David Brent Compares Himself To Jesus | The Office | BBC

Nearing the end of his time in the office, David Brent plans to spread his management gospel far and wide.
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[@basselkh8082]

I like the little pause he gives before saying "and that's pretty much like .....me" ,he realized he's gonna compare himself to Jesus and he decideded to go on

[@rickh3714]

There's a pivot point when he realizes he might have overreached himself but carries on anyway!

[@brick62345]

Precisely!

[@jupitorious7925]

Decideded ??

[@jonevans870]

Gervais' acting in this is just incredible, especially considering he had very little professional experience at this point. Every little glance, eye movement and facial expression he does is spot on.

[@thebatman4279]

I think that's why i'm always a fan of Gervais, no matter the quality of the overall product he's in. Ghost Town, Invention Of Lying and Night At The Museum were all pretty sub-par, but his comedic timing and little tics always make the thing he's in worth watching.

[@imnotgayyy8489]

Jon Evans correct!!

[@oliviatang4658]

He has such a unique way of talking. The mannerisms and inflections in his speech are just like nothing before them. You can spot Gervais fans too just by the way they mimic his style. You've got a generation of people going "big time".

[@Nim03]

Agreed

[@ThomasJOwen]

@Alberto Yep. Big time.

[@edstervedster]

The Office is such... Burghfield... an amazing TV series. It's the... Didcot... pinnacle of 21st century British comedy. Bracknell.

[@LLOOYYYDD]

+edstervedster Taplow

[@PaulTaylor1]

Winnersh.

[@LLOOYYYDD]

Paul Taylor Hull. Here comes Hull down the motorway. Seriously such arrogance...

[@LLOOYYYDD]

London Belly dancer Hire samba dancer Wedding Entertainment Sandrine well some straight women like it the wrong way. It doesn't matter if you're gay. One in 10, apparently. That seems a bit high. You might be. If you are, good luck to you. Just make sure it's legal and be safe.

[@LLOOYYYDD]

Paul Taylor you know when people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to me, they're not mutually exclusive

[@mrnickless]

"And when I've finished with Slough, there's Reading, Aldershot, Bracknell, you know I've got to-Didcott, Yately. You know. My-Winersh, Taplow. You know, because I am my own boss, I can-Burfield."

[@jockejocke1]

hahahaha xD

[@taputechnic]

Thanks for listing those. I couldn't even tell if those were words he was saying.

[@bobafetting6373]

Nice! :) I can hear Brent's voice even when you've written it down :) *Didcot *Yateley *Winnersh

[@vonteflon]

+taputechnic Massive pedant here, but I don't get why +mrnickless decided to type them out without checking the spellings. For edification: Didcot (one T), Winnersh (two Ns), Yateley, Burghfield. You're welcome. :)

[@lambda494]

American here, appreciate knowing what he was saying here.

[@jeneverbes]

"I am my own boss. I can-- Burfield"

[@freethis222]

Fucking brilliant! :D

[@MrTavization]

Ask him how he's spelling Burghfield...

[@Phil-1]

Genius comic timing

[@suchitagera6754]

What's the joke?

[@YeahSureNoWorries]

I must visit all these places one day

[@WillowJordan1979]

"Both me, that's not me in bed with another bloke called David." One of my favorite jokes on the show. I just love how he has to clarify that.

[@Jackaljkljkl]

@DnB and Psy Production They way David Brent half-finishes sentences that he knows he shouldn't say (but we know what he was going to say) is one of the underrated elements of this show.

[@bw5970]

In that free love on the freelove freeway song he takes a break to explain he's not gay.

[@jbri1]

it's not gay

[@Iceni007]

sales guy: "it'll be different" Brent: "sadder, yeah" LOL! classic delusional brent.

[@shirokzo6300]

ocelot salarian 😂

[@guillezorro]

He was called Jamie

[@andresvelasco8163]

While looking at the camera

[@simonzonenblick395]

I'd have loved to have a boss like David and would have been pretty gutted when he left!

[@patriceaqa288]

@@simonzonenblick395 If you had a boss like Brent all you'd have to do was indulge in his delusions of being a professional comedian and you'd get away with murder

[@thearchbishopofcanterbury7951]

The genius of this series is that it's very well observed, very realistic, it all rings true. The sequence in which Brent tries to talk to the sales guy is spot on - he's just made a big sale, he's relieved and happy and he's not listening to Brent at all. Perfectly acted, totally believable. I've worked in office jobs and that is EXACTLY the way it looks and sounds. And of course the scene also shows that, despite what he'd like to think, Brent isn't needed here, no-one looks up to him or asks his advice, he truly is 'redundant', he won't be missed, and he's the only one that can't understand that.

[@thearchbishopofcanterbury7951]

It's that balance between comedy, sadness and emotional pain that makes this series so good.

[@Amsterdamshallowman]

+Monty Rosenthal Exactly, and embarrassment

[@MobKnowledge]

+Monty Rosenthal Exactly. No one's bigger than the office. You can go, but you'll be replaced tomorrow and it'll be BAU.

[@metalgearkenny653]

it's timeless

[@waterexisting9651]

I hope someday brent will be missed.

[@RealityCheck6T9]

That interaction with Jamie is the perfect illustration of why Brent isn't liked. Most people would have said "what's this about Jamie? Good news?" He isn't interested in anyone but himself.

[@tutin4090]

Well let's agree to disagree

[@Holdit66]

@DnB and Psy Production "Have you met [the widow]?" "Yeah I've done her"

[@hanko113]

@@tutin4090 no TruTru let’s agree that you agree with me

[@Jackaljkljkl]

@@hanko113 Oooh, you're 'ard

[@Uppernorwood976]

Different interests different…… needs

[@anoopsamohan]

American office can never compare to this masterpiece

[@tommym321]

Anoop Mohan nothing can.

[@DETRACT0RD00M]

That's because Steve Carel couldn't compare to Gervais.. Carel isn't even local theater compared to the Broadway that is David Brent

[@christopherpaul7588]

I don't know about that. Have you seen it? It was brilliant.

[@eoinmolloy4509]

The office has so many dimensions to it pure quality

[@zee339]

such as?

[@rubbersoul4469]

Doesn't it? 😊

[@gangstermedia9039]

Such as The Brentmeister general

[@tomh3999]

@@zee339 Watch the show and use yout brain.

[@imanbio]

I used to enjoy watching Office US, then I realized the original office was from UK. I watched the UK version and honestly can't go back to US anymore. The US version is great but UK is a true masterpiece. Gervais nails it. I feel like I have known David Brent for a long time, that's how realistic his acting seems to me..

[@alanquintero7]

Iman Haji your opinion

[@alanquintero7]

thelunaticfringe and objective proven fact, in this case determined by professional critics

[@alanquintero7]

thelunaticfringe yes I agree

[@69birdboy]

Rivai K. there are very very few objective proven facts. Even in science. Professional critics ...they just have an opinion Rivai. It may be more informed, it may not. This art is made for everyone, to enjoy and have an opinion on. Do you need people to tell you how good something is?

[@reepicheep66]

I love them both. They're too different to compare.

[@luislizard2626]

I came here cause this summer I went to Reading by train from Paddington.. and I passed through some of the towns he mentioned .. I was laughing by myself ...

[@LLOOYYYDD]

You lucky.... You were brickin' it

[@vanillasplash6198]

I live near Taplow, theres literally nothing here apart from a fuck off massive tesco

[@dannydorko7075]

I'm from berkshire (live near reading) and i love how a sitcom as well loved and amazing as the office references places near me.

[@YeahSureNoWorries]

My dream is to one day visit Slough. I hope the weather will be grey and miserable that day

[@motey1829]

Mr Charles don’t worry my friend, it’s grey and miserable every day

[@jarquontre]

Love the bit where Brent is doing his usual act of tying to appear cool and popular, gets blanked by the bloke sitting at the desk, and then gets his foot trodden on by the big feller. The expression on his face had me weeping with laughter.

[@doughboi007]

I love how just because Keith stepped on his foot, he doesn't want to keep in touch.

[@ValkyrieDaisy95]

I love it when he says "Winnerrrrsh.." xD

[@selectorken]

Taplow!

[@jez9999]

0:37 "You gotta go to Nazareth, please. And that's very much like........... me." LOL

[@anjkhar6064]

Just brilliant.. I think the trick is that most people actually know the feeling of being David Brent the increasingly outsider, and side with him in the 2nd series.

[@romanemul1]

0:01 He immediately turned that card to write down some notes :D

[@jonnysongs]

Good spot!

[@tc98826]

Never noticed that before!

[@Guvna07]

I’ve watched the office hundreds of times and I thought I’d witnessed every single layered scene. Until today June 6th 2021 when I read your comment! Amazing spot, thank you!!

[@itsMrNoble]

I love the way he interrupts himself at 0:54 to continue to list shitty towns...

[@yslmusic615]

That's not me in bed with another bloke called David

[@LLOOYYYDD]

.....I'm not a plonker!

[@vaughanrichards7438]

He's really paranoid about being considered gay! Remember the sketch when he came out with the line "In fact I've never come over a little queer"?

[@PiusXulu]

I love this show, it's the best ever series created...

[@richard9480]

Thick of It is pretty damned good too, Pius! 😂😂Both examples of British comedy at its very best.

[@Energysunn2215]

As someone who lives in Berkshire it’s weird literally hearing the area you live in getting mentioned in tv for the only time, like ever

[@jul30ie]

My world does not end with these 4 walls. Sloughs a big place.

[@levrone0075]

love the way he says it and then kinda realises the magnitude of what he's said but then cant stop but has to down play it slightly towards the end of the sentance

[@GT-vs2fm]

how can everyone keep in character without laughing? The seriousness made this show!

[@Name-hf1kd]

Watch the bloopers 😅 they laughed a LOT

[@hackum1]

Winnersh...

[@adetrants7380]

Taploe

[@Iisdabest889]

Yateley

[@outlawofgor4426]

Burfield

[@BigLRestInPeace-ps9hi]

Iisdabest889 WHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@krell2130]

didcott

[@tysonzepo]

0:58 "....Winershhh". 1:04 "....Burfield". Kills me every time!!!

[@LScouser8]

David Brent’s delusion is actually the hight of positive thinking. So much of how Brent thinks and gets through his day is actually world class self psychology. It doesn’t really matter what anybody else thinks, it’s your internal dialogue that will create happiness and/or depression. Brent takes every situation and sees the positive, even if he forces it on the host. He never leaves a situation and dwells on anything negative. His inspirations are mundane but accessible and relatable to his boring environment. He’s actually a master of mental health.

[@beaufighter245]

Agree with that. Effective manager, maybe not but, positive and upbeat. Quite sad how his colleagues were treating him during this. DB just longs to be liked. Cringing behaviour but not a bad person. Seen similar to this in the workplace and it's quite sad.

[@TheTaterTotP80]

Right but when he gets fired you see it all crumble. I think deep inside he knows it's delusion.

[@cafe1234arsenal]

And the fact that nobody in his office can see this, makes them dumb and annoying as characters. I understand the comedy, it is very funny, but I get annoyed by their pretentious behaviour towards him. I guess it's realistic.

[@mattdrake2065]

Well said.

[@Ishamv3]

I doubt he's delusional...I believe he does it for the documentary, to come off as a rolemodel boss.

[@BassicVIC]

Extremely entertaining!! Especially for someone like me who has worked in an office before -but doesn't anymore!- and knows all these lousy environment and all the horrid politics going on... The arse lickers, the insufferable bosses, the desperate mediocrity of it all...

[@M9Diry]

“Desperate mediocrity “ class description ! What do you do now please ?

[@zzodr]

0:18 love how those 2 guys just plonk the cards on the desk.

[@ThickLikePeanutButta]

Finally its on youtube! IMO the best of all the David Brent monologues!

[@Crisisbiker]

Apart from the brilliant acting (and comedic timing), this clip is a time capsule of what an office actually looked like in the late-90s/early 00s. Landline anyone? Filing cabinets? CRT monitors and "handy" desktops?

[@jamesjarrett52]

is it different now?

[@M9Diry]

Just now it’s flat screens and less landlines. Maybe a few more plants and some efforts to look like a hipster coffee shop. Still the same old shit though. Offices can go to fucking hell

[@suttydcfc1]

Moved down to Reading from the North a few years ago and still read all these place names in my head like this!

[@GoForGold256]

Looooooove the awkwardness of this show. Awesome. Wish they were making new episodes still. Are you listening David Brent?

[@Scripture-Man]

Oh… SO funny! Every little detail. SO funny! Perfect. Fantastic. And what amazing supporting actors. I've never seen anyone act so real, which must be so hard when you've got "Brent" there with you.

[@LC-gs6qv]

That expression as he says "you gotta go to Nazareth" 🤣🤣

[@VLAD_P_]

Please !

[@Jez2008UK]

I love the way he says Yateley - has me in stitches for some reason :) And then Winersh.....

[@oscarpye8151]

The interaction with Jamie is one of the only points in the series where David is not the one who is out of line or being rude, another being when Neil tells him off hypocritically. Feel free to add

[@voidofbeeswax]

In the Christmas special when Dawn came back for Tim David kept his mouth shut. He let them have there moment, and he was smiling as they walked away. He didn’t make it about himself. Gareth was more clueless than David. Gareth said something to Tim about being careful, because of Dawn’s boyfriend. She said she wasn’t with him anymore. David wasn’t oblivious to the situation like Gareth.

[@lw3646]

Yeah in series 2 Neil suggests to David in front of Dawn they can let her go from the company if she's not needed, no decent boss would ever do that. That would be so unprofessional.

[@MrBannystar]

I don't think Jamie is being rude, he's in a moment of joy and wants to celebrate his efforts with the rest of his team. Brent, yet again, is the one being socially unaware and is the one getting in the way.

[@CKarmorr]

​@@MrBannystarThat's all well and good but it's literally waiting just a moment to let someone who's their former boss just have a couple of parting words before leaving. Like him or not David Brent took his time to make his staff feel like they mattered. It was a sweet gesture that was disregarded.

[@oldschoolm8]

No one is indispensable when you’re part of the big machine. The sooner you realise it, the sooner your ego is put in check. We’re all cogs in the system, so appreciate those cogs that you like and that like you.

[@sm5288]

No one does comedy as good as the English.

[@Isleofskye]

Tru Say, Mi Bredrin. Preach Man !

[@BigWojS]

Same line of thinking that lead to Brexit.

[@MrJoshua1875]

The "English" is disrespectful to the other nations of UK. Getting rather sick of reading people who assume both are the same!

[@MrJoshua1875]

@King Alfreds Shieldwall Ok fair enough mate, no arguments about the comedy, maybe it was your comment about the english stood up to be counted with bexit, but I can see in context why you would reply like that now. my faut. hands up ;). better screenshot this, wont see it often on a youtube comment

[@MrJoshua1875]

@King Alfreds Shieldwall But I will add. the greatest stand up comedian ever, is the big yin from north of the bprder. ;)

[@TomthatiscalledTom]

Brent turned water into wine at a wedding in Didcot

[@terkmadugga]

+Spinal_Tap 1111 El vino did flow.

[@JerryMetal]

Drinks will be on him.. IN him. *pats belly*

[@TheFpsStealth]

WHEN WHAT WHEN WHAT I LIVE HERE WHAT

[@jamesrobertson9012]

As someone from Bracknell, I can say that his ambitions don't reach far 😅 you can drive to all those places in about an hour or so 😂

[@anarki777]

I started watching The Office again recently. When I'm at work I sometimes catch myself having a David Brent moment.

[@leov715]

I've watched him say Burfield far to many times

[@johnwolcot]

The way he says 'Nazareth' still cracks me up after all these years.

[@ImahGoer]

That bloke who answers the phone...what a c....company man he really is !!

[@mathsDNB]

You gotta go to Nazareth, please... hahaha

[@tamhaswoods9056]

Literally me after I got canned from my last shitty office job. In September It'll be 5 years since.... Never looked back and I'm now self employed and doing better

[@pezushka]

This is genius, this is as close to perfect as I've ever seen anything. I don't know how it could be funnier.

[@Jackaljkljkl]

The next train at platform one is the five-thirty-three service to Reading. Calling at Winnersh, Winnersh Triangle, Earley and Reading.

[@awsanteina5152]

20 years on and it still makes me 😃 😃

[@mcsonicteam]

The OCD in me badly wants to switch off that socket.

[@Rabmcm32]

Hadn’t noticed it until you pointed it out. LOL

[@GreenSmog17]

Lool the end bit. 'oww ya clumsy...'

[@joannedwyer3691]

I watch all the office episodes regular on Netflix cuz it's such a brilliant series an I never tire of it, I love it.

[@smrriles5668]

I like it but I do tire of it

[@kdee8166]

Comedic brilliance. Nothing will ever compare to this - Brent for PM

[@philjones45]

He's actually invisible at the end isn't he. Redundant in every sense of the word. No one will miss him, he achieved nothing, like so many office managers at this level.

[@jarnolehtinen2269]

You gotta go to Nazareth……..please 😂 This guy’s just outta this world.

[@dedoubecool]

I am my own boss, I can... Berfield.

[@helterskelter792]

Ask her how shes spelling Burghfield

[@Lesley1000]

Reading, Aldershot, Bracknell when he's finished with Slough! The world truly is his oyster (oh no that's a London travel card innit)

[@languageoffootball]

The best comedies of all time only ran for a limited number of series/episodes and that is their beauty. Quality wins over quantity every time. If a show ran for a single episode but another ran for 20 series is really irrelevant, it's the content & quality that matter not the viewing figures of the hoi polloi. Also the BBC is not a commercial enterprise so it doesn't run like the US networks who continuously need to generate massive profits. This is why the quality of many BBC programmes stand the test of time over the last 50 years & why so many US series peter out or over rely on action rather than dialogue. You really do need to suspend your disbelieve with most US shows even ones as intentionally banal as The Office.

[@vonteflon]

+languageoffootball Absolutely. c.f. Fawlty Towers - 12 episodes and every single one of them a belter.

[@philiphunn194]

@@vonteflon Spaced only had 14 episodes and said more about geek culture than The Big Bang Theory said in 12 years.

[@bjrnarydsteb2094]

Didcot might be the funniest city name ever just perfectly placed in that sentence, I remember me laughing so hard the first time

[@Clissoldkid]

I wish to God it was possible to see complete episodes. This is one of the most brilliant TV series ever, and it drives me mad that I can only watch disjointed clips that last just a couple of minutes :-(

[@M9Diry]

Torrent it

[@courtneynewton-john8862]

"That's not me in bed with another bloke called David" 🧔🧔

[@jasonantigua6825]

It’s so well written!

[@jhb6991esrep]

Winersh lol

[@Keyaan121]

Absolute genius this man is!

[@lw3646]

Great little moments, like the way he leans over David to talk to some else, David has become irrelevant now to his team and that hurts him.

[@SCBLGamingFilm]

"Winnersh" kills me everytime

[@thomaspeacock9375]

The ‘please’ after Nazareth 😂 it’s the small things with this show

[@nathansilva8141]

David Brent and George Costanza from Seinfeld are the greatest comedy characters ever written

[@spenser9908]

You forgot Al Bundy.

[@MrDavey2010]

Gervais is a terrific actor. Watch his touching performance in The Invention of Lying when he’s comforting his mother dying in hospital. Impressive.

[@vintagecrtgaming855]

gold, absolute gold

[@jameswalker5158]

Brilliant stuff

[@LifeOfRy]

1:00 The kind of nuance where the stutter of “my own… my own boss” is deliberate.

[@dccomicsscenes6188]

2:29.. I CAN’T BREATHE! 😆

[@balrajsingh776]

Genius. Absolutely genius.

[@jamesdoyle3885]

The way Burfield just comes in lol

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Praise Be to David

[@garymason2194]

That glance to the camera when he says “Nazareth” 😂

[@metafis2490]

I actually live in one of those towns he mentioned :)

[@bluetube680]

metafis yet still we don't know..

[@samkaratasas5448]

Material is Gold

[@FuckFeminists]

Like Jesus went to Nazereth, yknow, Sloughs a big place. And when Ive finished with Slough theres Reading, Aldershot...BRACKNELL! ...

[@MrEd94]

Winnersh.

[@444Centaur]

Ed Markwick Taplow.

[@undeadnightorc]

444Centaur lol. I love that David think's he can be his own boss and that he can-- Burghfield.

[@vonteflon]

Love it. The way he kept rambling on and then randomly thinks of new places he can go after and just says them as soon as they pop into his head. Being familiar with all of those places really adds to it, as they get more and more random as he goes on. BURGHFIELD!!

[@kath2934]

I miss this

[@gehenaus]

Haha, I'm from Burghfield. Must have missed him saying this the first time I watched it.

[@metafis2490]

I'm from Didcot, still live there...funny when I hear him say it.

[@theanimal400]

The look he gives at 1.22 😂

[@doyoumind9356]

Quite a lonely moment when he gets that the man at the desk doesn't want to share .. but he leaves a card anyway

[@Kelly14UK]

Gervais is an English genius in the sheer and absolute art of comedy.

[@mrbtapir]

My wife grew up in yateley. It's also the headquarters of the monster raving loony party (dog and partridge pub).

[@MichaelTaylor-rz4wm]

GENIUS!!!

[@SquidInkUK]

Brilliantly observed humour! Some people live for their work to such an extent that nothing else matters.

[@worldcupwonders]

Brilliant brilliant writing

[@mitchellhughes5180]

Taplow!🤣

[@AdamPembrey]

Steve answered the phone before he’d finished dialling

[@BigLRestInPeace-ps9hi]

The way he pronounced those city's hahahaha. If youe not from the uk its funny as hell

[@jackmartin4320]

-Be a bit weird for you when I'm not around? -well differ- -sadder. Sadder 😂😂

[@aquienpuedaimportar3028]

I'm so glad he included Burfield.

[@hankwilts6472]

Fing brilliant!😂

[@nsoper19]

winnerrrsh.

[@morrossey]

taplow.

[@TheFpsStealth]

+ladsham what

[@tomdarrington]

Erm, yes. I believe it's called comedy.

[@hofhdskfhdks]

ladsham Berrrrfield

[@LLOOYYYDD]

NAZARETH, please...

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

It's even funnier when you are actually from one of the lesser well known places he mentions.