The hit HBO animation featuring Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington.
Having not listened to The Ricky Gervais Podcasts religiously; listening only to odd bits and bobs from the show on a popular video sharing website. What a treat it was to discover the one's I had missed had been recreated in animated form.
The show is pretty simple to explain. It features Ricky Gervais, his comedy writing partner Stephen Merchant and finally the third member of the team Karl Pilkington, who is kindly referred to as a 'round headed bafoon' by Gervais. The three men sit down in a recording studio at the start of the show. They are swiftly turned into cartoons and then proceed to start talking about everything from monkeys to mandibles.
Now, The Ricky Gervais Show is a very misleading title as Ricky Gervais isn't really the 'star'. He may have shone brightly in The Office and Extras, but in The Ricky Gervais show he takes a backseat to the mind and star of the show Karl Pilkington.
Without Karl Pilkington there quite simply wouldn't be a show. His anecdotes, thoughts and oblivious quips are where the humour most definitely lies in the show. In the thirteen episodes that fill the series a number of interesting topics are discussed, personally highlights being - Monkey News, Karl's Diary, paranormal activity and charity donations to name but a few. This favoured list could be a least a good few lines long, but I would not only be boring you with words but hindering you from making a purchase for the fantastic series.
The animation quality also deserves a mention. The series could have easily have gotten away with some shaky animation spliced together with some poor and feeble drawings of Gervais and company. But what is actually presented on screen for us all to see is very good indeed. Karl's thoughts are brought to life in gloriously vibrant Technicolor, with each man also be drawn to cartoon perfection; with Ricky being very reminiscent of a 21st Century Fred Flintstone.
The Ricky Gervais Show is good company for twenty minutes. Filled with infectious laughter and chaotic ramblings of amusement it should definitely be given a small taste from your fine self...
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Derived from the original XFM radio show and having broken world records as a podcast download THE RICKY GERVAIS SHOW has now been drawn into a superbly funny animated series featuring the musings of Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington The animation combines the simplicity of Hanna-Barbera with the wackiness of Genndy Tartakovsky and is colourful and surreal bringing the much loved series to life in a new light
All 13 episodes from the first season of the animated TV comedy show. The programme initially began as a radio show and later became a podcast series, finally being adapted into animation for the small-screen in 2010. Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington discuss a variety of often ridiculous topics with frequently hilarious results. The episodes comprise: 'Space Monkey', 'Knob at Night', 'Charity', 'Dolphins', 'Glass House', 'Cobblers', 'The Diary', 'Nuts', 'The Jockey', 'The Fight', 'Beetles', 'Noises' and 'Freaks'.
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