Comedy Connections: Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant '3' 

wow the series and its characters has been analyzed so much already, it makes me think it will be analyzed years from now the way we analyze Shakespeare in schools. the office really is a masterpiece and enjoy watching Ricky and Stephen talk about it .

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

"do you use the y front or do you tuck it over the top"

and two lovely lads two - not the usual successful monsters u normally see...

i love evrythin those 2 do 2getha. i think stephen merchant deserves more recognition though. btw if you havnt seen thier film cemetery junction yet, u hav to! its gr8

i think i'll go and watch platoon.

so is steve merchant

us version of the office is pants compared to the uk

Its different

its different.

my favourite thing about the office is the contrast of storylines between david brent the clown....and tim and dawn the suppressed romance. 'the clown' storyline acts as refreshing comic relief from the romance....yet the viewer is eager to return to the romance aspect subsequently......ricky and stephen got lucky with a winning formula which evidently translates worldwide....all in all a wonderful comedy!!!!

How can you guys slam the US version... it's decent! Of course the UK version is better, and its only funnier to us because its our culture.

omg, i didn't know that there was more than one international re-make.

1:43 Steve's asleep. Hahahaaa

lol wtf theres no canadian office

The American version is funny but it's definitely a sitcom and doesn't have the edge that the original has in spades.

true, but the american one is sitll pretty funny even though its very far fetched.

please someone send me a link to some evidence of a canadian office. i am canadian and have never seen or heard of it.

the american version is very good, only critasism maybe is the tim or jim character isnt as likable and funny as the uk version

@bigbowlowrong well said . It's funnier than US version anyday ... Also, the actors were better in the UK version , except Jenna Fischer ...

i think its fair to say that Karl was never a 'new chum' considering he was with the guys after the first series broke

@simplelife88393 No, the UK version is objectively better and this applies across all cultures.

@simplelife88393 I must agree with bigbowl. I'm in the U.S. and I didn't watch the U.K. version until after seeing years of the U.S. version. I loved the U.S. version and still do. It was by far the best thing on our tv for a while. The U.K. version still beats it. It makes me laugh so hard my lungs hurt, even on repeated viewings. It is just unparalleled. When you try to compare, our version just looks like poo. It's best to avoid put them next to each other.

97 episodes, far too many although i do like the us version too

1:37 smerch asleep