The most timeless thing about The Office is that there's still managers out there exactly like David Brent. This strikes a chord with every office worker, especially if you're in the UK.
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Mine is the Lenny Henry telling Dawn French to piss off when she asks him to do the washing up because he has to go out and save some Africans. Still makes me cry to this day.
@@drfell9105 his stand up specials are great. He was barely a millionaire from this, he could stop now and live a very rich life. But doubt he could just from the office.
@@gluck5869 Extras is one of my favorites as well. The cameos from celebrities who just absolutely butcher themselves are just overwhelmingly hilarious.
Agreed Keith. And to think British people think the American office which is totally OTT and childish is better than the original U.K is just beyond me?!?
@@noahmay7708 no but it’s definitely clear he’s a bit of an arsehole as the show goes on. Like when he asks David to show off his dance moves when David clearly isn’t prepared, or when he backhandedly checks with David in front of the cameras if he’ll be bringing a plus one to the Christmas party
@@noahmay7708 "Everyone laughs until they're the ones on the chopping block." Ah, but even when David Brent was the butt of Finch's "jokes", he still laughed, if a trifle more uncomfortably.
Thousands have said it before but this is spot on. I know - I was one of those managers in the 80's-00's electricity industry, blinded by the theories of total quality management, kaizen, toolbox talks and personal improvement plans. And all along the customer just wanted their lights to stay on & have cheaper bills........The Neils exist too, but most became consultants and have now retired to a life in the country.
@sparkyinbath Hack comment. Gervais is the more over-sentimental of the two writers if anything. It's usually "Merchant wrote all the jokes". But anyway, they wrote this classic together, with no input disparity or animosity, even after 20 years. Says a lot.
Absolutely brilliant! Brent is sooo jealous of Neil he even complained about him cake. He cant bear Neil getting one ounce of attention more than him! So funny!
The way david tells those two about business people..then moves on to next group to tell them.brilliant. Its sadly like people on fb updating everyone on anything that makes them look slightly important..fkn sad world and this top series showed just that way of thinking..gareth is so good as well..they all are in truth !
I had a girl at work just like that... "I need some advice, I've just found out I'm pregnant but dont want people to know... what should I do"? She then walked straight over to another guy and said exactly the same to him!
The underlaying shithousery of neil here is massive. Never bothered to tell Brent there was a party being planned knowing he would fall apart trying to upstage him
I like to think somewhere in this fictional universe these characters lives go on. Right now, Dawn is telling her daughter about the time her dad glued the receiver on his co-worker's phone. It's part of her explaining about knowing when you've met "the one." It happened for her when Gareth put the phone to his ear, and Tim yelled, "Cock!"
Oʀʀɪɴ Bᴇsᴛᴇʀ we know but the point is not a lot of people probably noticed that the first few times while watching the show, there’s so many little details in the office (uk) it’s great
How does he do it? Ricky Gervais is so brilliant at performing the really awkward conversations, and really being the office twat, I absolutely love it. and if you havent yet watched Afterlife do your self a favour and watch the series its absolutely brilliant. It will have you laughing your head off one second and crying the next!!
There are things I still pick up watching this show for the 20th time. Like how when the 2 guys are talking before Brent approaches, there is a plant in the middle kind of blocking Brent’s approach. The joke becomes more subtle and funny cause you only catch a vague glimpse of Brent looking around for people to approach to brag to.
Neill Godwin is always one step ahead of Brent. Brent is burning 🔥 inside every time he has an encounter with Neil. The look on Brent’s face when he said “What’s this? Who organised this?” was with great disgust. “I prefer a Flan”. Trust Brent to put a downer on the whole thing! 👉🏻😂🏓 👉🏻Priceless!
Hilarious, brilliant, tragic and pitiful. Does anyone else pick up on just how desperate David is at this stage of the series? Desperate and terrified. He is most likely not aware of his looming redundancy, but he seems terrified by being in the process of losing his status the most respected, admired, adored, funny person in the office to Neil. He never had those qualities or that status off course, but he convinced himself that he had it. His bragging about the Business People just screams desperation. Off course, this spiral culminates with the infamous dance, which, although hilarious, is also very sad.
The office is really a sad show. Brilliant beyond comprehension, but that season finally was more upsetting than any other show that's actually a drama. I wish more comedies had writing as good as this.
David's desperation to people please and to massage his ego leads him to jump on the management training thinking it would improve his status in the office but just makes him more removed from it, and affects his performance even more. He sacrifices his job and potentially career for his ego. That is quite a risk to take.
@@ianjones3568 Seems to me the main reason he took the management training gig was for the money - which was a ridiculously high fee considering how few people actually attended!
Jennifer and Neil were probably already drawing up his redundancy package by episode 2 in series 2. The sad thing about series 2 is he genuinely doesn't see it coming.
I don't think Neil is all nice, he's just very subtle at undermining Brent. Brent is the office manager after all; Neil is the area manager and he couldn't even have mentioned to him that he was coming in to organise the birthday celebration let alone include him in it...
Ok sure but that would suggest David isn't an egocentric narcissist. Neil would have no reason to undermine David if he acted like a professional rather than a petulant child like he does most of the time. Simple fact is, David is a tosspot. Neil knows this. Mind you Neil isn't completely in the right, yet by David's own boasting he runs a "layed out" work force. David undermines himself more than Neil undermines him.
Neil and Chris Finch are intended to be the villains of the office. Gervais has said this in interview. Lee is a bit of a dull fellow and not the best partner in the world when it comes to Dawn, sure. But Chris is just gross, and Neil is written to be two-faced and scheming, and his mask only begins to slip in the final episode of the show. There is a strong undercurrent in series 2 that Neil has planted a negative perception of Brent and the Slough branch in The Swindon Lot off-screen, and that he and Jennifer actively wanted the get Brent out of his management position early on. Watch series 2 with this in mind and Brent becomes a far more sympathetic character. The entirety of series 2 leads up to the inevitable redundancy. He didn't have a chance.
@@johno4521 I always took it that they've relocated into Slough in terms of living as well as working, but yes that would be a rough commute. Good point!
My goal of advancement in the work related arena is for a man to point to a small group of which I am a part, whereupon he says “see those people over there? Business people”
@@YK-fj5bj I’m now a professional at Ernst & Young and wear a suit at work but nobody has referred to a group of me and others as “business people” yet
@@bnap3221 No, you and your friends and colleagues over at Ernst & Young are not "business people", you are business and finance professionals! EY forever! 😁😁
Oooh, bit sweet innit, too rich..
beware of false profits.....
😂😂
@@mkprocter882 Speaking of false profits: Nortel Networks
I prefer a flan
Hahahaha
“What’s this?” The fact that no one told him there was a party planned just makes it even more painful and hilarious.
He prefers a flan.
so true
The most timeless thing about The Office is that there's still managers out there exactly like David Brent. This strikes a chord with every office worker, especially if you're in the UK.
*chord*
@@zapkvr Thanks Gareth.
@Wendell Shorteyes if you haven't met a David Brent, then you're the David Brent.
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Thank you so much, you saved my ass!
"I prefer a flan" is my favourite line from all of The Office.
Mine too. Then “i think theres been a rape up there”
Why?
hahah it's great. My top 5 def also includes "Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, born 1821, died 1881"
“I don’t agree with that in the workplace” gets me every time lol
Mine is the Lenny Henry telling Dawn French to piss off when she asks him to do the washing up because he has to go out and save some Africans. Still makes me cry to this day.
I prefer a flan
The way he said it 😂
Jimmy Williams exactly, lol! It’s the way in which he says and portrays it that is just hilarious!
so do i
lol I love the way he looks everyone in the eye after he says it, like "are you with me on this?"
I'm more of a clafoutis guy myself
‘Bit sweet, innit? Too rich’ he says looking at his guests knowing full well they haven’t had any yet he’s desperate for a backing.
Great observation, which I didn't make despite having seen it dozens of times.
and then they immediately say how nice it is
I prefer Flan
Tim definitely sounds like Homer Simpson at the beginning...
Hahaha, I’ve always thought that!
it immediately did
Think he’s trying to do Kermit
@@jimtheburrito4080 Or Jordan Peterson.
He sounds like Adam Sandler to me
I can't believe how good Ricky did with his acting and facial expressions in this considering he's never acted before
True talents dont need to go to acting school. You will come across plenty of naturals in your life just doing mundane jobs
Wish he stopped after this
@@drfell9105 his stand up specials are great. He was barely a millionaire from this, he could stop now and live a very rich life. But doubt he could just from the office.
@@golgotha3938 Extras was well worth a watch as well, probably the most similar thing he and Merchant did to the Office. Unique in its own way though.
@@gluck5869 Extras is one of my favorites as well. The cameos from celebrities who just absolutely butcher themselves are just overwhelmingly hilarious.
Everything about the office is top drawer.
Nothing will ever beat it . Rewatchable forever .
Agreed Keith. And to think British people think the American office which is totally OTT and childish is better than the original U.K is just beyond me?!?
@@matty6848 some do. Most don't.
Even Gareth's stapler. Oh, wait, no it's no longer top drawer. RIP.
It has aged well and is just as funny to watch today
@@matty6848 I've never met anyone, British or American, who thinks the US Office is superior
dunno why this is on my feed 8 years later, but thanks
It's on mine 9 years later. I don't even like flan.
It’s ten years you idiot
@@jackfahy2283 that comment was made 2 years ago, now who's the idiot.
@@clivemitchell4316 it might be you Clive, I think Jack was joking lmao
@@hbk4life maybe, maybe not. If it was meant to be a joke, not really funny is it.
Neil doing the cake without tellling Brent beforehand shows that Neil is the villain of the piece.
I always thought Neil was a bit of a wanker.
@@Darwinion Neil is a smarmy git. And he laughs when Finch calls Brent's date a dog.
Brent laughed at Finch's terrible jokes. Everyone laughs until they're the ones on the chopping block.
@@noahmay7708 no but it’s definitely clear he’s a bit of an arsehole as the show goes on. Like when he asks David to show off his dance moves when David clearly isn’t prepared, or when he backhandedly checks with David in front of the cameras if he’ll be bringing a plus one to the Christmas party
@@noahmay7708 "Everyone laughs until they're the ones on the chopping block."
Ah, but even when David Brent was the butt of Finch's "jokes", he still laughed, if a trifle more uncomfortably.
fine TH-cam I'll watch it
Thousands have said it before but this is spot on. I know - I was one of those managers in the 80's-00's electricity industry, blinded by the theories of total quality management, kaizen, toolbox talks and personal improvement plans. And all along the customer just wanted their lights to stay on & have cheaper bills........The Neils exist too, but most became consultants and have now retired to a life in the country.
an all round entertainer *fuses hands together*
The melting pot
He sort of fuses Flashdance with MC Hammer shit.
@@SamPendleton ...Love it !! 😅😁
Friend first boss second. Probably an entertainer third
"Keep it under your hat"
*immediately goes to tell another group of people the news*
"Comedy is a place where the mind goes to tickle itself,” -David Brent
That’s what she said.
Tim's laugh is joy, pure, unfiltered joy
Business people, quite important, they've got a business
How Dawn touches Tim's hair at the end. Seriously, the layers of this series!
pepesoulful great pickup!
I was so sad for time when she said no twice but then cried when she came back and kissed him
@sparkyinbath Hack comment. Gervais is the more over-sentimental of the two writers if anything. It's usually "Merchant wrote all the jokes".
But anyway, they wrote this classic together, with no input disparity or animosity, even after 20 years. Says a lot.
Delicious Dawn!
Either way Dawn's a bitch. I'm saying after the ending
Absolutely brilliant! Brent is sooo jealous of Neil he even complained about him cake. He cant bear Neil getting one ounce of attention more than him! So funny!
The fact Gareth goes on to answer the phone is great.
The way david tells those two about business people..then moves on to next group to tell them.brilliant. Its sadly like people on fb updating everyone on anything that makes them look slightly important..fkn sad world and this top series showed just that way of thinking..gareth is so good as well..they all are in truth !
Just imagine Brent on LinkedIn
So true. I hate Facebook and have never used it. I'm convinced the explosion of narcissism we see today has its origin in FB.
I only say bad things that make me look dumb on FB, it's a lot funnier. Although it does lessen the chances with a woman.
Keep it under your hat.
Very very true
Keep it under your hat! (walks to next group...Hi, see those two people over there?) 😂😂
I had a girl at work just like that... "I need some advice, I've just found out I'm pregnant but dont want people to know... what should I do"?
She then walked straight over to another guy and said exactly the same to him!
@@fishyc150 Sounds like a wholesome lady. :/
The underlaying shithousery of neil here is massive. Never bothered to tell Brent there was a party being planned knowing he would fall apart trying to upstage him
Neil is borderline loathsome
I like to think somewhere in this fictional universe these characters lives go on. Right now, Dawn is telling her daughter about the time her dad glued the receiver on his co-worker's phone. It's part of her explaining about knowing when you've met "the one." It happened for her when Gareth put the phone to his ear, and Tim yelled, "Cock!"
“El vino did flow”
Brent quipped “I prefer a flan” 👍🏻
Brent mused ....
brent looks at the camera at 1:07 and see they were filming so he goes there lel
Seen the office so many times and never noticed that
Nice one
It was part of the script
Oʀʀɪɴ Bᴇsᴛᴇʀ we know but the point is not a lot of people probably noticed that the first few times while watching the show, there’s so many little details in the office (uk) it’s great
Those 2 swindon guys are boring af lol. "we have made the effort" 🤣🤣
@@jaimeleonguzman4328 I think you missed the point
This and Phoenix Nights. Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣🤣
As soon as neil said i made it my self david goes in for a bite .. such a key part 😂😂😂
“How much that cost ya? We payin ya too much?” 😂
I made it myself!
"Keep it under your hat" then proceeds to blab it to someone else 😂 class
The way his face drops at 0:36 is hilarious
How does he do it? Ricky Gervais is so brilliant at performing the really awkward conversations, and really being the office twat, I absolutely love it. and if you havent yet watched Afterlife do your self a favour and watch the series its absolutely brilliant. It will have you laughing your head off one second and crying the next!!
and Derek
The Invention of Lying
He's playing himself. That's how he does it.
Afterlife is crap lol, in fact most of his ventures without stephen merchant's association have been poor.
Best thing he’s been involved with was idiot abroad , but that’s down to Karl not him .
There are things I still pick up watching this show for the 20th time. Like how when the 2 guys are talking before Brent approaches, there is a plant in the middle kind of blocking Brent’s approach. The joke becomes more subtle and funny cause you only catch a vague glimpse of Brent looking around for people to approach to brag to.
"ooh, too sweet; too rich; i prefer a flan"
Old videos but people are still commenting so what the hell...
You can't top "i think there's been a rape up there" when it comes to The Office!
😂😂😂
Think theres been a rape was funniest ever. It literally broke me
Ive sort of fused flash dance with mc hammer shit
"I think there's been a rape up there" and the timing of it is one of the most awful, appalling, hilarious lines ever from a sitcom.
I genuinely dont get that joke. I love the office but never understood that one...
"keep it under your hat....ehhhhhh....see those two business people over there..."
Gold
A. philanthropist.
B. prefers a flan.
C. different drinks for different... needs.
Love the speed at which he said "They've asked me" 🤣💥
This is just absolutely fucking brilliant. I love it. Genius.
John Harvey Jones type figures.... They've asked me!!! 🤣🤣🤣
One of my favourite scenes from this was Brent doing the questionnaire with keith
“Always the same…”
Do you remember what the question was?
@KYRJAMESEY No, okay; let’s _leave_ that there…
'I prefer a flan
'
Without fail at any time any place no matter how old the skit Ricky makes me cackle like a kid
Neil makes me laugh though. It's his interfering you know, it's his timing...
“Keep that under your hat”
_proceeds to tell other people immediately after_
Dear Mr Dilkington
I don’t know why that’s so funny.
Could’ve had my eye out 😂
The telephone prank was genius
Bit over the top init?
Could have had my eye out. 😂
Almost every line in this show is perfect
You're funny, could've had my eye out.
Neill Godwin is always one step ahead of Brent. Brent is burning 🔥 inside every time he has an encounter with Neil.
The look on Brent’s face when he said “What’s this? Who organised this?” was with great disgust.
“I prefer a Flan”. Trust Brent to put a downer on the whole thing! 👉🏻😂🏓
👉🏻Priceless!
Best Homer Simpson impression ever
I love how the other boss acts all kind and gracious, but he's actually a knob.
For me the guy who kisses arse and drops in the praise for neils lemon drizzle cake sums up wankers in workplaces.
Keith prefers a scotch egg
A scotch egg guarantees you at least 2 orgasms ..
You want to to try his lemon drizzle cake, it's even better!
Neil does a Brent at 50 seconds and starts fiddling with his Tie.
"yeah, against kárate?"
Those two people over there are business people and they have a business
I PREFER A FLAN....LOL
Today Tim would be called out for workplace bullying!
Quality control alert 🚨
I love this show so much
I prefer a flan 🤣🤣🤣 the funniest thing ive ever heard !!!
"You've put under weaknesses....
Eczema..."
Yeah........ on my feet.
So.., that’s what Bilbo has been up to between slaying Smaug and leaving for Rivendel..
Bilbo didn't slay smaug.. Fact...
I thought he was hitchhiking across the galaxy.
ur funny u coulda had my eye out 🤣
John Harvey Jones? Lol, slipped in so subltly!
"I'm gluing the phone...in the name of fun..."
“Could’ve had my eye out.” 📞
Your right that is the best joke in the office, I prefer a flan can’t stop laughing 😂
Hilarious, brilliant, tragic and pitiful. Does anyone else pick up on just how desperate David is at this stage of the series?
Desperate and terrified.
He is most likely not aware of his looming redundancy, but he seems terrified by being in the process of losing his status the most respected, admired, adored, funny person in the office to Neil. He never had those qualities or that status off course, but he convinced himself that he had it.
His bragging about the Business People just screams desperation.
Off course, this spiral culminates with the infamous dance, which, although hilarious, is also very sad.
The office is really a sad show. Brilliant beyond comprehension, but that season finally was more upsetting than any other show that's actually a drama. I wish more comedies had writing as good as this.
David's desperation to people please and to massage his ego leads him to jump on the management training thinking it would improve his status in the office but just makes him more removed from it, and affects his performance even more. He sacrifices his job and potentially career for his ego. That is quite a risk to take.
@@ianjones3568 Seems to me the main reason he took the management training gig was for the money - which was a ridiculously high fee considering how few people actually attended!
Jennifer and Neil were probably already drawing up his redundancy package by episode 2 in series 2. The sad thing about series 2 is he genuinely doesn't see it coming.
I don't think Neil is all nice, he's just very subtle at undermining Brent. Brent is the office manager after all; Neil is the area manager and he couldn't even have mentioned to him that he was coming in to organise the birthday celebration let alone include him in it...
@Degree7 or a weasle faced arse?
Ok sure but that would suggest David isn't an egocentric narcissist. Neil would have no reason to undermine David if he acted like a professional rather than a petulant child like he does most of the time. Simple fact is, David is a tosspot. Neil knows this. Mind you Neil isn't completely in the right, yet by David's own boasting he runs a "layed out" work force. David undermines himself more than Neil undermines him.
Neil and Chris Finch are intended to be the villains of the office. Gervais has said this in interview. Lee is a bit of a dull fellow and not the best partner in the world when it comes to Dawn, sure. But Chris is just gross, and Neil is written to be two-faced and scheming, and his mask only begins to slip in the final episode of the show.
There is a strong undercurrent in series 2 that Neil has planted a negative perception of Brent and the Slough branch in The Swindon Lot off-screen, and that he and Jennifer actively wanted the get Brent out of his management position early on. Watch series 2 with this in mind and Brent becomes a far more sympathetic character. The entirety of series 2 leads up to the inevitable redundancy. He didn't have a chance.
@@vorebiz No wonder the Swindon lot are miserable, I wouldn't like to do a 120 mile round trip every day just to work there...
@@johno4521 I always took it that they've relocated into Slough in terms of living as well as working, but yes that would be a rough commute. Good point!
that’s what I call a good quality video
135 people prefer a flan
At the end 😂
Could’ve had my eye out
“Quite important actually”
Could have had my eye out.
In the end I preferred David Brent. Neil was funnier, better looking, a better manager, he could dance, he could bake. No one likes a smart arse!
@Hugh Jones under strengths, David's put all round entertainer
@@bipbipbopbop That's his job, though. I was sort of looking for his strengths within his job...
“The UK Office”
Best show ever
Quite funny going up to people in the street going: "ooah,.. got you in a meetin'? Na, I just had a meeting actually..."
The civil service in the 1990s was like this...only more desperate.
Best sitcom ever! David Brent made me squirm...🙂
Not a comedy. Brilliantly done and hugely entertaining in a toe-curling way, but not a comedy.
@@mirror1675
Yes, a black comedy. Same as The League of Gentlemen, which was also brilliant...🇬🇧
1:31 figuresthey’ve asked me
I prefer a flan, looks around for approval
Sort of John Harvey Jones type figures... they’ve asked me
I prefer a flan 🍮 ….
This is funny, but I think that the stapler in jelly is funnier. I don't know what it is, but I find it hilarious.
I don't really care who my boss is, so long as he (or she, it could be a woman!) doesn't micro-manage me or bully me.
What if you work in some sort of laboratory and the boss insists that you must let the monkey play with your breasts?
What sort of bunce would I be looking at? 👌
@@murph7421 Hence the....bunce.
Can't hear that without picturing the face and the fingers!
Bunsen burner, nice little earner
'....they're business people ..'
Did I tell you about the immune system?
karl pilkington haha
The uk office? It's just called the office.
its too good
My goal of advancement in the work related arena is for a man to point to a small group of which I am a part, whereupon he says “see those people over there? Business people”
B Nap ha ha 👍 how are you getting on?
@@YK-fj5bj I’m now a professional at Ernst & Young and wear a suit at work but nobody has referred to a group of me and others as “business people” yet
@@bnap3221 No, you and your friends and colleagues over at Ernst & Young are not "business people", you are business and finance professionals! EY forever! 😁😁
Ernst and young? You’re bean counters not business people! You get bullied by business people
@@RaferJeffersonIII you’re obviously not a business person and don’t know what you’re talking about