a talking head and he'll be more worried about the lighting learn the lines you wrote them okay I think the difference between our show maybe in other sitcoms which SN office is that there always seem to be too full of incident it's like there's people kind of doing one-liners and beings alien falling over and doing crazy stuff and getting into amusing scrapes which is not what the experience of being an odd office is like at all it is just about kind of monotony often if it's a job you don't enjoy which is occasionally interspersed with you know someone you know making a joke or or something kind of so we wanted lots of sort of sequences when between the jokes if you like of just people working and there's something lovely in kind of empty and boring and Static about just someone sat typing at the computer I mean I know sort of drama whatever is life with the boring bits taken out but we left some of them in because they can be the funniest bits and so we know he didn't top and Tao seen so cleanly we like the dwelling on you know a bad joke or you know a nothingness yeah what's funny about a bad joke is the agony of of the birth silence after a joke has gone flat you'd know if you endure after Jackson's new song he's doing he's teamed up with West Ham football team huh yeah do it on forever blowing bubbles - she's no football so like the frustrating thing as a writer is that you had to get around this camera being there because we couldn't have expedition we couldn't have you know people doing things they wouldn't do in front of a camera it was a bind but what we could use is the advantage of that is that it would up the agony and that's where that came from I was the joke there what you find is what especially with the romantic plot is it's like because the cameras filming them they can't show their emotions for each other they can't show their true feelings you know tame and dawn so it means that you've got it's almost like you've sort of some kind of Victorian seething kind of melodrama where you know suddenly just him touching and hit her or her touching him that becomes that's as much as a kiss in me as much you know the cliffs becomes a shag in terms of kind of you get that nice kind of electricity between them so can I have this when he finished yeah all right when will he be finished today I don't know maybe we could share it I know that Ricky and Steve worked hard to get that right because he could he could have fallen on his face it could have been embarrassing just simply not work the first time I really got to him and Dawn was after I saw the the last episode on the reruns the other week and yeah I'm for the first time I thought yeah I know why people have got really upset about that and my mum rang me about two minutes later in tears it's not just a farcical a farcical comedy but you know there's a there's poignant bits in it that people do care about that when Gareth thinks that David Brent might be leaving and he goes in and and breaks down that's it then is it the old team on the scrap heap poor old garrison I am fond of Gareth he's all Wally but but yeah I'm fond of him oh this is stupid yeah it's cute this is stupid yes so so I mean what do you want Laurel and Hardy was a constant reference point which sort of came out in a little bit in Tim's looks the camera I mean not very completely Olly esque I mean I never went oh you know I was working last night actually on something and I actually couldn't stop doing it I think it might ruin my career so by the time you people are seeing this you really won't be seeing me again because I everything I do now I can't stop going hi there which is a problem for any actor the other people in the office at the desk which weren't um particularly main characters but rather than an extras or supporting artists they were proper acted hello your third - Keith you and who placed big Keith was just a real tree cuz we did he just came in and he was just sort out the Taiping way then you give him a few lines and you realize he's got this whole kind of character these crate it's just his kind of deadpan you know dry I mean I don't if that's what he's really like well we still don't know whether that was that was his best naturalistic acting and we just found it funny and he thought well I keep quiet or whether he knew exactly what he was doing I'd like to think he knew how funny it was cuz it's just it's great well he's watching us he won't mind me saying he's an oddity man he's a freak I mean if no I'm just saying his luck if it was 100 years ago he wouldn't be in telly let's say I mean not only because it hadn't been invented yet one of my favorite scenes is where in Episode five where he's just talking to Tim in there in the smokers room it's really tight Sean he's he he's a scotch egg again and they said joyful Xining it's you know his performance with that what is impeccable what'd you watch them tell you last night I didn't watch telly I watched a video I watched that peak practice yeah I've never seen it bloody repeat mmm denying innit not for me and seeing it boring isn't it just staying and watching peak practice with your life yeah not for me I'm like it yeah I just stayed in have a big wink yeah that scene was um it was very hard because you in so consistent the arm kept coming up on exactly the same point every time to eat the scotch egg and mine could see that in his peripheral vision and once you think of something funny that's it you're done after about five takes and I look through and like ash and Anna Lynette you know and Ricky and Steve are all sort of like going come on come on and I thought god I really might not be able to do it you know I thought I might not actually manage this boring it just staying in watching peak practice with your life yeah not for me I like it yeah just stage boring isn't it just staying and watching people actors with your life yeah is not for me I like it yeah I just stayed in at a big not for me I like it well just boring isn't it just staying in watching peak practice with your life yeah not for me I like it well I'll just stayed in that'll be boring isn't it just sitting in watching peak practice with your life yeah not for me I like it Ricky likes to remind me that it did take 13 takes I would like to remind him that just kind of maybe walking down a corridor for him took about 40 in the main I knew he's gonna go because he was something of a nice place to just do that what's the difference a dwarf is someone who has disproportionately short arms and I'm so sorry we've been saying that word now for an hour certainly it was funny I couldn't I couldn't take it but suddenly the word [ __ ] was that remarkably funny right here we go what's the difference a dwarf is someone who has disproportionately short arms and legs either not gonna do what's difference but a dwarf is someone who has disproportionately short arms and legs God Almighty I'm so sorry God okay loving it sorry Joe what's different I'd Worf is someone who has disproportionately short arms and legs I've no idea how you do this wait a minute were minute what's different a dwarf is someone okey now you axes feel the or never going to be able to do it you you think well if I never do this what happens do we run over by a year what would happen if I could never get the scene and in it panic shoot and yeah and TVs Ricky Gervais sees clean autistic but he's kind of it he's he is like a sort of I'm not even like a girl license I was well but um I what's the PC wafer giggling buffoon see nice okay Oh doggies eat her lunch she's just eating his sandwich and she's really fighting crime business and she's on a road and David comes up I don't have a scary earlier Jim yeah five hundred um I'll examine what self a kitty Alexei that is fine terrifying just take the cancer cancer they're all testicles what's that oh that was it great one where do you go ain't nobody whatsoever move there we have no following this no no it wasn't there was no one's fault is mine and he can barely get through a take without being so impressed by his writing genius that he has to ruin it with laughing you know doesn't even have the sort of humility not to laugh and sale what I wrote isn't actually maybe that funny it's like no this is a I am a genius I'll ruin the take Oh again yeah you know [Music] and now he's not biased in any one person is a Frankenstein of all those types those bosses from how the lambing the whole program is is basically nailing types and observations it's very much a you know ticking off office observations and David is one of those I mean the most important one of them sure but just one of the main one people have said to us luck with them David Brent being bad at his job and rubbish and he should be fired if you just walk around the BBC for a day you see people who up you know people who are rubbish to keep their jobs in very important jobs as well I mean to make executives they are the only analogy I can use evolutionary wise is marsupial survives in Australia because there were no predators and that's very much like the BBC because know one thing Outsiders coming and going what are you doing what are you doing how long have you been here if they took a John Harvey Jones in there it'd be decimated there just be me and Steve yeah just be the two of us doing a lot look like spinning huh why isn't variety still as big I bloody love variety Rick and I wish it would come back I wish it would come back you don't see enough of the song and dance man that's what we want but the people go into plates spinning or is it like handed down like son is I've broken a couple but these are yours I'm gonna be a doctor I think if you go all right it's not as popular as it was please pin I don't think they are that unsympathetic I think Brent you should sort of feel sorry for Gareth is he's all right woody but you know that is it's all right really he's harmless the only person that you could in real life not like is probably Finch Chris Finch because he's a bully you know he's one those people that when he watch the movie does say funny things and you laugh and then you go it's my turn soon and someone asked me like Oh Brent such a bastard but he's not either he's at it he's like he's at he's at work he's a knob hmm he's all those things he's a he's a twenty tit knob exactly I didn't know yeah I like bosses like that because you get away with murder all you have to do is laugh at their jokes invite them to one in five drinks and I said is your mate and it's like teach the school you soon learn that you can go mr. Morris what bike have you got and they go well we've it's a Harley Davidson na yeah you got through the lesson that's it it talks about his bike and it's just getting on the good side of these people because they're not nasty not malicious and very often they want a mate I mean I don't know I don't think we want to jump on you and impregnate you yeah I mean some story you've got itself as well I was always told when I doing an English Oh level you know write about what you know in it and it's so true it's just it's so much easier that's why you want our next project to be you as a man locked in a futuristic prison well yeah I've been you know it's called brain Jail and it's only your own conscience that that keeps you there because I imagine that's what it'd be like in it I'm working out as well you're not going to be a I don't use the same body I used for Brent because that is very flabby and doesn't look so good in a vest it I mean it easily is a flabby bloke Brent but this one won't be well not just like fat I mean Darren fat yeah a blitz a bit of a bloater whereas Scott Carson crime he didn't commit it was probably saving some people from a burning building but it is probably broken up a rubbish law in the future we can't have your own thoughts down low reigns in jail yeah I think I downloaded my own feelings from my computer yeah well I just wish you could get back your dead wife's memories and bring her back to life cryogenically yeah but the evil bloke in charge of it it wasn't even voted in he killed people to get on not that dictator yeah he's got it on a sword on except it's not even a floppy disk by then it's just a floppy dot it's like a little dot and it the floats huh look it's as good as written it's as good as Dickens loser there wasn't much improvised in the making of it most of it is there on the script first you know for us to see as a tribute to the writing it's sort of its writing that sounds improvised you know the script comes out of invitation anyway so as we're writing we're sort of doing it so we're very careful at the dialogue and the realism of that so it seems more imposed than it is but again within that there would be times at Ricky or Steve would come up to a couple of us all you know various one of us and say we need a quick you know we need a scene quickly about this or something we need one to guess a bridge to get from that scene into this one one of the times we had to do um flirting improvising I thought I loved my hair being paid with anyone will do really and so I thought oh I'll incorporate that because he can't say no we're on camera and then say basically he does have to play with my hair which is really nice oh so touched your head I'm gonna do a lot more in the next series I might have him massaged something I never thought too that great everyone knew their characters so well that it was just easy to come up with those little bits um bits of ad-lib like at the end of episode 2 where David's on the phone apparently speaking to Chris Finch I'm firing him and Jennifer presses the button and it's in fact the Speaking Clock pathetic is it I checked my watch no I just saw that that's the Gareth thing to do just Lexi's watched us to see that it is the right time just filming what's funny just filming the comedy is all you need to deal isn't you don't need to get clever and Trixie and stuff just filming ricky gervais zzz fat funny face yeah it's bloody hilarious alright folks well don't ever get me here goggle-eyed freak so no that's not that's not fair because I yeah I'm liking on and also on something you say fat face this is a condition so what condition greed oh right before you insult someone find out what their it may be medically cheese product suffering from cheddar yes okay well yesterday in fact on tube um somebody said to me or I Gareth where's Ricky I'm like whoa what's that about why do I get called Gareth and he gets called by his real name and I don't know where he is but he's certainly not gonna be on the tube cuz he doesn't travel on the tube anymore when I first started filming the pilot episode ash our producer had said to me cuz he knew my dad was Jasper Carrott and he said to me Oh when did you change your name to Davis I said at what point do you think Davis was the made-up name people have been asking for for autographs and I you know they want me to write something funny so I found myself writing I could catch a monkey love Mackenzie great help you worth something and what a lot of people who sort of look at these extra sort of footage in DVDs are nerds yeah geeks geeks and losers yeah probably watching this on a sunny day yeah curtains drawn yeah spotty fat git so what we do for them is give them some sort of real behind-the-scene nuggets encrusted step not to us no but to that to them interesting yeah um what's interesting you think yet my the guy that comes through the door uh in Episode six and kind of just stares and looks at the camera and then who also appears later in the end the party he's my father my real father his name was Ron and my mom's name is Elaine and that's the name of Donna's parents daughter of my best friends Ron and Elaine oh the guy yeah the guy that Ricky's interviewing at the beginning of episode one is the guy he's firing at the at the end in Episode six yeah and that's holding you know one I picked up on it in a Gareth and well that's not his real name his real name is Mackenzie Crook and he's just an actor yeah so and you know that beginning at the beginning where I meet Ricky and I pretend I haven't met him before I have a casting mr. Chris he's an actor he's doing other stuff yeah sort of an illusion isn't it see ya the end you know because you usually get a bit confused as the office obviously it's not a not a real office what's happened to it bankrupt see now it's just opening look why it's just that it's fake his necks just to make believe it's like a set what do they sell who not paper who all the people that were there they don't were the other actors oh temping acting is a hard business not using the time they're probably working so can we switch off because I need I need a scotch egg need a scotch I can needs to lie down we get can we get ricky gervais she's hammock I love a hammock