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where do folks stand on this comedians' comedian? and the way he runs his office?

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i admire his unbridled wit and innate sensitivity.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"...Fray Bentos"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Women are... dirty"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Get the guitar"

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend quoted D. Brent in a management exam. It was the quote about manager and comedian not being mutually exclusive jobs.

― Nick H, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"...probably an entertainer third".

Of course, the all-time great Office line is "He's thrown a kettle over a pub. What have you done?". But that's Gareth, so it doesn't count.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

dom, i think gareth was the real hero of the piece. got the girls, the side-car ride and the promotion!

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Office is the only show I've ever watched in one whole six hour chunk. I mean... Jesus Christ, it was great.

"We had a political reggae song called "Equality Street""

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

gotta agree dom. the funniest show on oz tv in a loooong time. i was given the first series DVD for my b'day and am still picking up nuggets of comedy gold on the umpteenth viewing.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Sod it, lets just quote our favourite bits from the series.

“If you were to ask me to name three geniuses, I probably wouldn’t say Einstein, Newton... I’d go Milligan, Cleese, Everett. Sessions.”

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

“All farmers have wives.”
“This one doesn’t, he’s gay.”
“Well, then, he shouldn’t be allowed near animals should he.”

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

“This is the accounts department, the number bods. Do not be fooled by their job descriptions, they are absolutely mad, all of ‘em. Especially that one, he’s mental. Not literally of course, that wouldn’t work.”

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"flash dance with some MC hammer shit"

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"i don't live by 'The Rules' you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's ian botham."

― Christopher William Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"welcome to alcoholics anonymous! no - purely social. i know someone who is an alchoholic and it is no laughing matter - particularly for his wife. and she's got alopecia. so... not a happy homelife."

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"my world does not end with these four walls - slough's a big place. and when i'm finished with slough there's... reading, aldershot, bracknell, you know. i've got didcot, yateley..."

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to school in Yateley. Not a very big place, a lot smaller than Slough. It's other claim to fame is that it's now headquarters to the Monster Raving Loony Party.

Another Office link: my uncle works on Slough Trading Estate.

"What am I thinking then?"
"You're thinking 'Could I kill a tiger with a biro?'"
"No I'm not.....and I could."

― Nick H, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"So, what are you thinking Gareth?"
"I was just wondering whether there will ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a shark."

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"look in my collection and you will see queen, pet shop boys, george michael....there all bummers"

c'mon join in: "free love on the free love freeway......."

"i watched that peak practice"
"yeah? ive never seen it"
"bloody repeat"
"annoying innit"
"not for me i hadnt seen it"

Big Keith rules that office with a quiet rod of iron - or a scotch egg

― james (james), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Keith. a charasmatic conversationalist.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"I just stayed in and had a big wank"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i think the funniest bit is when he gets fired in the comic relief episode and stands up at the end of the scene to leave and you can see the costume he's wearing

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite is when they are discussing firing a warehouse worker who is either a midget or a dwarf, and after the full explanation of the difference there is a short pause, and then Gareth says "So what's an elf?"

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

Its quite a hit on DVDA out here in Dubai. A few mates and I all have the first series and constantly text the word "cock" to each other. Favorite lines for the first series were; "his knob", "ooh kinky", "I haven't got any balls", Dutch girls ... should be punished". In fact just about every line is quotable and funny. This is true of only one other work - Spinal Tap. There are many comparisons betwen the two actually and I think that Gervais and Merchant would acknowledge this as a compliment. I got the second series for Xmas 2003 and have think there is more "drama" in it. Tim is a fool for finishing with Rachel and turning down the caretaker manager role in the same breath and the brief appearance of Merchant as Oggy, both on speaker phone and in person are hilarious. I think he is has the manner of a cross between a giant Vic Reeves and Nicholas Lyndhurst. Do those guys, Merchant, Crook and Gervais really talk like that? - Are the from the west country? Enough for now - Great series!

I think that there are some Xmas specials on the market - will try to get these.

― alun epps, Sunday, 4 January 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

er ... apparently DVDA means something different in dubai.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Sunday, 4 January 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"look i didn't call you fatty alright" (storms off crying)

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 4 January 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I think that the character of David Brent is the best of the show other than that of the receptionist Dawn. The program is the epitome of most of the world's workaday life. Although it took me two viewings of the DVD to get some of it's subtle humor. The Office will be a classic akin to Fawlty Towers which skewered the sitcom format as The Office will to the Docu/comedy. I thought that David Brent is a send-up of all the people in the work world who are (or want to be) bosses and have no aptitude whatsoever at the job. The Office is a classic of the new Brentmillenium

― Ryon Keith, Saturday, 14 February 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Two lesbians....sisters probably."

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 15 February 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Brent: "Look at this filth - Dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs. Now you do not punish someone, Dutch or otherwise, for having big boobs."

Gareth: "If anything they should be rewarded."

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 15 February 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Yeah, the songs are all a few years old now, if I was releasing them now I'd bring them a bit up to date, drop some drum'n'bass shit on 'em"

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 15 February 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

When Brent is talking to the staff about their pet names for him, complaining about how childish it is, then spots Keith: 'Look at 'im! At least *start* with him and then.....'

― pete s, Sunday, 15 February 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don’t know whether you’re in a trough until you’re climbing out, or on a peak until you’re coming down. And that’s it you know, you never know what’s round the corner. But it’s all good. ‘If you want the rainbow, you’ve gotta put up with the rain.’ Do you know which philosopher said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she’s just a big pair of tits.”

― C J (C J), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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