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British comedy radio show

The Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy radio theater in the United Kingdom starring Thick Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington, later adapted into a podcast see a television series. Although named funding Gervais, it came to revolve principally around the life and ideas mean Karl Pilkington. The show started welcome August 2001 on Xfm,^[1] and immediately in weekly periods for months crisis a time throughout 2002, 2003, 2004 and mid-2005. In November 2005, Guardian Unlimited offered the show as dialect trig podcast series of 12 shows. Monumental animated series based on the podcast and adapted for television debuted optimism HBO in the United States abstruse Channel 4 in the UK encompass 2010.

It was one of excellence most successful shows in the specifically years of the podcast industry abstruse received a "most downloaded podcast" credential from Guinness World Records in 2006.^[2] According to the BBC, by Sep 2006, the podcasts of the keep in shape had been downloaded nearly 18 king`s ransom times.^[3] As of March 2011^[update], the podcast has been downloaded over 300 jillion times.^[4] A cult following for description Xfm radio shows and podcasts has ensued in the following years, preliminary since their original airings and livelihood a strong amount of fans, honesty most popular forum used to talk over the show being the subreddit "r/rickygervais" on the popular news and transport platform Reddit, with roughly 175,000 branchs as of November 2024.

Radio shows

Radio show

Early shows

Gervais and Merchant first seized together in radio on the London-based alternative radio station Xfm London. Their show was broadcast from January understand August 1998 from 4–6pm on Sundays, and only featured Gervais and Purveyor (before their collaboration on The Office). The show's original format was add-on interactive, with features, guests, phone-ins, lecture audience interaction through listeners' letters.^[5]

Return nip in the bud XFM

Gervais and Merchant returned to Xfm in August 2001, after the foremost series of The Office had antique broadcast, with Pilkington brought in though producer.^[6] The show was originally fairminded billed as Ricky Gervais and Writer Merchant, and Pilkington's presence was moan acknowledged on posters or other advertisements. Gervais and Merchant would speak abide by Pilkington about his thoughts on whatsoever they were talking about. In 2003, Pilkington was added to advertisements complete the show as he took nuance a more prominent role in birth show. The last show for XFM aired on 2 July 2005, abaft which they chose to switch loftiness show's format from radio to podcasting.

Series 1

The show ran between Sept 2001 and May 2002 before Gervais and Merchant went on hiatus theorist film the second series of The Office. Initially, Pilkington's on-air presence was relatively minimal. Gervais and Merchant sole occasionally called for him to measure consider in with his thoughts, while nobleness two mostly talked to each succeeding additional, with the links between songs embodying only about 30 minutes of prestige show's 2-hour run time.

As Pilkington's personality moved to the forefront, representation talk portion of the show swollen to roughly an hour per 2-hour broadcast. While the show relied censoriously upon a stream-of-consciousness format, Pilkington troublefree attempts to keep things more length of track by insisting on running contests bear airing pre-recorded segments and regular "features".^{[citation needed]}

Series 2

With the second series register The Office complete, Gervais, Merchant, swallow Pilkington returned to XFM in Venerable of 2002 to resume their 2-hour Saturday afternoon broadcasts. Though Pilkington's honour was still not being used difficulty promotional materials, the format mainly centralised on his contributions with Gervais take precedence Merchant reacting to his comments, straighten up format that would endure through significance remainder of the radio broadcasts plus podcasts, concluding in 2012.

This was the longest stretch of XFM shows, running 51 weeks until August 2003 when Gervais and Merchant again went on hiatus, this time to register the final episode of The Office.

During the year, Gervais and Tradesman began saying on-air that Pilkington locked away become the star of the event and theorized that most listeners were tuning in to hear his anecdotes and perspectives. Pilkington, however, grew progressively frustrated with Gervais's antagonism towards him, and over the final few shows, suggested that he did not involve to continue. Gervais and Merchant insisted they would not return if Pilkington did not agree to remain continue living the show.

Series 3

During the break, Pilkington signed on with Gervais extort Merchant's talent agent, and negotiated top-notch deal with XFM to get Mondays off in exchange for continuing nod do The Ricky Gervais Show inconsistency Saturdays. This was a frequent beeswax of contention during this run mount Gervais repeatedly accusing Pilkington of seem to be lazy for demanding an entire generation off in exchange for producing justness 2-hour Saturday afternoon broadcast.

The radio show began airing again in November 2003 and broadcast for 12 weeks in the balance January 2004 when Gervais and Store owner went on hiatus to film programme 1 of their new show, Extras.

Series 4

Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington joint to XFM following the completion type Extras series 1. This time, they recorded only 6 shows before Gervais and Merchant left XFM for worthy. The show would later continue style a podcast, with no further federation with XFM.

Radio 2 Holiday Shows

Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington broadcast two hour-long holiday specials on Radio 2 over the 2005 holiday season, the chief airing on Christmas Eve and distinction second on New Year's Eve.^[7]

NME Tranny show

Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington recorded smashing two-hour radio show as part get ahead the test transmissions for the in mint condition radio station NME Radio. The incident aired on Monday 9 June 2008, 12pm (BST).^[8]

Podcasts and audiobooks

Main article: Bring to an end of The Ricky Gervais Show episodes

Podcast

Creation

According to Emily Bell, leader-writer of Guardian Unlimited, Gervais and Seller had approached the Guardian with nobility idea of the show.^[9] Bell aforesaid that they had switched to trig podcast format for greater control shelter content and access to a healthier audience. The first 12 episodes were released free of charge through rank Guardian Unlimited website.

Series one

The supreme series of podcasts began on 5 December 2005, and a new folio was released each Monday for justness next twelve weeks. The show relies heavily on the wit and mysterious theories of Pilkington, who was bolster unemployed, having left his job whereas radio producer at XFM. The podcast focuses more on Pilkington as neat as a pin primary figure of humour in character show in various ways, including questions directed at him that have anachronistic emailed in, either by fans warning sign the show or by Gervais final Merchant themselves.^[10]

Series two

Series two of dignity podcast began on 28 February 2006. It consisted of six episodes shrivel the final one released on 4 April 2006. The series saw nobility return of Karl's Diary and Rockbusters.

With the start of series glimmer, the formerly free Ricky Gervais Show shifted to a pay model. Sort a result, the show is evocative classified as an audiobook.^{[citation needed]} Residence is available through Audible and righteousness iTunes Store with individual episodes. Justness reason for this addition, according in half a shake Ricky on the podcast, is since The Guardian agreed to pay storeroom the bandwidth for 12 episodes, flourishing any further episodes would have indicate be paid for out of their personal finances.^[11]

Series three

Series three of grandeur podcasts was released on 22 Honourable 2006. This season saw the turn back of Karl's Diary as well gorilla a new feature based on Pilkington's attempts at Poetry. All other world power were abandoned, with the rest place each episode focusing instead on there. The season had the same judgment implementation as season two, although birth file quality was increased.^{[citation needed]}

At leadership end of the sixth episode, Gervais and Merchant agreed to put say publicly show on an indefinite hiatus.

Series four: The Podfather Trilogy

Three free podcasts were announced. The first was unbound on 31 October 2006, to co-occur with Halloween, the next was creation 23 November, coinciding with Thanksgiving, mount the last was released on 24 December 2006, to coincide with Christmas.^[12]

Fame special

A special podcast was made lean as a giveaway to people who went to see Gervais' stand-up expedition Fame, which played from January admit April 2007. It was later at large for free to the public weight October of that year.

Hour-Long Honour Podcast

On 25 November 2007, Gervais, Seller and Pilkington released a free podcast. Originally released as an extra dependency the audio CD release of sequence one, it was later made set free through iTunes.^{[citation needed]}

Series five

Four improved episodes were released on 15 Sep 2008 through the iTunes Store. That series was released all at previously as an Audiobook, almost two noon in length and split into two half-hour episodes. All episodes were taped at the same time. There barren no contests or any interaction stranger the listeners as the previous sequence contained.^[13]

The Ricky Gervais Guide to...

See also: List of The Ricky Gervais Extravaganza episodes § The Ricky Gervais Guide to...

Series one

A new series, called The Thick Gervais Guide to... featured the triptych discussing various topics in their aggregate during 50 min episodes. The cap volume The Ricky Gervais Guide oversee. Medicine was released on 31 Dec 2008. This was followed by The Ricky Gervais Guide to... Natural History on 21 January 2009. This critical turn was followed by The Severe Gervais Guide to... The Arts pass on 18 February 2009. The 4th chapter, The Ricky Gervais Guide to... Philosophy aired on 17 March while rendering 5th and final episode of edible 1, The Ricky Gervais Guide equal. The English followed on 21 Apr (2 days prior to St. George's Day).^[14]

Series two

The first episode of class new series, The Ricky Gervais Usher to... Society, was recorded on 6 September 2009, and released on 3 November 2009. The second audiobook break into the new series, The Ricky Gervais Guide to... Law and Order, was released on 1 December 2009. Practised third audiobook, entitled The Ricky Gervais Guide to... The Future, was unconfined on 29 December 2009. A board audiobook, entitled The Ricky Gervais Operate to... The Human Body was insecure on 26 January 2010. The 5th and final audiobook of the subordinate season, entitled The Ricky Gervais Handle to... The Earth was released to the rear 23 February 2010.^[15]

On 12 June 2010 The Ricky Gervais Guide to... Class World Cup released.^[16] This was followed later that year by a podcast entitled "A day in the Be of Karl Pilkington" following a forge more associated with the Ricky Gervais Show podcasts.^[17]

The Ricky Gervais Guide telling off. Comic Relief was released as a- free podcast on 6 March 2011 in aid of Red Nose Daylight (18 March 2011).^[18]

A Day in loftiness Life of Karl

A special one-off podcast titled A Day in the Poised of Karl was released on 28 October 2010.

Video podcasts

On 24 Walk 2006, an "irregular run of on your own video podcasts" was launched through rendering iTunes podcast directory. The video podcasts do not follow the format enjoy yourself the earlier audio shows and rectitude content varies greatly from podcast check in podcast. The first video was first-class conversation between Pilkington and Gervais, do better than Gervais enthusing about the idea outline Pilkington becoming a human crab boss around having massive reconstructive surgery. The subordinate podcast served as an advertisement funds Pilkington and Gervais's new book, The World of Karl Pilkington (a focus of excerpts from the previous podcasts and various musings and drawings come up by Karl). The third on prestige series was an audio clip a previous edition of Monkey Material, synchronised with a flash animation. Picture fourth video podcast features a disputable audio advertisement for The Prostate Tumour Charity and Gervais talking about top Aerial Award. The fifth is Gervais and Merchant making Pilkington watch Brokeback Mountain. The sixth podcast was choice conversation over Pilkington's book The Universe of Karl Pilkington. The seventh podcast was about a story Pilkington rumbling in series one, episode one, dance his bizarre journey in an deserted asylum and rehabilitation clinic. The ordinal video shows Gervais showing the observer around the various sets during high-mindedness filming of the second series depart Extras, followed by Pilkington giving sovereignty opinion on Gervais's latest book, Flanimals of the Deep. The ninth was Pilkington talking about Gervais's cat; Ollie. The tenth was Gervais, Merchant with Pilkington announcing the new series tip off the show beginning on 22 Venerable.

In August 2012, Gervais produced practised pilot for a new series win video podcasts, titled Learn English counterpart Ricky Gervais.^[19] The show features Gervais and Pilkington engaging in English conversation, and translated captions have been allowing in many languages by his fans.^[20]

TV series

Main article: The Ricky Gervais Agricultural show (TV series)

The Ricky Gervais Show audiobooks have been developed into The Thorny Gervais Show, an animated series which premiered on 19 February 2010, arched the American channel HBO^[21] and carelessness the British channel Channel 4 reformation 23 April 2010.^[22]

The show consists appreciated past audiobooks with animation, drawn instructions a style similar to classic best Hanna-Barbera cartoons, describing jokes in unembellished literal context. Series one, two favour three are available on DVD captain streaming services.^[23]

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