Cinema UK / US: The Office
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I’ve only watched a 45 second clip of the UK office and it was funny
It was a UK version first so I’m voting UK
don’t know who the fook any if they characters are so tell me the uk ones and I’ll vote for them
If you’re a silly bugger and tell me the wrong facking one I’ll change me facking vote to the correct one, you bloody wankers
It was a UK version first so I’m voting UK
don’t know who the fook any if they characters are so tell me the uk ones and I’ll vote for them
If you’re a silly bugger and tell me the wrong facking one I’ll change me facking vote to the correct one, you bloody wankers
Only seen the American version. Seen so many argue about which one is better. I'll have to watch the British version one day...
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Jim and Pam but I prefer the British version overall (even though there aren't nearly as many episodes).
Both great
Both great
I put your post into Google translate and it’s still gibberish. Anyway you would vote for Tim and Dawn if you are going British.
It’s worth it. Ricky Gervais’ portrayal of the character David Brent is iconic. It is very smart, subtle comedy but SO funny. It is only two seasons plus a two part follow up “Christmas Special” to close out the series, so it is not a big investment of time. Have a watch, you’ll like it!
Agree on all points!
I found the british show funny, but hard to watch. Probably because I binged the american version.
A british show that was cut far too early was the IT crowd.
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....”I’ve got his attention... Get. Their. Attention.”
Simply brilliant.
The American version is far superior, as with most things American.
Far more character development, far more heart, and just funnier.
Much of Brit comedy has turned mean, and mean isn't funny.
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Far more character development, far more heart, and just funnier.
Much of Brit comedy has turned mean, and mean isn't funny.
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From a recent study:
"When YouGov, which is headquartered in the UK, conducted the survey in early May, they had enough British respondents to break the responses down by age and gender. They discovered a big generational divide – just 2% of men age 18-24 described themselves as “completely masculine” compared with 56% of the men age 65 and over (unfortunately, with only 1,000 respondents in the US, they could only describe the responses by age or gender). "
This explains so much with some of the Brits on this site!
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"When YouGov, which is headquartered in the UK, conducted the survey in early May, they had enough British respondents to break the responses down by age and gender. They discovered a big generational divide – just 2% of men age 18-24 described themselves as “completely masculine” compared with 56% of the men age 65 and over (unfortunately, with only 1,000 respondents in the US, they could only describe the responses by age or gender). "
This explains so much with some of the Brits on this site!
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It's why they look for answers at the bottom of the bottle.From a recent study:
"When YouGov, which is headquartered in the UK, conducted the survey in early May, they had enough British respondents to break the responses down by age and gender. They discovered a big generational divide – just 2% of men age 18-24 described themselves as “completely masculine” compared with 56% of the men age 65 and over (unfortunately, with only 1,000 respondents in the US, they could only describe the responses by age or gender). "
This explains so much with some of the Brits on this site!
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I haven't seen much of the US one. It doesn't compare to what I've seen tbh. The UK one is far superior.
It was of it's time. This was the period in UK TV where we were awash with these early stabs at 'reality' tv. Gervais and Merchant utterly skewered it before it took off. So luckily we never see any of those anymore.
The Office is pretty perfect. It's subtlety and things left unsaid are it's strong points. But it's characters are also so relate able. We've all met a Brent and had a crush on a Dawn and wanted to smack a Gareth in the face.
It's almost impossible to be better than the original and this isn't any different.
Fans of this should check out I'm Alan Partridge.
If you really want to nerd out start with Knowing Me, Knowing then watch the descent in slow motion from start to finish.
It's as good if not better than The Office.
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Not seen the US version so I vote UK version based on pure ignorance.
The real question though - is the US version of the Inbetweeners better than the UK version, clear it isn't.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD5QMrMDEYk
The real question though - is the US version of the Inbetweeners better than the UK version, clear it isn't.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD5QMrMDEYk
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