Love it. It just so perfectly captures the tone and the mundaneness of an every day office and it cleverly makes you feel awkward while laughing very loudly.I was on a long haul flight a few weeks ago for work and watched the whole of the first series.
Funny and reality. Especially the training day episode which was a sum total of what was achieved in the week I was there.
I like the office and saw a clip for Phoenix Night last night and that has made me want to get the DVDs out it was the one were Potter is stuck on his stairlift
*rewatch
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Funniest thing I ever saw was a Peter Kay thing when he worked in a bingo hall. Keith Lard the fire officer who "bums dogs"
The episode in Phoenix Nights where Keith Lard does the fire training whilst quoting Disco Inferno..
'Burn that mother down' - another child orphaned...
That's it going to get the Phoenix nights DVD out tonight and if the wife ain't happy she can sod off to bed.
Peter Kay had to pay off a guy called Keith laird because people were accusing him of being a Fiddler I seem to remember
bbc.co.uk said:Channel 4 has paid compensation to a fire safety officer after he complained that a character in new comedy Phoenix Nights was based on him.Keith Laird, who works for Bolton Council, complained about a character called Keith Lard who appeared in an epsiode of the show, starring comedian Peter Kay.
Lard has a bushy moustache, wears a luminous yellow jacket - like Mr Laird - and has an over-zealous approach to fire safety.
Mr Laird was shocked when the fictional fire officer was portrayed as having an interest in bestiality.
Channel 4 has since apologised to Mr Laird. Mr Kay, who is also from Bolton and created the character, stressed that Lard was fictional.
A spokesman for Channel 4 said: "Channel 4 and Peter Kay would like to state that the character of Keith Lard may have led some persons to wrongly believe that the character was based on Mr Keith Laird.
"We wish to make it clear that this was not the case and would like to apologise to Mr Laird and his family for the distress caused."
It is reported that a figure of £10,000 was split between Mr Laird and other organisations.
The controversial episode is due to be repeated on Thursday night, with the blessing of Mr Laird.
4od should have it
It has the awful Derek but not Phoenix Nights or Max & Paddy.
It it also the ever excellent inbetweeners
I think Derek is excellent. So poignant...sad and funny at the same time
Agreed. Brilliantly written show.I think Derek is excellent. So poignant...sad and funny at the same time
Wow you missed the point of Derek by a country mile .It has the awful Derek but not Phoenix Nights or Max & Paddy.
It it also the ever excellent inbetweeners
Wow you missed the point of Derek by a country mile .
It was stunning . I would argue it was better than the office
Derek was brilliant
Ok ok ok I shall sit and watch it again
Does she work in an office?
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I don't think you need to either, but it was just a suggest on why she might not get it. I've never found phoenix nights funny, but I never grew up going to clubs. You don't need to have grown up going to clubs to find it funny, but perhaps that's the reason why I don't get it?You don't need to. I had never worked in an Office when the series came out, still thought it was brilliant.
I don't think you need to either, but it was just a suggest on why she might not get it. I've never found phoenix nights funny, but I never grew up going to clubs. You don't need to have grown up going to clubs to find it funny, but perhaps that's the reason why I don't get it?
The office is brilliant though.
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Haha yeah that's the best bit. If anything since watching it, I've noticed more David Brents in the office!She said it makes her cringe, which I think is the funny bit!
I have a colleague who works with people with learning disability who hated it and felt Derek was a badly drawn character and took the mickey out of disabled people but others who work in the same area (myself included) think it is both sensitive and instructive.
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