{"id":13757,"date":"2004-12-29T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/29\/ricky-gervais-to-write-for-the-simpsons\/"},"modified":"2004-12-29T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T18:37:00","slug":"ricky-gervais-to-write-for-the-simpsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/29\/ricky-gervais-to-write-for-the-simpsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais To Write For The Simpsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0315041\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Gervais<\/a>, best known for his portrayal of hapless office manager David Brent in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/theoffice\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Office<\/i><\/a>, is set to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/news\/story\/0,11711,1379641,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">write an episode of <i>The Simpsons<\/i><\/a> after meeting show creator Matt Groening.  For those of you that haven&rsquo;t watched the BBC&rsquo;s show <i>The Office<\/i>, you&rsquo;re missing out.  Although the show was only on for two seasons, you should still be able to catch reruns on BBC [America], or you can buy the complete series on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0002W4P98\/andrewchorney\" title=\"amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\">DVD<\/a>.  According to the article, the show probably won&rsquo;t air for at least a year, but I definitely look forward to seeing it.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.upian.com\/hotlinks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Links<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110434545937554696?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Gervais, best known for his portrayal of hapless office manager David Brent in The Office, is set to write an episode of The Simpsons after meeting show creator Matt Groening. For those of you that haven&rsquo;t watched the BBC&rsquo;s show The Office, you&rsquo;re missing out. Although the show was only on for two seasons, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/29\/ricky-gervais-to-write-for-the-simpsons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ricky Gervais To Write For The Simpsons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}