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The boss is back

Overview

A camera crew catches up with David Brent, the former star of the fictional British series, "The Office" as he now fancies himself a rockstar on the road.

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    Ricky Gervais

    David Brent

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    Ben Bailey Smith

    Dom Johnson

  3. Rebecca Gethings

    Miriam Clarke

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    Jo Hartley

    Pauline Gray

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    Andrew Brooke

    Jerry 'Jezza' Collins

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    Tom Bennett

    Nigel Martin

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    Tom Basden

    Dan

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    Mandeep Dhillon

    Karen Parashar

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    Diane Morgan

    Briony Jones

I really want to dislike Ricky Gervais but actually he's pretty good at what he does. There's a 'post alternative' aspect of British comedy that Brent (and Gervais more generally) bandwagons. The alternative comedy scene of the 80s was an alternative to the racist, homophobic, mysoginist "jokes" that preceded it. The right on, politically correct alternative comedy of the 80s and 90s has been partly circumvented by the racist-but-its-ok-because-he's-wrong viewpoint, highlighted in the utterly crass Little Britain (nothing to do with Gervaise BTW). This is ideal for fans of the office and th...

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