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Show Info
'The Ricky Gervais Show' audiobooks have been developed into an animated TV series, which premiered on 19
February 2010, on the American channel HBO[13][14] and on the British channel, Channel 4[15] on Friday 23
April 2010
Segments
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 often originate from a tale that Karl has made
up or extrapolated out of all recognition from a news headline or from an urban legend or even an old joke.
Monkey News is an easy way to anger Ricky, who often disrupts the show due to being so wound up with disbelief —
and even in one XFM show he left the room out of frustration 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
actually cutting off Gervais' microphone for his continuing lambasting 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 high intelligence, etc. While usually
right, Ricky did incorrectly state that chimpanzees do not have opposable thumbs, when trying to prove that a chimp
could not use a tool.
According to Karl on 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. This feature's introduction usually consists
of Ricky shouting, "Ooh, Chimpanzee That! Monkey News!", often with a swearword, or the beginning of one, at the end.
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. 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. The sting for it was Ricky shouting 'Ooh! You're
gonna have someone's eye out! Knob News!' in a very similar fashion to Monkey News.
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'.
Educating Ricky
Introduced along with Rockbusters on 12 October 2002 and lasting throughout the autumn, Educating Ricky was a feature
where Karl tried to teach Ricky several facts every week by catching his attention with a made-up headline, usually a
pun. At the time, Gervais described Educating Ricky as being his favorite segment because the puns often left him in
hysterics. Some classic stories include 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.
Fan Mail
Described mockingly by Merchant as their "biggest fan" although "not afraid to offer some constructive criticism", someone
calling himself Richard Anderson would e-mail the show regularly in the early days of the Xfm show. His first mail was read
by Steve in the 2 November 2002 episode: "Ricky, your show is appalling. Are you actually aware you are on the radio or has
someone just secretly stuck a microphone on you?" Ricky and Steve from then on referred to him as Dickie Anders, Dickers,
The Dick Machine, and several other nickname variations.
Another listener calling himself Paul "The Party Animal" Parker would send in various facts and news stories during the
early podcasts in late 2005/early 2006. Gervais immediately picked up on his self-proclaimed nickname, and imagined he
looked like Milhouse from The Simpsons.
Songs of Phrase
This competition, initially named Crosswords before adopting a listener's suggestion, 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
& The Pacemakers' cover of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "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, and so he substituted the alternative chocolate
bar "Mars", using the lyrics to David Bowie's "Life on Mars". Songs of Phrase was a feature present throughout the later
series of the XFM shows.
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.
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 an' I have got stuff goin'
on...start a diary".
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 meetings 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.
Karl's poetry
In the third series of the podcasts, Karl had decided to write a poem based on his daily experiences and learnings.
General
Genre: Adult Cartoons / Comedy
Language: English
Year: 2011
Season: Two
Episode: One
Episode Title: "Clive Warren"
Aired: 14 January 2011
Episode Info:
Karl tells Ricky and Stephen about his pitch of a movie starring "Clive Warren" and Rebecca De Mornay;
Stephen reads more pages from Karl's diary, revealing Karl's dislike of camping in Australia and his tendency to save
insects from falling into a swimming pool.
Episode: Two
Episode Title: "Doppelganger"
Aired: 21 January 2011
Episode Info:
Karl discusses what his doppelganger would be like; Ricky gives Karl a riddle; what Karl does not like
about Ricky's cat; Stephen discusses his holiday to Rio for Carnival.
Episode: Three
Episode Title: "The Fly"
Aired: 28 March 2011
Episode Info:
The trio discuss animals and diseases; evolution; a fly that is kept as a pet; Karl's Diary.
Episode: Four
Episode Title: "Onion"
Aired: 4 February 2011
Episode Info:
Ricky gives Karl some animal facts; Karl ponders the question of whether you control your brain, or does
your brain control you. From Karl's diary we investigate the curious case of the invisible Chinaman
Episode: Five
Episode Title: "Insects"
Aired: 11 February 2011
Episode Info:
Karl shares his thoughts on why insects are so deserving of his attention; disappointment learning about
a killer octopus; what he would change in crabs; more stuff about insects; Karl's Diary also mostly about insects.
Episode: Six
Episode Title: "Kidneys"
Aired: 18 February 2011
Episode Info:
Karl tells the story of having kidney stones; Karl ponders a phenomenon Karl's Diary; and more
Episode: Seven
Episode Title: "Night Club"
Aired: 4 March 2011
Episode Info:
Karl ponders height extremes when he learns that one of his new fans is the actor Warwick Davis; Stephen tells the tale of him visiting a night club.
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***** NOTE *****
This is a filler up until the last release of episode 8. Enjoy
  
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