Ricky Gervais clarified his joke about The Office being ‘cancelled’

Around the twentieth anniversary of The Office, Ricky Gervais joked in a BBC interview that the sitcom would now be “cancelled” and that he would not mind because he had already been paid.

After the remark generated headlines and online debate, Gervais clarified that he had been joking and said he had not literally claimed the programme could no longer be made or shown.

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