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Article: PROFILE: RICKY GERVAIS: A lucky man lurks behind David Brent - but just who is he?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2002
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Tastes are slippery things for which there is, notoriously, no
accounting. Ricky Gervais, however, is to everybody's taste. Last
weekend, The Office, the deadpan comedy that he created and in which
he stars, scooped the British Comedy Awards. Gervais himself walked
off with the award for best actor, in recognition of his astounding
portrayal of the vile and pathetic David Brent, manager of the Slough
branch of a wholesale paper merchants, Wernham Hogg, and self-
proclaimed comedy genius.
Richard Curtis, the screenwriter behind Blackadder and Four
Weddings and a Funeral, has called it "the greatest programme ever
seen". Both series are being repeated over Christmas, to the
accompaniment of ...