Comments on: Hey Ricky you're so fine...

Hey Ricky you're so fine...

greycap — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:46:36 -0800

The first episode of a new podcast by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (of Extras and The Office fame). If you need a bigger fix, try the archive of their radio shows from the last few years.

By: samstarling

samstarling — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:40:00 -0800

Thanks for posting this, fantastic stuff!

By: Constant Reader

Constant Reader — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:46:00 -0800

Some laugh out loud stuff in the archives of Monkey News. I don't care of Karl is real or not. So, you get a bulb...

By: tpl1212

tpl1212 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:48:08 -0800

Awesome, thanks!

By: thecjm

thecjm — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:59:11 -0800

I had this link bookmarked but forgot to go grab the podcast when it came out today. THanks for the reminder. And this is very, very funny.

By: amarynth

amarynth — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:01:08 -0800

This is great! Thanks!

By: jimmy

jimmy — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:01:20 -0800

Why the fuck is it 56kbps? Fuck! Fuuuuck

By: beniamino

beniamino — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:09:40 -0800

I would be fascinated if someone would explain what they found funny about this.

By: PHINC

PHINC — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:14:05 -0800

beniamino: Serious discussions on absurd topics=comedy formula.

By: Chrischris

Chrischris — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:22:57 -0800

The discussion as to whether there had ever been a banana-dispensing machine built into a rocket was worth it...

By: funambulist

funambulist — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:30:50 -0800

The funniest thing is there really are people like Karl...

By: zeoslap

zeoslap — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:34:50 -0800

Hilarious

By: Keith Talent

Keith Talent — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:37:19 -0800

I thought it was fucking hilarious. Not HJO AIDS funny, but... And say you were going to listen to this on the subway during your commute, would people think you're complete insane for giggling almost without ceasing?

By: Constant Reader

Constant Reader — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:38:10 -0800

Keith - I've garnered some funny looks. It's worth it. It tends to keep the crazies away at least.

By: cusack

cusack — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:52:21 -0800

Yeah, I caused a scene listening to this. When something is THIS funny how can you not laugh so hard you fall over on top of your desk?

By: Peter H

Peter H — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:53:56 -0800

I would be fascinated if someone would explain what they found funny about this. .

By: dig_duggler

dig_duggler — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:29:16 -0800

Thanks! Forgot this was coming out. Great stuff.

By: ClanvidHorse

ClanvidHorse — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:08:35 -0800

Thanks. Great stuff. Monkey with headphones...

By: aaronscool

aaronscool — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:21:59 -0800

I would be fascinated if someone would explain what they found funny about this. The fact that Karl was a loon (and near as I could tell a bonafied loon). Karl's Theories: 1. He doesn't like the ipods because we don't need any more stuff we're pretty full up on modernity it seams. Ditto for AIDS or Cancer cures... 2. The first monkey in space was trained via an banana dispensing machine to press both the launch button and the steering controls. 3. Dinosaurs and Man walked the earth together. The funny kicks in once you realize there are plenty of people out there exactly like this and remember some drunken conversation you had once with one of them...

By: beniamino

beniamino — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:54:37 -0800

Thanks aaronscool! I think my failure to be amused and your amusement are two sides of the same coin. My thought was 'I've had this conversation with countless drunk blokes in pubs, and they never put us on the radio. What's special about these guys?' And yours was more like 'This is a funny pastiche/satire of all those crazy drunk blokes I've met in pubs over the years.' Peter H: The reports of the death of my sense of humour are greatly exaggerated. But thanks for the sympathy.

By: zardoz

zardoz — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:47:53 -0800

Keith, my morning commute on the train and I couldn't stop laughing at times. Good thing everyone was asleep. Eventually I had to stop it, I just couldn't keep quiet enough for my embarassment level. The guy is a loon, but didn't they introduce him as their producer? Must be an act.

By: forallmankind

forallmankind — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:33:30 -0800

"you know how they say people have sixth senses; well there's loads more than that..." ha ha ha great post! btw, The Guardian also ran a feature a few months back about the former Liverpool player turned medium Derek Acorah (formely Johnson) that Karl talks about.

By: quarsan

quarsan — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:10:39 -0800

this was so funny it hurt. i actually forgot to breath at one point.

By: greycap

greycap — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:34:29 -0800

I have been listening to Karl "the K-Man" Pilkington for as long as he's been producing Ricky and Steve's radio shows, and I'm pretty convinced this is his actual personality. Delve through the archives if you don't believe me! My favorite Karl story ever is his misunderstanding about infinite monkeys typing the complete works of Shakespeare - I cried with laughter when I first heard it.

By: tpl1212

tpl1212 — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 05:31:00 -0800

Ok, I listened to this on my commute home...and it was perhaps one of the funniest, greatest, most brilliant things ever. This is my first subscribed-to podcast.

By: penguin pie

penguin pie — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 05:55:59 -0800

Heh. I used to go out with Steve's housemate. Most of the time I was ever in the pub with him it just involved heavy collective use of pub quiz machines, so perhaps he was using up all his talking shit-ness on Saturday afternoon radio. In fact IIRC he almost caused my demise while trying to cure my hiccups by screaming suddenly and very loudly in my face while I drank a glass of water (didn't cure hiccups but I did shoot water out of my nose onto the fridge to avert choking, I think). /stops showing off about minor brush with celebrity and slinks off to revert to initial jealousy caused by now living in a place with rubbish and expensive internet connection so can't download these without paying a gazillion pounds.

By: jouke

jouke — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:24:49 -0800

After having laughed out loud regularly while watching Extras I was looking forward to a trainride listening to Gervais. I found it just like the average set of boring DJ's talking. Not so inanely achingly boring that it trancends to the higher plane of hilariousness. Just boring boring. It might be that it has something to do with english not being my native tongue. Maybe. I agree with beniamo that it's intriguing that some people find this hilarious. Metafilter apparently is the wormhole that connects our alternate universes. If only I could download your version of the podcast.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:01:36 -0800

Well, I found this to be very funny. But if we have to explain why it's funny... Formula: Gervais's Comedy of Embarassment + Invented Sincere-Sounding Guy With Bad Theories = Satirical Take on What Passes for Intellectual Thought These Days

By: tristeza

tristeza — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:10:48 -0800

Can I ask a stupid non-tech geek question? Is it possible to download the archived stuff for listening on an iPod? I couldn't figure it and think probably not, but listening to the podcast while walking home was so fucking funny I had to stop TWICE because I couldn't breathe... I think Karl is my new idol. "Banana dispenser".

By: greycap

greycap — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:21:08 -0800

I don't have enough techno-fu to sort out the proper archive stuff, but you can listen to their recent (summer 2005) run of shows and download them via mp3 here.

By: tristeza

tristeza — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:45:51 -0800

greycap, I think I love you. Thanks!