Stephen Merchant

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Merchant (The Office, Extras, The Ricky Gervais Show) is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian and actor. Stephen sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss the pros and cons of being tall and his philosophy on directing. Dax and Stephen reminisce on the pre-internet era when it was impossible to find answers to bizarre questions. They talk about the differences between English and American standards on alcohol consumption and mental health and Stephen talks about the success of The Office and its lasting impact. In the fact check, Monica and Dax reflect on past indiscretions at the bowling alley and they hope the statute of limitations is up. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:03.4	Monica, you don't have your headphones on.
0:05.0	Oh shoot.
0:06.1	What are you doing?
0:07.2	This is a mutiny.
0:08.8	For God.
0:10.3	That's how you want to celebrate our 100th episode.
0:13.0	You are such a police about the headphones.
0:15.0	Maybe I wanted to shake things up for the 100th.
0:18.0	Oh, well I would think though maybe do, go to the 100th, like you know, muscle muscle memory then try some new fangled stuff for
0:25.8	101 okay well don't tell me what it is okay we have a very fun guest today
0:32.1	Stephen Merchant fell in love with him of course with the first English office
0:36.8	And have never not enjoyed seeing him since he's. He was so much taller than me.
0:44.0	It was the first thing I noticed. Yeah, that was the most extreme height
0:47.4	differentiation we've had here between a guest and you. Oh yeah, yeah.
0:52.1	It was exciting.
0:53.0	It was really exciting.
0:54.0	Yeah.
0:55.0	Especially to see you both on the same couch.
0:57.0	Sure.
0:58.0	I was, it begged the question, are they the same species?
1:00.0	We don't know.
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