Creed Bratton
Appearances
Office Ladies
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At the time, though, they told us, one of you guys are going to have to go.
Office Ladies
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And we went. Jeez. But we don't know yet. We're just going to do that. We're going to shoot you both and we're going to see how it works out.
Office Ladies
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They know that we're going to shoot the thing because they could have gone back and changed it, I'm sure.
Office Ladies
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But it was going to be one of us. They said it was going to be one of us. And I remember being a little nervous. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And Devin and I were friends. We've become friends by this time.
Office Ladies
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And by the way, you know, on the finale, jumping ahead a lot, I don't know if I could kind of jump ahead to the finale.
Office Ladies
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When Greg brought me into the office to find out what I wanted to do for the Craig character, I said, well, one thing I'd like to do is sing the song, sing my song, but I also think we should have Devin back on the show.
Office Ladies
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Yeah, yeah, because we get together sometimes, you know, and have coffee and stuff like that. I was feeling nervous because I kind of was feeling bad that I might have to go, but also that Devin might have to go too. So it was mixed blessings and all that stuff.
Office Ladies
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Well, they were playing down both of your beauties all the time with the way they dressed you and put you in stuff.
Office Ladies
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That's true. Toward the end, did you guys lobby? Come on, just let us show a little bit of, you know.
Office Ladies
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I remember that they were there because my ears still hurt from that high Castralto. Ricky Gervais, the laugh.
Office Ladies
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He laughed at some coffee. Oh, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, he is the sweetest man and just a joy.
Office Ladies
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By the way, I just want to say I just love these fast facts.
Office Ladies
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Oh, my, I can't wait. Be still my throbbing heart.
Office Ladies
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It started to be weird, and then I drifted away.
Office Ladies
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Anytime you give him a little cat. That's what she said.
Office Ladies
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The brilliance of Steve Carell, the pain and the anguish in his face when he's getting ready to fire someone. You can just see it. He's just dying. He's absolutely dying. He's not acting. To me, he looked like a man just suffering, suffering pain.
Office Ladies
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I was moved by his performance in that, yeah.
Office Ladies
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The Joker. And then when Brian comes, damn it, Creed. And he hip checks you. Oh, that's a later episode.
Office Ladies
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It almost ruined the whole episode, that whole captain thing.
Office Ladies
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No, no, I agree. I have to say I'm with Jenna. Thank you. It doesn't count.
Office Ladies
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But it was a costume, though. It wasn't a rubber day in character thing.
Office Ladies
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You would type out your lines on the computer while you were doing it?
Office Ladies
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We really know. Now I'm back on your side, Angela.
Office Ladies
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You'd walk in this thing with your fingers. We'd be talking about stuff and your fingers would be going like you're typing.
Office Ladies
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We had a lot of shots like that. They just weren't the cookie cutter or stereotyped sitcom stuff. We'd get interesting shots at times. Because our cameramen were so great.
Office Ladies
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Remember, we played the rap party for this movie I worked on with Bo Bridges at the Beach House, at Lloyd Bridges' house. Lucy Goosey played out there, and they were dancing out there like Annette Funicello in the surf and stuff.
Office Ladies
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I'm a fascinating character. You are. And humble, too. Okay.
Office Ladies
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I lived for a while at the Camrose Highland Estates. And Linda Ronstadt was there. Laura Nero was there. Jackson Brown used to – there was a lot of people playing at this place and lived there. And they would play their instrument. You hear the instruments going around the Camrose Highland Estates. Highland Estates. And Butch Trucks from the Allman Brothers was there.
Office Ladies
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No, we lived at the estates in little bungalows. You could rent these bungalows at the Camrose Highland Estates. Now it's been fixed up a little bit. It's right next to the Veterans of War and War place, I think. They're right on Highland Boulevard. Right on Highland Boulevard. Right off to get off the freeway. It's right there.
Office Ladies
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A lot of artists were living there. So butch trucks from the Allman Brothers came over one night and... Griffin from Bread, and Jesse Ed Davis, who used to play with John Lennon, came over one night and we jammed. We jammed for hours and hours and hours and hours. And there was a lot of heavyweight guitar players there that night.
Office Ladies
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I remember Butch wanted me to go back to Alabama and be the lead singer for this group, Cowboy, but that never happened.
Office Ladies
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Is that what you say in the thing? Same category?
Office Ladies
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All right. Creed, how are you doing? I'm doing wonderful.
Office Ladies
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Because later it was when we had the scene where we showed him as a little boy and he doesn't get all the love that he wanted because he wanted a family. That's later, right?
Office Ladies
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Okay, that was Gary. We knew Gary there. That might be. That might be the first time. I don't know.
Office Ladies
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Him going off to do a job. It's a recurring theme, right?
Office Ladies
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And then later to New York and do that stuff with the sports thing, right? It kept happening.
Office Ladies
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Yeah. What was the one where he admitted that crabs are his favorite food, so he was going to go to this place? Maryland. Was that Maryland? But that was it.
Office Ladies
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And you could have called him crab if he wanted to.
Office Ladies
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Originally, they may have cut it down. But it took a long, like hours to get through that thing.
Office Ladies
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Well, first of all, there was a scene where I slowly take out the teeth, you know, and I resolve myself. I gird my loins, as it were. I stand up within a resolute and I march in like a Nesferatu, you know, with a purpose.
Office Ladies
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So I march in, and then I remember I sit back like this, and I cross my feet, and I kind of houch down, and I have my arms crossed because I'm protecting myself from attack like this. And he goes, well, I'll create, I just don't like this. I said, well, you want to leave? He says, no, no, I don't. No, yes, you do. No, no, I don't.
Office Ladies
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Do you want to leave? No, no, really, no. I know I'm very happy here. I said, Creed, I've got to fire somebody. And it's got to be, well, then fire Devin. You know, he's horrible at his job, you know. I'm so much better at my job. And I'm doing the Creed voice right now, too. It goes up a bit, you know. And then I just fought. I just fought for my survival.
Office Ladies
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And we just kept doing it over and over and over and finally. And Steve was so great. It's like you've all done scenes with people where it's forcing it. It's so hard to get through a scene.
Office Ladies
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Working with Steve, it was like he kept tossing me like these big beach balls. I had a Nerf bat. It was just easy. It was easy to hit those things, you know. God bless him here.
Office Ladies
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But Dave Rogers later, he said what made him laugh the most is when I stood up and he said, no, no, you're doing a good job. Good for you. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I love that. I'd point my finger, and all that stuff was just off the top of my head.
Office Ladies
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I was just stuttering perhaps too, you know.
Office Ladies
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I was doing a bit, yeah. No, but still I look at that with fond memories. It was a great, and I thank Steve so much for being so gracious as an actor to work with, you know.
Office Ladies
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Well, he says he gives him a chili. He gives him a chili.
Office Ladies
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There's nothing. It's arbitrary. It's an arbitrary.
Office Ladies
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He might have had a crush on you, too. Oh, come on. Oh, he might have. You never know.
Office Ladies
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God rest his soul. Yes. Who passed away a couple of years ago.
Office Ladies
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I was loving the show, and then when it got to that episode, he just killed me. I said, oh, my God, this is a perfect episode. It's one of the great ones, you know?
Office Ladies
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Don't drop them. Don't worry. Take them all. Take them all.
Office Ladies
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That's the first time we saw him just so loving. Really? Don't you think so? At that moment, we saw his heart. We saw his heart come out there at that moment.
Office Ladies
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Is that the only time that they've done something like that?
Office Ladies
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I'm touring. I was in Europe, UK and in Scandinavia for a month touring and doing shows. Had like seven, I'm bragging now, seven sold out shows to the UK. Went great. I'm off to Australia, New Zealand in February.
Office Ladies
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Then I did the East Coast. Had a great tour there too.
Office Ladies
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And the fans, and I want to thank all the Office fans for coming out and supporting my character and my music. And it truly means a lot. I'm having my second childhood now doing this. And by the way, I have a surprise for you ladies.
Office Ladies
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I brought, which I think may be the single, if there's going to be a single from my, I'm going to play you a little snippet, if you'd like.
Office Ladies
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Of the album. Can we do this in there? Can I play it right now for you?
Office Ladies
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All right. That's that song. There it is, gang. What do you think?
Office Ladies
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Well, I want to say to the two of you today, I feel like we're in a special moment.
Office Ladies
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, the last album I did, I had a song called More Than You Know. And one of the first people I ever played it for was for you and Josh at your house. I came over and acoustically played it. And she started crying.
Office Ladies
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And you guys would come over and shake your head in and listen. We'd come over and hang out.
Office Ladies
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Ed and I had so much fun. He's a great banjo player. I haven't played with him in a long time because we're working all the time, but I would love to.
Office Ladies
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Thank you so much for having me, my dear friends.
Office Ladies
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I'm the first one. I might have a bathroom break or something. It won't be for the whole thing, but I'll be in and out.
Office Ladies
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I'm old school. Well, I'm old, so that's part of it, you know.
Office Ladies
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Well, as soon as I get together with you, it's just back and we're back on the set, you know, and it's all like, oh.
Office Ladies
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We see each other hiking around the street.
Office Ladies
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Well, I actually spoke in Diversity Day. In Diversity Day, I had lines with Phyllis.
Office Ladies
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And they paid me afterwards. Well, the first AD, remember that girl we had, the first AD? Yeah. The first season. She thought I was part of the cast at the time. So she came, we had little hands, and she said, now you and Phyllis just start talking. And Phyllis said, wait. I said, never mind. It's okay. It's okay. Never mind. Phyllis was going to out you. Phyllis was going to out me.
Office Ladies
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So I, never mind. It's fine. And so we started, and I started talking about, you know, sacrificing goats or something, you know.
Office Ladies
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So you can hear me in the background. And then later, and they said, wait a minute, Creed's talking in the background. And I said, oh, shoot, how did that happen?
Office Ladies
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And so they paid me on the side, but they didn't say, but we can't. I said, no, it's fine. It's fine. And then not off camera, then also was the voice for the ride.
Office Ladies
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Yeah. But anyway, this is the first time where I actually had some serious lines. It was six and a half pages. I remember Kent Zbornak threw the script down and said, okay, here it is. This is your moment.
Office Ladies
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And I had memorized it forwards and backwards. I had set a timer on a little recorder at night subliminally at 2 and 3 in the morning that would go off and play the lines while I was sleeping.
Office Ladies
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I had it backwards and forwards. No joke. I had it backwards.
Office Ladies
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I knew this was the Rubicon. This is the place that I was going to get. My intuition said this is it. And then, of course, we walk in the office and Greg came in and said, by the way, we've made changes, of course, to the lines. We've reversed some around, add some new stuff. You okay, Steve? He goes, yeah, fine. I go, oh.
Office Ladies
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And we'd drop them some and go, ow, ow, ow, ow.
Office Ladies
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Do you remember the backdrop there right off of where my desk and Kate's desk was? Yeah. And you could sneak around the back and get to the green room from behind it. Yeah, yeah. That's set up like that. I walked back like that after they told me this and put my hands up and said, Okay, here it is. And I said, I've come this far. I'm going to do this.
Office Ladies
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And once we started that with Steve, it was like into, into battle, you know?
Office Ladies
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And there was some improvisation on that scene because I was paraphrasing my lines because I was desperate.
Office Ladies
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Background person. I was working on Bernie Mac. And Ken Kwapis came on to direct an episode. And they'd been using me for all these little vignettes where I was doing funny. And if you ever watch old Bernie Mac, you'll see me all the time in the background mugging up. I really want to see that.
Office Ladies
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I'm always in the background doing some stupid stuff. They didn't allow me because I made Bernie laugh. I made him laugh. And so Ken was talking about this guy's funny and he heard from Joe Moore, the first AD that I was on in the grassroots. So he went, he sent to Amoeba for some albums for me to sign because he was a big grassroots fan.
Office Ladies
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And we started talking and talked about music and he's very knowledgeable. Then I found out that he was doing the Office of American Workplace, and I was a big fan of the Ricky Gervais show. So he gave me his number. Now, I've never, ever called anybody like that before. I called him because my intuition said, this feels right, this feels right.
Office Ladies
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Yeah, so he did. And so he talked to Greg, and then I talked to Ken later, and he said, well, I talked to Greg. I told him you're a very interesting and funny guy. And he said, well, what we'll do, and this is his words, Greg's words, we'll put him in the background and see if we can work him into the mix in that first time. That was working the mix. That's all I need to hear.
Office Ladies
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That's why I took liberties just kind of like pretending that I was part of the – part of the group and that paid off, you know? Yes.