List of The Ricky Gervais Show episodes
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The following is an episode list for The Ricky Gervais Show
, which is credited as the most downloaded podcast ever, with "nearly 8 million" downloads according to the BBC
. The series stars Ricky Gervais
and Stephen Merchant
of The Office
and Extras
fame, as well as Karl Pilkington
. The series began as a free feature on the website of The Guardian
, but a cost was added when the series was marketed by Audible for the second and third series.
UK - £3.95
US - $1
UK - £3.95
US - $1
Price: Free
Price: Free
. This was recorded on Thursday 5 June in London and premiered on Monday 9 June 2008, 12 pm (BST).
Price: Free
, produced for and broadcast by American channel HBO. The TV series consists of audio from past podcasts and audiobooks, with animation drawn in a style similar to classic era Hanna-Barbera
cartoons, presenting jokes and situations in a literal context.
The animated Ricky Gervais Show has aired two 13-episode series since it premiered in the United States on February 19, 2010. The second series started on January 14, 2011. HBO have commissioned a third series, and there are some plans for a possible fourth series as well, which would use newly recorded audio. The first series has been released on DVD.
The Ricky Gervais Show
The Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy audio show in the UK starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington, later adapted into an animated televised version debuting for HBO and Channel 4 in 2010. The show started in November 2001 on Xfm, and aired in weekly periods for months at a time...
, which is credited as the most downloaded podcast ever, with "nearly 8 million" downloads according to the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
. The series stars Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, radio presenter, producer, musician, and writer.Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator...
and Stephen Merchant
Stephen Merchant
Stephen James Merchant is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian, and actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office, as the co-writer, co-director and a co-star of Extras, and as the...
of The Office
The Office (UK TV series)
The Office is a British sitcom television series that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictitious...
and Extras
Extras (TV series)
Extras is a British sitcom about extras working on TV and film sets and in theatre. The series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO, and is created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, both of whom also star in it...
fame, as well as Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington is a British podcaster, author, television personality and former radio producer. He is best known for the Sky travel series, An Idiot Abroad, which was also presented in the United States on the Science Channel, in Canada on Discovery Channel and in Australia on One HD, and The...
. The series began as a free feature on the website of The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, but a cost was added when the series was marketed by Audible for the second and third series.
Series 1
Price : £3.95| # | |Date | Derek Acorah Derek Acorah Derek Acorah is a British medium. He is best known for his work on Most Haunted, broadcast on Living, between 2002 and 2005. He recently presented the series Derek Acorah on Sky Real Lives... , dilapidated mansion. Monkey News: Monkey astronaut. |
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| 102 | 12 December 2005 | Cambodian Midget Fighting League, Paul ‘The Party Animal’ Parker. Monkey News: The value of money. |
| 103 | 19 December 2005 | Chimp mauling, 'Knob at night'. Monkey News: Monkey sanctuary. |
| 104 | 26 December 2005 | Christmas good will gift, superpowers, origins of the kiss at a wedding. Monkey News: Chimp interviews Cher. |
| 105 | 2 January 2006 | Colonic irrigation, TV show "Tribes", armed dolphins, dance remix of 'Knob At Night'. Monkey News: Ollie the chimp. |
| 106 | 9 January 2006 | The Chinese homeless (and lack thereof), the Pillow Man, 'a stitch in time saves nine'. Monkey News: Chimp firemen. |
| 107 | 16 January 2006 | Washing up without using thumbs, Karl looks out of his apartment window and sees a naked woman, Bruce Willis, the cobbler, paper round dream job, Plato, testicular cancer. Monkey News: Monkey workman. |
| 108 | 23 January 2006 | The Diary Of Karl Pilkington, the watch that can predict your own death, 'Jimmy the Hat'. Monkey News: Chimp bobsledding. |
| 109 | 30 January 2006 | Saving Ricky or Steve, Question for Karl, Steve's octopus dish. Monkey News: Chimp pilots. |
| 110 | 6 February 2006 | The Karl Pilkington show, talking to animals, ice pop of death, adult nappies, Karl's litter tray, wrestling Karl, Karl Dilkington, a "wewe" (an ugly female ghost with drooping breasts). Monkey News: Jockey chimp. |
| 111 | 13 February 2006 | Global village idiot, dishwasher on mars, re-introducing dinosaurs, fight over a girl, invention of the plane, sloths. Monkey News: Chimp (cheap) doctors. |
| 112 | 20 February 2006 | Guinness World Records, meeting Suzanne, being trapped inside animals. Monkey News: Enos the chimponaut (possible source: http://www.savethechimps.org/about.asp). |
Series 2
Price:UK - £3.95
US - $1
| # | |Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| 201 | 27 February 2006 | Karl worries about the stationery implications of relocating to another planet; Relativity and re-runs of the 1980 World Cup Final; Doppelganger - The Karl Who Haunted Himself; A brainteaser for a man with no brain; Extracts from Karl's diary; Plus, for the cognoscenti, the timely return of 'Rockbusters'. Karls diary: |
| 202 | 7 March 2006 | Karl Pilkington - the talk of tinsel-town; There's no news like no news; Karl's illustrated book of ages; Tall and pale and naked and waving; Karl's diary - Auntie Nora, cat criticism, unappealing ultrasound scans, the passing fad that is hoummous, mind/brain confusion and the elderly lady with the bent neck; and... Rockbusters. Karls diary: Auntie Nora, cats. |
| 203 | 14 March 2006 | Complaints relating to the perception of an inadequate frequency of expletives are addressed; Look who's listening; Social engineering at the North Pole; Questioning the credentials of TV pathologists; Karl's top twin tips; Plastic surgery at the deli counter; Risky dining and cancerous carnivore; Rockbusters. Karls diary: Congo confusion, vegetable timepieces, subterranean schoolfriends, porcine-pated ladies, beehive boozers. |
| 204 | 21 March 2006 | Genocidal anura; Anthropomorphism and Fluffy the poodle; Reflections on the inducement of camouflage-feedback in visually impaired chameleons; Karl gets his head around the concept of a multiverse; Steve the party animal; Rockbusters. Karls diary: The worrying mortality rate of Karl's pets; blind dates, lunar lunacy, quadrupedal enclaves, common or garden aliens. |
| 205 | 28 March 2006 | Karl's Freudian slip-up, Surgical quotas, Biblical logistics, designer loo-roll, bed & boredom, prandial sorbets for pretentious brats, inappropriate choices for vehicluar nomenclature, cemetery sightseeing, Karl's secrets to a successful relationship, Steve's unsound method of obtaining sound advice, Rockbusters. Karls diary:Suzanne's Birthday Treat |
| 206 | 4 April 2006 | Some sad news about an elderly tortoise proves a versatile opener for conversation - sparking a discussion on suppressed memories, longevity and who if anyone is in charge of Karl's brain. Karl ponders his most favourite and least favourite words and proposes a lexicographical cull. Believing that octopuses aren't the friendly little creatures they're portrayed as in films, Karl considers some suitable terms of abuse, Rockbusters. Karls diary: Philosophers and their names; Lao Tse's advice for spectators. |
Series 3
Price:UK - £3.95
US - $1
| # | |Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| 301 | 22 August 2006 | Insects, insects and more insects. Karl's diary: Karl writes a poem to sum up his day. |
| 302 | 29 August 2006 | Kidney Stones and Stick Insects. While Karl is in hospital for treatment of Kidney Stones, he is given time to think. He asks Ricky and Steve if leaf insects were insects that had just been "havin' it off" with a leaf. Steve tries to yet again persuade Karl that insects do not have consciousness and fails. |
| 303 | 5 September 2006 | Karl's kidney-induced epiphany; Karl uses his spare time to brush up on his ant facts; Survival tactics; Super-evolving jellyfish inspire some bardic utterances; Fact or fiction? Karl ponders storytelling. Karl's Diary: Displaced llamas and fussy eaters. |
| 304 | 12 September 2006 | Karl is accused of not pulling his weight by Ricky and Steve and his TV programmes are criticised in the press. Steve's dancing skills are the subject of some tabloid mockery and Ricky doubts the merit of Karl's clip-on mug mat. Karl's diary: The doctor who doesn't open his eyes much |
| 305 | 19 September 2006 | Karl's contribution to the British Library; A man whose skull "fell out"; Karl pimps his forehead; Steve's big night out. Karl's diary: Monkey toll-booth, a slug's life, and how to get attention in a corner shop. |
| 306 | 26 September 2006 | Karl wonders how he'd react to meeting one of his many celebrity fans; Karl explores with the concept of equal opportunities; From determinism to morning goods in one fell swoop. Karl's diary: In-depth coverage of Karl's recent relapse. |
The Podfather (Series 4)
Price: £1.95| # | |Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| 401 (Halloween) | 31 October 2006 | Ghostly drivel abounds as Steve consults a text-based oracle, Karl experiences a kidney probing, Steve visits Bristol, Karl becomes a Godfather and Ricky tells of some lighter moments at the morgue. |
| 402 (Thanksgiving) | 23 November 2006 | Karl launches a campaign for a calendar-free society, Ricky explains the origins of Thanksgiving and Steve brings up the sterling work mice are carrying out in the name of medicine. |
| 403 (Christmas) | 24 December 2006 | Karl reflects on the past year and singles out an unlikely highlight; Steve stocks up on yuletide essentials; Karl advocates an anarchic Christmas; Karl's diary draws to a close with revelations of bothersome footwear and worry-holes ... and Ricky provides an emotional exit en route to the orphanage. |
Fame special
A special podcast was made available as a giveaway to people that went to see Gervais' standup tour Fame. On 12 October 2007 this was made available as a free download to the general public, via the same subscription as the video podcasts.Price: Free
| # | |Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| Special | 12 October 2007 | Karl discusses his boiler and his film pitch, Steve reads extracts from Karl's book 'Happyslapped by a Jellyfish and Other True Stories', the three also discuss the possibility of bringing the show back for a fourth series in 2008. |
Hour Long Bonus Podcast
Originally released as an extra on the audio CD release of series one, it was later made available free through iTunes.Price: Free
| # | |Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| Special | 25 November 2007 | A special free one hour long podcast originally available only on audio CD. Ricky and Steve continue to probe Karl with questions from Inside the Actors Studio Inside the Actors Studio Inside the Actors Studio is a series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. It is produced and directed by Jeff Wurtz; the executive producer is James Lipton. The program, which premiered in 1994, is distributed internationally by CABLEready and is broadcast in 125 countries... . |
NME Radio Show
Ricky, Steve and Karl recorded a two-hour radio show as part of the test transmissions for the new radio station NME RadioNME Radio
NME Radio is the radio station from NME magazine, that broadcasts in a new commercially oriented alternative music format. It first began broadcasting on 24 June 2008.- History :...
. This was recorded on Thursday 5 June in London and premiered on Monday 9 June 2008, 12 pm (BST).
Series 5
Four episodes of season five were released on 15 September 2008 through the iTunes Music Store.| # | |Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| 501 | 15 September 2008 | Karl philosophizes about minimalism Minimalism Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts... and relates picking out songs for his iPod to Ricky’s usage of ‘dead owls’ to fill empty living space. The trio revisits a previously discussed topic of useless inventions. Finally they discuss gay marriage; Karl is asked to make a difficult choice about marrying a gay man. |
| 502 | 15 September 2008 | Ricky revisits Karl’s slighted and heartbroken hypothetical gay husband. Ricky, Steve, and Karl play Room 102 Room 101 (TV series) Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities were invited to discuss their pet hates and persuade the host to consign them to a fate worse than death in Room 101, named after the torture room in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which is... ; slugs and breast milk pushers are banished, Karl also bemoans the lost potential of peoples’ brains and his restless leg syndrome. Finally Karl is given the opportunity to pick which scientific research is allowed to continue. |
| 503 | 15 September 2008 | The trio discusses the obesity Obesity Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems... epidemic and possible remedies. Ricky reminisces about his earlier days as a fit, energetic youth, and his fashion escapades with home-made clothing. Karl discusses exotic fruit consumption by children and the general availability of food. |
| 504 | 15 September 2008 | Ricky talks about a spider-infested village in Indonesia; Karl discusses his mother’s pet spider with "Tipp-Ex on its back". Steve discusses living under the Nazi regime. Karl is asked to consider whether he would harbor Anne Frank Anne Frank Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt... . Finally, Karl muses on learning new vocabulary on a desert island Desert Island Discs Desert Island Discs is a BBC Radio 4 programme first broadcast on 29 January 1942. It is the second longest-running radio programme , and is the longest-running factual programme in the history of radio... . |
The Ricky Gervais Guide to...
The latest series starring Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington is called The Ricky Gervais Guide to...Series 1
| # | |Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| 601 | 31 December 2008 | The Ricky Gervais guide to MEDICINE |
| 602 | 21 January 2009 | The Ricky Gervais guide to NATURAL HISTORY |
| 603 | 24 February 2009 | The Ricky Gervais guide to THE ARTS |
| 604 | 17 March 2009 | The Ricky Gervais guide to PHILOSOPHY |
| 605 | 23 April 2009 | The Ricky Gervais guide to THE ENGLISH |
Series 2
| # | |Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| 701 | 3 November 2009 | The Ricky Gervais guide to SOCIETY |
| 702 | 1 December 2009 | The Ricky Gervais guide to LAW AND ORDER |
| 703 | 29 December 2009 | The Ricky Gervais guide to THE FUTURE |
| 704 | 26 January 2010 | The Ricky Gervais guide to THE HUMAN BODY |
| 705 | 23 February 2010 | The Ricky Gervais guide to THE EARTH |
| 706 | 12 June 2010 | The Ricky Gervais guide to THE WORLD CUP (free download) |
| 707 | 6 March 2011 | The Ricky Gervais guide to COMIC RELIEF (free download) |
Video podcasts
| # | |Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 March 2006 | Ricky asks Karl to choose between letting Ricky tie his head to his knees and be locked in a cage until he was permanently deformed into that shape, or, to allow Ricky to perform facial surgery to sew up his mouth, nose and eyes and remove his ears. |
| 2 | 2 April 2006 | Ricky Gervais uses the video podcast to advertise his and Karl's forthcoming book Ricky Gervais presents The World of Karl Pilkington. While Ricky talks to the camera and behaves with charmless superiority, Karl quietly sits beside him, answers questions, and sketches out some drawings for the book. |
| 3 | 7 April 2006 | This video podcast was an animation of Monkey News from the seventh episode of Podcast Series 1. |
| 4 | 24 April 2006 | A short acceptance film where Steve presents Ricky with the Aerial award and discusses Ricky's charity contributions. |
| 5 | 26 April 2006 | Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington settle down on the sofa to watch Brokeback Mountain, but Karl has trouble understanding how gay relationships work. |
| 6 | 1 May 2006 | Ricky Gervais presents The World of Karl Pilkington, showing the viewers some snippets of what would be going into the book, including visual representations of the famous big headed kids, and the pillow man, one of Karl's favourite freaks. |
| 7 | 20 May 2006 | Beginning with an audio clip from the very first podcast, where Karl tells Ricky and Steve about a run-down stately home, that doubled-up as a mental institution. In this house Karl discovered 3000 flies and a condom, which Ricky and Steve found hilarious and incredulous. In this video, Karl visits the house and shows the world proof that his story wasn't a lie and that. |
| 8 | 10 June 2006 | Direct from the set of the second series of Extras, Ricky and Steve give an update of how filming is going, while back at Ricky's house, Karl is hoovering when he discovers some illustrations for a new Flanimals book, Flanimals Of The Deep, providing some of his challenging opinions of animal and flanimal life. |
| 9 | 24 July 2006 | Karl spends four minutes complaining about how spoilt Ricky's cat Ollie is. The podcast includes clips of when Jonathan Ross gave Ricky the cat on his chat show. |
| 10 | 9 August 2006 | Ricky, Steve and Karl catch up after their summer apart and spend a little time daydreaming. |
| 11 | 1 September 2006 | A short trailer advertising Extras series 2. |
| 12 | 1 September 2006 | A second short trailer advertising Extras series 2. |
| 14 | 7 September 2006 | This video podcast was released as "The Ricky Gervais Video Podcast No 14". It is actually only the thirteenth video podcast to be released. The video begins with an audio clip from Podcast Series 1, Episode 6 where Karl talks about how there is too much choice in restaurants now and people are now taking risks with what they eat. Afterwards a clip is shown of Karl cooking breakfast and elaborating on the conversation played previously. |
Specials
Several special video podcasts have been released, most of which to promote Ricky's Fame tour.Price: Free
| # | |Overview | |
|---|---|---|
| Fame 1 | 29 June 2007 | This is an advert starring Ricky, wearing the same attire as he did for his shorts promoting Live 8, using the same white background. |
| Fame 2 | 29 June 2007 | Ricky gets Robin some sportswear in preparation for his new training regime, and then laughs at him in it, on the treadmill, and running up a hill. |
| Fame 3 | 11 July 2007 | Ricky takes Robin to the beach for his birthday, and gets someone to dig him a 'swimming pool' to sit in whilst the tide rises. Ricky constantly reminds Robin how lucky he is to have his own swimming pool and be at the beach, in February. |
| Fame 4 | 13 July 2007 | Ricky and Steve bring news of the Extras Special, which turns into a talk about how the viewers aren't to be respected. Profanities abound. |
| Fame 5 | 18 July 2007 | Karl gets bothered by builders whilst working on his book, Ricky kindly offers his house as a refuge. One part of this podcast memorably has Ricky trying to vacuum Karl's face. |
| Fame 6 | 18 July 2007 | Ricky back to annoying Robin again, finishing with Ricky repeatedly running around the house, singing the Tufty Lovely Song. |
| Fame 7 | 30 July 2007 | Robin surprises Ricky during his live standup by walking onto the stage and presenting him with a children's book award for Flanimals, and giving him a live feed to the awards show whilst his own audience watches on. |
| Special | 6 December 2007 | A special podcast entitled "The real extras." It shows Karl on the set of extras. |
Television series
The Ricky Gervais Show podcasts and audiobooks have been developed into an animated television seriesThe Ricky Gervais Show (animated series)
The Ricky Gervais Show is an American cartoon series produced for and broadcast by HBO. The series is an animated version of the popular British audio podcasts and audiobooks of the same name, which feature Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant , along with colleague and friend Karl Pilkington,...
, produced for and broadcast by American channel HBO. The TV series consists of audio from past podcasts and audiobooks, with animation drawn in a style similar to classic era Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...
cartoons, presenting jokes and situations in a literal context.
The animated Ricky Gervais Show has aired two 13-episode series since it premiered in the United States on February 19, 2010. The second series started on January 14, 2011. HBO have commissioned a third series, and there are some plans for a possible fourth series as well, which would use newly recorded audio. The first series has been released on DVD.
See also
- The Ricky Gervais ShowThe Ricky Gervais ShowThe Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy audio show in the UK starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington, later adapted into an animated televised version debuting for HBO and Channel 4 in 2010. The show started in November 2001 on Xfm, and aired in weekly periods for months at a time...
- Ricky GervaisRicky GervaisRicky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, radio presenter, producer, musician, and writer.Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator...
- Stephen MerchantStephen MerchantStephen James Merchant is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian, and actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office, as the co-writer, co-director and a co-star of Extras, and as the...
- Karl PilkingtonKarl PilkingtonKarl Pilkington is a British podcaster, author, television personality and former radio producer. He is best known for the Sky travel series, An Idiot Abroad, which was also presented in the United States on the Science Channel, in Canada on Discovery Channel and in Australia on One HD, and The...