The Ricky Gervais Show Preview

The Amercan cable TV channel HBO are making an animated series using the original recordings of The Ricky Gervais Show podcasts.

PREMIERES 19 FEBRUARY 2010 ON HBO IN THE US
AND IN MARCH ON CHANNEL 4 IN THE UK

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Ricky
• Gervais
• Stephen
• Merchant
• Karl
• Pilkington
• Podcast
• The
• Guide
• To...
• Im
• With
• Coco

[davelee18]

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

[SketchRoomAccount]

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

[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]

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

[paft]

What's with the laughing track?

[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.

[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]

@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.

[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]

@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.

[F12Y14N25]

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

[F12Y14N25]

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