I just watched it, and I'm still none the wiser! It's pretty much exactly the way David Brent portrayed it - kudos to his impersonation skills. I just can't understand what the basic joke or point of the sketch was, other than literally someone walking strangely to a drum beat!
But not appropriate in a company training video! ...but it does show what a charmed life you have if employed by Microsoft, it’s all bean bags, buffets, games rooms and hi budget afternoons watching this.
Christ... I remember almost suffocating from laughter the first time I saw Ricky's Max Wall impression. And Steve's FACE when he realises he has to endure it again! Just priceless.
6:05 Did he think he said "wank-a-thon?" And David Brent is a master impressionist. He has all the classics: Basil Fawlty, Max Wall, Eric Hitchmough. Timeless stuff.
I thought I had seen the best of Ricky through the years on The Office, all of the follow on shows etc. But the bit with the Max Wall piece, and I don't even know who Max Wall is haha. FFS I'm cracking up.
'I don't agree with that in the workplace' oh come on ...... Who went to the Coventry conference? ....... It's Eric Hitchmo! ....... He sounds exactly like that! ....... FFS!
It's funny how .. this is actually how Ricky acts around Steve anyway.. there's not much of a change xD and god that Max Wall impression was gold x'D!!
It's actually such a crazy blessing that these exist! With how specifically limited The Office was, it's hard to believe there's over half an hour of Ricky and Steve making a pseudo-bonus episode of the show. This was also drastically funnier than the movie!
Ricky's ability to recount or reference pretty fucking random / niche comic moments such as the Max Wall moment, is second to none and show's he really is a comedic historian.
David Brent is like true Buddha, while all the other characters are sad humans trapped in the modern world. That's why they don't understand him. I think David is the only one truly happy and brave enough to call out the obserdity of society, genious.
i know it would be a bad idea to carry on the office in the same enviroment but it would be so good if merchant and gervais could make a couple more specials along the same lines as this, following Mr. D Brent ("thats me") around in his time after the office.
Yes,seriously John. I do not jest. Admittedly it was a while ago now...'77 as I recall but I was with my Parents at a Warners Holiday Camp in Hayling Island and this Guy called John was on the next breakfast table to ours....for the life of me I can not remember his surname though.......
@@Isleofskye That's a remarkable story all the more interesting given the fact that I attended a holiday camp in Great Yarmouth with my parents in the late 70s. Obviously I was too young to be the guy next to your breakfast table, but a fascinating story none the less. How long do you think his surname stayed with you?
Thanks John.That was a riveting read and I look forward to hearing more of the same. I think I have to have a reality check though (unlike Harry Rednapp who has just received a huge Reality Cheque for agreeing to go into "I'm A Celebrity" ) but I digress.....I was about to say that given that there there are, at least, 28 Surnames in our Green and Pleasant Land that means there is only a 3.57% chance that his Surname was Smith in the first place , though again we have the additional co-incidence of him being a Male ! It's actually getting quite spooky but I believe his surname stayed with me until a Policeman escorted me from the terraces at Carlisle United in the early 1980's for using foul and abusive language when supporting my ( then ) local team Millwall Football And Athletic Club and, quite frankly, that horrendous incident and the disgrace it brought to my family name of Jones has had a traumatic effect on my subsequent existence and most things have been a blur since :(......
well to be fair this was done around the office time and is not an advert. Not forgetting this is completely taking the piss out of Microsoft and the corporate world: Nerds, Capitalists & management jargon alike.
"The guidelines to living your life according to Bill Gates, baby....it's all up here, in this little computer, Mr Gates"......lol...brilliant...I'd work for David Brent anyday.
No not really,David Brent was a fully formed character Gervais had thought of(then just called "Seedy Boss") he then met Merchant at XFM they made a demo sent it to the bbc and the rest is History!But Gervais had thought of him before he even met Steve
BEST BIT: ricky:...the day would go on & on stephen: today feels like it is ricky: good that means your packing in stephen: i feel like packing it in at the moment THEN JUST WATCH HIS FACE! lol X
