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The Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy audio show in the UK starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington. The show started in November 2001 on Xfm, 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 may appear 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. [1] Ricky Gervais (IPA: or ) (born June 25, 1961) is an English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. ...
Stephen Merchant (born 24 November 1974 in Bristol, England) is an Emmy, British Comedy Award, and three-time BAFTA-winning writer, director, and comedic actor. ...
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Ricky Gervais (IPA: or ) (born June 25, 1961) is an English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. ...
Stephen Merchant (born 24 November 1974 in Bristol, England) is an Emmy, British Comedy Award, and three-time BAFTA-winning writer, director, and comedic actor. ...
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Xfm logo Xfm is a brand of commercial radio stations focused on current and unsigned alternative music and owned by GCap Media in the United Kingdom. ...
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Radio Shows
Early Shows Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant first worked together in radio on the London-based alternative radio station Xfm London. Their show was broadcast from January to August 1998 from 4-6pm on Sundays, and only featured Gervais and Merchant (pre-The Office). The show's original format was more interactive, with features, guests, phone-ins, and audience interaction through listeners' letters. During one show, Gervais and Merchant attempted to censor the Super Furry Animals' "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" live by pulling down the fader and making a noise in place of each of the fifty-plus mentions of the word "fuck" in the song. However, the pressure became too much for Gervais, who messed up and swore in frustration. In August 1998, Gervais and Merchant took voluntary redundancy after the Capital Radio Group purchased Xfm to resolve financial issues. Xfm is a commercial radio station in the United Kingdom. ...
The Office is a British television comedy series, created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and first aired in the UK on BBC Two on July 9, 2001. ...
Super Furry Animals (also known as SFA, the Furries and the Super Furries) are a Welsh rock band, with leanings towards psychedelic rock and electronic experimentation. ...
The Man Dont Give a Fuck is a song by the Super Furry Animals twice released as singles by them. ...
GCap Media plc is a British commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group. ...
There was a brief period, circa 1999-2000, when Gervais and Merchant contributed skeches to the Radio 1 show The Breezeblock. They mention this in an Xfm show, and say they were both eventually fired from the station for claiming that fellow DJ Simon Mayo gave a rentboy a blowjob outside of McDonalds (however, Gervais later said "we weren't saying he had done it, we were saying we'd like to see him do it"). This is probably spurious, as Mayo has been the subject of many parodies from his Radio 1 colleagues (most notably Chris Morris, and took all of them in good humour. Also supposedly contributing to their dismissal was that the work they were handing in received complaints such as "you forgot to record it". A more likely reason for the departure was the pair's increasing TV work. The Breezeblock was a weekly electronic radio program on BBC Radio 1. ...
Simon Mayo (born 21st September 1958 in Southgate, London) is one of the most recognised and respected voices of radio in the UK, currently presenting a daily afternoon programme on BBC Radio Five Live. ...
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The Return to XFM Gervais and Merchant returned to Xfm in September 2001, after the first series of The Office had been broadcast. Gervais felt he was "too important" to push the buttons, so Xfm brought in a producer for them: Karl Pilkington. The show was originally just billed to Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and Karl's presence wasn't acknowledged on posters and other advertisements. Gervais and Merchant would speak to Karl about his thoughts on whatever they were talking about. In 2003 Pilkington was officially added to advertisements for the show as over the years Karl's role on the show became more prominent as Ricky and Steve were finding more amusement with his views and personal life. As the producer, Karl had input with features such as Rockbusters, Cheeky Freak of the Week, and Educating Ricky. This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
The show was broadcast between 1pm and 3pm on Saturdays, and included music from the selection of Ricky or Stephen, who often brought in a bag of CDs of their own to play, although they were obliged to play certain tracks on a set playlist from the station (in one instance, Ricky apologised on the air for having to play Muse's "Feeling Good"). There were competitions throughout the show, yet the prizes were often poor in the eyes of Gervais and Merchant. An example of this is giving out Silence Of The Lambs on VHS, which Karl had watched earlier in the week, and prompted Stephen to wonder whether Karl had even rewound it. Muse are a popular Brit Award-winning English rock band formed while at Teignmouth Community College in Teignmouth, Devon in 1992. ...
Feeling Good (aka Feelin Good) is a song written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for the 1966 musical The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd and since covered by several artists, including Nina Simone, Sammy Davis Jr, Muse, Michael Bublé and The Pussycat Dolls. ...
Karl would be replaced by Claire Sturgess when he was on holiday or not well (except once when Ian Camfield filled his shoes). When Karl wasn't present, Ricky and Steve said "we sound like real radio" as they often would have more music-oriented discussion (such as the worst album titles ever, which they gave up after a few minutes as it appears all their listeners were "probably at a protest against the war"). Claire Sturgess is a British disc jockey and voiceover artist. ...
In August 2003, BBC2 aired a documentary about facial disfigurement, What Are You Staring At?, which featured a young woman named Vicky Lucas. The BBC website's Ouch! section gave Vicky the right to reply to some of the negative comments she received in the media subsequent to the programme. One of the comments she addressed[2] was made by Karl Pilkington on an XFM show, where he enlikened her appearance to Bo' Selecta!. XFM declined to comment, but did announce that it was writing to Lucas. Bo Selecta! is a British TV comedy sketch show and the brainchild of writer/performer, Leigh Francis. ...
Recurring Features and Competitions
Monkey news Monkey News is a popular feature that has been running since the early XFM days where at first it was titled "Chimpanzee That". Monkey News is all about "[a story] where a monkey has been involved". Normally the monkey is a mysterious protagonist until he is revealed, despite the fact that it is obvious that it is a monkey (or, most commonly, a chimp) throughout the story. The stories usually originate from a tale that Karl has made up or extrapolated out of all recognition from a news headline. Monkey News is an easy way to anger Ricky, who often disrupts the show due to being so wound up with disbelief — and in several of the XFM shows left the room because he couldn't believe what he was hearing. Stephen Merchant normally defends Karl's right to deliver the story in full vigorously (on one occasion threatening to cut off Gervais' microphone if he continued to lambast Karl), but even he has been driven to verbally abuse Karl during the most obviously fictional or extreme of his stories. Despite the fact that the stories are frequently highly unlikely (or even completely impossible), Pilkington appears to genuinely believe what he is saying. These interruptions and confrontations often turn Monkey News into a sort of collaborative shaggy dog story. During their podcast Ricky and Steve try to disprove his monkey news by "casually" talking of the story being told and how the central character could not possibly be a monkey due to need of opposable thumbs (although, it should be noted, chimpanzees and most monkeys do have opposable thumbs), high intelligence, etc. In this way Ricky can more subtly attack the stories though Karl pays them no heed. According to Karl on the 20 February 2006 podcast, Monkey News will no longer form part of future podcasts. However, it came back for a final reprise at the end of the third podcast series. On one XFM show Ricky and Steve found out Karl had stolen this idea from fellow XFM DJ Christian O' Connell This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Christian OConnell promotional photo Christian OConnell is an English radio DJ who presents the Virgin Radio weekday breakfast show. ...
This features introduction usually consists of Ricky shouting, "Ooh, Chimpanzee That! Monkey News!"
Knob news Knob News has a format which is an amalgam of Monkey News and Educating Ricky. It features only in the latest 2005 XFM shows. Early versions had Ricky giving the news, though later it involved Karl giving a series of headlines of a male genital nature, from which Ricky and Steve would choose from. A one-off show feature, similarly related, was Fanny Facts — where Karl presented news about or related to vaginas.
'Knob' was used as a non-offensive slang term for penis throughout.
Rockbusters Rockbusters was conceived by Pilkington and was played on Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's long running XFM radio show in between 2002-2004 and brought back in 2005. It debuted on 12 October 2002 as a phone-in, but converted to an e-mail competition the following week. Despite punning in its title, the game has very little in common with Blockbusters. It is played by Karl giving three clues, which he considers "cryptic" but are in reality convoluted colloquialisms which often depend on the answer being mispronounced. Along with the "clue", Karl includes the initials of the answer. Gervais and Merchant often referred to the clues as 'craptic'. October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ...
For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
A game in progress on the British Bob Holness-hosted version of Blockbusters. ...
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One such Rockbuster was as follows:
Clue: That Jamaican fella don't want nothing
Answer: Neil Diamond (Nil Demand) Essential Neil Diamond album cover. ...
Songs of Phrase This competition was introduced when Karl was finding it hard to come up with new Rockbusters clues. A well-known phrase from the show, such as "You never see an old man having a Twix" was split up into words of different songs. The competition was to guess the songs played. In this instance Gerry and the Pacemakers' "You'll Never Walk Alone" made up the first two words of the phrase. Problems arose in this case when Karl couldn't find a song with "Twix" in it. He changed it to David Bowie's "Life on Mars", changing the chocolate bar in question, and the phrase from a Twix to a Mars Bar. Songs of Phrase was a feature present throughout the later series of the XFM shows. North American Twix Logo North American Twix Twix opened UK Twix Inside candy Twix is a chocolate snack or candy bar made by Mars, Inc. ...
Gerry & the Pacemakers was a British rock and roll group during the 1960s, and one of the few groups to challenge the Beatles in popularity. ...
White Van Karl At the time The Sun ran a feature called "White Van Man" whereby questions on the stories of that week were put to white van drivers across the country, just to gain an insight into their views and opinions. Stephen Merchant posed the same questions to Karl, to find out more about him. The best aspect of this was Karl's bizarre beliefs and theories. Gervais and Merchant also found humour in the very mundane answers the White Van Man of the week would give (the most famous of these being a comment about Sainsbury's bringing in square tins: 'That should be interesting for meatballs'). This feature was mainly used as a way to introduce new listeners to the mind of Karl Pilkington and was only used during the earlier days of the XFM shows. This article is about a British tabloid. ...
White van man is a stereotype, a usually pejorative term used in the United Kingdom to describe aggressive, thoughtless drivers of light commercial vehicles. ...
J Sainsbury plc is the parent company of Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsburys, a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. ...
Karl's Diary Karl started keeping a record of his thoughts and experiences whilst on holiday in Gran Canaria with his girlfriend Suzanne. The segment first appeared in episode 8 of the Guardian Unlimited podcasts (23 January 2006). Karl compared his literary efforts to those of Anne Frank, claiming that "If she's sat in a, you know, a loft knockin' stuff up, not much goin' on in 'er life at that point, yet she was still writin' it down...I thought well I'm on holiday...start a diary". Gran Canaria, rarely Grand Canary (archaic), is the third largest island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean 210 km from the northwest coast of Africa and belonging to Spain. ...
Front page of Guardian Unlimited from August 16, 2005 Guardian Unlimited is a British website owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...
January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Annelies Marie Anne Frank (June 12, 1929 – beginning of March, 1945) was a European Jewish girl (born in Germany, stateless since 1941, but she aimed to be Dutch as she grew up in the Netherlands) who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam...
Memorable diary moments include: conceptualizing a wristwatch that counts down the remainder of your life, the large number of cross-eyed people at the hotel on Gran Canaria and the cat licking its testicles outside the pub, also in Gran Canaria the bar called "Tattoos" where the landlord never had Tattoos but Karl never saw the landlord's wife, the time Karl refused to wash his hands after eating lemon cake at Ricky's house leading to a major argument, Karl thinking that both him and Ricky Gervais are bored when they go to meeting as "after twenty minutes he (Ricky) was trying to wrestle me", Karl's idea for a television programme Look what we can do with Science in which parts of a person's body are gradually removed until just the head remains, the post Karl received that was addressed to Mr K. Dilkington, the time Karl was carrying a lamp and bin when moving house and people thought he was in a marathon, the tongue twister "if you can't treat a cheerful tramp, what sort of tramp can you treat?", that certain tribes of cavemen wave their "tackle" about when they've had enough of visitors, and the 'experimental' mirrored wall in Karl's flat that he has stuck wallpaper over.
The diary itself is a large desk diary and is usually read by Stephen Merchant.
Notable is the fact that the jingle, performed live vocally by Ricky Gervais each podcast, is often remarkably similar to the theme from "Monkey News", but instead saying "Oooh he's gone and written it down!" Ricky Gervais (IPA: or ) (born June 25, 1961) is an English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. ...
Karl's poetry In the third series of the podcasts, Karl had decided to write a poem based on his daily experiences, such as:
Bubbled wallpaper, what a mess, Washer/dryer broken, what a mess, Siamese twins seperated, one leg less A painting of Chang and Eng Bunker, circa 1836 Conjoined human fetuses Conjoined twins can occur in non-human animal species. ...
For God's sake, me bellyache, The doctor said it was me kidney, He said he had to put a tube up me knob, I said you gotta be kidding me, For God's sake, knobache
Other Features
Music Specific Features As music was played on the XFM show, Ricky and Steve often came up with features for choosing songs to play. Some of the frequent ones include:
A Song for the Lovers was a feature Ricky ran in the days of the XFM show, where he played a favourite song of his which he dedicated it to couples listening.
A Song for the Ladies was a feature Steve ran, similar to Ricky's feature, however as he is single himself, he would dedicate a favourite song of his to the ladies listening.
Hip Hop Hooray was another Steve feature. He would play a track of the hip-hop genre to Ricky and Karl. In one show, Jonathan Ross popped in live on the air to give Ricky some tickets to an Awards Ceremony, and claimed that Hip Hop Hooray was the "worst feature in the history of radio". Hip Hop-themed graffiti emerged in New York in the 1970s Hip hop (also see hip-hop or hiphop) is both a music genre and a cultural movement developed in urban communities starting in the 1970s, predominantly by African Americans and Latinos – primarily those of Puerto Rican ethnic heritage. ...
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That Film Sounds Good was a feature run by Ricky, where he picked a song from a film and played that (not to be confused with his film review).
Notable short-lived features The Education of Karl: Following the revelation of Karl's GCSE results, a sole E in History, Ricky decides to give Karl a piece of homework, usually a short biography of an important historic figure, which Karl must report on each week. Subjects included Rasputin, Che Guevara, Hitler, Winston Churchill and Aesop's Fables. Karl soon became bored and annoyed with his homework since it reminded him of school, and abandoned the feature. This was one of the first recurring features, along with White Van Karl, which principally revolved around Karl relating his opinions on various topics. The General Certificate of Education or GCE is an academic qualification, often divided into two levels: Ordinary level (O-level) and Advanced level (A-Level), although other categories exist. ...
Grigori Rasputin Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: ) (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1869 – 29 December [O.S. 16 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic with an influence in the later days of Russias Romanov dynasty. ...
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14,[1] 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or El Che, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. ...
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ...
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Aesop, as depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel. ...
Educating Ricky: This feature lasted in the early days of XFM, when Karl tried to teach Ricky several facts every week by catching his attention with a made-up headline, usually a pun. Some classic 'Educating Ricky' includes a man who was abducted by aliens and they grew him a beard, a man who was beheaded and his body took 32 steps after decapitation and the infamous tale of the hairy chinese kid.
Song With A Story: This feature ran in the final shows of XFM. Karl doesn't particularly enjoy a song unless it has a story to go with it, and in this feature he chose one of his favourite songs with a story and would play them on the show. The songs were often accompanied by commentary from Ricky, Steve and Karl. A classic example of this feature is when Karl believed that Eric Clapton's Wonderful Tonight was about a disabled man in a wheel chair, while having no strong evidence for this belief. Perhaps the most notable song included in this feature is Rod Stewart's The Killing of Georgie, which Karl claims to be his favourite song. The famous Clapton is God graffiti Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century,[1] garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall...
Wonderful Tonight is a song by Eric Clapton. ...
Roderick David Stewart, CBE (born January 10, 1945), is a Scottish rock singer who was a member of the The Jeff Beck Group and the Faces before embarking on a solo career. ...
The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II) is the name of a song written and recorded by Rod Stewart. ...
Do We Need 'Em?: A feature from the middle years of the XFM series in which Karl would call an animal expert and argue for the extinction of a certain animal species, which he felt was useless and "getting in the way". Karl became dismayed by the opposition he faced from the experts, believing there was a conspiracy to keep every animal from extinction, and thus ended the feature. At the beginning and end of the feature, the theme tune to Michael Parkinson's chat show was played. The Dodo, shown here in illustration, is an often-cited[1] example of modern extinction. ...
Michael Parkinson CBE (born March 28, 1935) is a British journalist and television presenter. ...
Cheap as Chimps: Karl provides information concerning the economy of raising apes. As with several other of his short-lived features, Karl had come up with the title before the actual concept of the feature, and it was discontinued when Karl, upon viewing a most likely illegal animal poaching website, realised that raising chimps wasn't as cheap as he'd originally hoped. After dropping the feature Karl became convinced that Donal MacIntyre had stolen "Cheap as Chimps" and put it on Channel Five. This, of course is most likely incorrect. Donal Macintyre (born 1966 in Dublin) is an Irish investigative journalist, specialising in undercover operations and television exposes. ...
Cheeky Freak of the Week: For this feature, Karl discussed his favourite freak of the week chosen from the tabloids, internet or the Fortean Times. Cheeky Freak of the Week was a relatively short-lived feature, which only existed during the earlier days of the XFM shows. Karl ended up having to stop this feature as he was worried about people thinking he was "having a go". Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort. ...
Karl's Film Quiz: This feature involved a clip of a film with Karl's voice pre-recorded over one of the main characters lines. He would often change the storyline to match recent events in his life. At the end, Karl would ask a question, in which the listeners got a prize of the film on VHS.
Ricky's World Famous Film Review: Ricky's Film review was one of the earliest features included in the show. In it Ricky reviewed a film he recently had seen. Often the reviews contained very little opinion and were often just a summary of what had happened in the film. Ricky seemingly always gave films 9/10. He decided to end this feature when because he wanted his average film score to stay as 9/10. The last film Ricky reviewed was The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which he hadn't even seen at the time claiming "Robbie Coltrane is probably in it, because he's in that "other one", Ricky still gave the film a 9/10 even though, he said "its about wizards called Gonads with beards." Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid Robbie Coltrane, OBE (born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950) is a Scottish actor. ...
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone in the United States) is a 2001 fantasy film, based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. ...
Audio Podcasts -
// Episode guide This is an episode list for The Ricky Gervais Show podcast, produced by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. ...
Season 1 The first series of Podcasts started on 5 December 2005, and a new episode was put out for the next 12 Mondays. The show relies heavily on the wit and bizarre theories of Karl Pilkington. Karl is now "unemployed", having left his job as radio producer at Xfm. The podcast focuses more on Karl Pilkington as a primary figure of humour in the show in various ways, including questions directed at Karl that have been emailed in, either by fans of the show or by Ricky or Steve themselves, whereas the XFM show had slightly more input and humour supplied by Ricky and Steve, with Karl's theories and features being a lot less focused on in the Xfm shows. December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Season 2 Series 2 of the podcast started on 28 February 2006. It consisted of 6 episodes with the last one released on April 4, 2006. The series saw the return of Karl's Diary and Rockbusters. A new (though short-lived; it was only presented in the first episode) feature was also introduced in order to replace Karl's "Monkey News", called "Real Monkey News", where Ricky attempts to present facts about chimpanzees which are factual and scientific. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ...
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Fee Implementation
With the start of series 2, the formerly free Ricky Gervais Show shifted to a pay model - and as a result the show is now classified as an "audiobook". It is available through Audible and the iTunes Music Store with individual episodes going for £0.95 ($1.95 in the USA); Audible also offers the complete season for £3.75 ($6.95 at audible.com). The reason for this addition, according to Ricky on the podcast, is because The Guardian agreed to pay for the bandwidth for 12 episodes, and any more extra episodes would have to be paid for out of their personal finances (hence the change in company when series 2 started). An audio book is a recording of the contents of a book read aloud. ...
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Season 3 Series 3 of the podcasts was released on the 22 August 2006."[3] This season sees the return of Karl's Diary, though all other known features have been abandoned, with the rest of each episode focusing instead on conversation. The season has the same pricing implementation as season 2, although the file quality has risen from 32 kbps to 56 kbps. A new feature that will be recurring is Karl's Poem. August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ...
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At the end of the sixth episode, Ricky and Steve agreed to put the show on an indefinite hiatus. They have not ruled out ever resuming the show, and indicated that they may do free episodes every once in a while.
The Podfather Three free podcasts have been announced that coincide with special days. The first was released on 31 October 2006, to coincide with Halloween, the next was on 23 November and the last was released on 24 December 2006. October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining. ...
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Halloween or Halloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets, fruit, and other gifts. ...
November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ...
December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ...
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Steve and Ricky mentioned on the christmas episode that they didn't feel like doing any further Podcasts for a long time. During an interview at XFM, Ricky did not rule out retuning to XFM for a further series, though nothing has been set in stone.
Video Podcasts On 24 March 2006, an "irregular run of free video podcasts" was launched through the iTunes podcast directory. The video podcasts do not follow the format of the earlier, audio shows and the content varies greatly from podcast to podcast. The first video was a conversation between Karl and Ricky, with Ricky enthusing on the idea of Karl becoming a human crab or having massive reconstructive surgery. The second podcast served as an advertisement for Ricky and Karl's new book, The World of Karl Pilkington (a series of excerpts from the previous podcasts and various musings and drawings produced by Karl). The third on the series was an audio clip from a previous edition of Monkeynews, synchronised with a flash animation. The fourth video podcast features a controversial audio advertisement for The Prostate Cancer Charity and Ricky talking about his Aerial Award. The fifth is Ricky and Stephen making Karl watch Brokeback Mountain. The sixth podcast was another conversation over Karl's book The World of Karl Pilkington. The seventh podcast was about a story Karl told in series one, episode one, about Karl's bizarre journey in an abandoned asylum and rehabilitation clinic. The eighth video shows Ricky showing the viewer around the various sets during the filming of the second series of Extras, followed by Karl giving his opinion on Ricky's latest book, Flanimals of the Deep. The ninth was Karl talking about Ricky's cat; Ollie. The tenth was Ricky, Steve and Karl telling us about the new series of the show on the way on 22 August. March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in leap years). ...
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Vodcast (a portmanteau of video podcast or video on demand-cast), VODcast or video podcast is an emerging term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. ...
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Reconstructive surgery is in its broadest sense the use of surgery to reconstruct damaged or malformed tissues or organs. ...
Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ...
The World of Karl Pilkington is a book written by Karl Pilkington himself, and contains exceprts from his own diary. ...
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Brokeback Mountain is an acclaimed Academy Award-winning 2005 film that depicts the complex emotional, sexual, and romantic relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983. ...
The World of Karl Pilkington is a book written by Karl Pilkington himself, and contains exceprts from his own diary. ...
Extras is a sitcom about extras working on movie sets and theatre. ...
Flanimals of the Deep (ISBN 0571234038) is the third book in the Flanimals series from British Comedian Ricky Gervais and Illustrator Rob Steen. ...
August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ...
See also Ricky Gervais (IPA: or ) (born June 25, 1961) is an English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. ...
Stephen Merchant (born 24 November 1974 in Bristol, England) is an Emmy, British Comedy Award, and three-time BAFTA-winning writer, director, and comedic actor. ...
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