Trivia / The Ricky Gervais Show

• Corpsing: Karl had trouble getting through one Monkey News segment because Ricky kept making him laugh.
• Defictionalization: If you google "show me things you don't see", the first result is a picture of an old man having a twix.
• Production Posse: Ricky, Stephen and Karl have worked together on several projects including Extras, An Idiot Abroad, Cemetery Junction and The Invention of Lying.
• Technology Marches On: One original 1998 series episode had Ricky and Steve run a three-in-a-row track set primarily for listeners to record onto a compilation cassette. Needless to say that the on-set Youtube and digital media devices now make this really funny to listen to.
  • Numerous episodes of the 2001-2003 years had discussions about emails being better or worse than fax machines. Also numerous discussions by Ricky and Steve lamenting the Internet and how it's only for 'mentalists or computer geeks'. Listening to this around a decade later is rather amusing.
• Throw It In!: In one of the podcasts, Ricky's intro keeps getting interrupted by Steve's chair and Karl's mic checks. It even ended up in the animated version.
  • The entire inclusion of Karl in the show is because Ricky realised how unintentionally funny his producer was.
• What Could Have Been: If Karl had got any of the previous jobs he applied for (like for Granada), then the world would never have heard his musings and Ricky and Steve's careers would be rather different.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: The podcasts used to be put online for free for a period before being uploaded to iTunes for sale. So many fans complained about them charging for something that was once free that Ricky got annoyed and now they charge right out of the gate.

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