The Office’s David Brent was consistently so awkward you wanted to cover your face in ash and live out your days as a hermit in the woods, so it makes sense his first video from the upcoming David Brent: Life on the Road would do the same. As part of his new life as a touring musician, Ricky Gervais’s character straps on a little neckerchief and channels his inner folk balladeer for the romantic story-song “Lady Gypsy.†The effect is the sonic equivalent of squatting roughly with a tree trunk between your legs. Oh God, and his pants. The pants.
