David Brent's Motivational Speech Disaster | Ricky Gervais Celebrates 25 Years of The Office

Brent's motivational speech, when he gets hired by Cooper and Webb, he can't believe his luck. Suddenly he's a professional speaker, a teacher, a leader of men. And I love it when Brent's excited about something. I stole that from Laurel and Hardy. When it starts off, everything's going well, and they're all, you know it's all going to come crashing down. And it does. I mean, the way he dresses to go there, he's squeezed himself into some faded stonewashed jeans. When I say he, I mean me. I was the little fat bloke playing him. Let's be honest, Rick. You weren't wearing padding, were you? No, I wasn't. We'll say it then. Now with some words of advice on motivational techniques from Wernham Hogg, Mr. David Brent. Get out. Go on. I'll open the door for you, yeah? If you don't want to make it, go now, yeah? Save us all a bit of time, yeah? If you don't think you can cut it. No? Good. Are you finishing it? No, I'm in the... Okay. You're all looking at me and you're going, well yeah, you're a success, you've achieved your goals, yeah? You're reaping the rewards, sure. But, oi, Brent, is all you care about chasing the Yankee dollar? Let me show you something I always keep with me. Just a little book, Collective Meditations, and it's a collection of philosophers, writers, thinkers, Native American wisdom, which I... And it's really showing you the spiritual side needs as much care and attention as the physical side, yeah? It's about feeding the soul, yeah? Evolving spirituality. Forward by Duncan Goodhue. So... I found that little book, by the way, that was a fake one, but I found that little book in a bookshop, Native American wisdom, and I thought, right, he's going to have that. Forward by Duncan Goodhue. So... Why would he do the forward? Why would he do the forward? Native American wisdom. Well, we need someone who knows a lot about this. Duncan Goodhue? Yeah, go on. My single favourite moment in that episode is when the guy from Cooper & Webb just wants to take a picture of him, and Brent just won't do a normal again. He's like... He's like he's doing it for a ******* album cover. Can we just take a photo? It's for the website, the newsletter, if that's okay. No problem. You've got to take a light reading. Oh, I think we'll be okay. If you just... Yeah. I mean, just be yourself. Yeah. You know, a bit more relaxed. Something like that? Not quite. Okay. Just... Maybe if you just sit down. You're the boss. He can't just have a picture taken, and the timing we had to work on for that, when it goes to him, and then it goes back to me, and I'm in a different position. That was fun. That was fun. Maybe if you just sit down.