I got onto a Ricky Gervais kick about 2 years ago. Watched The Office, Extras, listened to all his XFM broadcasts, his audiobooks, Guide To's, watched An Idiot Abroad, etc.. The problem I have with seeing him play Derek is due to the face he makes; I've seen him do that face too many times in other media (Extras as Mr. Stokes for example) so I keep expecting him to break character at any moment with that trademark laugh of his. It's so disconcerting that I have trouble suspending my expectation of it, so that I can actually see and enjoy the character.

I'll watch the show and I'm sure it will be a hit. But I don't think I'll be able to enjoy as much as someone who's new to him.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^dannym3141:
I'm a mental fan of gervais and merchant (and karl) but i have to say that life's too short was god awful

So was the second An Idiot Abroad in my view. Just have them do more podcasts please!

I hated the first, loved the second... it was much more natural karl. Reminded me of xfm karl before he started egging it.

I just F'n hate the stupid calling Karl up bullshit. I want them to fucking BE there with him doing these things too or encouraging Karl in person. I don't want to watch someone on the phone with someone else it's retarded. Especially since what I want more than anything is for Karl to stop putting up with their "orders" and say "Fuck you I ain't doing it." He tried and FAILED to do that, and I'm sick of watching it.


Fair enough, but i have to say they don't come across well in the series, i think they may have made themselves look worse than they are. They're actually really good mates and a lot of what we see on TV now is kind of over-acting. Karl loves spending time with them, they're pretty much his only friends and if they didn't force him to maintain the frindship, he wouldn't ever see them cos he's such a miserable, set-in-his-ways, old-before-his-time fart. I don't think he's really being pressured or anything; they're acting more nasty than they are and he's acting more annoyed than he is.

I think he does get a bit of that in the 2nd series anyway though because he flat refuses to do the big challenge (won't spoil it) or at least lies. But i preferred it because we got to see him having to interact with other people that always failed to meet his requirements in any given errand and there was no way out of it - like the desert island one - so he had to just be his natural annoyed self with those people.

Man i could talk for england, and you might not have even meant that at all so i'll stop there. Oh but i agree i think it's utter shit having them just call up like fatcats. It just seems a bit weird. Make an itinerary at the start and let him work it out, or go with him. What did they do instead? Life's too fucking short?

@EMPIRE - Were you a fan of extras and the office though? I feel like this is the first of their comedies that has the appeal to people who'd like comedies i can't hack such as "my family"

>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^dannym3141:
I'm a mental fan of gervais and merchant (and karl) but i have to say that life's too short was god awful

So was the second An Idiot Abroad in my view. Just have them do more podcasts please!

I hated the first, loved the second... it was much more natural karl. Reminded me of xfm karl before he started egging it.


I just F'n hate the stupid calling Karl up bullshit. I want them to fucking BE there with him doing these things too or encouraging Karl in person. I don't want to watch someone on the phone with someone else it's retarded. Especially since what I want more than anything is for Karl to stop putting up with their "orders" and say "Fuck you I ain't doing it." He tried and FAILED to do that, and I'm sick of watching it.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^dannym3141:
I'm a mental fan of gervais and merchant (and karl) but i have to say that life's too short was god awful

So was the second An Idiot Abroad in my view. Just have them do more podcasts please!


I hated the first, loved the second... it was much more natural karl. Reminded me of xfm karl before he started egging it.

>> ^cito:

that's not a deleted scene
that is Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais with Karl Pilkington and this recording is from their XFM radio days.
I have the entire XFM Ricky Gervais shows downloaded and remember this one
http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Xfm_Shows

they aired from 2001 to 2005 on XFM, before the Ricky Gervais Podcast started.
someone took the audio and overdubbed it onto a Portal 2 video.


I was pretty sure it wasn't, thanks for knowing

that's not a deleted scene

that is Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais with Karl Pilkington and this recording is from their XFM radio days.

I have the entire XFM Ricky Gervais shows downloaded and remember this one

http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Xfm_Shows


they aired from 2001 to 2005 on XFM, before the Ricky Gervais Podcast started.

someone took the audio and overdubbed it onto a Portal 2 video.

>> ^kymbos:

I have tried watching these a dozen times. Each time I just see two guys bullying someone who doesn't appear to be bothered by it.


Karl loves them, and they love karl. Karl's made millions out of these podcasts and the tv show - trust me, he knows what's going on, they originally gave him the courage to speak his mind (the cause of all the hilarity) before all of this.

This is one of my favourite bits of all the XFM shows, podcasts, etc.

@residue

Backstory is that karl pilkington has a huge cult following amongst people in the know. He met gervais and merchant working at XFM radio station (small local london station) which gervais did as a favour to someone who gave him a job early in his life.

Since then, gervais has mercilessly taken the piss out of karl. Karl is unique in that he's the only person in the world who's both the stupidest person ever and a complete and utter genius.

They made loads of radio shows and loads of podcasts, then they made an idiot abroad. The format basically goes like this: Karl says something rediculous, gervais and merchant take the piss out of him. They often ask him questions which he has no chance of understanding just to see what stupid things he'll say. He is fascinated by anything different (such as warrick, the elephant man, gay people, siamese twins, ANYTHING different to your average human), he's entranced by monkies and thinks that monkies are basically humans who can't speak properly.

He used to come up with pathetic game shows in which he'd come up with clues that he'd label cryptic (to gervais' chagrin) where he'd give a clue and a pair of initials, and you would have to guess what band or artist name he was referring to, it amounted to this;
"The jamaican fellow is swinging a fish around his head, DS"
-- Detroit Spinners (The trout spinners, in a jamaican accent - de trout spinners)
"I told the gay man that the grape tree was mine, MG"
-- Marvin Gaye (My vine, gay)

The radio show was an absolute shambles, it was barely even a radio show and more a case of 3 blokes having a chat in a pub with a microphone left running. And i will say with certainty that i have never laughed so hard or so much at any kind of comedy. I'd say gervais' BEST work is the podcasts and radio shows he did with pilkington.

During the course of the podcasts, pilkington has dropped MANY clangers and had many more catchphrases - gervais uses a lot of references to karl in his work. For example whenever gervais wants to play his 'arrogant jerk' routine he refers to a gay person he says "little gay fellow", because it's inherently condescending. That's actually something he got off karl who refers to EVERY diversity as "little <x> fellow" - little gay fellows, little chinese fellows, little gay chinese fellows, little disabled fellows and very particularly "little midget fellow".

So.....gervais introduced him to warrick. And they've talked about warrick on the radio show/podcasts before.

Edit:
Might actually post this as a sift talk so people know who the new guy on the sift is.

I'm so happy that there's love for Karl on the sift.

Whether Karl is real or not is still up for debate on www.pilkipedia.co.uk which is pretty much the premier site to talk about the squozen orange-headed one.

A lot of people insist that he's 100% genuine, some say that his persona has changed a bit as time went by, almost like he's got slower and stupider. Some people claim that this is because he's opened more as ricky makes him feel more comfortable about his own persona.

Personally, i think during the early years when they got together on XFM, Mr. Dilkington was 100% genuine, but i think as time went by, he began to ham it up to make it appear funnier. I don't think Ricky or Steve cajole/cajoled him into doing that, i just think he realised why he was funny. I think nowadays both Ricky and Steve realise that the shaven-chimp-coconut-face is hamming it up, but no one minds.

I wouldn't say he's acting or pretending to be stupid, i'd just say that he adds 20% stupidity onto his already whopping stupidity.

But also, i feel he's far funnier during the early years of XFM before he started to ham it up a bit.

I'm fairy sure that this was on Xfm not Radio 2. (It was on the Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant radio show, which Karl produced)

I'd heard so much about them.. This is probably my favourite material involving gervais, i love the podcasts a lot, very genuine and reminds me a little of my friends.. Thanks for the link

In reply to this comment by BicycleRepairMan:
If its not in the podcasts, its probably from the XFM radio shows they did before that, they can be found here:

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3441823/Ricky_Gervais_Xfm_Radio_Show_(before_the_Podcast)__Complete_Coll

In reply to this comment by dannym3141:
RE: Ricky gervais podcast video/animation.

What episode/series is this? AFAIK there was only 3 series and 3 extras but i never heard this before. Thought i had em all.

If its not in the podcasts, its probably from the XFM radio shows they did before that, they can be found here:

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3441823/Ricky_Gervais_Xfm_Radio_Show_(before_the_Podcast)__Complete_Coll

In reply to this comment by dannym3141:
RE: Ricky gervais podcast video/animation.

What episode/series is this? AFAIK there was only 3 series and 3 extras but i never heard this before. Thought i had em all.