Every once in a while, I find myself at NPR.org, and I realize all the NPR stories I missed. Anyway, I recently got the first season of The Office, a BBC comedy, on DVD, and I enjoyed it immensely — in a darkly, comic, Curb Your Enthusiasm kind of way. NPR’s Liane Hansen interviews the star in NPR : Ricky Gervais, a Hit at ‘The Office’:
In The Office, British comedian Ricky Gervais plays David Brent, a buffoonish, self-involved but affable office manager at a dismal paper supply company called Wernham Hogg, in the London suburb of Slough. Gervais created the faux documentary and co-writes and directs the series, which appears on the BBC and has a small cult following on BBC America.The 61st annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony is tonight, and Gervais is up for a Golden Globe award in the Lead Actor category. He speaks with NPR’s Liane Hansen.