Ricky Gervais - The Podfather

Ricky, Steve and Karl have made the second in a series of three podcasts available tonight... absolutely free!

You can grab it from the Ricky Gervais section on The Guardian's website or pick it up for free from iTunes

The Podfather, Part II The Ricky Gervais Show on Guardian Unlimited Thanksgiving

November 23: In the second of three seasonal specials, Karl launches a campaign for a calendar-free society, Ricky explains the origins of Thanksgiving and Steve brings up the sterling work mice are carrying out in the name of medicine. Plus a competition to win copies of Karl's book and the new CD box set.

Amazon.co.uk have slashed the pre-order price by 50% on Ricky Gervais presents The World Of Karl Pilkington

Karl's forthcoming book is released on Mon 18th September 2006... just in time for his birthday!

The hardcover edition is currently listed for pre-order at just £5.00 from Amazon.co.uk. You can get free delivery if you spend over £15 on your order.

The cover also seems to have been slightly updated, with a blue sticker proclaiming: "The World Record-Breaking Ricky Gervais Show Podcast"

Here's how the book is described:

Book Description Featuring Karl's original illustrations, imaginative scribblings and the best conversations of the world record-breaking Podcasts, the Ricky Gervais show, this is a unique trip into the world of one of our most innovative thinkers, visionaries and prophets, or as Gervais and Merchant know him, "the funniest man alive in Britain today".

Synopsis
This is a collection of the best moments from the "Ricky Gervais Show" podcasts - the world's number one podcast - with additional musings and original drawings by Karl Pilkington, the show's unlikely star. Karl Pilkington, the Confutian like savant of the "Ricky Gervais Podcast" show, has led an extraordinary and curiously individual life. As a kid, growing up in Manchester, he regularly missed school to accompany his parents on caravanning holidays and left without collecting his exam results: his family weaned him well. His father once crashed a train into Manchester Central Station, his mother shaved one of their cats after it kept being sick and his uncle slept in a dinghy instead of a bed - genes, some acolytes say, which have contributed to his cryptic views on life. Pilkington's is a brilliant mind, locked inside a perfectly round head, and uncluttered by the unhelpful constraints of logic or common sense; factors that have lead him to such dazzling insights as 'you never see old men eating Twix bars' or that the "Diary" of Anne Frank was 'an Adrian Mole sort of thing'. In this pithy and hilarious book, Karl is in conversation with (the often bewildered) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the writers and stars of "The Office" and "Extras", outwitting even these comedy Goliaths with his take on such contentious issues as charity, the lack of Chinese homeless people, re-incarnation, the rights of monkeys and favourite superpowers. Featuring Karl's original illustrations, imaginative scribblings, full colour pictures sent in by fans, the best conversations of the first 12 podcasts, and to be published alongside the second series of the internationally acclaimed and Guinness Record-winning "Ricky Gervais Podcast Show" (downloaded over 4,000,000 times - the most popoular podcast ever), this is a unique trip into the world of one of our most innovative thinkers, visionaries and prophets, or as Gervais and Merchant know him, 'the funniest man alive in Britain today'.

You can view a video clip of Karl and Ricky talking about the book on the product page

» Pre-order from Amazon.co.uk (currently £5.00)
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The new Ricky Gervais podcast Season Three Episode One is out today!

Here are the links to purchase it:

Download from Audible UK
(priced at £0.95 or £3.75 for season 3 subscription - six new episodes)

Audible also have a special offer at the moment - get all of season 1, 2 and 3 for £6.99. Click here for details

or

Download from iTunes UK
(priced at £0.95 - episode one)

Karl Pilkington was featured on Channel 4 all last week in a series of '3 Minute Wonders'.

Check them out on YouTube below:

Episode One - Animals

Episode Two - Holidays

Episode Three - Health

Episode Four - Science

Ricky Gervais' record breaking podcast returns this week after a three month absence. Season Three will start on Tuesday 22nd August 2006, and you can purchase a season subcription via iTunes here

The new episode of 'The Ricky Gervais Video Podcast' (number 6) is out now to download on iTunes UK

If you don't have this installed on your computer, you can watch the video podcast via YouTube:

Click here to pre-order the Karl Pilkington book on Amazon.co.uk

Karl Pilkington is currently live on air on BBC 6Music on Russell Brand's radio show, which runs from 10am to 1pm today

You can listen live online here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/6music.shtml

If you miss the show you will be able to use the 'listen again' feature on the BBC site from later today, until next Sunday

Here's how the 6Music website describes the show:

Russell Brand, along with Karl Pilkington, start a brand new show on BBC 6 Music.

Sunday mornings will be an educational experience with SUNDAY SCHOOL where we find out everything there is to know about any topic and in LET ME TELL YOU A STORY, Karl Pilkington explains the story behind the song...this week it's the turn of Rod Stewart's - The Killing of Georgie.

Sunday School
Each week Russell and Karl will pick a random subject to educate the masses about. You can submit your suggestions direct to Russell below.

Email your SUNDAY SCHOOL suggestions to 6Music

Let Me Tell You A Story
In The Ghetto by Elvis, The Killing of Georgie by Road Stewart, both songs that contain stories within the lyrics - but Russell and Karl want your suggestions for the show.

Email your LET ME TELL YOU A STORY suggestions to 6Music

The sixth and final episode of the Ricky Gervais podcast season 2 is out now. You can pick it up from Audible or iTunes

seansvoice has uploaded the second Ricky Gervais video podcast to YouTube:

Direct link to video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FYazLK0MTTI

In the podcast Karl talks about his new book 'Ricky Gervais presents The World Of Karl Pilkington' and you can see him hard at work creating drawings to go with his anecdotes like Auntie Nora's five minute fart :)

The book is out in September and can be pre-ordered from Amazon.co.uk here (priced at £10)

It would appear that Karl might be returning to BBC 6Music as producer on Russell Brand's new Sunday show

A PDF on the BBC website here has the details...

The Russell Brand Show 10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC

Russell Brand joins BBC 6 Music with a new Sunday show that reunites him with the yin to his yang: producer Karl Pilkington.

Essex-born Brand is an award-winning comic, TV presenter and Big Brother aficionado, famous for a frank style of comedy. Karl meanwhile, is a Northern radio producer and raconteur, renowned for sharing his deadpan and leftfield musings on air with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

Despite their very different takes on life, Brand is excited about the prospect of the new weekly show, which promises to be honest, surreal, argumentative and very funny. "Me and Karl will play records and discuss the impact Brokeback Mountain has had on out relationship," he says.

Highlights of the show will be made available for download and podcast each week via the 6 Music website at bbc.co.uk/6music

Presenter/Russell Brand, Producer/Karl Pilkington
BBC 6 Music Publicity

However the BBC 6Music website has Liz Kershaw down on their schedule for this timeslot, so maybe the Rusell/Karl show isn't going ahead?

( Thanks to MickeyAitch on the forum for finding this )

"Having conquered the world with the Office, bagged a hatful of Baftas and Golden Globes, persuaded 3 million people to download his radio show and written an episode of the Simpsons, has the unthinkable happened? Has the Ricky Gervais backlash started?"

continue reading the article (and comments) from Friday's The Guardian...