Ricky Gervais Clarifies Comments About How UK’s ‘The Office’ Would Be “Canceled” Today

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It’s been 20 years since The Office premiered on BBC Two, and its star said in an interview this week that the original British series “would be canceled now.” Ricky Gervais now has walked back those comments, with the erstwhile David Brent tweeting they were “clearly a joke.”Gervais told the BBC on Friday that evolving standards of comedy would have doomed his 2001-03 mockumentary in the 2020s. “”I mean now it would be canceled,” he said of the mockumentary whose U.S.

remade remains a streaming favorite. “I’m looking forward to when they pick out one thing and try to cancel it. Someone said they might try to cancel it one day, and I say, ‘Good, let them cancel it.