The Ricky Gervais Show

2010

Seasons & Episodes

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8.4| 0h30m| TV-MA| en
Synopsis

The Ricky Gervais Show is an American cartoon series produced for and broadcast by HBO and Channel 4. The series is an animated version of the popular British audio podcasts and audiobooks of the same name, which feature Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, along with colleague and friend Karl Pilkington, talking about various subjects behind the microphone. The TV show consists of past audio recordings of these unscripted "pointless conversations," with animation drawn in a style similar to classic era Hanna-Barbera cartoons, presenting jokes and situations in a literal context. The animated Ricky Gervais Show has aired 39 episodes across three seasons since it premiered in 2010. There were some plans for a possible fourth season which would have used newly recorded audio, but this was shelved in June 2012. Series 3 of The Ricky Gervais Show premiered on 20 April 2012 on HBO, and on 8 May 2012 on E4.

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Reviews

GazerRise Fantastic!
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
merelyaninnuendo The Ricky Gervais ShowJust like a normal Ricky Gervais show, it has thought provoking content with smart comedy and sometimes hardcore humor that may be inedible for some people but if one seeks concrete material and is open to eerie ideology and anatomy of well established theories and beliefs, one comes knocking at this door. Ricky's dream project and game changer discovery of Karl Pilkington is thoroughly utilized and projected in the most perfect way possible; it even changes one's perspective towards podcasts (if you have to start somewhere, start here). Supporting right by the side, Stephen Merchant helps bringing subjects and issues on table where Ricky mocks it brutally before Karl inputs his quirkiness perspective on it. The animation was a brilliant idea as it helps imagining, jumping on situation and giving a face to some random words that Ricky adds in now and then. The Ricky Gervais Show strengthens as it ages for the material resembles with the viewers and welcomes them in their discussion and arguments where one can not only be satisfied, have an opinion or even switch seats on a definite answers but also be thoroughly entertained throughout its runtime for its editing is way too sharp and not at all liberal.
lyndalu-45740 This show had me laughing so hard tears were rolling down my face. I'd go so far as to say this is probably the funniest show I've ever seen, even funnier than Seinfeld, I Love Lucy and Sunny in Philadelphia. This show was made from a podcast but then they added the animation which makes it way funnier. I watch it over and over, makes me laugh every time.
physed888 I've seen a few negative reviews for The Ricky Gervais Show and I find it very sad that these people have such a puckered anus about it that they have to slag off a brilliant show and brilliant cast. The rating for the show is real, 8.5 or something like that; and, it's for a reason. I'm not going to go on tangents of why the show is amazing and all; but, really people, stop downing things that you might not grasp fully because you have not lived your lives and have no idea what is funny to most people. I have things I have not experienced yet and I don't go whining up and down on a review because some half-brain told me it was bad.Come up with your own conclusion. FFS
a05102267 "The Ricky Gervais Show" is one of the funniest, most clever and brilliant show (Animated or not) that I had the chance to see. It is interesting to note how the original audio of this show turns even better as a cartoon, giving an extra appeal to the surrealistic stories that are told by the three comedians; Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington: The way in which the three interact is the main factor of humor, being by far the funniest segment the lecture of Karl Pilkington's diary. The animation is pretty good: The designs remind me a lot the classic cartoons made by Hannah Barbera, being simple, but very expressive at the same time. This is, by far, one of the best animated comedies of the recent years, and it feels like a breath of fresh air, after so many bad shows that try too hard to be like "The Simpsons" or more offensive than "South Park"