Oh Ricky!
You may have missed the news last week, but Ricky Gervais, the comedy genius behind The Office, has a new podcast for Guardian Unlimited starting today.
When Ricky Gervais was asked to name the funniest man alive, he said, “my friend Karl Pilkington. The trouble is, I don’t think he knows he’s being funny”.
Each week, award-winning comedians Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant rummage around in the mind of Karl Pilkington to prove he’s not just the village idiot, he’s beaten off all competition to take the national title.
Join Ricky and Steve as they help Karl wrestle with such burning issues as:
“Jellyfish - do we need them?” “How could an infinite number of monkeys type the complete works of Shakespeare if they’ve never read it?” “Why do you never see an old bloke eating a Twix?”
Burning issues indeed.
OK, so maybe I’m completely lost, but I have people who assure me that such things constitute humour across the pond. But don’t take it from the promotional text. Take it from me, somebody who has seen every episode in Season 1 of The Office. That should be reason enough to check out.
A quick note: As of 3 a.m. Eastern, the podcast isn’t available yet, so keep checking.
December 5th, 2005 at 3:23 am
Definitely going to subscribe to this, sweet.
December 9th, 2005 at 4:11 pm
If you don’t get Ricky Gervais then you ARE Karl Pilkington.