The Seminar
Office Ladies
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Is the Cold Open Scripted?
Ricky Gervais happened to be in town for, I don't know, a celebrity appearance or something and he just volunteered to come in and do a scene. The writers got together and wrote 11 versions of this scene. In the scripted version, they were on the elevator together. But when they got there on the day, they kind of realized, you know what? These two guys are really funny. We're just going to let them talk outside this elevator bay. And that's what they did.
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