Xfm Shows

The Ricky Gervais Show on XFM

The Ricky Gervais Show is a humorous show starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington. The show started in November 2001 on XFM, and aired in weekly periods for months at a time throughout 2002, 2003, 2004, and the summer of 2005.

Series 1

The first series of the Ricky Gervais show ran from late 2001 to 4 May 2002. The earliest recording found so far is from 10 Nov, but comments made make it clear that the show had already been on for a few weeks. It featured amusing features such as, Ricky's Film Review, Run for the Covers, Educating Karl, Hip-hop Hooray, Song for the Lovers and more.

Main article: Series 1 on XFM

Series 2

The second installment of the Ricky Gervais Show ran from 24th of August 2002 to 16th of August 2003. More features were added of the monkey origin, such as Monkey News and Cheap as Chimps. Also, the highly popular and widely talked about Rockbusters also took root during this series. Karl turned the table on Ricky and begun Educating Ricky, which was more telling Ricky illogical and made-up stories from Hannova. Karl also begun interviewing scientists about keeping animals that he feels should no longer exist on the feature Do We Need 'em. Equally disturbing and deranged as Do We Need 'em became the brainchild and potentionally offensive feature Cheeky Freak Of The Week, and other features such as Karl in a Film and Songs of Phrase were added.

Main article: Series 2 on XFM

Series 3

The third installment of the Ricky Gervais Show ran from 1st of November 2003 to 17th of Janury, 2004.

Main article: Series 3 on XFM

Series 4

The final of the XFM series ended on a high-note as they were recording during Live-8. The Series ran from 28th of May 2005 to 2nd of July, 2005.

Main article: Series 4 on XFM