The Ricky Gervais Show
This site is dedicated to providing the complete set of episodes from the XFM radio show, featuring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. The Ricky Gervais Show started off on XFM, the alternative London-based radio station in 2001. It was here, at XFM where Ricky and Steve first met Karl. The trio, who have been talking drivel ever since, later went on to create one of the most downloaded podcast series in internet history. The Ricky Gervais Show is also available as a free video podcast and audiobook on iTunes and in 2010, the first season of the Ricky Gervais show was adapted into a HBO animation.
Karl Pilkington: Speed Painting
My name is Monica Kreitz and i am a graphic artist and animator, Don’t stop reading!
Big fan of the TV show “An Idiot Abroad” and I just loved this face expression Karl made when he was sitting and complaining about that he didn’t want to bear any leaf pants, he looks so miserable!!, the poor man hehe.
So I decided to paint that moment 
but also because I saw on you tube that no one had done a speed painting of Karl yet, so why not give him one.
Click here to watch the video…
The painting is made in Photoshop and it took about three hours to paint.
The small picture up in the left corner are an print screen from the show “An Idiot Abroad”.
There is no music or sound to the video but i would have liked to have ad when Karl are talking or when he is hum/singing with the Mongolian people he he .
I hope you like the painting!
The XFM Vault has been locked
As you have probably already noticed, all recordings of Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington presenting on the XFM radio station have been removed from the site due to a copyright infringement claim by the Global Radio media group. Unfortunately that was the main purpose for setting up this site in the first place, to provide the complete set of episodes from the XFM radio show in MP3 format.
Blahh… i’ll finish this post later 
The Ricky Gervais Show – HBO Season 2
The Ricky Gervais Show, animated comedy series based on the smash-hit podcast returns January 14th exclusively on HBO. The first episode of the new series kicks off with Karl’s pitch for a movie starring the internationally renowned actor, Clive Warren.
A day in the life of Karl Pilkington
Ricky, Steve and Karl have recorded a special free podcast to thank fans for their support over the year. This is only the second full-length podcast they have recorded this year (not counting an exclusive podcast for allied troops serving overseas).
Over the past four years The Ricky Gervais Show has been downloaded 260 million times! It is the most downloaded show in history and number one in 16 countries.
Ricky Gervais: Trip to Spain Monkey News
Found this little gem on youtube a few minutes ago…
“And here we have the final part in my Monkey News trilogy. First of all a massive thankyou to everyone whose subscribed and watched my work so far; I hope you can enjoy this last installment of monkey mayhem.
This one took a hell of a lot longer to produce since I now have a fulltime job which cobbles up all my time and energy. Still, I had a ball making this and may still produce some mini Karl stuff in the future, as well as complete original works So please stay tuned!”
For more animated monkey news make sure you check out Dan Morrison’s YouTube channel.
Portal 2: Money for old rope
Valve has just confirmed that Steve Merchant will star in Portal 2 as the voice of Wheatley, the English-accented personality sphere. “Money for old rope” as Steve has often said… Guess Karl didn’t take the message for him this time.
New animated series promo
Ricky, Steve and Karl were interviewed by Channel 4 at the launch of The Ricky Gervais Show animated television series. During this short 10 minute promo they the discuss group dynamics, the education of Karl over last few years and reminisce about some of the old XFM features such as knob news, rock busters and monkey news. Well worth the download.
Just been flattr’d
Just noticed that somebody “flattered” one of the episodes on the site. In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve added a flattr button to all of the episode pages. Flattr is a new micropayment platform that lets you “show love for the things you like”. Hosting this site costs a good bit of money, especially when the bandwidth goes into the terabytes every month. I’ve been kicked off a few “unlimited bandwidth” hosts in the past and need all the help I can get…
Every click may just be a few cent, but if a few people contribute it will certainly help to pay the bills every month.
Karl Pilkington – an idiot abroad
Ok, so the site is back up and running again. I’ve just spent the last few days optimising the site and rewriting scripts. Turns out that quite a few websites were leeching our bandwidth and bypassing all ads by hotlinking directly to the XFM episodes. These ads are the only form of revenue this site has at the moment and are badly needed to pay the hosting bills.
In other news, the name for Karl’s upcoming TV show has been finalised… it’s called, an idiot abroad.
Site Downtime
Just noticed that I have exceeded my monthly bandwidth limit again. I have moved the site to a temporary location for the time being, so some of the links may be broken for the next few days. I have started optimising the site so hopefully this wont happen again. I just cant afford to upgrade to a better hosting package at the moment… lets see how July goes first