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David Brent

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About Me

“You grow up, you work half a century, you get a golden handshake, you rest a couple of years and you’re dead. And the only thing that makes that crazy ride worthwhile is ‘Did I enjoy it? What did I learn? What was the point?’ That’s where I come in. You’ve seen how I react to people, make them feel good, make them think that anything’s possible. If I make them laugh along the way, sue me. And I don’t do it so they turn round and go ‘Thank you David for the opportunity, thank you for the wisdom, thank you for the laughs.’ I do it so, one day, someone will go ‘There goes David Brent. I must remember to thank him.’”“There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure.”

My Interests

“There are limits to my comedy. There are things that I’ll never laugh at. The handicapped. Because there’s nothing funny about them. Or any deformity. It’s like when you see someone look at a little handicapped and go ‘ooh, look at him, he’s not able-bodied. I am, I’m prejudiced.’ Yeah, well, at least the little handicapped fella is able-minded. Unless he’s not, it’s difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones.”

I'd like to meet:

“If you were to ask me to name three geniuses, I probably wouldn’t say Einstein, Newton... I’d go Milligan, Cleese, Everett. Sessions.”

Music:

Although my biggest strengths lie in the region of comedic performance, I spent a large portion of my severance package from my last job to rekindling my musical talents. Here's a bit of a sample...

Television:

Between my gigs, friends twisting my arm for the occasional night of drinking, and most importantly my job (!!!), I really don't have much time for the tele. When I do, I find myself admiring my fellow talents on Whose Line or classic re-runs of Star Trek.

Books:

Dostoevsky.

Heroes:

The key to life is inspiration, and I muust say, I feel like I've inspired myself more than anyone else has, to date. We all draw most of our ideas and creativity from other, external sources, and those other sources, for me, would be my own still-dormant talents.