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Chris K
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Whoop whoop whoop.

First time ever that a British comedy has won one.

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Luckily for me, I stopped believing that any major awards were anything but excersizes in bribery long ago.

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Somehow I feel the BBC's bribe wouldn't have stood upto the competition's.

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woohoo! britain rules! the office pwns joo! hehe


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Your proud of a golden globe? A Golden globe is more of an insult than anything else.

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Quote: "Look at us - we're better than anything America has every produced"


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Quote: "Your proud of a golden globe? A Golden globe is more of an insult than anything else."


They ran out of BAFTAs to give it.

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its on voice mail...

Leave a message!


.... hi er..mate its gareth here... just wanted to check price on som... oh..tut this is stupid...


OH THIS IS STUPID THIS IS STU.. Soz mate.. what do you want...
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yeah i just wanted to check the prices on some paper cus ive got 3.29 here and they say it shud be 2...

rite..

i know your not there..... but .. im not talking to myself.. cus.. they're filming...


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Quote: "Your proud of a golden globe? A Golden globe is more of an insult than anything else."


ok we did not now that were British.

this is not the better British comedy show ever. come to think of it i can`t stand it the Office. it to true to be funny.

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They should end it with all their jobs being outsourced to India. Oh wait, that's US...

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Posted: 26th Jan 2004 22:17
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Have you seen it, Mouse?

It's only be shown on BBC America, right?

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The office is soooo great. Really.

The best comedy ever I say, its just so, indescribable.

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For the adults out there (there are some aren't there?), then Coupling is not to be missed. It really is very funny.

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'(there are some aren't there?)'

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coupling? bah, sounds like a load of crap to me.


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it seems like the us version of coupling is really crap, but the original UK version is great!

Haven't seen the Office so I can't say much about it. But I must say that british tv-series are getting better and better. Spooks/MI-5 was much better than I expected.

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America are remaking The Office as well.

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I 'like' the office about half as much as I love every other classic British comedy. Still Game, Red Dwarf, Spaced, Little Britain, Fawlty Towers, Fast Show, Monty, Young Ones - there's dozens of better comedies, it's just that Brent and his followers are the flavour of the month. Pretty soon people will get sick of him, he is pretty tiresome when you re-watch an episode, and a lot of the humour is the cringe sort, which can put people off. Personally I like Tim and Gareth's characters a lot better, most of the best humour has come from those two. Did anyone see Gareth in Pirates of the Carribean? - He's pretty recognisable and I reckon he did a great job, would'nt be surprised if he ended up being more successful in the states than Ricky Gervais. From what I've seen of him, I reckon Ricky would be an insufferable little toe-rag.

I'm guessing that the Americanised 'Office' will suck.


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I hate The Office! Sarcasm, and snide don't deserve to be credited in a good light. Same as Trainspotting portrayed drugs as exciting. Even South Park has pushed the barrier too far now. I'm fed up with the trend for bad behaviour to be funny.

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I agree with Van mostly, but the Office in my opinion is one of the worst 'comedies' ive seen and I dont rate it. Go with Little Britain, Bo Selecta, Fast Show, etc All the greats and classics.

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I don't like the office either. But Monty Python...now that's REAL comedy!

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I know a lot of people don't find The Office that funny, but if you like it, you love it. Watching Keith's appraisal I almost suffocated.

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Hehe, been subjecting my son to 'Holy Grail', 'Meaning of Life' and 'Life of Brian' - got all 3 videos for £10 in a set - not too shabby. It just creases me up when all of a sudden he'll ask me for a shrubbery or call me an pig-dog in a frech accent .


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There was a Python fansite somewhere where someone had actually worked out the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow. European.

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Quote: "Did anyone see Gareth in Pirates of the Carribean? - He's pretty recognisable and I reckon he did a great job, would'nt be surprised if he ended up being more successful in the states than Ricky Gervais"


Ricky Gervais?

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The Office, Alan Partridge, Royale Family, Little Britain.
Pure Class.


Will & Grace, Friends, Sex in The City etc,etc,etc
Pure Crap.

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Add Brasseye and The Day Today to that list.

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Don't forget TGP... ah Connie.... nice.... bloody Sky!!!

Oh, and anyone who has worked in an office should *love* the office. Magnificent. The real office block from the show is a couple of roads down from where I work (f**king Slough!!!!!!!!!!!!!). And yes, we were took over by another firm (similar) and had to merge with the Slough branch. We wern't from Swindon though. Too many similarities to mention.

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TGP?

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Mouse,
Ricky Gervais is the star and writer of The Office. Gareth is a floppy haired geek guy with weird bulbous eyes - in Pirates' he plays the skinny pirate with the wooden eye.


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Gareth looks just like Raven.

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TGP = Time gentlemen please. And Connie = Goddess from series two... drool...

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Ahh, Connie - the lovely Emma Pierson:





It's not the first time she's cropped up on this forum - you can't really tell from these pictures but she has perfect boobies.


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Quote: "“He’s thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done?�"


http://homepage.mac.com/elliottday/theoffice

There are mp3s of all the songs there, but they're sown atm. I managed to get them yesterday :/

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The Office is pure genius. The US cannot and will not make anything that comes close, American comedy shows just aren't up to British class.

Nuff said IMHO.

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Quote: "The Office is pure genius"


Here here

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Interesting. Checkout Darkplace on Channel 4 right now. Is a spoof 70's X-files type thing. Really amusing for a new program.

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Oh, and Connie... drool drool, urgle urgle... remember the Halloween episode? Hubba hubba....

Hahaha... a bloke just exploded into a million pieces on the Darkplace. Then the doctor says "are you alright?". Arf!

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Quote: "Ahh, Connie - the lovely Emma Pierson:"


She doesn't look that great.


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Bad pictures. Watch the show.

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We don't get BBC in America.

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Wasn't BBC. Was Sky. Roughly 40+ episodes were made a couple of years ago before they pulled the plug. Very funny show.

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Let me rephrase that.

We don't get any non-American channels in America.


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Yep, pretty much same here. Thought you got something like BBC-US or somesuch in america?

Slight lie there actually. We do get CNN (with British overlays here and there) amongst the mass of unwatched channels near the end somewhere (ie. mainly news/travel/shopping channels). Although QVC diamonique shows seem strangely compulsive....

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Oh, slight change of subject. Anyone know when the official new Sky+ boxes are coming out? Can't be bothered with 40Gb of space when the 120Gb(+?) version is coming out soon. Itching to get it (TiVo/PSX efforts don't cut it when not fully integrated into the Satallite TV guide) soon. And damn that multiple channel recording at once sounds good...

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If we are talking about comedy, has anyone seen "Chappelle's Show"?

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it kicks ass

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hells yeah it kicks ass

I love the skit where chappelle is a blind, Black-White supremisist

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Ah yeah: And by the "N Word, We Mean Nigger"

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that's not meant to offend anyone

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