Question: What profession does Bruiser and Ricky Gervais have in common?
Context: David Brent: Life on the Road is a 2016 British mockumentary comedy film written, directed, and produced by Ricky Gervais and released by Entertainment One.  The film stars Gervais as David Brent, a character he played in the BBC television comedy series "The Office", who has a film crew that shadows Brent as he travels up and down the country living his dream of being a rock star.  Gervais said, "This film delves much more into his private life than "The Office" ever did and we really get to peel back the layers of this extraordinary, ordinary man."  He has emphasised that it is "not an "Office" film". Bruiser is a TV comedy sketch show that was produced for BBC Two.  It premiered on 28 February 2000 and ran for six episodes, ending on 15 March 2000.  The main writers were David Mitchell and Robert Webb.  Additional writers included Richard Ayoade and Ricky Gervais. "The Office" Christmas Specials are the two-part final episode of the British mockumentary comedy television series "The Office".  The specials were commissioned after the series' creators, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, announced that they would not write a full third series of the show.  The first 45-minute part was broadcast on BBC One on 26 December 2003, and the second 50-minute part was shown the following evening.  The episodes are presented in the style of "revisited" documentaries common on British television, in which popular "docusoaps" (e.g. "Airport"), are brought back for one-off specials several years after the series concluded.  David Brent (Gervais), forcibly made redundant at the end of the second series, is now a travelling salesman of cleaning supplies.  Tim Canterbury (Martin Freeman) and Gareth Keenan (Mackenzie Crook) are still working at the offices of Wernham Hogg, and former Wernham Hogg receptionist Dawn Tinsley (Lucy Davis) now lives in Florida, though is flown back to Britain by the documentary crew to reunite with her old colleagues. The following is an episode list for "The Ricky Gervais Show", which is credited as the most downloaded podcast ever, with "nearly 8 million" downloads according to the BBC.  The series stars Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant of "The Office" and "Extras" fame, as well as Karl Pilkington.  The series began as a free feature on the website of "The Guardian", but a cost was added when the series was marketed by Audible for the second and third series. Meet Ricky Gervais is a talk show written and hosted by the English comedian Ricky Gervais.  It was produced by Talkback for Channel 4 in 2000 (repeated 2003) and ran for one series on Friday nights. The World of Karl Pilkington is the first book written and illustrated by Karl Pilkington, and contains transcripts from "The Ricky Gervais Show" podcasts and excerpts from his own diary, as well as drawings and some original material illustrated by Pilkington himself.  It was published and released in 2006.  As stated on The Ricky Gervais Show, Karl put a lot of work into the book and had been illustrating the drawings featured in the book for a considerable amount of time.  Karl had stated briefly whilst producing The Ricky Gervais show that he had had an ambition to write a book. Ricky Dene Gervais ( ; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, singer, and musician. The Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy radio show in the UK starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington, later adapted into a podcast and a television series.  Despite being named after the more famous Gervais, it mostly revolves around the life and ideas of Pilkington.  The show started in August 2001 on Xfm, and aired in weekly periods for months at a time throughout 2002, 2003, 2004, and mid-2005.  In November 2005, "Guardian Unlimited" offered the show as a podcast series of 12 shows.  Throughout January and February 2006, the podcast was consistently ranked the number one podcast in the world; it appeared in the 2007 Guinness World Record for the world's most downloaded podcast, having gained an average of 261,670 downloads per episode during its first month.  According to the BBC, by September 2006, the podcasts of the series had been downloaded nearly 18 million times.  s of March 2011 , the podcast has been downloaded over 300 million times.  The animated series adapted for television debuted for HBO and Channel 4 in 2010. The Ricky Gervais Show is a British-American cartoon series produced for and broadcast by HBO and Channel 4.  The series is an animated version of the popular British audio podcasts and audiobooks of the same name, which feature Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (creators of "The Office" and "Extras"), along with colleague and friend Karl Pilkington, talking about various subjects behind the microphone.  The TV show consists of past audio recordings of these unscripted "pointless conversations," with animation drawn in a style similar to classic era Hanna-Barbera cartoons, presenting jokes and situations in a literal context. Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics is the title of a performance by British comedian Ricky Gervais.  It was filmed at the Palace Theatre, London, United Kingdom in 2004.
Answer: writer