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Rainn Wilson is calling out a 'bias in the media' toward 'liberal policies' for his belief that 'The Office' could not be made today, saying it would be 'too hard to be as politically incorrect as the show was.'

imagine thinking the office is edgy

The original version was edgy. The US version turned it into a tame sitcom.

Was it though? There’s this perception that Ricky Gervais did edgy stuff but there wasn’t anything there that wasn’t already being done ten years earlier.

Im guessing you didn’t watch a lot of sitcoms then? The Office came out the same time as 2 Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps as well as My Family, well after Game On and One Foot in the Grave. The Office is very soft by British comedy standards.

We were discussing the original "Office" and how it compared to the US remake. None of the shows you mention were shown in the US and none of them were adapted for US audiences. How the Office compares to other British shows is beside the point.

Also, the shows you mention were hardly "edgy". I mean, 2 Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps" was as lame as the US version of "The Office" FFS! And "One Foot in the Grave"? It was about the lamest sitcom I've seen since "The Good Life" aired in the '70s.