{"id":189107,"date":"2010-01-16T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T03:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89031"},"modified":"2010-01-16T22:22:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T03:22:36","slug":"ricky-gervais-cameo-on-nbc%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cthe-office%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/189107","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais Cameo On NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Office\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news, TV Fans: Comedian Ricky Gervais is planning to reprise his character on Britain&#8217;s <em>The Office<\/em> for an episode of the US version of the hit sitcom, <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> reports. Gervais, who didn&#8217;t launch his comedy career until his forties, retired bad boss David Brent after just two seasons of the hugely popular program. The show later became a smash stateside, with Steve Carell playing annoying paper company executive Michael Scott.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OE6P-lwS0lQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OE6P-lwS0lQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-89031\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gervais hinted at a possible cameo on NBC&#8217;s <em>The Office<\/em> while promoting his new HBO stand up comedy special at the Television Critics Association Conference in Pasadena this week. <\/p>\n<p><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> columnist Michael Ausiello claims the star is plotting an appearance in the forthcoming sixth season, writing: <em>&#8220;I heard an unconfirmed rumour earlier today that Ricky Gervais was seriously considering reprising his role as original Office manager David Brent on the US version later this season. I think there\u2019s a very strong chance that Michael Scott is going to come face-to-face with his British doppelganger, the only question now is when.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ricky Gervais will host the 2010 Golden Globe Awards, live from Hollywood, this Sunday, Jan. 17.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5vBCBewQ-uWEROFHN3x_0F2xr1Y\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5vBCBewQ-uWEROFHN3x_0F2xr1Y\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5vBCBewQ-uWEROFHN3x_0F2xr1Y\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5vBCBewQ-uWEROFHN3x_0F2xr1Y\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news, TV Fans: Comedian Ricky Gervais is planning to reprise his character on Britain&#8217;s The Office for an episode of the US version of the hit sitcom, Entertainment Weekly reports. Gervais, who didn&#8217;t launch his comedy career until his forties, retired bad boss David Brent after just two seasons of the hugely popular program. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}