I made The Office my personality – Ricky Gervais has ruined it

Gervais has become a creature of ego (Picture: Shutterstock)

‘I was a leetle bit drunk last night’ I texted my friend Tim a few weeks ago after a night out.

‘You have 12 pints and you’re labelled a prat, and that’s the game’, he replied. 

I’d like to say that this was the first time that Tim and I have communicated entirely in quotes from the Office, or that this was the only friendship I have that’s defined by the wisdom of David Brent, but I’d be lying. 

I have ent...