THE David Brent Dance - The Office - BBC 

rachel didnt at 3.48

+Monkey Magic Yeah, she laughed right at the funniest part of the dance.

Links Fraulein hahaha I was just thinking that. I've watched it like 6 times now and it still a makes me laugh

multiple takes obviously lol

Emperor Kek really I though it was all one take with no editing

Yes, and just shows how sexually frustrated he is underneath.

And then it falls to the floor and he kicks it across the room 🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Because it's Karl's head.

@Pascal "Remember where we were..."

This was gold!

It’s such a great scene as you can tell it’s hurting Brent just watching Neil be the centre of attention.

I hate Neil

Neil is a little slug with no personality

Yeah it's so funny seeing his jealous looks

​@@theosworld941it's not even jealousy by this stage of the series, it's genuine heartbreak because Neil has absolutely destroyed whatever he thought of himself beforehand

so akward!!! love him!!

the one on the american office made me question life almost as hard

+Bill Patrick Jones lol. you're silly.

i loved this scene

That's the entire point of season 2, it's brilliant

I didn't hate him but I found him hard to watch first time through.

@Rory O'Donnell Most people don't agree with you, myself included.

QuasiELVIS Screw most people

@Rory O'Donnell umm it is THE greatest TV show ever

People who hate David Brent are usually him? A fat, ugly, odious, self-aggrandising, delusional buffoon? A tragic figure of fun open to ridicule and scorn? Sounds like Ricky Gervais was taking the piss when he said that. It's like saying people who hate Jar Jar Binks are usually him, meaning you must be a clumsy, well-meaning Gungan!

Didn't you get fired?

I read that with your accent 😂

@@holdenfan8532 na he didn't wanna get redundant.

Probably bad man entertainer third

"That looks gay" lol

derpty dumb “I’ve sort of fuuuuused flash dance with MC hammer shit”

@@footycardstuff1232 for some reason just reading the comments from the exact video I'm watching makes me laugh too when it comes to The Office quotes

It also cracks me me up that he knows he's digging himself into a hole (that they'll call his bluff and make him dance), but he just can't help himself...

Comedy with quick witted responses like that have always made me laugh the hardest.

@@footycardstuff1232 I remember stopping the episode at that part, couldn't stop laughing about the mc hammer shit 😂😂

Actually, Brent is a man who is massively insecure. Like most insecure people, he has to be the centre of attention all the time, otherwise he can't cope. Neil was a great invention by the writers because he has the perfect character to wind the shit out of Brent - he has authority, he is good looking and he has charm. The fact Brent feels he needs to compete with him shows up his insecurity in this fine comedy series.

@@Wally-H 👌

Wtf is that pic..

Like Michael Scott later in his painfully uncomfortable Booze Cruise dance.

@@Wally-H gay

We've all been there.

+SylentEcho so cringeworthy.. he's so desperate!!!

I like you can hear the laboured nose-breathing

You have to really sit in awe of how good Ricky did it. If you have ever been around people like that... They subconsciously know they are wrong, they can tell from the horror on people's faces, yet they continue. Because if the mask that they chose to wear, to cover their state of chaos and pain, ever cracks it would lose its credibility. When he starts to humm that loudly, thats the moment where the mask dropped and everyone is horrified by the face underneath the mask. And it is then followed by people cheering him on disingenuously. It's a masterfull piece.

I was literally laughing so hard at this scene that my stomach hurts 😂

@@TheLineCutter I think it's just that some people are very stupid and insensitive. There's no mask. He genuinely wants to one up the other guy, or at least equal him. He just doesn't know how, so he does his best yet always fails. Compare this to Tim who can one up people by his sensitivity to social cues and his sensitivity and good prediction of people's approval. The only thing wrong with David, besides his ineptitude, is that he is unprincipled: he would lie to make people like him, bully to make people like him, blame others to make people like him.

100%

Neil honestly does come off as slightly closeted during this show.

Wouldn`t be allowed today sadly "Hatespeech"

@@ianofliverpool7701 If Hitler was reincarnated during a modern military crisis I'd like to think this was how it would go down. 'If you wanted genocide you should've come to me.' 'what you commit genocide?' 'BIG time more modern stuff than that and all. I sort of fused mass shootings with poison gas.' 'Alright then mate mate show us your moves?' 'Come on there's no beat is there.... as it's for charity.'

When?

RubbaDUBVideos 1:08

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hahahahahahahahh

You couldn't even have a non sympathetic character or villain say that anymore...

TheRealist you beat me to it!!

That's deep, they already know what they're on..

That's what I would have heard growing up if any lad try to do anything other than football, cars, etc. Even video games were for nerds.

Well that sounds gay

Even Gareth’s smiling just behind David

@@daithiocinnsealach1982 So true. And I played piano and painted. Imagine the shit I took.

@@wordup897 🤣😆😂 🏳️‍🌈

billybob thornton That pointing bit is directly ripped off of "Flashdance".

OldSchoolRasslin You're the reason the internet is so funny yet infuriating. So, so infuriating.

That's because underneath - he IS a very angry fucked-up individual. I think he knows he is fucked-up, but just doesn't quite know what to do about it.

lol sounds like most people i know

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He was struggling 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think that's where Martin Freeman's face turns from the stunned look that everyone else has to a guffawing smirk, as he almost laughed at the intake of breath.

Very well observed!

howling

Mc hammer flashdance

You’ve charmed me..

@@AlOlexy What time you cruising down to chasers tonight 😊

@@deadpaul6415 well its not definite.

@@bensmithkent22 No no., come down the beers will be on me..in me 😁

Please, stop mentioning Jesus Christ's name in vain.

lol.

That's what happens when you fuse Flashdance with MC Hammer shit.

can't moonwalk on that carpet though:/

theres no beat is there

🤣🤣🤣

You don’t know her name?! :0

It's Rachel

Nice catch

Well spotted

brilliant haha

I was just laughing my head off at that bit thinking was I the only one who noticed it. Then I read your comment and I'm laughing my head off again 🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

poor karl

"Head like a fucking orange!"

Lol the thirst is real!

Lol this comment wins!!

Lol...

Haha well spotted!

he has the best neutral poker face ever

Military training right there

What a great analysis. I salute you for serving 17 years. I couldn't hack the psychopaths for more than two.

Could you elaborate on why you find Neil unpleasant? He seems rather charming in the show...

@@dhanushhegde1715 charm on the outside, ruthless back stabber on the inside. I met dozens of these guys.

@@dhanushhegde1715 Ricky Gervais once said that you shouldn’t like Neil because he’s got all the things that Brent wants, but it means less to him. He got all the breaks but he doesn’t care.

meistery manu that he seemed so 'nice' but also came across as arrogant and pompous was the mastery of series two. i think the audience actually started to 'root' for brent by the end, because by the end he's reduced to a pathetically lonely narcissist who'd ego has brought him down, and that was so relateable for people. humans want profit, success and safety. so a hopeless delusional character who thinks he's an 'artist' a 'poet' and beloved by his staff when he's actually a lonely ageing idiot made us cry for someone we initially hated

Its a mood

His expressions of jealousy throughout the part is brilliant.

theauxphou it's broad slapstick

That was as subtle as a brick to a window.

It's not lost in the scene at all. It's blatant lol

Undestated yes thats what makes the joke but not lost at all

Brilliant comment. Fantastic analysis. Completely accurate. You have sussed the show. But how about the ending when the camera is so subtly placed so that when Dawn comes back into the office at the xmas party?? and the track playing by a pure coincidence? LOL

What's a gibber?

Andrew Givens THANKS PROFESSOR

That was quite a psycho-analysis! Are you Stephen Merchant?

That was quite a psycho-analysis! Are you Stephen Merchant?

There shouldn't be extra points for that... Necessarily

Quantum Leep The money was for both dances... both equally good dances.

David, is that you?

Quantum Leep “make your minds up I’m collecting for charity” then he proceeds to pick up the charity collection that wasn’t even his in the 1st place 😂

@@Replydickhead "... for making your mind uuuuuuuuuuup!..."

40+ years damn have you ever thought of going pro?? that amount of experience is impressive. you could be the next best television

+WOLVES WWFC1887 That doesn't make any fucking sense at all

yeah man I know im reading that back wondering how high I was lol. cant even remember that comment

WOLVES WWFC1887 haha fair enough. Ordinarily I probably wouldn't have said anything, but I almost gave myself a headache trying to understand what you meant...

@@AlfredTheBrave LMAO

Sounds like every single family holiday event..

thats the point lol. This is masterful cringe comedy

@@Dazarabia522 it's so physically painful to watch

I feel like things in the American Office tended to go the exact opposite way.

Both versions made me feel the same, that's why they are both great

Yeah thank you for quoting that .Even though I can CLEARLY hear that line in the scene ..It makes it far more funnier when some douchbag posts it as a comment.

@@kittyhawk9707 You need bigger things to whine about, mate.

@@kittyhawk9707 Miserable wanker, go cry in a corner.

@@katewilson4568 oh fuck off..

@@TonyEnglandUK You need bigger things to whine about, mate.

Yeah, that's why I like most the us version. I mean, I already work in my office so I prefer another stuff to watch

There is only one version of The Office and that is the British one. The American has completely destroyed the concept.

I love them both for different reasons… the UK office is incredibly real and funny the US one is very very silly and funny and light.

The Office UK will always be my favorite TV Show, I don’t even think the US version is in the same class.

@@cactusmalone it is very clear that the US Office staff are not good people lol. it looks like you're misinformes

Ricky actually did win a Golden Globe for playing David Brent in 2004

​@@thomsboys77 sort of think that was his joke mate

@@MrCrunchy1001 you're wrong

The "egyptian rolling crab" goes hard here!!!

its not the dancing thats bad its his chubby little body doing it

@@Blobby192 Well no, I've seen fat people actually pull off good dances. But sure, it doesnt help.

@@Blobby192 He looks like this giant beetle with the legs and arms sticking out.

@@ZorbaTheDutch lolol

That’s kind of the point, it’s like when he plays guitar and sings, he’s not bad at all. That makes it funnier. The American version would probably make him comically bad with music. The fact he can actually play guitar etc adds to the realistic of his overestimation of himself

They're both casual normie humor. Let's not pretend the UK version is anything but casual humor made for a mass audience.

Thanks for making me laugh 😂

I was looking at every guy like what? Wrong. Karl isn't there and then I rewound and saw the orange and was like. Nice one.

Tkivo Band (*in Karl's voice*) "What's all that about?"

Glorious.

Tkivo Band Genius!

neil is everything David wishes he was, good looking, charismatic, attractive and accomplished as well as being genuinely liked by everyone

Aspergerations

@@jonnybirchyboy1560 beat me to it

Neil is a pretentious prick. Brent is much better guy and I’d much more prefer a boss like Brent.

@@jimmorrison8203 Mate, I don't think Neil is a bad bloke, but like you, I would defo prefer Brent as my boss. By the way, the only real reason I replied is because we have got the same name.

One of the best scenes, along with training day scene, that has ever put on television comedy. The office uk is one of the great. I live in Sweden so I can relate both US and UK jokes.

holamoco17 Yeah and I they also tried to make a really really shitty swedish version

What about: NOOOOOO GOD PLEASE NOOOO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@@plebhead_ 😡

Ye he's responsible for a few. Another classic is when he Interviews woman for job.

Both *excellent* dances.

Brent's was impromptu, but I don't think you should get extra points for that... necessarily.

malcasablanca True. Brent's was more modern, though.

I'm collecting for charity!

Matthew Collins haha...

I'm laughing when just thinking about it. Can be somewhat embarrassing at a funeral.

Snap

Yeah, it reminds me some strange creature

The bird in red broke character and couldn't help laughing

It looks like this dance you might have heard of. Search up fortnite best mates. I know what you’re thinking but just do it

@stephen stewart that makes this all the funnier

Roy Purdy who

OMG

Because british performers study a lot about acting.

That shot stood out to me, as well. She looks at Tim, expecting him to be jealous and maybe mad (like Dawn's fiance would be) -- almost hoping for it. Then is disappointed that he's not mad at all...but just transfixed and admiring Rachel.

@@dingusrevolver I thought she was looking at him because she wanted to dance like that with him 😂

I agree she’s so great

I dont know her but that scene was perfect haha how did she nail that

He knows what flashdance is, he knows who MC Hammer is and he knows his boss.

+redryan5048 do you prefer a flan?

I hope you gave him a written warning and then made him redundant! LOL.

redryan5048 Ok. Thanks Neil

😂😂😂😂

That looks gay.

evitasdad Aatually he said in the commentary that he didn't even realise he looked so deranged while doing the dance, and he was a bit embarrassed for real.

Lol !

Oh yea didn’t notice that 😂

And it's funny as fuck

Some of the greatest moments in this series were the ones with no dialogue, just pure, unadulterated awkwardness.

it was done in 3 takes apparently

the blonde lady in the red dress at 3:46 can't hold it in and laughs just before the camera moves

What a lot of non professional dancers won't appreciate is that to appear to be this bad at dancing, one actually has to be a very accomplished dancer indeed! Much like Less Doorson and his "my bad" piano playing, when in reality Doorson was a concert standard trained pianist and had to mark the keys (with colored stickers) in order to be able to hit the "right" wrong notes. It just doesn't seem fare that God would bless one man with so many talents as Jarvis. As if it isn't enough that he's able to write such brilliant comedy, pop music (Siona Miller) and act as incredibly well as he does in Derek, he even arranged the choreography for this dance sequence. David Bowie eat your heart out!

Ann Thorpe ....OI, No professionals.....'im not a professional'.....well you should be...

I loved how Ricky talked about this scene on the dvd. He said to Stephen Merchant, "I've got short legs, a pot belly...I look like an orangutan. Why didn't someone tell me I looked like that??"

And no matter how many times you watch it, there's still so many things to un-pack in every scene

Yep

David Brent would post these comments if he had RU-vid

That's the beauty and craftsmanship the show has. The awkwardness will always stay fresh.

Spot on, you both.

You need keep watching it, preferably twice daily until you no longer cringe but in fact crave more!

McFly that’s what I love about the UK version, it gives you that real awkward cringe feeling that the US version just doesn’t have. The US version is just so clearly played out but this is pure gold.

I cringed so hard when David did his little "show" in clubs and as an inspirational persona. Ugh...

I love how David says, "I've danced more modern stuff than that" and then proceeds to name "Flashdance" and "M.C. Hammer Shit", LOL!.

i know, hilarious. and how do you answer a fat middle-aged man saying "I've fused" those two.

I don't know if I've ever laughed harder than the first time I saw the "David Brent Dance". Maybe the first time I saw "Monty Python & the Holy Grail" or "Spinal Tap" or the first time I saw "Blazing Sadles". The best part of that dance is that you think he's going to stop because everybody stopped clapping in shock and yet he goes on for another 20-30 seconds.

Yes, the way the chanting peters out in horrified embarrassment, yet Brent just carries on...and afterwards, there's a slow scatter of 'applause'...he still doesnt get it....and then Gareth says something like "we dont have to pay for THAT, do we? and Brent says: "Well, don't say it like that! All the money collected is for both dances, both excellent dances...although mine was impromptu and theirs was rehearsed...but make your own minds up, I'm collecting for charity..." Its as if he thinks that by saying something he can make it true! We seem to have a lot in common with TV...do you like Blake's 7?

Yeah, Garath is the the only blunt one in the group. Garath is like one of those people who don't have a filter in their brain. I love how Brent says, "both Excellent dances" with the emphasis on "excellent". It's just brilliant acting by Ricky from his facial gestures at Neil & Rachael to the dancing to his obliviousness of the situation. I think I watched and re-watched that scene about 3-4 times the first time I saw it and I was laughing so hard that I was almost crying. This show is also a great example of how oblivious bosses can be. People rarely respond or criticize them because it's almost always in your worst interest to challenge your boss, it's usually a no-win situation. As a result they become quite insular and are often clueless to reality. At least David Brent is basically a decent person. I worked for this nasty, greedy, sarcastic, vile, petty, vindictive, subtly racist, morbidly obese woman who kind of looked like one of those female prison guards from the 1930's. She had this delusion that people actually loved her and thought she was funny and the life of the party because we tolerated her and didn't want to make the situation worse. They eventually sent her to sensitivity training courses because she had so many complaints and they ended up transferring her to another department. I'm from the U.S. so I'm not familiar with "Blake's 7". It has high ratings on IMDB so I'm going to have to check it out. We didn't get much 70's British T.V. Basically we received: U.F.O., Dr. Who, Space 1999, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Faulty Towers, Upstairs Downstairs, and The Benny Hill Show. Then in the 80's we got stuff like "The Young Ones" and "Allo Allo".

Spot on 😅

Here it is! makeagif.com/_sBUUl

Mr. Jose Rubio Life is now at least 87% better than it was before... Thankyou so much!

Thanks for that! And imagine the pressure not to laugh when it's obviously going to be a great historic take...I bet their stomachs hurt.

@@LukasOfTheLight there is a slight laugh there. Its the camera crew or someone near them. But definitely there is a laugh.

@@LukasOfTheLight okay 🙃

I remmeber Stephen Merchant said that The Office is actually a romance story. The romantic elements are all there from the first episode to last.

it's a tragicomedy I would say, there's a lot depth to it, and incredible humour.

I first saw this looped as someone’s avatar on a message board. I recall having no idea what it was from but recognized the awkward hilarity even from that small 100p x 100p gif.

Is this better than original?

@@deki90to What do you mean Original?

@@shanofsabro us version

@@ertorolrahmadow95 This IS the Original. US version is the reboot.

British humor from this Era seems to highlight the feelings of embarrassment, anxiety, anxiousness...awkwardness really. It's funny but dark at the same time.

Yar, totally, darling... Totally

@@DonnaFallon-si2nc you must be having a laugh

Right on! I'm about to cry!

Name a better one.​@@sallyjoan

@@johndillon6859 ok, how about Only Fools and Horses, Some Mothers Do Ave Em, on the Buses, Are You Being Served, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, shall i go on?

I didn't notice that you're right thank you for that mate

Shows he's actually a top notch actor too. He can really nail emotions with his face, such as pure jealousy here.

+Ryang403 hahaha nooo fools n horses ? faulty towers and black adder, both great, brilliant.. But the office ... It's just a genius portret of so many human flaws an characteristics... it's so subtle, it's heartwarming.. the others are far more direct in their humour. I think ! (must add this last line off course ;) )

+Eagle Chest [ inbetween the left n right wing] Don't forget he was humming by himself as well!!

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I think he stole the pointing from Flash Dance.

Seriously one of the funniest things ever created.

+ArticleReader Randy Same!

+ArticleReader Randy me too! I can't get enough of it on Skype, must have more! :)

Hahaa mee too On google: "Ricky Gervais dance" haha

+ArticleReader Randy omg, same with me.

Omg me too

Trey Wilson Mmmm-mm-m-m-m-mmh, mmmm-mm-m-m-m-mmh! 😆😆😆

I can only manage RU-vid clips!!

still cringing in 2019 too..

@@philipthomson7460 it's 6am and I'm lying in bed, after finishing work, checking to see if you have typed out the correct number of "mmmm" 's to describe Brent's aggressive humming. Congratulations Sir. Spot on. (I'm big on accurate detail).

How is it going?