This looks ok tbh. It is certainly *extremely weird* to remake a similar version of a perfectly serviceable show, but I dont see any problems with that clip. They still have Richard Ayoade, and he was by far the funniest main character. Yer wan is ok, but the Irish guy sucks, he is not funny imo, he was stinkin' up that show.
Also the show overall is not amazing (like its pretty good, its not bad, pls dont get ure panties in a bunch) Graham Linehan shows seem to be much better when he has a writing partner.

I always thought this was a weird role for Dean Learner.

Did we? We still got Big Bang Theory.

Interesting that Richard Ayoade is in both versions. It's like how they had the Brittish Kryten in the US Red Dwarf.

I enjoyed IT Crowd well enough to watch it, mostly for the crazy boss scenes. It's so weird that they went THIS close on the remake, down to wearing equivalent t-shirts. That fact sort of makes me like the whole show less, and I am pretty equally neutral on the two "RTFM" actors.

I think the thing that bothers me most about the concept of the US remake is that Roy, as played by Chris O'Dowd, is sort of nerdy and goofy but overall decent, whereas Joel McHale's Roy, at least in this clip, seems smarmier and somehow meaner and more aloof. I also have a harder time seeing him interact with some of the more surreal aspects of the UK version, assuming they would transfer over. And if they don't, the US version seems like it would just end up being a totally Big Bang-like sitcom which we have one too many of already.