The Ricky Gervais Show

There has been alot of posts about TV shows here , and here is another one. Ive got another show rocketing up my favorite lists , The Ricky Gervais Show on HBO. In its inception it was a podcast with Ricky Gervais , Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington, now it is an Animated 30 minutes eries for HBO.


The show's namesake and most famous star is Ricky Gervais, Ricky who starred as David Brent in The Original Office in England. Ricky is also the exec producer of the American Office , has starred in multiple movies and done numerous standup specials. Ricky is known most notably right now for his quite abrasive run hosting The Golden Globes.I thought he was hilarious , but there is no doubt he left a bad taste in alot of people's mouths.


Stephen Merchant is the man behind the man when it comes to Ricky Gervais. Steven is Ricky's close friend co writer and co-creator on most everything Ricky is involved in. Steve can be seen without Ricky in the upcoming Farrelly Brothers movie Hall pass.


The Star of this show is undoubtebly Karl Pilkington , Karl is not an actor or comedian(at least on purpose) he was a radio producer that Stephen and Ricky met when they had a show on british radio. Karl is one of a kind and has very unique opinions on everything. Karl is the source of most of the comedy in the show.


The show is real basic , being taken straight from there podcast , its an animated show with Ricky, Steve and Karl sitting around a table and talking, what you do when doing a podcast. They discuss different scenarios and stories and there are animated cartoons that follow. The Show to me really boils down to 2 elements Karl offering his unique and most of the time Crazy opinions , or stories. Then there are Steve and Ricky's reactions which usually is Ricky laughing uncontrollably , telling Karl he is an idiot , calling Karl's story "bollucks" (the british word for balls) or telling Karl "Don't talk S**T!) accusing him of lying.
An example of Karl would be Karl explaining how he came up with a good idea for a movie on the spot saying " if you just talk i find that your mouth comes out with stuff" If you use your brain sometimes it doesnt happen just keep talking and eventually your brain will come out with stuff. Karl also writes poetry on the last episode he debuted a poem of

It would be spiteful
to put jellyfish
in a trifle.

I know its hard to justify the humor in this show by writing about it , but i think its absolutely hilarious the combination of Karl's off the wall opinions and stories and Ricky calling him out and laughing hysterically is a great oombo. I dont know anyone else who watches this but me , I must get the word out!