Stephen Merchant: Being The Awkward Guy & Letting Go Of THE OFFICE
The Romesh Ranganathan Show
Ranga Bee & Platform Media
4.6 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Film and TV, it's like you show up and it's kind of like, |
| 0:02.9 | this is the woman playing your wife of 30 years. |
| 0:04.9 | Nice to meet your Barbara and action, you know. |
| 0:08.8 | If you were talking about the best, |
| 0:10.4 | the office certainly has a place in the conversation. |
| 0:12.4 | I didn't want to say it, but I appreciate you saying that. |
| 0:14.5 | But no, I think we'd all agree that we were the right for winners |
| 0:19.1 | those three years in a row. But obviously, you know, I'm one of the great lovers. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.6 | And I think anyone who knows me, you know, privately, Ramesh, can confirm that. |
| 0:29.6 | Every time someone tells me something, like, you know, |
| 0:32.6 | well, I discovered at the age of 25 that my father's not my real father. |
| 0:36.6 | You lucky bastard. It was like the Battle of 25 that my father's not my real father. You lucky bastard. |
| 0:38.3 | It was like the battle of the song as a kid and you're moving, you're marching forward |
| 0:43.3 | and your friends are getting taken down around you by bullying or abuse or, you know, being ostracized. |
| 0:51.3 | And you're just keep, you can't look left or right, you've just got to keep marching forward. |
| 0:56.1 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:56.5 | I'm hoping that you don't get taken down next. |
| 1:00.6 | Hi, I'm three-time BAFTA winner, Stephen Merchant, |
| 1:03.3 | and I'm going to be on the Romish Ranganathan podcast. |
| 1:05.8 | Enjoy it. |
| 1:12.5 | It's the Romish. |
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