Mackenzie Crook

His antics and charm make him one of the most likeable employees.

And then there is Mackenzie Crook as Gareth Keenan.

tim's quite vindictive deskmate and enemy gareth is a cold-hearted jobsworth he takes pride in being a team leader not realizing his title is meaningless and he imposes the little authority he has on his co-workers it's a very clever performance And we have Lucy Davis as Dawn Tinsley, the company's receptionist and Brent's dog's body.

She frequently has to put up with his attempts at humour and social interaction.

I would like you, between you, please, to do your best to describe the gentleman in those photographs.

Well, in the background of one of them is, this just pulls out to me straight away, is sort of the redneck version of Mackenzie Crook from Detectorous.

But in the foreground, it looks like Santa on a hunting trip.

Yeah, I'd go with that.

I've also really loved Small Profits, which is a gearshift again.

It's written by Mackenzie Crook, who people might remember from The Office.

From The Office.

And it's about a man called Michael who works in a DIY store who's going through some grief and he goes out to his...

The Cherry Orchard years ago at the Royal Court, slightly controversially because the Royal Court's a new writing theatre, so to do a Chekhov there, even though it was a new version, was seen as, you know, slightly off.

But, you know, that starred Kristen Scott Thomas and Kerry Mulligan in, I think, what was her stage debut, and Mackenzie Crook, I mean, all sorts of extraordinary people in that one.

Then he did this, and it was cut short, and he's now completed the trilogy with another Connor McPherson adaptation, Connor McPherson adapted this one, and again with Kristen Scott Thomas with a cherry orchard

in the West End.

I loved it.

The stuff when he meets that, uh, that, uh, priest, uh, being played by Mackenzie crook.

Yeah.

Um, quick sidebar.

But the guy created the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song.

Like the actual, he's a pirate from the first movie.

And Mackenzie Crook plays Rigetti, one of the cursed pirates from the first movie with the wooden eye.

So pretty fun.

I think the reason Johnny Vegas would not have been considered is that he was the star of a notorious live-action movie flop from a couple of years earlier, which was considered one of the peak wastes of the UK film council's business.

production spending and I want to prepare you guys for this it was a comedy also co-starring Mackenzie Crook it's a notorious film I've not seen it but like it's cool it was called Sex Lives of the Potato Men oh from 2004 but like I think that sort of tarnished his image a bit so I would imagine like if you're cast in this role let's stay away from Johnny Vegas and maybe

but another

British another very famous British comedian I could have seen in that role is a stand-up called Peter Kay who was like massive then and actually even just actually yeah actually the character design kind of looks like him But that's someone who would have made sense.