Joel on Software - The Best Thing on Television, Ever:

"We just finished watching Season 1 of the BBC television series The Office on DVD during our lunchbreaks at Fog Creek. WOW! Incredibly funny, incredibly touching, and supernaturally realistic. But now I'm paranoid when nobody in the office laughs at my jokes. I'm an entertainer, first, really, then a boss. Also I'll have to cut down on the army stories.

Hint to Americans: turn on the English subtitles and you'll catch twice as many jokes."

Subtitles!? Is it really true that the Americans and the British are indeed peoples separated by a common language!? Glad to see Joel's office get the jokes. I'm often led to believe that Americans fail to see/appreciate irony and subtlety in humour of the kind that Ricky Gervais excels at -- especially as portrayed by David Brent ;-)