Ricky Gervais says his comments about "The Office" season finale have been misunderstood.
"Sorry, who dissed The Office finale? I f—ing didn't, that's for sure," he wrote after blogging about the episode on Friday. "I simply said it's different to the original which I created and made with different ambitions."
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Actually, that's not exactly what he said Friday. What he said then was that "watching 'The Office' finale may remind some of the Chris Martin episode of 'Extras,'" referring to an episode in which the Coldplay singer made an awkward and largely unnecessary cameo.
Gervais then said: "If you're going to jump a shark, jump a big one," and later added, "I assume most people know I didn't do the US remake for the art. I did my version for the art. That's why I stopped it after a few hours of telly."
In follow-ups to the Friday post, Gervais, who created and starred in the British version of the show and executive produces the American version, says he didn't mean to sound critical.
"The bit about it 'jumping the shark' and being like Chris Martin in Extras was meant to be a little self deprecating in-joke," he explained.
He went on: "The US version of The Office has probably made me ten times the money that the UK version did. I wouldn't knock it. It's still my show. All I said was I do it for different reasons. That is simply what they call the truth. Hope that's OK. I believe I am still entitled to an honest opinion. After all, every other c— is."
He added in a later post: "When I said that I did the original version of The Office purely for the art and the US version not purely for the art, I wasn't suggesting that the US version was therefore artless, or that anyone else involved didn't do it for the art. I was just admitting that there were obviously other factors and reasons present in my involvement in the remake."