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[[File:ricky.jpg|thumb|350px|From left to right: Stephen, Ricky and Karl, as animated in the HBO [[Animated Adaptation]].]]
{{quote|''Oh, this is ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS!''|'''Ricky Gervais''' basically describing the entire show. }}
''The Ricky Gervais Show'' is an [[Podcast|online radio show]] starring comedians [[Ricky Gervais]] and [[Stephen Merchant]] (of ''[[The Office]]'' fame) and producer [[An Idiot Abroad|Karl Pilkington]]. The show started as a weekly radio show on UK digital music station XFM, but has gone online since 2005. It is the most popular podcast in the world, holding the Guinness record for most downloaded podcast. Recently, [[HBO]] has begun to air an [[Animated Adaptation]] of the podcast.
The show basically has the format of a [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: Ricky, Stephen and Karl talk about life in general, the news, amusing anecdotes and sometimes even a little life philosophy. The show started with just Ricky and Stephen, but eventually, Karl was included into the show, since Ricky and Stephen realized from talking to him that [[Cloudcuckoolander|Karl's... interesting worldview]] was a source of humor they just ''had'' to exploit. Recently, they produced a series called "The Ricky Gervais Guide to..." and focused on topics like Medicine, England, Society, the Future, and the Human Body, though the discussions rarely remained that focused.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: In the animated episode "Comic Relief", when Steve is telling a story about shopping for records in a thrift shop, he is shown picking up a Seona Dancing record--that being [[Old Shame|the boy band Ricky Gervais belonged to]] when he was young.
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* [[Does Not Like Spam]]: Ricky has it in for Turkey Twizzlers, every mention of them is to point out how only [[Fat Idiot|Fat Idiots]] eat them.
* [[Dope Slap]]: Karl is CONSTANTLY in the receiving end of the verbal version of these.
* [[Double Entendre]]: Ricky and Stephen love making them, despite (or perhaps ''because'') of how uncomfortable it makes Karl
:This is doubly true, although more legitimate, on the older XFM (radio) shows, as Karl was afraid of the repercussions of Ricky or Steve swearing on-air. Of course, the one time XFM got a complaint and Ricky and Steve were meant to be reprimanded, Karl [[Cloudcuckoolander|forgot to tell them]].
* [[Double Take]]: Sometimes, the things Karl says will drive Ricky and Stephen to baffled, stupefied silence.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRWr778XGQ During one show, Karl refers to Steve as an "Invalid".] What follows is a long awkward silence. Then, Ricky quickly states that they had a request to play a song. It's one of the few times where Ricky doesn't have a snarky remark. You can hear Steve's bitter remark of "I...I don't want to do this right now" in the background while the music was playing.
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* [[Everything Is Better With Monkeys]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Monkey News]], a section of the show where Karl tells a news story which stars a monkey. Highlights include a fire-fighting monkey and a space monkey who committed suicide after not adapting to life back on earth.
** Karl's story about Ollie the Chimp [[wikipedia:Oliver (chimpanzee)|actually had some factual basis]], but of course he buried it in nonsense.
** Similarly with his story about [https://web.archive.org/web/20050321182531/http://monkeydaynews.blogspot.com/2005/02/third-woman-sues-over-kokos-breast.html the women who left their job ] because they wouldn't let [[wikipedia:Koko (gorilla)#Sexual harassment|the ape play with their breasts.]]
** [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|Chimps actually]] ''[[Aluminum Christmas Trees|were]]'' [[wikipedia:Animals in space|shot into space]], but it wasn't nearly as dramatic as Karl made it out to be. His story of the retirement home for Ham and Enos is bollocks too: Ham lived like a celebrity at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. (and then later, the North Carolina Zoo) before dying in 1982. Enos died of dysentery in 1962, little over a year after he went into space.
* [[Everything Is Trying to Kill You]]: Karl's feelings on Australia, naming several of the (many) dangerous species that live there as to why he refuses to go there. Especially camping.
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** In Karl's world, seals are "between dogs and fish".
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Ricky is a master of this trope when it comes to Karl's insane ramblings. This becomes particularly prominent over time during Karl's Monkey News -- Ricky frequently foresees the incoming twist -- granted, something which is not exactly hard given that it nearly always involves something previously suspected to be a human turning out to be a monkey -- and repeatedly points out how ridiculous certain events would have to be to reach that conclusion in the hopes of making him see how absolutely unbelievable his stories are. Karl always ignores him, of course.
{{quote|'''Karl''': (Telling a story about a gangster buying a racehorse, the jockey of which turns out to be a monkey) [[The Comically Serious|So anyway, this big race is coming up, and he's like, "I've got to be involved in this, because I can make a lot of money out of my horse here--"]]
'''Ricky''': Choose the jockey wisely, then.
'''Karl''': So he says to his, like, mate, "Look, I've got myself a horse and that, so we just need a jockey. Get someone to sort it out and what-have-you, so I can get in this race."
'''Ricky''': [[Deadpan Snarker|Go to the Jockey Club. Loads of 'em.]]
'''Karl''': So his mate's like, "Alright, I'll have a word and that, have a look 'round and that, see if there's anyone decent knocking about--"
'''Ricky''': (Cutting across Karl) The good thing about jockeys is that there's never going to be a shortage of jockeys, because a lot of them don't make the grade. There's always too many jockeys to go around.
'''Steve''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Always too many human jockeys.]]
'''Ricky''': Yeah! There's '''never''' a problem getting jockeys. (Turns back to Karl) [[Jade Coloured Glasses|Go on.]] }}
* [[Life of the Party]]: Repeat contributor Paul "[[Insistent Terminology|The Party Animal]]" Parker. Stephen and Ricky are convinced that it's an [[Informed Ability]].
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* [[Rage Breaking Point]]: Happened a few times, but the most notable is when Karl is talking about two monkeys who got 'married' during one of the Monkey News segments. Ricky's reaction when Karl finishes the story is mental.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Many people accuse Karl of being 'a character, since no one can possibly be that weird in real life.' Ricky and Stephen have constantly denied this, stating that not only is Karl for real, but Ricky and Stephen ''hopelessly wished'' they could write something half as funny as what Karl says in all seriousness. And Stephen has said that if Karl ''was'' a character, Ricky and Stephen certainly wouldn't have wasted him on a podcast.
* [[Recursive Reality]]: One of Karl's movie ideas involves a failed actor (in earlier versions a plumber, according to Ricky) called Bryan, who would be played by Ted Danson, who gets his mind put into the body of [[Tom Cruise]] when both are involved in serious accidents simultaneously, with Bryan going on to take Tom Cruise's place in a later ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' sequel. Stephen is highly amused to point out that this would eventually result in a situation where Tom Cruise would be playing Ted Danson playing 'Bryan' playing Tom Cruise playing Ethan Hunt.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: At one point, the trio discusses remaking movies in the style of [[The Muppet Show]] (Including, of all things, ''[[Schindler's List]]''). This leads to Stephen yelling, "Schindler's List '''IN SPAAAAAACE!'''"
* [[Retraux]]: The [[Animated Adaptation]], which uses a very [[Hanna-Barbera]]-esque style. Ricky supposedly emphasized that his animated self should look like Fred Flintstone.
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