when the wind blows was the sit-com ricky really wanted to write but his inferiority complex won't let him contend with this reality and so he has to wrap it up in several layers of irony and insincerities before he can finally deliver it to the bbc2 audiences
I thought that was will Sasso and now I am disappointed
is he avin a laff?
I get that from him too. He's torn between loving low brow humour, and thinking he's too smart for that.
Whistle!
guy played a LITERAL RETARD for 2 seasons. he is very clearly having a well-deserved laugh and he is absolutely /ourguy/
The story is that the gay BBC producers take his idea for a naturalist, gritty workplace sitcom and turn it into lowbrow rubbish with wigs, funny glasses, and catchphrases. So Gervais seems to be saying that if he'd allowed the BBC to have their way, The Office would have ended up as something like When The Whistle Blows. But I suspect this is a huge exaggeration. The BBC is fairly shit, but not THAT shit.
>>218655655I'm Alan Partridge was already pretty much a gritty and depressing looking sitcom, shot in real world locations. Only real concession would be the laugh track, which I assume the BBC insisted on.
>>218650041OP is malding because he thought when the wind blows was legit funny
>>218656294it is legit funny.
>>218656207I suppose The Office should be credited with getting rid of laugh tracks. That opened the door for other kinds of comedy. Things like Peep Show just would not work with a laugh track.
>>218657140>I suppose The Office should be credited with getting rid of laugh tracksthere are numerous shows without laugh tracks from before the office. it wasn't the first UK sitcom to be a mockumentary either.
>>218655655>So Gervais seems to be saying that if he'd allowed the BBC to have their way, The Office would have ended up as something like When The Whistle Blowsyes, that's literally what happens in extras, you fucking midwit
