06 April 2002/Transcript

This is a transcript of the 06 April 2002 episode, from Xfm Series 1

Make Ricky Gervais Laugh

Song: Travis - Flowers in the Window.

Ricky: That was the Travis and some flowers through my window.

Steve laughs

Ricky: This is Xfm 104.9 of a Saturday afternoon, just gone six minutes past one, I'm Ricky Gervais with me Steve Merchant.Hi.

Steve: Hello there, hi good to talk to you.

Ricky: Karl Pilkington is over there.

Karl: Alright.

Ricky and Steve laugh

Steve: Keeps it real.

Ricky: yeh.

Steve: Respect Karl.

Ricky Sighs.

Steve: Rick I just think, you know, we wanna lift off the show straight away.

Ricky: Yep.

Steve: Into the err stratosphere.

Ricky: Yeh.

Ricky laughs

Steve: And erm the best way to do that it seemed to me is to resurrect a game we used to play when we first began the show in old Xfm days .

Ricky: oh yeh.

Steve: do you remember the game, do you remember the game make Ricky Gervais.

Ricky: -rub rub me hard.

Steve: rub you hard? .

Ricky: Oh no.

Steve: No that was only in the pilot we never actually did that live on air.

Ricky laughs

Steve: Um no it was the game make Ricky Gervais laugh.

Ricky: Oh I remember yeh.

Steve: And we used to get people err, Karl you probably didn’t hear it, we used to get people to sort of send in pictures and err jokes and stuff. And if I could make Ricky laugh on air with those.

Ricky: He won a toffee.

Steve: Then they won a gift of some kind.

Ricky: Yeh.

Steve: Anyway erm a lot of emails actually saying people love your laugh Rick, so in a sense were giving people what they want.

Ricky: They must be taking the mickey.

Steve: but this is a picture I found in today’s copy of the sun, so if err you're listening at home and you wanna know what the picture looks like rush out and buy a copy only 40p.

Ricky: Yeh.

Steve: And err.

Ricky: Are we sponsored by the sun, we do white van man... .

Steve: Exactly.

Ricky chuckles

Steve: It amused me straight away this, because bear in mind.

Ricky: Right.

Steve: It is one of the worlds biggest rock stars.

Ricky: Ok.

Steve: Just check out the face.

Ricky laughs

Ricky: Oh that’s fantastic.

Steve: Look at that.

Ricky: Oh that is Michael Stipe oh dear with sort of glasses... looking like I dunno some sort of Nazi officer.

Steve laughs

Ricky: That’s not libellous.

Steve: That’s not libellous, in your opinion Michael Stipe.

Ricky: Yeh.

Steve: He’s outside there during the press conference for peter bucks.

Ricky: It’s not a good picture. I love I think I love REM and I love Michael Stipe I think he’s a lovely man, but that’s a bad picture isn’t it.

Ricky laughs

Steve: He’s got big glasses on and stubble and obvious… he doesn’t appear to be looking at anything he’s looking right beyond everyone else.

Ricky laughs

Steve: Can you see that Karl.

Ricky laughs

{{Steve|I'll tell you who he looks like, he looks like Zig I think from Zig and Zag

Ricky laughs

Steve: He looks like he is a muppet….

Ricky: Well there you go. .

Steve: ..Made of foam.

Ricky: Nice to see that game come back.

Ricky: Yeh .

Steve: A roaring success.

Ricky: on the medium of radio.

Steve: Yeh.

Ricky: Oh what a good picture that is I hope you enjoyed it. Coming up soon we’ve got Sir David of Bowie.

Steve laughs

Ricky: Nicholas cave, err and Travis, Flowers in the Window again.

Steve laughs

Ricky: Play a song.

Karl: Alright .

Song: Daft Punk - Aerodynamic