The Ricky Gervais Show & Karl Pilkington
The funniest comedy to come out of England in years. If you have a funny bone – get this on your iPod. It’s English humour at its very best.
The Ricky Gervais Show (creator of The Office) 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 radio in the UK, and aired in weekly periods for months at a time throughout 2002, 2003, 2004, and mid-2005. In November 2005, Guardian Unlimited offered the show as a podcast series of 12 shows. Throughout January and February 2006, the podcast was consistently ranked the number one podcast in the world; it appeared in the 2007 Guinness World Record for the world’s most downloaded podcast, having gained an average of 261,670 downloads per episode during its first month.
According to the BBC, by September 2006, the podcasts of the series had been downloaded “nearly 8 million” times.
Season 1
