I am such a huge fan of the original office that I cried when tim and dawn kissed in the Xmas episode, okay? I am totally the prime candidate to be a huge fan of this show. And well, yeah, I’m not. It was seriously not funny. To the point where I’m not sure i’ll watch the second disc. I only laughed out loud once, and not to give it away I’ll just say tracksuits and chesthair in the Ben Stiller episode. And I will admit that I thought it was funny Ross Kemp was playing Lord Nelson.
I don’t know how to say it, but it was just more of the same kind of Gervais humor, without inovation or the spark that came from actual characters (David Brent, for example). The whole trope of the show is “I can’t believe I just had that conversation with X (fill in famous celebrity here), and I’m sorry that just gets boring and contrived after a while, most notably in the Kate Winslet episode.