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The Office producer Ash Atalla admits he 'sold a bit of himself' when he let Ricky Gervais joke about his disability


While accepting an award for The Office on stage together at the event, Ricky joked that Ash, who uses a wheelchair, was the show's runner.

The producer, 53, who worked alongside the comedian on hit series The Office, 64, shared his regret explaining how he now questions if he was 'right to do that' (L-R Ricky, Mackenzie Crook, Ash, Stephen Merchant and Martin Freeman in 2004) There was a period of late Nineties comedy with the likes of Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle where the game was – see what you could get away with and then reverse intellectualise it. But nearly half of the BBC series' 14 episodes, following life at Wernham Hogg's Slough office, now also carry the additional content notice.

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