Apologies for the lack of postings round these parts of late. I blame the newly discovered world of office temping I’ve just stumbled into. It’s everything it always appeared to be, A world of boredom, stationery and dull operating systems – The comedies didn’t lie. So today we are to peek at a few highlights from the world of office-based comedy. There’s the obvious stand out from Ricky Gervais and the wonderful US counterpart that sprung from it, the mighty Peep Show has a fair old whack of office mishaps and we must give kudos to the number one source of pride to be of British origin, Monty Python and his Flying Circus with a fine office sketch from them. Watch on, watch on. And be assured that some musical goodness will be up later in the week.
So we start with something that has become so legendary in such a small space of time. Yes you know it and yes you’ve seen it a hundred times or more. But it is still SO funny. Fusing Flashdance with some MC Hammer shit, Mr Gervais!
The US version of The Office was something that could have gone rather awry, but thanks to some fantastic writing and some unbelieveably good judgements of casting, it is a superb companion piece to the beloved UK original. Marvel at Steve Carrel’s artistic magic and his uncanny career ability to switch from loveable virgin to manic depressive Proust scholar to sleazy David Brent of the US Of A. Well done that man.
The exciting news that Peep Show is returning for a fourth YES a fourth series is music to comedy fans everywhere. A modern masterpiece! Here we have the first of two interview clips of the post. The interview process seems an ideal place to find humour, all the silly preassure and fear that comes from a rather absurd meeting means you have to laugh at it all. Especially when Jeremy has a ‘facial spasm’ around the 2,20 mark. Unspeakably funny, roll on 13th April when new Peepers appears (check the 10 minute catch up here)!
And finally, a clip from something that is bound to keep cropping up on the boards of Dance A Jig. It’s the silly interview sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a group of fellows that are perhaps the funniest in all of the land, if not the universe. And the series has just got a fancy release on the DVD format. The second interview sketch found here, they are both surpisingly good to watch before actual real life ones, to calm those unfounded nerves, and they go out as a special dedication to all my people out there looking for fresh new jobs in the fangled media land. We’ll all make it soon my friends 
