The Office: around the world!
By TadShafer
@TadShafer (4)
United States
February 2, 2009 2:31pm CST
I was a huge fan of the British Office before the NBC version came into our lives. I was watching Inside the Actor's Studio with Ricky Gervais and he mentioned that there are now more than five other Offices in other countries such as Canada (one for English, one for French), France, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Chile... Does anyone have a list?
Does anyone know anything about these other Offices? Are there any photos of the parallel characters? It would be great to see everyone's take on David Brent (Michael Scott)!!!
1 response
@Galena (9110)
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2 Feb 09
out of the other versions, I've only seen the American one.
it just wasn't funny.
the original was just so classic. and maybe because I worked in an office at the time, I was almost painfully aware of how true to life it was. there are people like that in every workplace.
I think I struggle to see it working in other countries, because the UK humour isn't like US humour.
it seemed that in the remake we were supposed to laugh because someone made a joke and it was "funny"
in the UK what was funny was the deadly silence and awkward expressions after the joking about.
what was funny was that David Brent is not funny. he just thought he was.
