Trailer Released for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's New Comedy Life's Too Short

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, having created some of television's greatest comedies in the past few years, are coming back for another round. The creators of The Office and Extras are coming back for a third new comedy series titledLife's Too Short. The duo, whose earlier podcasts are featured in The Ricky Gervais Show on HBO and who send their friend Karl Pilkington around the world for Science Channel's An Idiot Abroad, are teaming up with dwarf actor Warwick Davis for Life's Too Short, which is a mockumentary similar to The Office that follows a fictional version of Davis through his life as a dwarf in showbusiness.

Along with Davis, Gervais and Merchant have released a trailer for Life's Too Short for BBC Two (the series will concurrently run in the U.S. on HBO). The trailer, which features no clips from the show, only features Gervais plugging the show while Merchant and Davis look on. There's a pretty funny bit involving Davis and some coffee, but mostly the trailer is just Gervais being, well, Gervais (both Gervais and Merchant have small roles in the series as fictionalized versions of themselves).

Life's Too Short is slated to premiere on BBC Two and HBO in 2012. Check out the trailer here.