Listening to one of the multitude of podcasts that Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington it is hard one to get the sense that these three radio personalities are genuine friends. Ricky and Stephen are the popular creators of The Office, the UK version, the slightly less funny than the NBC version made famous by Steve Carell et. al but awkwardly brilliant nonetheless. It was the first introduction of Ricky Gervais the actor to an audience. His BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy winning performaces were surprising. Not the standard comedian of joke and punchline, he has just finished his fourth stand up tour, this one entitled Science. With stories about Noah's Ark, gift giving and fat people this is a very niche stand up special. I would recommend RIcky Gervais: Out of England, which is has his most versatile material.
Ricky and Steven were popular after doing XM Radio in Britain. It was there that they met their producer Karl Pilkington. After realizing that the funniest interchanges happened after asking Karl his opinion, they brought him in front of the mic, and a star was born, albeit, one with a head like a f*#kin orange. I suggest listening to the Ricky Gervais Guide To series. This is a very good series of podcasts, about an hour long that has the trio chatting about their takes on the future, medicine, natural history, politics and philosopy amoung other such subjects. These are conversations in the minimalist sense, basically they ask Karl something and rebut with comments about his ludicrous answers. One can bet money that Ricky and Steven have the opposite reasonings for or against the topics at hand. It is also delightful to get an insight into Karl's personal life. One memorable interchange between the three occurred wen Karl was describing what he did last week, saying he had to go to the cobbler and then he went to the toffee shop. This brought about Ricky's infectious laugh straight from his gut, actually even deeper, from his legs, and it works its way up to the surface in a high pitched hyena-esque mating call, a laugh only Karl can bring out. Its fun because it gives us non-Brits an insight into the goings on of normal Londoners. They busted the notion that these uniquely British-isms of the toffee shop and cobblers have gone instinct. Stephen quips whether Karl visited the blacksmith and the candlestickmaker next.
Last year, HBO animated the podcasts, giving them a new life for those unfamiliar.
The animations allow us to see what Karl sees when he gives his ridiculous explanations and news. One staple news portion of the podcast is Monkey News. Basically, Karl explains some fantastical bit of news he read recently and the punchline is that it was the monkey who saved a woman from a fire, or it was a monkey that was steering a rocket in outerspace. Seriously, head like a fuckin orange.
Ricky and Steven were popular after doing XM Radio in Britain. It was there that they met their producer Karl Pilkington. After realizing that the funniest interchanges happened after asking Karl his opinion, they brought him in front of the mic, and a star was born, albeit, one with a head like a f*#kin orange. I suggest listening to the Ricky Gervais Guide To series. This is a very good series of podcasts, about an hour long that has the trio chatting about their takes on the future, medicine, natural history, politics and philosopy amoung other such subjects. These are conversations in the minimalist sense, basically they ask Karl something and rebut with comments about his ludicrous answers. One can bet money that Ricky and Steven have the opposite reasonings for or against the topics at hand. It is also delightful to get an insight into Karl's personal life. One memorable interchange between the three occurred wen Karl was describing what he did last week, saying he had to go to the cobbler and then he went to the toffee shop. This brought about Ricky's infectious laugh straight from his gut, actually even deeper, from his legs, and it works its way up to the surface in a high pitched hyena-esque mating call, a laugh only Karl can bring out. Its fun because it gives us non-Brits an insight into the goings on of normal Londoners. They busted the notion that these uniquely British-isms of the toffee shop and cobblers have gone instinct. Stephen quips whether Karl visited the blacksmith and the candlestickmaker next.
Last year, HBO animated the podcasts, giving them a new life for those unfamiliar.
The animations allow us to see what Karl sees when he gives his ridiculous explanations and news. One staple news portion of the podcast is Monkey News. Basically, Karl explains some fantastical bit of news he read recently and the punchline is that it was the monkey who saved a woman from a fire, or it was a monkey that was steering a rocket in outerspace. Seriously, head like a fuckin orange.
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