To think nothing will ever be as funny as The Office

[MinnieMous3]

I feel like it’s ruined me for all other box sets 😞

I don't think The Office has aged particularly well

Not now office working is all but finished, but before the pandemic I thought the themes were timeless - the cringey boss trying to be liked, the hopeless crush Tim had on Dawn, the anal humourless coworker in Gareth, those moment when you think ‘fuck me, is this where I spend most of my life, looking out onto a multi storey car park?’ and you vow to change your life but never do...

For more recent sitcoms, I found Ghosts to be an absolute gem! Like, unexpectedly good.

I really liked afterlife. Laughing and crying my eyes out in equal
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@HelpfulBelle Seth let's flats is great! I loved that.

I can't understand why the American one has 1,0000,00000 episodes and the UK one had only about 15?

Both are funny in the most cringeworthy ways. I love the Tim and Dawn love story. And I prefer The Office to Gervais' new stuff, particularly Afterlife which I think is mostly really dull and repetitive.

I can’t believe no-one has mentioned ‘This Country’ - so funny

@SachaStark

It’s Hot Fuzz for me.

If I’m feeling down or I’m ill, it’s the only thing I can watch, and then watch again immediately, because it makes me laugh so much.

Any of the Cornetto Trilogy for me, but Hot Fuzz is favourite. The Greater Good! Also Slaughterhouse Rules is pretty funny too.

Green Wing trumps The Office for me.

I loved the office.Finchy is the lanky bloke

YANBU. The (U.K.) office is quite literally (IMO) the best comedy..no, tv show ever!! Ricky Gervais is an absolute genius. I really want a reunion

Whenever I’m sad or ill or whatever I put it on and am PMSL in about 2 mins.

I don’t get on that well with people that don’t find it funny (actually being serious) I’ve learnt this over the years. It’s just obvious are personalities are v different! All of my close friends and family love the office!

If you liked the UK office, the US one is great too - particularly after S1 when it gets a chance to do its own thing. Give it a shot.

Staph lets flats is absolutely brilliant! Cried with laughter watching that.

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@Kintsugi16

I can’t believe no-one has mentioned ‘This Country’ - so funny

That’s my second favourite. Grew up somewhere just like the village and again see so much of my own life in it! I don’t think city people ‘get’ it as much.

I didn’t find the Office funny.

The IT Crowd however was amazing.

Early seasons of Peep Show are bloody brilliant too.

I thought this country was alright (grew up in a small village and so it does have a nostalgic element for me) but the whole time I was watching it I just thought...they’re totally copying the office?! SO much of it was ‘borrowed’ from it that it just felt a bit...meh and unoriginal.

The office is great but I prefer Peep Show, it’s fucking brilliant 😁

Loved it 20 years ago. It's not aged well at all. Rewatched some a few years ago, didn't find it funny at all

The Office at the time way brilliant. Quintessentially British, it wasn't meant to be 'funny' in the conventional sense. Everyone knew and still knows a David Brent, what The Office did was just put a face to the personality. I can't rewatch it for many a reason, but it was far more special than the US version (which is just another mockumentry that went on too long). Gervais himself is hit and miss for me, but he is a very clever and astute writer/comedian.

This Country was a brilliant recent play on the British mockumentry. As someone who grew up in a very similar place, it was so funny and quite sad in equal measure. I recognised so many people in Kerry and Kurtan.

There’s a sadness about Ricky Gervais that always stops me finding his work funny.

Top ten British sitcoms in No particular order

Black adder
The office
Carshare
Green wing
Gavin and Stacy
Porridge
Absolutely fabulous (mainly for Jo lumley)
One foot in the grave
The royale family
The inbetweeners

Us
Friends

That's it

I can’t watch the UK Office. I find Brent excruciatingly embarrassing to watch. Loved the other characters but as the show revolves around him it’s a no from me.

I love this country. Also stath let’s flats is probably right up your street. Has anyone watched ‘what we do in the shadows’? The tv show not the movie, I found that very funny.

I’m a bit of a US convert and love their sitcoms. Parks and rec, it’s always sunny, the office, modern family, schitts creek, community, new girl etc.

@MAPEI

I thought this country was alright (grew up in a small village and so it does have a nostalgic element for me) but the whole time I was watching it I just thought...they’re totally copying the office?! SO much of it was ‘borrowed’ from it that it just felt a bit...meh and unoriginal.

Same. I mean, he even looks like McKenzie Crook.

One I wish they would reshow (but I suspect has aged badly), is Stella Street.

Rising Damp is still funny - great actors, great script.