The stand-up comic has returned to The Office, bringing back the annoying paper firm boss in a programme on comedies with Joe Wilkinson and David Earl View Image David Brent will return - although not as we know it (Image: BBC)

Ricky Gervais has brought back classic character David Brent for a new documentary on sitcoms. The stand-up comic has returned to The Office, bringing back the annoying paper firm boss in a programme on comedies with Joe Wilkinson and David Earl. ‌

The pair co-host the Chatabix podcast and they invited Ricky onto their new docu series as they revisted a host of brilliant sitcoms, from Only Fools and Horses to Ever Decreasing Circles. ‌

Joe, who starred recently on Celebrity Traitors, said: “David has worked with Ricky for years, and I have as well.

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