Handbags and Gladrags: If the presidential election doesn’t work out for Sarah Palin, Ricky Gervais thinks she has a future in television comedy. Comparing her to the role he played in the UK version of The Office, he says, “Sarah Palin is David Brent. She is! There’s so much comedy value in watching her talk.” Certainly, we can’t think of an Office moment as awkward as that Katie Couric interview — but does that make John McCain her Gareth? In other news, Gervais is playing hard-to-get when it comes to the Oscars, which he has been tipped to host. “I don’t think I’d get the freedom I needed,” he told the BBC. Executive producer Bill Condon, if we even hear you so much as mention the words, “Howie Mandel”… [Yahoo]