>please don't make me redundant
>I will try twice as hard.
>I know I've been complacent.
>I'll turn this place around if you say it's not definite >starting from now
;_;
>>69813221
superior 2 series to the US meme version of 50 series
>>69813221
I miss when Merchant and Gerv were GOAT.
I still slightly prefer Extras because I think season 2 has a lot to say and isn't as abrupt in the character development
why do bongs say redundant instead of fired
>>69813433
Redundant means being sacked through no fault of your own, fired/sacked usually implies you did something wrong and that's why you've been let go
>>69813433
Because there's a level of compensation given to someone being made redundant, a certain amount of pay and sometimes references to find employment elsewhere.
Unlike being fired which is taken to mean being kicked out without anything.
>>69813433
redundancy has better connotations than firing
redundancy usually comes about if they no longer need that person to do that job, firing is when you fuck up big time and the company wants to get rid of you
>>69813221
Interesting how Gervais plays Brent so well, but all his other roles are terrible. Including his character on Extras, he's literally playing himself in that.
>>69813433
We say both. Redundant just sounds more official.
>>69813569
He's bretty good in Derek.
>>69813649
I dropped Derek about 2 episodes into season 2, some of the mawkishness was just too much. When he started playing a coldplay track over the finale, I could almost hear Gervais shouting SEE IT'S EMOTIONAL
>>69813649
I disagree, Derek is literally one of his stand-up characters but played straight. Just comes across as a chariacture to me. But if it works for people then fair enough.
The Office is brilliant, but watching some of the outtakes I think i'd want to jump off a building after about 2 days, Gervais corpses so much
>>69813649
How? He is literally just doing a schoolkid-level impression of someone with Down's Syndrome.
>>69813433
>>69813569
It's a different thing.
Redundant means they're getting rid of the role. Fired means they're getting rid of the person.
Ie. in the show either Brent or Neil will retain their jobs, the other will be made redundant. If the other office wasn't closing and Brent was being just straight up replaced, he'd be getting fired.
>>69813697
I didn't say anything about the show. I just I thought he played the character well. I do agree that it beats you over the head with forced emotion. He certainly has a tendency to go overboard with the "you don't need to be special, everyone already is" like he's done countless times before in The Office and especially Extras. But at times it alsofeels very genuine to me.
>>69813718
I haven't seen a lot of his stand-up, so I don't really know what you're talking about, but I get that sometimes it feels like he's poaying a charicature that's mocking disabled people, but for the most part it feels warm and genuine (his performance that is), even when the emotional depth of the plot feels forced and like it's something out of a writers room for a teen-sitcom in the 80's.
>>69814013
Derek is his autograph hunter character he uses for stand-up
>>69814409
Black face for disabled people. No idea how he gets away with it
>>69814463
at first he didn't really, but he stopped doing it once people gave a shit about cripples, and when he did it for Derek he played it straight and much more genuine, which ended up getting him a lot of praise.
>>69813433
Why do Americans say "fired"?
Is it because the cunts like to shoot everything?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf100kkIm48
ayyy
UK Office has character development and a full story arc with a conclusion.
US Office is open ended and repetitive.
>dat Brent-Finchy "friendship" dynamic
The Office is so well observed, makes you wonder why everything else Gervais/Merchant has done is nowhere near the same level
>>69814463
Because normies don't actually care about black people, they just follow whatever the outrage of the week is.
>>69814561
>a full story arc with a conclusion.
yeah, the last episode of season 2.
the christmas special was actually a massive cop-out and the tone feels more like Extras with Ricky playing a character desperate for fame, parodying his own music career, etc.
>>69814522
Because if you don't leave they'll shoot you
>>69814556
Top Kek
>>69813221
inferior 2 to the US based version and extra cucky since britfat
>>69814685
>this butthurt yank
Wew lad
>>69814598
there are a couple of weak episodes and generally you can tell that the "everyone stares awkwardly" moments were getting played out. I wasn't surprised when Extras wasn't as good (and in fact tried to awkwardly emulate the rom-com success of The Office).
>>69814618
Complete horseshit. All the character arcs tie up in the special.
>>69814709
try again wew lad
>>69814685
Tower Hamlets is there because the people are literally starving and only eating ketchup sandwiches
>>69814685
>poms are entirely fat cunts
No wonder they're all so sour
kek
KEK
K E M
This may be offensive,but I really think English bureaucracy is really neat. All the terms and phrases are interesting and I like the titles too.
>>69814685
Anyone reading this post is imagining the poster is a Mongoloid in a shit filled diaper, right?
>>69814685
Delete this immediately.
IMMEDIATELY.
>>69814770
Delete this as well.
>>69814709
>>69814740
>>69814774
>>69814786
>all these triggered lard ass rosbif
ez (You)s hehehe
>>69814774
You british cucks are so bad with banter. Did the pakis steal your brains as well as your women?
>>69814874
Banter is against their Queen's no bully laws it is outlaw and they send you to Australia if you are bantering too much
>>69813433
Because they have a better mastery of the English language than Americans. A broad vocabulary is nothing to be ashamed of anon.
>>69814901
Well they have to find SOME use for their vast empire.... oh wait
>>69813433
It's equivalent to how we use "laid off" in America. You didn't fuck up to lose the job, the job just stopped needing to be done and so you're outta here.
>>69814874
>>69815043
rosbif BTFO
>>69815034
anglo language shit anyway
>>69813433
Probably because there's a difference? Redundancy means they can't justify your position anymore. You usually get a bit of money because they have to let you go. Being fired means they don't want to employ you specifically anymore. You won't get any money because they (should) have cause to get rid of you.
>>69813433
You're talking about a country where you can be put in jail for being mean on twitter.
>>69814409
LOL look at his funny face!
gervais is easily the least talented person ever to achieve that level of success.
Well I know one thing that Brits will always be proud of: Their wonderful progressive record
>>69815626
I wouldn't go that far, are you forgetting Adam Sandler, and Seth Rogan? The Office, Extras, and the work he did with Karl and Steve have been at least half decent.
>>69814598
cause its all he knows
he studied at uni too so he could probably make a satire of 1980s college, but he'd have to play a professor and he wouldn't be the main character (a student would be) and he'd feel left out and sad feels
>>69816051
sandler is underrated. rogen might be richer but I'd argue that gervais is far more famous.
>whats your fantasy?
>2 lesbians. sisters preferebly. probably in a dungeon
my sides
>>69815219
This
>>69815626
He was a good writer. Office and Extras are great in their own right, and his radio stuff is comfy to listen to
>>69815626
his talent was just incredibly specific, and based on the oldest trick in the book: write what you know.
what's funny was how he did stand-up tours for a few years after The Office and just got shat on constantly by the media because of how underwhelming he is at it.
>It's a Jim asks out that slag and she regrets him and it's so pure
been there Jim, fuck mate, rough times, lucky i wasnt as old as you and it wasnt a colleague though
>>69814722
the Office Christmas Special was a flat-out audience pander. everyone's arc gets "resolved" because they get the happy ending option so there is no more story to tell, and no irony or questions.
Brent making a banal comment about Dolly Parton's tits was a far more fitting way to say farewell to his character. giving him a gf and have him tell Finch to fuck off was literally when Gervais/Merchant's creative rot started.
>>69816212
the best is chris rock calling him a nobody during the comedian round table with seinfeld and lck
rock just does not give a shit about him
and hes fucked and talks over everyone like a retard
>>69814685
Neither Brit nor American, reporting in
Kill yourself, a.s.a.f.p.
>>69814556
Seems like the original office would've been a fuckin laugh to work on.
>>69816130
Both of those statements are dead wrong.
>>69816356
Chris Rock depends on Adam Sandler for a career now so.....
>>69816356
The Office is better than anything Chris Rock has ever done
What happened?
>>69814685
>Obesity literally proportional to the number of Greggs per square mile
>>69818263
Steve got tired of being Ricky's bitch and Karl earned enough money to quit.
>>69818263
They moved on with their lives.
They all wanted to do their own thing
>>69815175
What kind of fucked up labor laws are those? If they have no legal reasons why they're firing you, they can't just terminate your contract and get rid of you, they should be compensating you properly. They can't just "stop liking" you anymore and let you go without severance, unless you broke your contract somehow.
This is true even in third world countries.
>>69819439
I think you misread his post.
You get redundancy pay if you're made redundant
>tfw dawn comes back at the end of the last episode
>>69818263
Karl got richer and famous-er
>>69814901
>send you to Australia if you are bantering too much
Yeah i fucking wish mate.
>>69814556
>iiiiiiim coming up so you better get this party starte- shamone
>>69814556
that computer
>>69814556
I'd love to go for a pint with early 00s Gerv
