Where did the idea of setting a sitcom in an office come from?
GERVAIS: Well, I worked in an office myself for about eight years and I love the minutiae of life. I love the little things that bother people. It does not matter whether you are the head of the CIA, or the head of the Mafia, or you work in NASA, if someone gets a bigger chair than you and you have been there longer you go “why has he got that chair?” You cannot help it. You pick up symptoms. And I love that artificial world, that arbitrary world. You have got nothing in common with most people who work in an office, except you walk on that same bit of carpet. No one grows up saying “I hope I work in an office one day?” And that fascinated me — that people from 16 to 65 are just thrown together and that is a tantalizing mix. The other theme in “The Office”, the fake documentary bit, was people we have just lived through a decade of docu-soaps and I was fascinated by someone like David Brent, thinking he could get a game show out of just being filmed at work — and that was the other t
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