Ricky Gervais does a fine job of staying in character, but the joke begins to wear thin★★☆☆☆Where do you start with a real concert by a fictional would-be pop star whose unique selling point is being terrible? As painfully familiar comedy that goes to the heart of the English malaise, David Brent: Life On The Road works brilliantly. Brent is a nice guy with bad judgment, a mediocre talent pining for glory, and therein lies the warmth and humour of the TV series. His spiritual home is a Harvester restaurant west of the M25. Yet here was Brent packing out the Hammersmith Apollo, singing his folk ditty Lady Gypsy (“she was a traveller, but pretty — and…

Source: The Times September 08, 2016 23:03 UTC