David Brent: Life on the Road Page #3

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
1,062 Views


Ah, you'll see how sensitive

I am to difference.

Get a cab then.

I'll pay you back when you get here.

Because I need you to.

Trust me, it'll be fun.

All right. Call when you get here.

All right, cheers. Bye.

So...

Miriam is going to eat humble pie.

Not the pie she's used to.

I mean, she's slightly overweight

and likes apple pie.

Not hairy pie. She's a lezzer. I mean...

It's like having a 15-year-old kid

in the office, you know?

Your lack of humour warning.

And I find him an irritant. I mean,

normally I just shut my door when I hear him,

because it's just...

It just puts me off my work.

Where am I supposed to be?

I'm just, like, in reception.

Here. I'm down here.

- Flippin' hell.

- Come here.

I was just in a meeting with, uh, Miriam.

It's, uh, my black friend.

So,

that's what I've been...

Mixed race, actually.

My favourite.

His dad was black, his mum was white.

Get over it.

- My dad was white. My mum was black.

- Oh.

Even more different. Her face.

- Let's just not...

- I've been trying to say...

I first met David...

I was rapping in this open mic thing

in a pub in Slough.

It's, you know, where we're both from.

And he came over

and said he wanted to manage me.

You know? I mean, I didn't know

at the time he was a sales rep.

- Is that it?

- Yeah.

- It's the only reason I'm here?

- Yeah.

It's important. You off?

It's just my mate.

Going off on tour.

- Him?

- Yeah.

Okay.

So, yeah.

That's cool.

Yeah.

I've booked a session today

in a top-notch recording studio.

- Hello?

- David.

Here we go.

Studio.

I love making demos.

I do it a lot, you know.

It not only gives the record company

an idea of what I can do.

It gives me an idea of what I could do,

and that's the buzz.

Dan. My usual engineer.

Well I've done one session with Dom.

It was meant to be with Dom.

It started off he was kind of

managing me and, um, he was paying

for me to make my demos which was cool.

And then,

suddenly, like,

he wanted to co-write songs

and then before I knew it, he was, like,

doing his own songs and saying,

"Oh, will you do a rap on this,

do a rap on that?"

And now it's like some kind

of Ebony and Ivory, urban sidekick deal.

Okay, I'm gonna cut the bullshit.

- That would be great, yeah.

- I'm head-hunting.

Putting a tour together.

Do you wanna be part of that?

Drive the gang?

On stage sound. Roadie.

- What sort of tour?

- Showcasing the band.

Also hotels, rider.

So it's some work and some food

and somewhere to sleep?

Here we go. Playing hardball. Yeah?

- Are we talking bunse?

- Well we're certainly not talking English.

- What do you earn here?

- That's not the issue.

I'll double it.

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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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