Ricky Gervais open to making The Office musical

peoplemagazine.co.za:

Ricky Gervais wants to turn his hit sitcom The Office into a musical. The British comedian’s series about the deluded manager of a business in suburban England was such a hit when it aired back in 2001 that it spawned a huge U.S.

spin-off starring Steve Carell. And now, Ricky believes it’s time for a musical adaptation. “I think anything can be made a musical, The Office or whatever.

It’s like people say to me you should do a sitcom about where I work, I’m a cab driver. And I go, ‘No you should do a sitcom about where you work because it depends on the expertise,'” he told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper.

However, he thinks his 2009 film The Invention of Lying, about a man who discovers he is the only person in the world who is able to