The Ricky Gervais Show Preview

[BattleButlerJeeves]

4 part plan is this.

1) Tell woman I have made a sex machine

2) Make sure woman aren't smart enough to tell the difference between a machine and human penis

3) Have hole in machine for my penis

Leading directly to 4...

Put my penis in said hole

You know, this plan is SO good, I'm not even going to make sure the women are stupid. I'm joking, of course, goodbye.

[paft]

What's with the laughing track?

[paft]

@paft "as seen on the tonight show with conan" derrr...

[alek9000]

call me a pervert, but i really wanna see the rest

[marlonmozart]

i heard the 80% of america is gay is that true

[nathanjameslewis]

Gosh, all this moaning has just made me put the DVD on.

[singing2003]

Boo. This. Is.  Bad

[Nascarking24]

The only two words I understood that whole time was penis and get behind the robot

[F12Y14N25]

@Nascarking24 that's 5 words (unless you are including and which I don't think you are)

[fegagliardi]

lol whatever...i`m from fucking Brasil and i think they r hysterical!!! love it! lol lol

[Pinkipiebumblebee]

its much better with just the audio the animation is just distracting

[NQQ613]

is that canned laughter in the background? even if it's not, it really puts me off. Makes it completely not funny at all D:

but by itself it's hilarious, they should do another series :D

[qwertyuiopdan1]

ridiculous they are just recycling stuff from the podcast which they took from the xfm show in the first place. sigh

[tregard]

Wish there wasnt a laugh track

[Mrster]

@tregard

There isn't a laugh track. It's a preview watched by the audience on Conan.

Like it said in the beginning of the video.

[Hufflepuffish]

is that a laughter track in the background..? :S

[RingSight91]

Again, with the "laughter track" question?

It's subbed right there, "As seen on The Tonight Show...", where there's AN AUDIENCE watching and laughing at the preview [that Ricky would have had to introduce, as he's a guest of said show].

[Hufflepuffish]

ha oh of course... thank god.

[NFM1337]

I really like the podcasts, love them, and this is really good too. The animation is able to emphasize when Ricky and Stephen are quiet and are just looking at Karl, amazed at how strange something he said was and I think that adds to the humour. I'm still glad I heard the podcasts first, I wouldn't like to automatically think of the cartoon when I think about Karl, which I do all the time.

[ryorioirorytttrr]

The animation works when it's of the stories they are telling, but not the animation of Ricky Steve and Karl. It's funny because they are real people saying these things (esp Karls nonsense), whereas if they are made into cartoon characters it dilutes the humour.

Plus Ricky and Steve are meant to be intelligent, whereas they also look stupid if they're cartoons.

[RingSight91]

Ricky and Steve do not look stupid when they're cartoons. What are you talking about? They're just caricatured in how they would look in the studio, e.g. how "oddly" can you draw Ricky when he bursts out laughing? And cartoon or not, it's KARL that looks stupid when he rambles on.

[ryorioirorytttrr]

If you had never seen or heard the real people talking together, and had not started out with that image in your mind, then you may be able to enjoy the animated version more.

But it's like any other attempt to animate real people (eg Mr Bean, Laurel & Hardy etc) - it becomes more of a ' for kids ' version.

[RingSight91]

Well ryo..., I think we can safely assume that your HBO-watching viewer isn't so "ignorant" of the principle behind this "show". I mean, look at the "Related Videos" side-window →

There's at least one Teaser uploaded by Pikorama, and if you watch that, you'll also notice two other "Pointless Conversation" segments by them, talking about the show **in HBO**.

And BTW, "Mr Bean" and "Laure & Hardy" started out as in-person shows. Rick & the lads were ON RADIO, how'd you get to "see" them before?

[leushy]

Ugh... the podcasts I ADORED. But animated for US TV? Why? It's not even good animation. Out of sync, and badly drawn.

[bombbasticluva]

Poor animation. Check out the user CatFoodsStinksABit for the best animation

[superspecky4eyes]

"pop a little gay fella on there"

[foxpawz]

was one of my fav stories they talked about on their show. animated...it's even funnier LOL

[mrx0066600]

I must buy the DVDs for this show... it's a must...

[Relativisticism]

I am going to die from laughter because of this show.

[davelee18]

Best thing about this is Karl sat there.... oh God I love that man.

[magichanzz]

I saw this when Ricky was on Conan that night and the audience was cracking up thru th whole clip - glad they did this one - its one of my favorites. love the cartoon.

[le2key]

@Maddoxhardcore i dont think it is a laughter track, this preview was on the conan o' brien show i think and it was infront of a live audience. besides, you dont need a laughter track for this, u get enough of that from ricky.

[Maddoxhardcore]

Ah my bad, thanks for clearing that up! All I need is Ricky's squeal and shriek.

[EditAngelica]

i dont think it does have a laughter track in the show becuase the other clips dont i think it was just the sound of the audiance laughing as the clip was being previewed on a talk show or somthing.

[SketchRoomAccount]

The actual cartoon doesn't have one, it's just that the clip was shown ion a talk show.

[Gavfather]

@Maddoxhardcore It's not a laughter track. It's being shown on the Conan O'Brien show. That's Conan's audience laughing. There's no laughter track on the show you be please to hear.

[le2key]

rofl i heard this clip before but seeing it in animation and hearing ppl actually laughing makes it that much funnier.

[HLecterPHD]

just as well

[feckingbillgates]

These are shit compared to loads of really great fan made animations.

[RingSight91]

@feking...The fan-made animations may be "really great" in your opinion, but are they "consistent", nor do they form enough for an entire broadcast season?

Why would HBO trouble itself with a motley assortment of amateur fanimations, eh?

[feckingbillgates]

Who said anything about them bothering themselves with a "motley assortment of amateur animations"? Putting words in people's mouths just allows you to create an argument without being intelligent about it. I said this is worse than many of the amateur versions - that's it. If they'd wanted to commission new work from one of those great animators, that would have resulted in better work than these Fred Flinstone versions.

Yes, I'm arguing with a "youtube comment" idiot, and I don't know why.

[RingSight91]

feck: Arguing if "The Flintstones" were bad form is a matter of opinion and you're certainly entitled to yours. Stating that HBO's RG Show is "worse" because of an apparent similarity to the former and some implied "failure to commission new & better work from a 'great' animator" is quite another. You wanted "great"?

- Show Animation Director: Craig Kellman.

- Notable Previous Work: Monsters vs Aliens, Madagascar, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, THE FLINSTONES

*Ref: "effect" vs "intent"

[feckingbillgates]

I can tell this really matters to you, but I'm afraid I don't share you enthusiasm. I'm not a child and I don't need to argue with children on youtube.

[RingSight91]

Oh, so I'm a child now? Thanks very much for the complement, people do constantly mistake my looks for someone 10 years younger. As for my real age, let's just say "old enough to remember watching Fred & Barney, et al. when theirs weren't re-runs." Such fun times.

But, since you're so old and brilliant, you must be on your way up to assuming the power and influence to control a company like HBO, and in doing so seek to rectify their transgression in this regard. Good Luck with that you snob.

[HelterSkelterForum]

Well said billgates

[youxknowxyouxluvxit]

@ringsight91 they wouldnt, cause they, and their american audience, are (mostly) a bunch of ignorant apes who wouldnt understand the subtle humour of the fanmade cartoons. they just need drawings to act out what Karls saying . . . .y'know . . . so they (you) can understand whats going on. thats why HBO chose chose unimaginative, simplistic cartoons over funny and CLEVER fanmade ones.

[RingSight91]

Whom in their right mind would want to watch an animated version of three blokes bantering about pointlessly inside a radio booth? Is that the "subtle humour" to which you refer? HBO is on cable you know. And for the bloody price of cable programming these days we'd expect more than just a bunch of talking heads in a show in that channel.

You kids are just jealous they chose an old guy's animated interpretation of these chats versus one of your "brilliant/young/hip/subtle" iterations. Boohoo.

[youxknowxyouxluvxit]

lol um the fanmade ones arent of there heads, in fact there heads arent featured at all, theyre dynamic and follow karls storyline completely. in the HBO one the heads are constantly shown . . so you fail lol. the fanmade ones are far more dynamic. look up "monkey news builder" which si a fanmade vid of the show . . next time you wont embarrass yourself when you reply by confusing yourself lol.

[RingSight91]

@youxknowxyouxluvxit: As been said before, when these "fans'" animation résumés are as long as Craig Kellman's, then we'll see whose work is better for HBO consumption. A few brilliant bits here and there does not an entire series make. What's the matter, sore one of your mates' "brilliant creations" got overlooked because he or she wasn't a professional? Boohoo, welcome to the real and grown-up world.

[youxknowxyouxluvxit]

@riingsight91 stop being such a tool its my opinion, and one lots of peopel share. hes not my mate, his animations have thousands of views, and ricky gervais himself has said how awesome they are, but solf himself out for HBO (again). i dont understand how you can reason picking another mans work thats worse and less funny, just cause hes a pro whos worked with them before . . . it s comedy show. hunour should be prioritised.

[RingSight91]

@youxknowxyouxluvxit Well, this is not "worse", it's "different", more specifically it"s "retro" and "minimalistic"; "Less is More" approach and that's "good".

You're obviously too young to remember The Flinstones **without** seeing it through the lens of that horrible live-action with John Goodman. For the time it was pretty funny, laugh tracks notwithstanding.

The "humour" in this case is in the "discussion" anyway, not the "animation". If I want "cool" I'd go find some classic anime.

[claraw]

@youxknowxyouxluvxit *their

[youxknowxyouxluvxit]

@claraw fuck off you lame shit, as if you actually sit there searching comments to look for grammatical mistakes. get a fucking life

[chrome00]

@claraw Negative. You dumb fuck. "There" was used correctly.

[HelterSkelterForum]

You killjoy.

[HLecterPHD]

i agree with nrad theres definately a difference in humour between the us and england. people expect and understand their native comedic taste, theyre used to it.

then theres the slang/language differences and references that some audiences wont get. like saying 'oooh betty' or 'rodney you plonker'. only some will understand those things.

sure they spent a LOT on marketing and research.

just hope to god that theres no more canned laughter. (canned laughter sux azz)

[spacecowboy95]

the laughter is from the audience on letterman or conan when rick was a guest, its not gonna be in the actual show.

I guess it proves that the americans do find this funny

[gerardzor]

I can't wait to see this on HBO

[theburlystrapper]

omg this is the best idea ever. i love the podcasts and the animation is awesome, especially karl

[buzzardboots]

The laughter is coming from the live audience at The Tonight Show... and why wouldn't many americans "get it" because they're English? That makes no sense. That's like saying, "I don't think many British will get Conan O'Brien"

Comedy is comedy. It's either funny or it isn't and some people have a better sense of humor than others. This parochial attitude towards British comediand, movies, tv, &c. is really annoying and, frankly, a bit pathetic.

[gajzler]

Yes its pathetic.

Im from Sweden and i pretty much understand everything in english. So why wouldnt a native speaker get it if i do?

[Kalinho83]

True, but then again Scandinavians are actually far more exposed to British humor than the Americans are....

[bajsjoanna]

@gajzler It has nothing to do with the language you moron. They were talking about wether or not americans "get" english humor, and vice versa. Typical english humor is different than typical american humor.

[FathomLordKarathr]

@gajzler no is the cultures that make it so comedy is different to people of different country's not you ability to speak English

[chodaboy51500]

@FathomLordKarath I don't know where you are from, but trust me, English and American culture isn't so different that we don't get each others humor. There is a bit of a style difference but not over each other's heads. There were probably more Monty Python fans in the US than in the UK.

[Nrad22]

Fair point, but the fact America has to remake a lot of shows rather then just watching the original English shows suggests that maybe they don't understand English humour.

[signboyy]

or maybe some americans have a problem understanding uk accents, uk slang, and uk cultural references.

but also the american television and film industry is quite insular and right wing and rarely distributes foreign films and television.

which may be for some kind of political reason such as keeping american culture very right wing.

dont want to expose americans to european culture and values.

[Caligula138]

@signboyy "but also the american television and film industry is quite insular and right wing " That is ridiculous... Hollywood is very liberal.  i dont think you know what your talking about.

[signboyy]

hollywood being liberal is a myth.

the tiny independants might be liberal.

the actors in the mainstream movies might be liberal

but the producers and directors of mainstream media have the dual job of propagandizing people with right wing ideas and making money to produce more propaganda films in the future.

if some actors are left wing they just swallow their pride and act in movies which promote right wing values

[Caligula138]

@signboyy Are you trying to say making money is a Right Wing value? What are these so called Right Wing values you speak of?

If you were to compare the amount of Liberal actors to Conservative actors you would see a very lopsided figure.

[signboyy]

no i am saying although right wing movie producers want to promote right wing ideas they also want to maximize profits to finance future right wing films

yes actors tend to be liberal, but the movies they are in which are mainstream still promote right wing values. it doesnt matter what the personal politics of the actors are they just read the lines

independant movies tend to promote left wing ideas but they are lucky to be distributed in a few art house theaters which few people see

[RingSight91]

@Nrad..What do you mean "just watching the original English shows"?

In this case, there were no "English Shows" to be shown in the US. Aren't these from the old XFM radio broadcasts, which don't air in the US, in which case there are the podcasts, and not everyone has an iPod but certainly has cable TV?

Or are you talking about "The Office"? In which case that hardly qualifies as "a lot of [UK] shows" to be remade.

[HeadlightMorningGlow]

@RingSight91 Add Life on Mars, Spaced and Skins to that and you begin to see a bit of a pattern here.

[F12Y14N25]

@HeadlightMorningGlow I honestly don't know how an american Life on Mars can work, I know the concept is simple - traveling back to 1973 but really the whole humour part of the show was brittish-type humour and the story is one that really only works in britian as I can see.

[NucularRobit]

@Nrad22 Google "British remakes of American shows" and rethink your position.

[F12Y14N25]

@NucularRobit rethink your position, he never said british don't remake american shows, he just said that the americans remake a lot of british shows and he is right, it is a fact you can't deny and to try and deny it shows how ignorant you are, but his reasoning is wrong i think.

[NucularRobit]

@F12Y14N25 Here is my thinking. He said it was a lack of understanding that makes Americans remake British shows. So by his logic British just "don't get" American shows because they too remake American shows. That was what I took issue with, not the fact that shows are remade, but his interpretation of the evidence. I think it is just an issue of comfort/xenophobia, people just want to see themselves reflected in media. Call it nationalism if you want but don't call it a lack of understanding.

[F12Y14N25]

@NucularRobit I think that is quite a cynical view, mine is too but I never said anything about a lack of understanding, I think it is due to money. Americans and Brittish producers look at shows accross the world (not jsut each other) and think "that's quite good, let's do a remake." Just so happens that it happens between Brits and Americans a lot because our sense of humour and culture has some points of similarity. But in some cases it is remade because of the differences, e.g. shameless.

[F12Y14N25]

@F12Y14N25 (cudn't fit the rest in the last bit) Shameless (UK version) is very Northern humour, for people who grew up in that type of area 9Greater Manchester) or know people who gre up around there or that type of area the jokes and the situations ring true and it just has a special something due to that, I haven't seen the american version nor do I want to because I know it won't have that for me personally because it would be based on a rough american background/area, which'll be different

[F12Y14N25]

@Nrad22 wrong, money, that's why, purely about the dollars

[jazz4]

It's more understanding the manchester accent and various slang and references to british telelvision. I saw Kimmel say he "couldnt understand the accents" - so I guess it literally doesnt translate to some people. Very ignorant though, they're speaking english.

[lunacywishes123]

I am from Manchester and I was just wondering, do people from London etc not know what 'being tight' and 'knockin about' means?

[jCwel]

People(me) from Norway understands it, soo.. I think they do.

[Kalinho83]

Those phrases aren't particular to Manchester at all.....

[girliehun]

what's being tight?

[stoneddan]

Sort of being selfish.

[rubrbandball]

@buzzardboots I think that works for intelligent people, but tbh there really are a lot of Americans who just don't "get" British humor, as there definitely is a difference (not AS much in this clip). A lot of Americans don't get it simply because of the combination of the accent and the quickness.

[charlesbyers]

@buzzardboots Conan whonow?

[FightTh3P0wer]

@buzzardboots people say it because their frames of reference are different and if you compare brittish and american comedy they are vastly different

[melloyelloenthusiast]

@buzzardboots it has to do with the accent i bet. i can't understand a louisiana accent very well...doesn't help that stephen merchant talks pretty damn fast.

[hoboguru]

what ricky has been replaced by fred flintstone? and i hope that isnt dubbed laughter ,ricky does that himself ,also i dont think many americans will get it,.....apart from the cok jokes

[allenlud]

you are a fucking mentalcase

[fuckcarrots82]

lol