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[[File:ricky.jpg|thumb|350px|From left to right: Stephen, Ricky and Karl, as animated in the HBO [[Animated Adaptation]].]]

 

 

''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.