XFM The Ricky Gervais Show Series 2 Episode 48 - It got 'airier

The Ricky Gervais Show Broadcast 26th July 2003.
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[@ManMoth]

Hey guys, sorry for pinning this comment on all videos but I want to give you an update on the channel. I've been slowly adding a show archive to the videos including a full transcript added as sub titles and a full track listing (with links to KZbin videos for each track). Pilkipedia archive link has been added as well and I've been having fun illustrating some of KP's best bits, I'm adding these to a shop incase anyone is interested: www.man-moth.com/ It's taking me a while to update the archives, especially as I don't work Mondays so please bear with me as I chip away at it. Lots of love, Man Moth.

[@liammarley8995]

0⁰😊⁰0⁰000⁰ĺl00😊

[@michaelmccann6430]

Whos listening during lockdown 2020?

[@omikronweapon]

always mate

[@jimmystooge]

Who is listening now but would have been listening anyway?

[@phillemos6514]

I thought i was the only one...

[@Sightation]

Thank God for xfm Karl during lockdown.

[@peebs7753]

Listening Dec 2020 👍

[@yossarian1979]

theres something relaxing with these guys just chatting it up. When life is stressful, listening to Ricky, Steve, and Karl, make me realize life's not all bad =)

[@WollongongWacko]

amen

[@jenanahulu]

same

[@HopeVJustice]

[@charleslovegrove834]

literally these 3 got me through my 3rd year exams! everytime it got to much it was relaxing to just listen to take my mind of it

[@somemong989]

Yep. I can't hear the names Ricky Gervais, Steven Merchant and Karl Pilkington spoken together without immediately feeling better. Been listening for years, after a few months away I come back and have an enjoyable binge at work.

[@a_b897]

18:50 Ricky Screaming "NOOOO!" in disbelief is perfect 😂

[@a_b897]

Just went to comment about that scream and saw I already commented about it 2 years ago on a previous round of listening!

[@MrHappyclappy123]

Arran Bradstock that’s hilarious 😂 I wish there were more of these

[@PaulFindlaybmx]

The noise he makes at 19:07 as well has me in stitches 🤣

[@michelefaydobb7247]

Arran Bradstock Yeah-I subliminally must have used it in a reply above.

[@lechill6920]

"oh yeah she didn't quite see the cyclist!......ahahahahahaaha" cracks me that bit

[@bluemethbunny]

Since I was a teenager I've listened to these podcasts, sometimes on easy days, sometimes on days so difficult I'll never forget them. Walking home from school laughing to them, on the bus at 5am after something traumatic, now I'm 27 and still, I'm listening to them, on easy days and the difficult ones. I sometimes wonder how they feel about the impact they still have and if they even care, the thing is with art is it stays with you and lives on once you stopped. And though, many will argue that this cannot be art, to me the way its lived one proves nothing but. Chimpanzee that MONKEY NEWS HE'S ONLY GONE AND WRITTEN IT DOWN THE FU- AHHH!!!

[@MS2K02]

Well said

[@pewerjenius]

This is actually a radio show. See, back in the old days ... we didn't have podcasts. We had radio shows. I AM DYING FASTER THAN I'D LIKE AND IT MAKES ME MAD.

[@UnderAGlassMetropolis]

I started listening in 2010 when I was 20, I'm 34 this year, time flies too fast.

[@complainerino9121]

10 years for me. 26 now. Still love these @@UnderAGlassMetropolis

[@adamskiyo]

I don't like how fast time flies

[@stfnkblm6738]

Any underprivileged people, you're all brilliant.

[@zoepertom]

Except for the bad ones, remember the bad ones?

[@Super_tramp142]

Smerch making fun of woke culture back in the early 00s

[@Melbourne_Approach]

@@zoepertom ohh evil one's

[@gtpliquid1290]

@@zoepertom Not the bad ones. The bad ones can go f-.. y'know what I mean?

[@Christoff070]

Foreigners all the mad shit they get up to

[@leem4336]

I adore these shows. I like the little community we have in the comments too, very rare not to see hate, bile and vitriol down there! I just hope the guys don't take them off youtube.

[@ManMoth]

+Lee moorhouse I know, everyone who comments on these is proper cool. Really enjoy going though them all.

[@rooboy2846]

+Lee moorhouse also very refreshing these days to listen to a show without the political correctness..im sure this is part of its success.

[@adamsubtract81]

+Man Moth Mad, innit.

[@WollongongWacko]

I love us too.

[@steph5492]

+Lee moorhouse fact.

[@graysonridge4080]

Ricky’s gradual escalation from bewilderment to anger starting at 28:20 is priceless.

[@vividhkothari1]

One of his best reactions, for me.

[@ofrenic]

@@vividhkothari1 he doesn't even finish sentences he's that annoyed and confused

[@henrydaly4161]

"There's a lot of people just coming up behind there though, Graham Norton, he's just approaching... from behind" - Absolute gold. 2:45

[@NatS3703]

Makes me burst everytime 😅

[@anonymousguy9643]

Ricky was on absolute fire in this episode

[@lilme7052]

Alcohol its called

[@kaiplotnikoff9169]

Well he's the king of the single entendre BUT WE CAN DOUBLE IT UP IF YOU LIKE

[@odw_99]

When Ricky's singing The Beatles, "I wouldn't dance with another... ARRRRRGGHHHH"😂

[@kraken589]

The2011Collector now listen here you hippie Well not yet

[@rashhuman]

There's a Japanese bird outside...

[@omikronweapon]

not interested. And I'd never change my mind on that.

[@kitpalmer1583]

I love "I Saw Her Standing There" but after listening to this so many times it's very hard to hear that song without laughing

[@williamsmith666]

"Sateliiiite..." Ah-WOOOOOO!!!

[@kevinflemming5928]

"Karl, you better press the knob to start the record. . . . . . . . . Spunk."

[@benmartin4489]

I honestly cried with laughter

[@AutomaticDuck300]

He’s the king of the single entendre but we can double it up if you want!

[@allegrot438]

Ricky and Steve are on fire at the beginning of this one!

[@bluetimmy24]

+Freedomz soon went downhill haha

[@fiwen9673]

+Tim Staples lol

[@RT-ks2zi]

@@bluetimmy24 once the little orange got involved

[@Christoff070]

Foreigners and all the mad sh1t they get up to

[@abbysomnia624]

The "LIKE TARZAN" from Steve at 34:46 is SO FUNNY. I just spit out my drink.

[@MrCheeseycs]

Still good 2023

[@Rickzenbackzer]

The monkey trio: Karl has the brain of a monkey, Steve has the eyes of a monkey, and Ricky sounds like a monkey 52:00 hahaha.

[@maxbateman8176]

Alright don’t have a go at the eyes

[@bobsapp4119]

@@maxbateman8176 let’s get ourselves a grow bag and grow ourselves a lanky goggled eyed freak

[@tomsharpe2251]

Think no evil see no evil speak no evil

[@joeparsenal7252]

Turns out… little monkey trio

[@pocketjeffs]

every few months I come back and listen and it's never not funny

[@jackhenstridge2718]

One of the best episodes. I literally listen to all these series on repeat over the course of the year. I love them. My wife thinks I'm insane but I laugh every time. Thanks Man Moth

[@wddilly8488]

8 years later and I’m still listening to these

[@jjooonneeess]

22 years later** 😄

[@danielbuckley7686]

As a northerner, I absolutely love it when Ricky imitates a northern accent. I don't know why, but moments like 39:14 make me laugh so much!

[@Sonatanian]

Thank you Man Moth for sharing! Greetings from Norway to all fellow Pilkerslovers! 😄

[@davet2825]

“Turns out they’d been sold a chimp”. I am in tears!

[@TheRantsOfABookWorm]

Man Moth you're a bloody ledge. thanks for putting these up

[@ManMoth]

+TheRantsOfABookWorm That's alright :-)

[@jcrawley1]

You could not scrut a chinaman for love nor money!

[@Christoff070]

Unscrutable

[@WillWivellAnimator]

"Don't send 'im back t'jungle; let 'im set off on 'is orn! Bodgit, wibble and podge!"

[@justinkline8437]

Makes me laugh every time I hear it and every time I read your comment.

[@Truffle_Pup]

If this is the first time you've listened to this, the first 4 minutes will set you Right up. Pure gold. Rickys hangover droll is a thing of beauty

[@lilme7052]

Think it's still happening

[@bourneultamatum]

The first ten minutes before Karl talks is absolute gold this episode!

[@blackfoot332]

I love Ricky's "deep sarcasm", as I'll call it, like in 0:48-1:05. Whenever he says something with the last of his breath or really fast it's usually gold.

[@jackglossop4859]

It’s so true. Anything he says at the end of his breath kills me.

[@LukasOfTheLight]

AND SAY THERE WAS A MONKEY WHO WAS AN ASTRONAUT AT FIVE TO THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@KingLoftiVII]

Easily the funniest first 10 minutes of anything

[@stoox006]

KP looks after me!

[@JSCwrd]

I'm a KP nut

[@StardawgGuava]

26:48 is hands down one of THE best Gervais laughs ever

[@jianblundell6038]

The gibbon call he makes 🤣

[@regista4]

I love the one at 30:35 where he goes up at the end

[@lukebradley4660]

2:48 "Graham Norton-he's just approaching from behind"

[@BggProductions]

THEY'RE BORN HAIRY!!

[@Milan_Smidt]

BggProductions mad innit

[@justinkline8437]

"That was good, last night when we were in the plane." "No, that was a dream."

[@johnhill2176]

Oh yeah where's me cornflakes...

[@truely12]

Ricky gives Karl all these hypothetical questions & even says "It's a hypothetical question, Karl" yet when Karl has one he doesn't have any of it🤣

[@fefeeffefeff8237]

cutting edge, hard hitting political episode, this is the high brow stuff i really enjoy

[@bowlofnuggets]

satire

[@feelthejoy]

"Queen: Don't Stop Me Now, we're 'havin' a good time... an' that" LOL

[@HopeVJustice]

Heheheh!

[@samjefferson2642]

The irony of Chirs Moyles now being a Radio X presenter

[@colonelwangstaff7870]

True.

[@sjn6704]

Sam Jefferson both Ricky and Steve have done interviews with him since. Moyles even confronted Steve on his comments

[@ste_the_humanps498]

S JN can't be bothered finding it but if you remember....what did moyles say to Steve and what was Steve's response haha

[@conkersdeepful]

Ste_The_Human PS4 it’s here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4fZoo2Bd9KVgdE

[@JB-wy8fc]

Agreed!

[@leftsidedrive_]

17:21 "tell me why tell me why tell me why" For some reason I laugh at the image of karl listening to reggae

[@CORNISHDUDE]

BONUS ROCKBUSTER NWNC If ya learn what a female is your eyes will be dry

[@samwebb5329]

CORNISHDUDE know woman, no cry, that one works Karl.

[@dopegar]

Omg the beginning, Neil Youn-j, Graham Norton coming up behind... Just magical !!

[@williamwhite2971]

26:51 probably the most interesting Ricky laugh I've ever heard.

[@DAN420.]

Like an animal call.

[@jianblundell6038]

His battle cry before wrestling

[@sirjambon]

Agree with Steve about Madam Tussauds. Absolutely pointless attraction

[@TheEpicFaliGamer]

SirJambon it's art innit

[@garctown]

Whats art about that?

[@KOIncRs]

garctown Karl Pilkington presents 'what's art about that?'

[@YourOwnDa]

It's not bad for a one off just to say you've been but I wouldn't go again

[@Incurious_]

You get to see how tall you are in comparison? Summit to do.

[@Yorkshireneanderthal]

Who's listening in lock down 2032

[@williamsmith666]

You're eight years too early. Blights happen every 20 years.

[@adrianjones2209]

Never get tired of any episode ..just go back and back...always cheers me up .cheers 4 upload..lets hope they reunite for 1 more 👍

[@Theianguy]

Cannot be scruted had me in tears.

[@benhart6183]

Still lockdown.. still listening.. still my favourite episode ❤️💯👍🤣 coming up from just... approaching from behind 🤣🤣by the way any underprivileged ppl your brilliant overprvelleged ooh??¡??!!pmsl..still..

[@Melbourne_Approach]

How many times do steve and karl decide whether it's easier to get the song or the artist in songs of phrase hahaa

[@gavinmurchie4988]

I fall asleep to these. And everytime I get to this epiosde, without fail, I get woken up at 18:55

[@tetsuoshima7385]

Happened to me this week mate.😂

[@NatS3703]

God bless you for uploading these :) I listen to em 24/7

[@Milan_Smidt]

Pudding Brain me too. I ask myself sometimes: Is this even healthy anymore? i know all of them by heart.

[@MrMongoose221]

I've had the flu for 4 days and just having these xfm shows on a playlist has helped me through it and make it alot easier

[@RT-ks2zi]

my favourite ever episode, broadcasted the day I was born

[@davidrankin5673]

Thanks again dude. Tucked up and ready for another episode.

[@jimmystooge]

+david rankin I never got this. I've listened to them a lot, so I use them now to walk around and clear my head to, but I couldn't ever sleep to Karl saying deranged things and Ricky Screeching. Do you use earphones?

[@davidrankin5673]

+jimmystooge I actually use an mp3 pillow, which is basically a small speaker inside a pillow. Love it haha

[@jimmystooge]

+david rankin Wow, what a time to be alive! but... surely Ricky's crazy cackle keeps your kips on the cusp?

[@JB-wy8fc]

I listen to them to sleep but I must admit Ricky's laugh has woke me up on more than one occasion haha

[@Scallion_D]

@@jimmystooge Yeah I don't get this either!

[@jannefidde]

I wish they could have continued with the conversation on ”if KP was a president” they had such a nice flow there and I wonder where else the conversation could have gone if there weren’t any breaks....ahhh I love these videos, keep coming back to these.

[@rachelectroDC-84]

I feel the same way when Karl questioned Ricky, who said that cavemen and dinosaurs didn't exist even remotely at the same time. Karl said "well who gave the dinosaurs their names?", and I so wanted them to delve further into that insanely hilarious question! XD

[@martinsndergaard2229]

How this still makes me laugh out loud after all this time amazes me

[@samsambo]

Ricky says Karl wonders why people in wheelchairs don’t play swingball instead of tennis. Years later, Ricky writes a scene in Derek where a man in a wheelchair plays swingball with Karl’s character, Dougie.

[@chester6514]

The first 10 minutes of this is such subtle satire that it strikes me that no one could say that stuff today for fear of being cancelled. Even though we all know the target of that joke was how ignorant the British are of Chinese culture, because the target was ‘Chinese people’, it would cause a riot. Imagine if we could still enjoy intelligent humour like that these days. It’s such a shame that there is essentially going to be less laughter in the world as a result of mobs of toddlers on Twitter who insist on being miserably offended on a permanent basis. It’s taken us 20 years to get to this point, hopefully it doesn’t take another 20 to get back there.

[@dealwithit2789]

Really good for listening to in bed to go to sleep :)

[@danallen2621]

Deal With It Until Ricky's laugh wakes you up :p

[@dealwithit2789]

Exactly haha

[@jonathanwiddowson8652]

This is why I can't listen to season 1 at night - Rickys mike is way louder than Karls

[@15-Peter-20]

That's what I do every night

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

used to listen to these religiously back when I would download from limewire and transfer to my phone in the pre smart phone days when they barely had any memory so I would have to transfer a few at a time, my job at the time included a lot of travelling by car so they were a godsend when I realised i could hook my phone up to the car speakers via the tape deck with a cassette with a wire coming from it (that's how long ago it was) . A lot easier these days thanks to youtube premium but I do miss those days

[@DannyBoy...]

18:55 noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@odd-looking-dude]

2023 and still playin one every night.

[@rthomas201011]

I also use these to get to sleep. Rickys laugh wakes me up and annoys my wife but if I put headphine on I wake up all tangled with wires around my neck. What a way to go, the last thing id hear is a little manc twat 'arping back!

[@WollongongWacko]

haha, I share your pain

[@kygodragon4782]

Airpods.

[@sneezydeezymcdeluxe7015]

Surely you don't listen to these in bed without earphones? My Mrs would go fucking nuts if I did that.

[@alexiscondit898]

I love how serious Karl takes being president, especially after he gets fed up and Steve goes, KP looks after me.

[@derek5395]

Alright then

[@historyben7122]

I listen to these whenever I'm moving flats (which I end up doing pretty much every year). I always find moving to be a pretty depressing experience, but these guys always cheer me up.

[@Wagoo]

Have you ever found a flat with the mythical working boiler?

[@benoneill4318]

When karl says 'mad init' he knows its bollocks and is just taking the piss out of ricky😂

[@studkickass513]

Y'all should have seen my girlfriend's face when they said "A Chinaman or a Chinaman-woman"

[@carlosf2807]

i thought that i had heard them all three times at least before this em...thanks bro

[@NatS3703]

I always smirk at the idea of Karl ruffling round his office for a prize, he sees a piece of carpet, mouse mat (and thinks to himself 'maybe give that away another week'. Then just rips out a giveaway from the paper and thinks 'that'll do... And that'

[@alanthe2]

I love the venom in Steve’s voice when Ricky talks over him as he tries to read out the email address.

[@hankochai]

How many times did Ricky say “we’re never doing this again” about Monkey News and Rockbusters?

[@capnhawkins]

Bodget, wibble, and PODGE!

[@hornylorney8150]

The title should definitely be about Graham Norton approaching from behind

[@rogerfiorentino3024]

Steve is the funniest

[@Benfamir]

Just in time for bed again. Nice one.... Again 😏😏🔝

[@kygodragon4782]

You mean you listen to these when asleep, that's pretty pointless.

[@mcharles1814]

Change the title to 'Chinaman-woman born in Chinaland'.

[@kaiplotnikoff9169]

Ooooorrrr someone who works in a chip shop but were definitely born in Chinaland.

[@jusesjimmybars]

less time had elapsed between that snoop track and this episode of the show than between this episode of the show and now. weird innit?

[@sneezydeezymcdeluxe7015]

"It's not whether we can choose our choices, you know..." Steve: He knows all this! Lmao.

[@LouieC]

The way Ricky berates Karl at 28:13 is legendary

[@alandodd3184]

Karl doesn't speak for the first ten minutes. including music and ads he mustn't have spoken for the first twenty minutes on this Saturday

[@ascky1]

You should probably press the knob to play the record... Spunk

[@dassteam]

18:45 Ricky's reaction makes me laugh every time.

[@toadfeet4176]

19:08 FFFfffFrRaughf

[@lifeofwij4351]

Can't believe I have listed to all of these up to here so far 😂😆💯

[@kygodragon4782]

⭐

[@barringtonfisher87]

that "NOOOO" scream at 18:55 cracked me up. Karl could do standup

[@kygodragon4782]

Karl's too good for stand up He does sit down

[@McKayonaise]

Ricky's reaction at 18:50 - funniest moment in XFM history.

[@kygodragon4782]

Incorrect.

[@tomsharpe2251]

@@kygodragon4782then what is?

[@adrianjones2752]

First 7mins absolute gold. Cant say stuff like that anymore

[@jongil6379]

"I'm not getting involved, I don't want to offend anyone." Proceeds to play songs of phrase 😅

[@DunkeysLongLostSon]

Oh don't tal- ARE YO- ARE YOU MENTAL?!

[@julienblower7452]

the fella in karate kid was 52 years old, and he wasn't even chinese !

[@cazafrazz]

I wish they would come back to radio X (as it's called now) for a special one off! :)

[@MrSilkable]

They change every week whether they want the songs or artists for Songs Of Phrase 🤣

[@jenanahulu]

26:46 Ricky's best laugh

[@andrewseguin9443]

This is my favourite episode

[@vinoandretti]

"Mad 'innit"... I'm weak. 😂😂😂

[@ollyreillux9985]

It will never fail to make me laugh when Ricky and Steve slag off Moyles

[@Scallion_D]

Haha that NOOOOO will always be iconic lol.

[@Milan_Smidt]

the gentleman sits by the stream of fish 绅士坐在鱼流 the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 快速的棕色狐狸跳过懒狗

[@WollongongWacko]

genius, nice work

[@Sheriff_GrimLaw]

Hello : Herro Bloody : Bruddy Silly : Sirry Fly : Fry Idiot : Iriot x

[@Milan_Smidt]

BigJamook Get's you by in Peking

[@GerryBolger]

+BigJamook That's just razy lacism...

[@wolfie498]

Racist, me no rikey!

[@craigstarling1473]

The cue up episode to the funniest songs of phrase ever made and possibly best competition to ever be broadcasted on radio

[@dwaynepipe6387]

Do ya know what I like? .... foreigners.. and all the mad shit they get up to 😂

[@dale2442]

*NOOOOOOO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING*

[@tonytutone2003]

Am listening in 2023. I really want the trio to do a retrospective episode revisiting the ’facts’ and subjects covered in series 2.