Both characters are the same - they're man-children, desperate to be loved and accepted by those around them, but the execution is entirely different.
He's not exactly loveable, certainly not in the way that Michael Scott is. The only character that has some kind of shared DNA with the original is Michael Scott and David Brent, but even in that, both characters are distinctly different.īrent is sometimes a bully, has no sense of shame and lacks an awareness of himself. They'd stick out because they were designed for that show, not the other. There's no way characters like Dwight Schrute or Andy Bernard could make their way into Ricky Gervais' version. The US version of 'The Office', on the other hand, had a much broader palette to work with. It lived off of cringe humour, and ' David Brent: Life On The Road' followed the same formula. It directly used the camera and the pauses between comments, and you very often didn't watch it without watching it through your hands. 'The Office' was starkly realistic, and induced comedy from the awkward interactions between the cast. In fact, aside from the fact that they're set in the same environment, there's no real way you could honestly compare to the two. They are, in every which way you look at it, truly distinct from one another and share almost no resemblance to one another. This is a point that a lot of people tend to forget when they're talking about both versions. In a follow-up post, Gervais clarified his comments about jumping the shark, and said that "it's different to the original which I created and made with different ambitions." That's why I stopped it after a few hours of telly," said Gervais. "I assume most people know I didn't do the US remake for the art. In a 2011 post on his now-deleted blog, Gervais said that the 'The Office (US)' had jumped the shark.
Hell, even Ricky Gervais seems to think that way. Others will point to the fact that it's a more purer, distilled vision of what it's like to work in a crappy office with a boss who's an asshole. There'll be an argument that's there more quality to be gained from having fewer episodes than more. More often than not, people will stress the fact that the UK version ran for just 12 episodes whilst the US version ran for 201 episodes. There's a better than decent chance you've had an argument or debate with someone over which is better - Ricky Gervais' version of 'The Office' or the US remake.
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