David Brent: Life on the Road Page #2

Synopsis: A camera crew catches up with David Brent, the former star of the fictional British TV series The Office (2001), as he now fancies himself a rock star on the road.
Genre: Comedy, Music
Director(s): Ricky Gervais
Production: Netflix
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
61%
Year:
2016
96 min
$2,348,170
1,058 Views


It's good that we've found each other.

He's gonna help me, um, showcase

some of my comedy characters.

- Yeah. Yeah.

- Aren't you? Trying to get that done.

Got one character called Lionel Fancy.

Oh hello, my name's Lionel Fancy.

His catchphrase is,

"Chance'd be a fine thing."

- And it works with anything.

- It does. It does.

Just say something to me.

- All right, Lionel? What you up to today?

- No.

Say, um, "All right, Lionel,

I'm just making some dinner.

"Do you want something hot inside you?"

Oh, hello.

All right, Lionel,

I'm just making some dinner.

- Fancy something hot inside you?

- Chance'd be a fine thing.

All right, Lionel,

are you worried about AIDS?

Don't say that.

I got one, uh, character

called Dopey O'Leary. An Irishman.

I like making people laugh.

Sue me.

I like making people feel,

more importantly.

Comedy, music, poetry, philosophy,

whatever, you know.

I get inside your head.

Maybe get inside your heart.

I got one character... called Ho Lee Fuk.

- Ooh, no. Ooh, no!

- It's all right. It's not swearing.

That's his name. He's a little Chinaman.

Clever.

Hello, my name's Ho Lee Fuk.

I'm not weird-looking.

You're the weird-looking one.

From the Chinaman's perspective,

at last, I flipped it.

Oh, you fripped it.

He's fripped it.

- This is why we get on. Same level.

- Hang on a second.

Can you f***ing keep it down? Yeah.

Can you keep it down?

- David? Can I have a word?

- Huh? Yeah.

What you want? What you want? Sirry rady.

I'm sure you didn't mean

to cause offence, David.

But, as you know, we have to consider

everyone's feelings in the workplace.

Yeah. Correctamundo.

You're happy to propagate

a stereotype of Irish people

being educationally subnormal

or gay people being ridiculously camp?

Well, I never actually specify

whether he is a homosexual or not.

So that's in your mind.

What about telling sexist jokes to women?

Oh, you're saying I should only

tell them to men? Sexist.

No. I'm saying

you shouldn't tell sexist jokes at all.

Oh, okay.

- You said something about bras?

- Yeah, just harmless fun.

Go on.

What's the definition of a glass bra?

Smash and grab. Honk, honk.

Okay. Well, violence against women

is seldom a laughing matter.

Where's the violence?

You're smashing a woman's bra,

and then you're grabbing her breasts.

Not literally. In a joke.

And the violence isn't the funny bit.

What is the funny bit, David?

Um, honk, honk.

Funny noise, funny organs.

So...

Well, I don't think it warrants

any formal disciplinary action.

- Shame.

- Uh...

- It can be arranged.

- Oh.

- But as I said, be aware...

- Hmm? I will.

...and sensitive to difference.

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Ricky Gervais

Ricky Dene Gervais (; born 25 June 1961) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and singer. Gervais worked initially in the music industry, attempting a career as a pop star in the 1980s as the singer of the new wave act Seona Dancing and working as the manager of the then-unknown band Suede before turning to comedy. Gervais appeared on The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 between 1998 and 2000. In 2000, he was given a Channel 4 talk show, Meet Ricky Gervais, and then achieved greater mainstream fame a year later with his BBC television series The Office. It was followed by Extras in 2005. He co-wrote and co-directed both series with Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, he played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. He reprised his role as Brent in the comedy film Life on the Road. Gervais began his stand-up career in the late 1990s. He has performed five multi-national stand-up comedy tours and wrote the Flanimals book series. Gervais, Merchant and Karl Pilkington created the podcast, The Ricky Gervais Show, which has spawned various spin-offs starring Pilkington and produced by Gervais and Merchant.He has also starred in the Hollywood films Ghost Town, and Muppets Most Wanted, and wrote, directed and starred in The Invention of Lying and the Netflix released Special Correspondents. He hosted the Golden Globe Awards in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016, and appears on the game show Child Support. Gervais has won seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and the 2006 Rose d'Or, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the third most influential person in British culture. In 2007, he was voted the 11th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 3rd greatest stand-up comic. In 2010, he was named on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. more…

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