Ricky Gervais says 'The Office' would have been cancelled by 'outrage mobs'

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Ever since the second season of dropped on earlier this year, fans have been begging comedian and actor to bring back the show for a third. The comedy-drama, which stars Ricky as the lead Tony, tells the story of his journey after losing his wife to cancer.

Ricky Gervais has backed a fundraiser for the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe Festival as it was his first paid comedy gig.  Venue Just The Tonic has started a cash campaign to help them restart for the Fringe in 2021 as this year's was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

After Life on Twitter.The comedian, who co-created The Office with Gervais, made a jab at the existential Netflix comedy by answering the prompt “What is your least favourite bit of movie shorthand?” asked by ITV film critic James King.In his reply, Merchant said, “Watching old home movies of dead child/wife = inability to move on.” While he did not explicitly name After Life, the series focuses on Gervais’ character Tony who is mourning his wife, who died of breast cancer.Merchant’s followers

The actor, best known for being the star of BBC comedy The Office, was appearing on US TV’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when he shared the unusual idea.The star even said it would be “brilliant” for the lions to munch his private parts.The 59-year-old said: “I do not care about my body. Feed me to the lions.“Like, me just being thrown into the lion’s cage at the zoo and people, all tourists, going, ‘Is that the bloke from The Office?’.

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If you were to name a list of the most influential and beloved sitcoms of the 21st century, it wouldn’t take long before you reach “The Office,” both the British and American varieties. The series, originally created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant in 2001, was a huge hit in the UK when it was released and would spawn an even more successful reboot in the US in 2005 (lasting for 9 seasons).

Ricky Gervais called out the lack of online discourse and what he sees as the new “fascists” on social media. The often controversial comedian and creator of the U.K.

BBC’s “The Office” became a huge success when it debuted in 2001, catapulting co-creator Ricky Gervais to stardom.

The Office may have been made differently today thanks to ‘cancel culture’.The actor, who starred in the BBC comedy from 2001 to 2003 as cringeworthy office manager David Brent, said the current debate about what is deemed acceptable would bring his and co-creator Stephen Merchant’s award-winning mockumentary series straight into the conversation.“This was a show about everything,” Gervais told Times Radio yesterday (July 9).