David Brent is a
fictional white-collar office middle-manager and one of the principal characters from
BBC television comedy
The Office, played by co-writer and director
Ricky Gervais. He is the general manager of the
Slough branch of the Wernham-Hogg paper merchants, and the
boss to most of the other characters present in the series. Much of the comedy and pathos of the series centres around Brent's many idiosyncrasies, hypocrisies, self-delusions and shameless self-promoting (including, but not limited to, playing up to the 'documentary' cameras present in his workplace).
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