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Gareth Keenan: Mackenzie Crook
About Gareth:
Assistant (to the) Regional Manager, Team Leader.
Gareth Keenan is oddly happy with his life working in a crappy sub-branch paper merchants. Definitely a hard worker, and definitely a twat, Gareth likes to go out drinking with his mate Oggy every night and cider is the drink that suits his needs. Ex-territorial army, of which he is very proud, and in which he managed to become a lieutenant. All we know about his hobbies is his keen interest in all things military, and his famous renovation job on a TR3. He’s also very anal about stationary and his desk space.
Used to be a milk monitor at school.
In summary: a twat.
According to Gervais: “We wanted him to have a slight West Country accent because he had to have that wide-eyed, innocent thing. There’s almost a cuteness about him”. According to Mackenzie, his part was originally written for the series co-writer Stephen Merchant, who does have a very similar accent to Gareth if you’ve ever heard him on XFM with Gervais.
About Mackenzie:
It’s likely that Messers Gervais and Crook met on the 11 O' Clock show at some time, Mackenzie joined in it’s second series, Gervais in it’s third. However, Mackenzie has been doing stand up for about eight years all around the UK. From what I’ve gathered he does a selection of characters, the most popular being a demented teacher called Mr. Bagshaw. At the moment he’s developing a script based around this character for TV, or the theatre, or a straight to video release.
He was once described by Martin Freeman as ‘a fool and a charlatan’.
According to one source, he made a film on the Isle of Man with Christina Ricci. According to every other source, he didn’t.
Mackenzie admires the work of Jack Lemmon.
Mackenzie’s actual appearances include the TV shows Comedy Cafe and TV To Go, and the British film Still Crazy about an aging rock band. I have not seen this film and none of the reviews I’ve read give any indication into how successful his characterisation of ‘Dutch Kid’ was. The less said about TV To Go the better, but just to assure you that you didn’t miss anything:
“TV To Go must be the worst new comedy show of the year. After its dismal start the BBC1 series surprised everyone and got worse.”
George Wood, Yahoo TVMackenzie Crook has worked in an office, possibly two, in his life.
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