The Office: The Scripts Series 2

by Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant

In the BAFTA-winning comedy about the Slough paper merchant where life is stationary, David Brent is more appalling than ever as his personality spirals out of control. His slow descent into semi-madness is chronicled here, in the scripts from all six episodes, with over 500 pictures taken from the broadcast masters and available exclusively in this BBC publication.

Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Humor, Drama

272 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, writer and broadcaster.

Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. Gervais has starred in a number of Hollywood films, assuming leading roles in Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying. Gervais has performed on three sell-out stand-up comedy tours, written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast prior to March 2009, The Ricky Gervais Show.

He has accumulated a multitude of awards and honours, including seven BAFTA Awards, four British Comedy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Emmy Awards and the 2006 Rose d'Or, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2010 he was voted third greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Channel 4, behind Richard Pryor and Billy Connolly. In 2010, he was named on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.

Reviews

[Jon Silvester]

😆⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👌😀

[Francesca Astraea]

The best and worst part of reading The Office scripts is remembering that, on screen, everything was far far more beige

[Nicholas Whyte]

http://nhw.livejournal.com/1078916.html[return][return]I haven't seen any of the second series, and in fact I think that dramatically it works a bit better - the two parallel love affairs of Tim and Dawn, and David Brent with himself, give itmore of an emotional edge - it is a situation comedy, of course, but the characters, unusually, do change and develop (or regress) by the end of the series.[return][return]Highly recommended. But totally and utterly fails the Bechdel test.

[Leonard Pierce]

Just the thing for those of you who aren't good at sussing out British accents and don't know how to work the subtitles feature on your DVD player.

[Louise]

It’s the office, that is all

[Simon]

"Muppets"