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HISTORICAL FACTS: Ash atalla | History Defined

The Office producer says there are scenes that he ‘wouldn’t do now’

After working with Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais on the comedy, Ash Atalla went on to produce ‘The IT Crowd’

The Independent UK · Feb 27

Producer of The Office regrets jokes made by Ricky Gervais about his disability

At Ash Atalla’s insistence, Gervais poked fun at producer’s use of a wheelchair at 2001 British Comedy Awards

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2025

The Office producer discusses jokes Ricky Gervais made about his disability

Ash Atalla said he felt ‘good about it at the time’.

Evening Standard · Jul 12, 2025

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‘We were smoking a lot of weed’: how we made People Just Do Nothing

‘It took us two years to do five episodes. When we posted them on YouTube, a few students watched it. Then we got an email from the producer who had made The Office’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2024

Ash Atalla: ‘I cry easily. I get nostalgic about the passing of years’

The comedy producer, 51, reflects on early ambitions to be a stockbroker, dodging racism by being a wheelchair user, and being noisy enough to get invited to the party

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2024

From The Office to Severance: how the fictional workplace went from bad to worse

On International Workers’ Day, we chart the cultural changes from moments of humanity at Wernham Hogg to grim visions of a more brutal post-Covid reality

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2022

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