XFM The Ricky Gervais Show Series 3 Episode 2 - Well, get me in the book

[@rroesash]

This must be one of the best XFM episodes, with Karl slagging off Suzanne's arse, the beginning of the 'bong' headlines, his 'get me in the book' line, and his best 'Karl in a film' with Ricky's laugh killing me.

[@anthonyreed480]

And G-A-Y club, man woman man.

[@jianblundell6038]

And the man woman 😂

[@djtruuump]

This is the best episode no doubt

[@oscarstrokosz2986]

love how you can hear ricky's faint laugh during the film bit

[@Sheriff_GrimLaw]

oscar strokosz Faint? x

[@jayneale8446]

I Drink Therefore I Dram like quiet

[@Scallion_D]

Faint lol. It was so clear.

[@johnemmerling8591]

Jay Neale wqx

[@Raskolnikov32]

Karl is responsible for sending out all the prizes on their show, so listen very carefully to what he does at 41:55 - 42:00 after hearing the winner is in Switzerland. That sigh. Haha. He's not gonna know what to do at the post office. And he'll be moaning about the shipping costs coming out of his pocket.

[@B8rkley]

Great spot!

[@harryjones84]

Haaaa! listened to these so many times n never noticed that

[@odw_99]

Haha that’s class- you know he’d be well pissed off with that, bless him

[@NxDoyle]

Karl bought one or two prizes but I doubt he paid for shipping.

[@thebananamen1026]

That was really subtle but ye he’s pissed

[@alandodd3184]

love Ricky and Steve's little monologues when acting out a scene that they are discussing.

[@robplant5576]

Alan Dodd They are called sketches

[@rhydsnow851]

Or improv!

[@cosmoseinfeld1]

Dialogues

[@alandodd3184]

Ooooooohhhhhh

[@cosmoseinfeld1]

@alandodd3184 haha 7 years after the initial comment, respect brother, do you still listen to these regularly like the rest of us?

[@malloryoscar8]

"cluuuue changes everrytiiime baaabyy, the clue changes eveeerrrryyytiiime"

[@deltaframes-os4km]

unlike the Times crossword the clue changes everytime.

[@sneezydeezymcdeluxe7015]

@@deltaframes-os4km Bob Holness.

[@tomoliver4632]

Destroyed a man

[@tomoliver4632]

Karl the uuuuser pilkington babehhhh

[@leeroyjenkins5754]

@@tomoliver4632 just takes takes takes

[@Mothernatureontherun]

Going to sleep listening to this in 2022! (Australia). I don’t think I’ll ever stop listening to these 3.

[@Venenata]

its crazy right? I'm from Manchester not far from where Karl grew up so i can understand why i like it so much but when i hear people so far away still listen and love it makes me really happy karl is a gift to the world lol

[@AA-hg5fk]

Karl isn't a fan of Australia. Firstly, it's too far away, secondly, it's full of animals that can kill you.

[@uberhaggis]

@@Venenata Still loving karl ricky and steve from new zealand all these years later

[@Venenata]

@@uberhaggis Madness i feel sorry that you guys cant just go to the pub and meet 5 people like Karl lol he is honestly your average bloke from Manchester, intelligent but under educated curious and honest to a fault

[@spazzitronmcgee6254]

This episode should totally be called "Well, get me in the book!"

[@ots1634]

Oh my god! Totally! Go seahawks!

[@kitpalmer1583]

"I've been ill." "...Nothing serious?" I really thought after all these years that wouldn't still make me laugh, but it does.

[@blairforbes1132]

Likewise. Steve was/is so quick with hit wit.

[@shanilemeow2942]

Listen to this on public transport for the maniac look.

[@mickerzsnickerz]

Karl in Kes is not only the best Karl in a Film but probably the greatest thing he has ever done. It's so hilariously clever.

[@Sheriff_GrimLaw]

Ricky's laughter makes it so. x

[@Christophee1987]

Yeah, it's easily the best one, and Ricky's laughter makes it even better.

[@ilcorvo9559]

Followed closely by the Scrooge “garlic bread” moment which is legitimately funny even without Ricky’s laugh

[@harryjones84]

No brilliant as they all are- the One Flew Over is def the best, and not cos its one of my fave films too but either the acting or editing he does when hes reacting to his head being squozed (using the scene where Macs lifting the basin thing) is actually genius

[@bluestevo93]

@@ilcorvo9559 you're absolutely right haha

[@a_b897]

"Sort of man woman..." "...a fella who's a woman..." "...this woman..." "...it's a woman, well it's a man..." "...it's, it's...it is a man...well..." "...it's a man who is now sorta half a woman." Jesus Christ Karl 😆

[@lobsterairsoft499]

Arran Bradstock MAN WOMAN MAN WOMAN MAN TV TV MAN WOMAN MAN TV WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT KARL

[@studkickass513]

Beautifully done!

[@CORNISHDUDE]

Enjoy it while you can... The SJWs of the future will censor Karl's "transphobic" comments

[@AllTheHurt]

@@IAmRedherrings Is it transphobic? I don't think not understanding something or not knowing what sex to classify someone as is in any way transphobic, the only reason sjw's "know" is because that's what they've been told to think in order to avoid hurting feelings because apparently that's the worst thing in the world. At best he's just ignorant since there's obviously no malice behind it.

[@MrMongoose221]

I remember watching the TV show as well at the time 😅

[@Dozzyx]

"You are, right, you are one of the most stupid humans I've ever met." "Well, get me in the book." Brilliant!

[@TheStaggaz32]

Lol. I was laughing for a good solid minute after that.

[@jakehixon4073]

No matter how many times I hear these I still can’t get the rockbuster answers 😂

[@JoeRivermanSongwriter]

Steve was raised on Gay's Road, Bristol in case anybody's wondering.

[@justinkline8437]

"First one was easy- we gave them the answer. That's the easiest one we've ever had."

[@whatbrettdid]

'Po-leece'

[@calstuart8133]

"I've been ill" is the most criminally underrated statement in the whole show

[@Dilkingt0nne]

When Steve’s trying to pass as gay and says “I’ve been ill” then Ricky chuckles and says “nothing serious”….I’m just now getting what he’s getting at haha

[@GhostDrops1]

What is he getting at

[@Dilkingt0nne]

@@GhostDrops1 if you were deaf you would have hearing?…

[@JohnJDurkin]

@@GhostDrops1 is it AIDS?

[@jordanmelling759]

Love jokes being explained

[@willsuttie3683]

​@@Dilkingt0nneCan you say AIDS on youtube?

[@FreshHeat]

Love them slagging off Sky One 🤣 couple years later Idiot Abroad is its feature show

[@liambennion9627]

probably recycled some of their sucking up to the Telegraph material to make up for it during their pitch 😅

[@bsmith6646]

October 2023. Still listening, still laughing. Wonderful stuff

[@daniele551]

Ricky: I’m already not holding out much hope for this working out. Karl: I just messed that first one up.

[@jcrawley1]

The paolo sketch is one of the most underrated bits they ever did on xfm

[@willsuttie3683]

I've... been ill....

[@deltaframes-os4km]

pop ya shirt off.

[@coombzy283]

@@willsuttie3683 Nothing serious?

[@AutomaticDuck300]

20 bender points

[@NickDBaker]

Knobs babyyyyyy

[@digitaldylantoddni]

Rickys laugh in the background of the Movie scene killed me xD

[@FIFA09King]

DigitalDylanToddNI How many times a day does he squoze it 😂

[@vxmarcusxv]

Every rockbusters "karl: it's where I sort of give a cryptic clue" "Ricky: well..."

[@RationalAxis]

Rockbusters, or what am I thinking?

[@BaldMancTwat]

Crap-tic

[@williamsmith666]

"Some of which might be wrong .."

[@jianblundell6038]

Clue changes every time!

[@kieranwhite6647]

'It's a man... well...' Cracks me up every time

[@jadetomlinson95]

"Anyway, rather than reading out the A-Z..."

[@shaunj66]

R: "Ooooooh!" S: "Ooooooh!"

[@williamsmith666]

This got Chris Moyles the Breakfast Show on Radio 1!

[@GooglyEyedJoe]

34:15 - "You are...right? You are...one of the...most stupid humans I have ever met." "Well get me in the book." xD

[@PieBlaCon]

Didn't even delay. Quick wit!

[@tsarenvy]

You can't teach people that sort of comedic sensibility. Karl has it in fucking bags.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

LEGENDARY MOMENT

[@WollongongWacko]

20 bender points!!! Every sentence in these shows are gold.

[@WollongongWacko]

it tents towards infinity.

[@WollongongWacko]

Whats the point of being foreign if you cant speak english?

[@rooty]

I love their nervous laughter when they're talking about Paolo's illness...

[@lilme7052]

I've heard Ricky laugh like that before. He's trying so hard not to laugh out loud

[@samh3920]

Rickys laughing in the background of ‘Karl’s film thing’ gets me every single time

[@conorkennedy3304]

it's funny because it's unexpectedly good.

[@TheLilThr33]

He'll be knocking them in and you'll be.....knocking.....one.....

[@studkickass513]

Right, let's uh....

[@babyshambler]

Karl in Kes is the best thing he ever did. The original dialogue fits perfectly with his inserts and the XFM references. "How do you spell that??" - perfect.

[@conorkennedy3304]

He was really good at stat stuff. It's very clear that he was an editor by trade.

[@gregjordan38]

And instead of saying let's get married they're saying how swollen and red is your arse? No that was me. Gets me every time. Absolutely brilliant

[@sharonska100]

46:34 hearing Ricky laughing in the background is the best moment

[@anthonymadden9470]

This is one of the best episodes

[@brenpereira7971]

Karl's come a long way in his thinking considering he was actually a crossdresser for a day on the Moaning of Life haha

[@kevinbetancourt9033]

I’ve been listening to these three fools for 11 years and 26:50 still makes me laugh like it was my first time.

[@conorkennedy3304]

It's called Mirrium.

[@ReachForTheSky]

My dad took me to the Garfunkels they refer to here, near Piccadilly Circus, when I was little - around the time this was taped actually. Great burger and chips. Unfortunately gone now, think it moved. Rest in peace old man!

[@jamiel.harding4554]

Listening to this during the Covid19 Lockdown. Never fails to make life feel a bit more positive, these shows.

[@jamiel.harding4554]

7 months and I’ve come back around again! Slowly closing in on 2021.

[@jamiel.harding4554]

June 2021. Another six months. Another rotation ✌️

[@jamiel.harding4554]

A year on from my last update - March 2022 - and Russia has invaded Ukraine. Makes these shows all the more important as a welcome distraction.

[@alandodd3184]

Ricky loves the darkness! love these and must be on 50 timed around

[@babyshambler]

"Well, get me in the book" is the quickest, most brilliant response the K-man ever uttered. Genius.

[@kreskinkun]

And he fires it off basically to dismiss Ricky so he can keep prattling, rather than as the golden punchline for the entire segment. It makes it even funnier.

[@capnhawkins]

I would love to see Karl play a game of Rockbusters with Gollum in his dark cave. Both of them hunched over by the water's edge in the dark, their voices echoing. If only the Hobbit films had been released earlier. Karl could've done that for the Film Thing and made the Riddles scene into a game of Rockbusters. Karl would be like "A'ight, you're quite the cheeky little freak."

[@NickDBaker]

What a brilliant idea! We need to tell Manmoth to get on the AI train and make it happen!!

[@jianblundell6038]

"What is a manc twatses?"

[@justinkline8437]

"I was doing that thing- wa'n't I?- with Richard Bacon." "You talk in riddles."

[@Justhas0]

"yh yh yh, darkness" Best intro to any of their podcasts,

[@Scallion_D]

I can't believe Karl struggled so badly to describe Miriam. 😂

[@AA-hg5fk]

It's almost as if Karl is a bit stupid!

[@Lordofthewhyz]

One of my favs

[@4creilly128]

The merchants of gay's street

[@ChenkoTheDog]

ha just round the corning memorial street

[@rooty]

I like how Karl talks about the watch eating bloke again (which I think Ricky mentioned originally), and then Ricky uses the two jokes that Karl came up with the first time!

[@jamesgergely3810]

Rickys laugh in the background when Karls dubbing over kez 😂😂

[@bradleyelvin7426]

"He squoze me head" "How do you spell that?" Every time 😂😂😂

[@djtruuump]

9:15 probably the greatest exchange of the entirety of all the shows!!! Long live the bowling ball brain case

[@capnhawkins]

46:31 "How do you spell that? "Aha-HA-HA-HA..."

[@louisbrennan1012]

He's called Miriam.

[@vinoandretti]

This could be the title...

[@deltaframes-os4km]

man woman man woman man woman tv programme

[@deaks98]

37:12 Karl adopts the ‘acting out a funny sketch’ with Ricky instead of Steve!

[@SN-di9ix]

Ricky saying "does it whistle?" reminds me of Chris Rock on Talking Funny going "does he do the whistle?" So funny

[@adamfelts5355]

Sitting on a cock cause I'm gay. Probably the best song parody that no one ever heard

[@HopeVJustice]

Watching the tide roll away?

[@iansmith8454]

7:31 when Ricky nearly says "that's what normal people go out at"

[@blairmettam7642]

More good work from Man Moth! Hello from Busselton, Australia

[@alexmovies]

the image of Steve cruising down to G.A.Y. with "the lads" to see Britney Spears is still so funny to me all these years later

[@williamsmith666]

Paolo*

[@AutomaticDuck300]

20 bender points?

[@cbirnbaum8584]

Karl plays himself very well in the Karl In Movie bits. Just sounds like he's meant to be in it.

[@josephryan1701]

That suzanne is a lucky lucky lady 😂😂

[@shnoogums1]

Man hey ya by OutKast really brings me back to a simpler time

[@shayww]

I wonder do any of them know that people still listen to these radio broadcasts

[@HaydnG266]

They must, when Stephen Merchant posts anything on Instagram, the comments tends to be relating to these.

[@Scallion_D]

Karl and Steve have referred to it in recent podcasts. And Ricky must do too, he gets XFM related replies to his tweets from time to time.

[@olicurran1785]

14:20 Steve slagging off sky1 not knowing that he’d produce one of the best shows ever on the channel years later

[@bowlofnuggets]

“Never mind Robin Hood, let’s rob Barclays!”

[@thomasbucket7002]

This should be called "Upstairs, he's got a lovely pair of dumplings"

[@CORNISHDUDE]

Episode title should be "Well, get me in the book"

[@ManMoth]

Haha! Consider it done ;-)

[@UnderAGlassMetropolis]

​@@ManMothWhat did you call it before the title change?

[@Osafune2]

Steve: "I love that we can talk about pre-op transsexuals on the radio without fear of complaints..." How times have changed. Their careers would be absolutely destroyed if these shows came out a decade later

[@harryjones84]

SO TRUE

[@harryjones84]

tho ricky wouldnt do anyhting different i think

[@Scallion_D]

Ricky still doesn't give a fuck tbh.

[@CurtachiDKidd]

I love how they spend so long cussing Sky one and that’s the station an idiot abroad was on hahaha

[@vrisvrikkie]

11:22 - Ricky's impersonation of a seagull

[@mu9617]

empleh777 That's the fakest laugh I've ever heard!

[@omikronweapon]

"Is there ANYTHING worth watching on Sky ONE?" The boys did cash their sweet sweet cheques after putting An Idiot Abroad on there XD

[@brianhurley2194]

They should call Ricky the man of a thousand laughs. lol.

[@Voduke789]

11:20 probably among the top 5 Ricky Gervais laughs of all time!

[@HaydnG266]

Hahaha HAAAA. hahaha HAAAA.

[@lobsterairsoft499]

Legendary episode

[@leeroyjenkins5754]

“The upper half is but is the bottom” 😂😂😂 Not arsed, Steve’s funny a fuck

[@trooooololol]

Definitely my fav episode along with the episode with the Antartic scientists LOOL

[@jakohuncho2410]

“I haven’t read up about this” *room erupted into chaos*

[@phil8528]

Steves Terry Wogan speaking style is perfect.

[@aliennostromo1669]

The bongs are my favourite when they pop up

[@harvg123]

Legitimately the only Songs of Phrase I can stand. Not only can I put up with it, I think it's a masterpiece.

[@hustler666100]

songs of phrase? do you mean the film thing. if so this and the scrooge christmas one are best if you get the reference in it and ricky loses it laughing

[@stfnkblm6738]

"This isn't that good but: some fella pulls a train with his teeth" Sounds pretty impressive to me

[@flud6699]

The headlines are classic - "bong"

[@adamfelts5355]

I always bust out laughing at 'give us another bong"

[@AL13NM]

"you're ill." LOL!!!

[@ThePaynes2022]

never mind robin rood, lets rob barcleys. too long for a title?

[@ManMoth]

lcfckid Haha, it's a good un... It might be a bit too long though.

[@TheClassicWorld]

Man Moth Here's a title. I'll buy you a new hair-cut and that.

[@C-R-l-M-S-O-N]

+Man Moth what about "let's have a talk about her fat arse"

[@flud6699]

+lcfckid +man moth "get me in the book" or "bong!"

[@TheBunniechannel]

+- FreeFlow - yeh i like her fat arse :p or MAN WOMAN, WOMAN MAN, TV.

[@jenspyck]

FYI: the street Steve was referring to was probably "King Dick's Lane"

[@thedarksiderebel]

nope, it was Gay's Road

[@kiteracer95]

the man who's sort of half a woman Karl in Kes Paolo This teletubby has got lice classic episode

[@drake128]

22:47 I'm sure Steve presses that button . You hear a chair and his voice moves likes he's gone round the desk

[@jacobtanswell3601]

You can tell Steve’s intellect changes. He’s gone from reading “white van man” in the Sun to reading the Evening Standard and the Telegraph

[@FDCLDN]

Be good if they come together for more podcasts.

[@AutomaticDuck300]

Ricky has said that Karl has grown up and learned the error of his ways, so they're not going to make more podcasts because it wouldn't work today. Karl isn't as much of a fool any more as he was so it wouldn't be as funny or work as a concept.

[@Crunch_Buttsteak]

@@AutomaticDuck300 that's sad

[@Scallion_D]

Think they've done enough tbh. 4 series of XFM, all the podcasts and Idiot Abroad. Can't have the same sort of shtick forever as great as they were.

[@UnbelievablyGauche]

Is there a top ten ranking of the best xfm shows voted on by the fans listening to them 15 years later?

[@ManMoth]

That’s a good idea, I’ll have a think on how to do it

[@beback_]

The role-plays are usually Ricky and Steve, it was fun to hear Karl do it too with the Butthole Rd thing.

[@SaikyRae]

thanks for uploading these👍

[@Dilkingt0nne]

The place name “Cliterhouse drive” sets you up for the easiest most boring predictable joke ever, I’m genuinely proud of these three for resisting the urge to make it

[@odw_99]

"Family sick of living on Butthole Road"

[@HopeVJustice]

*BONG!!!* "Cow hit by train lands on farmer's wife!" :o

[@IAnddyyI]

The2011Collector as eelpout

[@rbeck3200tb40]

.

[@michae13james10]

“ it’s nice how you can talk about transsexuals and gays without offending “ 21 years later ......

[@CW-qx7qn]

Imagine if this episode came up in 2020 their careers would be over and they would have been lynched by the left lolol

[@Scallion_D]

@not me Yeah. Ricky's still the same.

[@pogfish26]

love that I'm in Switzerland now listening to it all these years later😅

[@gary5244]

Who did you want to win the war?

[@pogfish26]

@@gary5244 what?

[@bengreen1144]

Great this one is

[@capnhawkins]

46:58 "Swivels, write that on the board."

[@ianinkster2261]

Reminds of that summer of 2004 watching those two digital music channels that existed, showing things like Outkast and Natasha Bedingfield 24/7.

[@Daviddanielstoday]

The guy who said his secondary school was on a road called Bell End must have gone to my school but been about 7 years above me, what a small world

[@HaydnG266]

Ricky stole that "how did they time him" comment from Karl in a previous episode.

[@garyttomo1641]

lol I think you can just hear Karl laughing at "can you hear it whistle"