Podcast Series 1

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After nearly five years on Xfm, Ricky, Steve, and Karl decided to move their popular London radio show into the realm of the podcast. Beginning in late 2005, the first series of the Ricky Gervais Show would go on to become the most successful podcast in the world. Though it was initially available as a free download through Guardian Unlimited, the series is now being sold on iTunes and audible.com.

List of Episodes

	Title	Release Date	Length
	Series 1 Episode 1	5 December 2005	31:36
	The boys embark on the first episode of their strange journey, peddling Karl to the rest of the world. Topics such as flies, condoms, tankards, dinosaurs, and space monkeys are discussed. It's good to be back.
	Series 1 Episode 2	12 December 2005	32:40
	Not a show for the easily offended, this show primarily features knob talk. The boys flex their censor-free format going over sex aids and nudists. And apparently a load of Cambodian midgets died.
	Series 1 Episode 3	19 December 2005	31:28
	This episode features a double-dose of monkey related features and a probing into Karl's thoughts on nature, evolution, and reproduction.
	Series 1 Episode 4	26 December 2005	36:20
	It's the last show of 2005 and the gang discusses Christmas, gifts, spacemen and more. Karl gives some of his most infamous quotes, including "bungled in" and "Chinese Homeless Fella".
	Series 1 Episode 5	2 January 2006	40:42
	Karl Pilkington finally gets quoted after almost five years on the air, as his personal mantra floods the internet.
	Series 1 Episode 6	9 January 2006	32:30
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	Series 1 Episode 7	16 January 2006	30:52
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Episode Eight

Tuesday 17th January 2006

Monday 23rd January 2006

Length: 33:54

• Introduces 'The Diary Of Karl Pilkington' which was started during his holiday in Gran Canaria. Karl writes down his thoughts in a huge desk diary which according to Ricky is "about a foot long".

• Karl wants to invent a watch that can predict your own death, but as usual there is no research to suggest this is even remotely possible - "just pop it on your wrist".

• Karl remarks that among the guests in his hotel there are the most cross-eyed people he has ever seen in one place, and the after-dinner entertainment consists of "watching the local cat lick its bollocks".

• Karl compares the reasoning of his holiday to the moon landing, claiming "you have to find out for yourself" what a place is like, rather than asking a travel agent.

• Karl's diary: Karl considers whether "people think in their accent" or not, prompting Ricky to attempt to explain the human consciousness to Karl.

• Something interesting of note in this episode is that Ricky, Steve and Karl all seem to have forgotton an old XFM show where Karl had previously already explained his "dad's mates'" nicknames. 'In the show Karl mentioned that he found "Jimmy the Hat" an odd nickname considering he had never seen him in a hat, despite only seeing him once or twice. Ricky and Steve made light of this, suggesting that perhaps the nickname was an ironic one.

Years later Karl has rather bizarrely (and hilariously), taken this joke and confused it with his own memories, insisting that he was indeed called "Jimmy the Hat" because he never wore a hat.

Karl: "And... Jimmy the Hat, who..."

Steve: "Jimmy the Hat"?

Karl: "Yeah."

Steve: "And did he always wear a hat?"

Karl: "No he didn't, that, that was the point there. That he never wore a hat."

Ricky: "That's amazing!"

Steve: "Brilliant."

Ricky: "How can you pick up on someone never wearing a hat?!"

It is uncertain whether Ricky, Steve or Karl are aware of this mix-up, but it certainly wouldn't be the first time Karl has recollected misinformation and replaced facts and events with conjecture.

Monkey News - Chimps at the Winter Olympics...

Also Steve describes an email from the people at Positive Internet, saying that the podcast may make it to the Guinness Book of World Records. This leads to a discussion of weird world records, such as running around with a milk bottle on your head, or the biggest josstick disaster.

Episode Nine

Monday 30th January 2006

Length: 30:54

Ricky and Steve lament that they didn't charge for the podcasts in light of the huge numbers of downloads; Steve especially wanted "to charge silly money". Ricky thinks that people e-mailing pictures of Karl's round head to him is a waste of the internet's capabilities.

Question for Karl - Who, of Ricky and Steve, would Karl choose to rescue if he could only save one of their lives? Karl weighs up the pros and cons of each option (musing on an argument he had with Steve regarding change from a shared lunch). Karl cannot make up his mind.

Karl's Diary - Restaurant visit, Karl describes Steve's octopus dish. Karl's rule of thumb is that he only eats things that look nice while they are alive.

Monkey News - What do you do when all airplane pilots in the world go on strike ?

Episode Ten

Monday 6th February 2006

Length: 32:40

Show begins with Ricky suggesting the podcast being renamed the Karl Pilkington show. Followed by Karl's theory on marriage; you should meet other people with the same surname as you. "Do a search on like... other Pilkington's. If they look alright, yeah, I’ll go out with her. Job done. Don't ever have to worry about getting married 'n' that"

Questions for Karl. If you could talk to any animal, which would it be and why? Karl chooses the tortoise because "They'd've loadsa stories". If you had a time machine, to what event in your childhood would you travel back to and why? (After a lot of consternation) "Right, here ya are. I nearly died once, didn't I. On a aah, on an ice pop. Right now maybe if I would've died I'd say well let's gets go back to that and I won't have an ice pop (Followed by a lot of consternation)".

Steve then informs us of the growing trend of wearing adult diapers on trains in China. This sparks Karl's childhood reminiscences on the subject. "Me mam knew that I didn't like nappies n that. I used to go, just in the corner, just near the kitchen. In this thing, like a litter tray". Karl then reveals to us his knowledge of Chinese inventions being the cat mop and "hats with umbrellas on em".

Karl's Diary; Section temporarily redacted. (You can't delete the internet.)

Monkey news: another ingenuous account involving a simian riding an equine on race day to appease a gangster's wrath.

Episode Eleven

Monday 13th February 2006

Length: 33:22

Ricky informs Karl on his new found international celebrity status. And that he is now a "Global Village Idiot". Karl asks why people in India are worried about it when "they are hungry and it's dusty". Karl talks about what he would change in schools and that they should askng philosophical questions "to freak them out a bit" and then claims that there is a dishwasher on Mars. Ignoring the logic of Ricky and Steve, he rambles on and suggests dinosaurs should be introduced to keep population in check.

Reminisces about fight over a girl at age of seven and chipping a boy's tooth on sink.

Karl asks if we would have wings if the plane hadn't been invented; this conversation evolves to him asking what year it would be if we changed planet and that we should not change the hours and when told that would be scientifically impossible, claims he's "never worried about it like this". Before claiming sloths need to stop being so lazy. In his diary Karl explores the different forms of Doppleganger "some time thing" and asks why Ducks don't use their wings much.

In Monkey News describes how a man with bad eyes who can't afford surgery misreads "Chimp Doctors" in a paper as "Cheap Doctors" and has his surgery peformed by a chimp despite the fact they have no opposable thumbs.

Episode Twelve

Monday 20th February 2006

Length: 32:04

• The discussion of the podcasts in the Guinness World Records Book leads to a discussion about Karl's head
• Karl tells the story of how he met his girlfriend
• Karl ponders about the possibilities of being trapped inside the body of various animals
• Monkey news about Enos the chimponaut