The Ricky Gervais Show

[King Pietersen]

Can't believe we've not got a thread for this. Everyone knows that I'm a fan of this, the Head Like A F'in Orange Avatar is proof enough =). I've loved everything I've heard from Ricky, Steve and Karl. I've downloaded the XFM Radio Shows, I've got all the series of the Ricky Gervais show, and now the 2 most recent Audiobooks, one about Medicine and the most recent one, about Natural History.

Natural History came out today, and I'm sure Karl'll come out with something brilliant. We had the machine that put your body into a doctor, to allow the Doctor to feel your symptoms so he can correctly diagnose you. I'm sure we'll get something as brilliant in here. Now listening, and it's going to be a good'un, Ricky and Steve are very knowledgable about Natural History, and Karl makes up his own knowledge, making up little stories for what animals are getting upto.

Any other fans about on here? I know Jordan's a fan. Just have some general Pilker's discussion, from the idiocy spouted from his mouth via quotes, to his Rockbuster clues, to his genius inventions.

King Pietersen added 20 Minutes and 15 Seconds later...

Oh my god. Karl 'K Man' Pilkers has come up with a jaffer. His idea for the greatest animal for survival is the body of an armadillo, the head of an owl, peacock feathers and instead of legs and arms it moves about like a slug. It then eats lettuce and lives on walls. Genius.

 

[jordox]

Good stuff starting this one Dan! I thought about starting one a while a go, but I thought you should do the honours .

I enjoy listening to the Xfm shows in random order whenever we are travelling.

I have to say, while Pilky is the comedy gold, I am a massive fan of Steve. I think he is one of the funniest people around, and boy he can tell an anecdote! The stories about him trying to haggle, or the ones about him with his nob out in the Brazillian beach... Love 'em.

By far my favourite form of entertainment.

 

[King Pietersen]

Oh yeh, I love Steve, just some of the ways he says certain words, words like 'blubber'. The first time I heard that Brazillian knob out anecdote I falling about laughing. It's not only the timing of the story, but he's got amazing comedy timing, just making the anecdote get funnier as it reached it's climax. I also really enjoy his anecdotes about his failures with girls in High School and 6th form. The one about him sat in a room on his own reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance whilst the girl he was trying to crack onto got with Martin Wells who was dancing about with his trousers down. Hilarious stuff.

His luck with the ladies has improved though, his current long-term girlfriend is stunning. Not bad for a man who was once described as an upright lizard recieving electro shock treatment.

Have you downloaded Natural History yet Jordan?

 

[jordox]

Nah I haven't yet, I really should get around to it. Still haven't listened to any of Season 5 either! The preview of Medicine had me crying with laughter when Ricky was pretending to be the talking spider and crocodile that had snuck into Karl's house.

"I'm bothered. I'm bothered. You shouldn't even be in here!"

"I'd just shut the door" - "No no, don't do that, cause that would make me more angry" - "Well there is no reasoning with it" - "Why?" -"He's a maniac!". That exchange was the funniest stuff they've done in a LONG time, since the early Xfm stuff, when everything was more natural.

 

[King Pietersen]

Yeh, you'll definitely have to download Medicine and Natural History, definitely a return to form. Season 5's pretty good, but not as good as their other stuff I didn't think. That exchange was genius, there's another one at the end of Medicine where Ricky effects the accent of a little gay fella with no legs who's in a nursing home who's asking Karl to pop him 'into' his boyfriend. Then he does a similar voice for a visit to the doctors, where Karl plays the doctor and Ricky goes into great detail to describe a problem with his testicular region, very funny.

 

[PhilD123]

Started listening to the Natural History one the other day, got about 10 or so minutes left on it.

Karl thinking that peacock feathers would be intimidating

One of my favourite things said by Karl is that film idea, with Rebecca De Mornay and Clive Warren. "I'd read that mornin', that your brain could run on 'alf". So Clive Warren's brain is put into Rebecca De Mornay's head and it ends up in a lesbian affair.

A good rockbusters:

If you're going to France, you might as well buy your fags on the boat because you'll get 'em a lot cheaper.

B.F.

Bryan Ferry (buy on ferry)

 

[jordox]

One of my favourite things said by Karl is that film idea, with Rebecca De Mornay and Clive Warren. "I'd read that mornin', that your brain could run on 'alf". So Clive Warren's brain is put into Rebecca De Mornay's head and it ends up in a lesbian affair.

Haha! The funniest part of that is Ricky's reaction "WHO THE **** IS CLIVE WARREN!" Haha.

I was in stitches today laughing at episode 2 of season 4 of the xfm stuff. Some of the highlights are:

Karl - "No, no I'm not having a go. In fact I'd rather have ginger hair than be bald"
Steve - "Really?"
Karl - "erghh"
*ricky bursts with laughter*

and this one is my favourite ever moment/exchange from the three of them:

(Talking about the pope dying)

Karl - "and of course.. it's the way they say they've got a new pope.. he's hardly new, is he?"
*ricky snickers*
Karl continues - "Why don't they learn from the last one?"
*rickys laughing get heavier*
Karl chirps in again - "They keep taking on old people"
*ricky collapses*
Karl again - "Me dad couldn't even get a gig in bnq"
*ricky goes mental with laughter*
Karl - "no, no I'm not having a go at him, it's good he can carry on working. But I thought everyone has to retire at like... 60 or whatever"
*ricky bursts out laughing again*
Karl muttering - "like... Bloody Hell!"
Ricky - "Yeah.. why couldn't your dad get a gig in bnq?"
Steve - "Cause he's a theiving *******!"

That had me in tears, hardest I've laughed in a long time. I don't know if it was the lack of sleep or just them, but I couldn't breathe for about 5 minutes.

 

[King Pietersen]

Oh yeh, I loved that whole Clive Warren episode. Has me in stitches everytime I listen, Karl really is a genius.

Great shout about the Pope exchange as well Jordan, was listening to that episode earlier =). Karl mentions a few times that his Dad can't get a gig in B&Q. Another Karl quote I really liked was this one:

I was at some night once, right. It was some night out and er, some people come running on stage. And some music started coming on. These four people came running out, it was two women, two blokes. It wasn't gay an' that. It was just a normal night -well, y'know, some party night out. These people come running on. You've got two women, you've got two blokes. They whip their knickers off. The fellas whip their undies off. All at the same time, like er, whatsit? Cheryl Baker was in it... Bucks Fizz. So that happened and all I'm saying is, right; before I had a look at the woman's bits, I just had a cheeky glance at the fellas' bits, just checkin' it out, checking everything's normal down there. Believe me, I had a look at the ladies' bits but I didn't know how long that pants were going to left off for.

Any time Karl talks about Nudity and Nudists you know you're going to be in for a treat. Here's another Nudity related treat from Karl:

"Do you know like, when you're a bloke nudist, Do you ever get who just have like a small knob?"

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the man's a genius. The E in History proves that alone =)

 

[King Pietersen]

Oh, by the way, I've got a couple of dates for you; The GQ podcast and the Shortlist podcast will be up on the 24th Feb.

The Ricky Gervais Guide to The Arts may be up on the 18th now if everything goes smoothly. It's not Dexter, but it's our favourite one so far. (Actually our favourite one so far is probably one of the free ones, but Steve doesn't want me to say that.)

Looking forward to those, 18th for the latest 'Guide To' and then 2 extra podcasts on the 24th. I wonder which podcast Ricky's talking about as their favourite free one, guessing it's the Clive Warren one? Talking of free podcasts, I'm listening to a download from iTunes which is the audio commentary from the Politics Dvd with Ricky and his friend Robin Ince. Honestly one of the funniest things I've ever listened to. Ricky changes around Robin and just turns into an annoying, screeching stalker, it's hilarious. Really worth a listen if you've not got the dvd of Politics, Gervais is a legend.

 

[PhilD123]

Looking forward to those, 18th for the latest 'Guide To' and then 2 extra podcasts on the 24th. I wonder which podcast Ricky's talking about as their favourite free one, guessing it's the Clive Warren one?

I think he just means out of the new one's doesn't he? The shortlist and GQ ones are free so I think it's one of them. Either way, very much looking forward to it. Listened to the free clip of the new Arts one, although mostly it was them talking about it before introducing the clip!

 

[smssia0112]

Ricky Gervais=overrated. That's my 2 cents. I don't find him very funny to be honest.

 

[jordox]

Ricky Gervais=overrated. That's my 2 cents. I don't find him very funny to be honest.

Probably because you are Australian. No offense.

Anyway the thread isn't really about him, more of his show.

 

[King Pietersen]

Dean loses the tiny bit of respect I did have for him......

Seriously though, he may be considered over-rated by alot of people, but personally I think he's more than deserving of his status and praise. I've loved everything he's done, from the 11 o'clock show, to Meet Ricky Gervais, to The Office and Extras, to Stand-Up, to the Podcasts/Audiobooks, to the XFM Radio Shows and his appearances in films and TV shows (Room 101 and appearances on Jonathan Ross spring to mind). I'm a huge fan of the guy, he's easily my favourite comedian in the world, and the best in England in my eyes.

Anyway, back to the thread topic, I can't wait for the next Audiobook, going to be fantastic listening. Just checking the iTunes Audiobook charts and it's fantastic to see the domination from Ricky, Steve and Karl. 7 of the top 10 Audiobooks are from them, just shows how truely popular they've become. They must have made a fortune, bet Karl's loving that, leaves him loads of time to follow bugs about and see what they're doing with their lives, although he'd be happy still doing his Paper Round tbh :P

 

[smssia0112]

Dean loses the tiny bit of respect I did have for him......

Seriously though, he may be considered over-rated by alot of people, but personally I think he's more than deserving of his status and praise. I've loved everything he's done, from the 11 o'clock show, to Meet Ricky Gervais, to The Office and Extras, to Stand-Up, to the Podcasts/Audiobooks, to the XFM Radio Shows and his appearances in films and TV shows (Room 101 and appearances on Jonathan Ross spring to mind). I'm a huge fan of the guy, he's easily my favourite comedian in the world, and the best in England in my eyes.

Anyway, back to the thread topic, I can't wait for the next Audiobook, going to be fantastic listening. Just checking the iTunes Audiobook charts and it's fantastic to see the domination from Ricky, Steve and Karl. 7 of the top 10 Audiobooks are from them, just shows how truely popular they've become. They must have made a fortune, bet Karl's loving that, leaves him loads of time to follow bugs about and see what they're doing with their lives, although he'd be happy still doing his Paper Round tbh :P

I watched a bit of Extras and I've seen stand up on youtube, he just doesn't strike me as funny. You Poms have produced a few good comedians, just not this one IMO.

 

[jordox]

I watched a bit of Extras and I've seen stand up on youtube, he just doesn't strike me as funny. You Poms have produced a few good comedians, just not this one IMO.

To be frank, your opinion on the man means absolutely nothing if you haven't seen the office.

It doesn't matter if you it funny or not; his work (particularly the office) is one of the most breakthrough comedies of all time. It changed the way shows were written and influenced a more realistic, parody style of comedy, rather than typical sitcoms with laughter tracks. He deserves tremendous respect, his acting, writing and direction in The Office is unarguably high quality. I have yet to see a better acting performance in any genre, than his portrayal of David Brent, and I doubt I ever will. It's perfect.

Funny though? Yeah I guess that's subjective. To be honest, he doesn't have me in stitches like other comedians. His humor is really really subtle and relies more on timing and body language than your standard joke. It probably just isn't your type of comedy.