By Bradley J. Dixon.
Fame is a very different beast now than it was when Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant first introduced the world to David Brent, the painfully awkward general manager of mid-size paper merchant Wernham-Hogg, and star of the BBC’s game-changing mockumentary series The Office.
“It’s worse than it was 15 years ago,” Gervais says now. “The Office came out of those quaint docu-soaps where an ordinary guy got his 15 minutes of fame. We’ve had all those…