Ricky Gervais wouldn’t make his hit TV comedy The Office today as BBC bosses would be too scared of “outrage mobs” to air it.The Office ran for two series on the BBC from 2001, spawning its own hit U.S.
spin-off and a 2016 movie, Life on the Road.However, he says that much of the show’s comedy, which was based around his character, bumbling executive David Brent’s insensitivity and obnoxiousness, would be lost today as people would take the jokes literally and be offended.“Now it would suffer because people would take things literally,” the funnyman tells Britain’s Times Radio. “There are these outrage mobs who take things out of context.“This was a show about everything — it was about difference, it was about sex, race, all the things that
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