These long interviews absolutely get the best out of Ricky.

Rewatching many of these sessions as well as some I had previously overlooked, in 2020, and really miss the video/audio format and great guests . . . Hope they can eventually return to this great podcast!

Rewatching old episodes and watching new ones I hadn’t seen before, peace and love in 2023

It's 2024 and Ricky has a podcast in England. He is doing bits of what he talks about here. He is unique and fascinating to listen to. He has no guests but does comment on messages people send in. The Office, Extras, he is a super talented guy. All the best from Mark in Australia. I've watched all of yours too Kevin. 💎💎 two great comedians.

Another very interesting chat with Ricky. He has an amazing work ethic. It's obvious that he is feeling really ill but he'd still never cancel a gig or not turn up for the interview because of it.

Ricky hit the nail on the head with Muppet Christmas Carol.

One of my favorite interviews along with Tom Hanks, Ricky Gervais is incredibly honest and insightful.

The early internet was far far better than what we have now tbh

These are brilliant conversations . . way more people should be into this.

Luvit and much thanks for expanding my universe

Thanks Kevin for some excellent entertainment 👍

"So you are saying that there won't be any rockbusters?" 😂 exactly why i won't tune in for a while. Still listening to Karl for the 5th time on the old xfm's

Would really love to see Rick'a on the Norm MacDonald Show

Still don't understand why this wasn't more popular.

That tiny little fold on the top of Kevin's hat band in the middle of his head drove me crazy the entire time.

RG introduction at 04:00.

JUST as I was about to go to sleep.. Oh well, worth it.

This was a brilliant episode. Can see you two get on well!

You fixed the audio. Good, thanks for listening to complaints and doing something about it.

Love Ricky Gervais! What a good interview

Haven't listened to KPCS for a while... Glad to see the audio quality is up to it's usual muster....

Love Ricky

"So you're orange?" I don't know why but that made me laugh.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods. They remember this. Sir Terry Pratchett

I heard "Muppet Schindler's List", and all I could think of was "Aw man, Muppet Tom Clancy!"

either ricky has a bad memory is is purposely leaving out steve....im leaning towards the latter because ricky has not mentioned, steve or karl in forever and has NEVER plugged any of their stuff. he even deflects questions when asked about steve or karl. I don't know what to think. All I know is I miss the days when it was the 3 of them in a room, talking about everything. it was the best combination of people ever.

Driving to work in Feb 2024 and he pulls out muppets Schindler’s list. Thats the difference between funny guy at work(you) and actual funny comedian!😂😂😂😂😂

Flight from Detroit to Paris. French guy in cowboy boots. Took them off and terribly stunk up the plane for 8 hours!!

KP you the man

Amazing that both of these smart guys suffer from mysphonia (hating eating noises). I feel better that I do too.

What’s Ricky’s deal about not mentioning Steve ever.. He changed that limo story and basically swapped Jane’s name with his.

55:00 immediately signed to be a rock star

I NEED MORE KARL

Will the show come back? Love you in Deterrence. One of my favorites

Hope he does another " Idiot abroad" with Carl pilkington. Loved that series!!

What a treat!...Was totally worth the wait!...Hope the kid feels better soon:)

Oh, the belly laughs I didn't have.

Damn...was this before the CK allegations? Dying to hear what he says about it.

Love Ricky’s stories of real life…. @1:20:00 ish he reminded me of something that happened in front of me many years ago. I was in a que to board a train in Chester. There was a couple in front of me who looked somewhat disheveled, the guy stepped into the train first his partner then followed but then tripped and fell onto all fours, I went to help but suddenly had to stop and stand back as the woman proceeded to empty the entire contents of her bladder onto the floor of the train. Once finished her partner helped her up and they continued into the carriage. Taking a long singular stride I stepped over the large pool of piss and eventually found a seat. Added note - the woman was wearing a dress/skirt.

Liked already!

Ricky "do you know what I mean" Gervais

Why do I watch new Gervais interviews hoping he'll say something new?

got the costco water for guests, how cheap😂

Why not wait and have him on when he's not sick??

So.... no one noticed the earthquake rumble through the whole thing? Headphones are not my friend tonight.

fixed audio, amazing thank you

"Not Sam" is Sam and kevin Smith's love child

That was good.

Why I love Ricky Gervais... Reason 261: dog lover.

Love this interview. The cats are so true. Love animals but prefer cats. Subscribing from south africa. Your interview style is unique and enjoyable.

Wow Ricky, Stephen was there with you cleaning you up in that limo and you just edited it out. Wow.

Where's the Larry King game? :O

Audio is a bit better, thanks!

It’s hilarious that when Steve was on the same show five years prior, he told the same Cheetos story. Why can’t anyone call out Ricky on his Steve erasure??

Rick, you have misophonia (the sound thing) - I have it too

Please please John Carpenter!

So what was the fade to black and return to the two shot? What was cut there? Was it a reference to a certain other usual suspect?

Great stuff - The Office, Extras, Politics stand-up, Animals stand-up Fucking awful stuff - Special Correspondents, Ghost Town, Life's Too Short, Science stand-up, Derek, The Invention of Lying Discuss

What was edited at 47:00?

1:20:20 lmao

I'm afraid to watch because I'm sick of seeing interviews with Ricky in which he totally erases the fact that he wouldn't be sitting there without Steve Merchant.

People eating in restaurants?? Who would’ve thunk??

why is stephen merchant wearing a black wig and glasses and sitting behind a laptop

1:20:43 - That is the title of Ricky's next show = Everything Ruins My Day

Sam's changed a bit since I last saw him

"im in a mansion, they're in a bin". Ah Ricky. It's a big shame to know that you would say that in character a few years ago, now you actually think like that.

Ricky edits Stephen Merchant out of his life completely

"How much do I have to pay for Netflix without 'Derek'?".- Andy Kindler

Honestly

Major Spoiler Alert for Humanity tour.

He didn't do the Larry King game

That's neat, that George Bernard Shaw quote at 47:45, "People don't stop playing 'cause they grow old, they grow old 'cause they stop playing." Even when misremembered, the rearrangement offers insight in the mistake: "People don't grow old 'cause they play, they play 'cause they don't grow old." In emphasizing the cause of the lack even, rather than the lack's result when dropping the "old," something even more useful, pertinent to our times, appears: "People don't stop growing 'cause they stop playing, they stop playing 'cause they stop growing." Distilled further: "People don't grow 'cause they stop playing, they stop playing 'cause they don't grow." Quite a guy, this Bernard Shaw, offering insight 70 years ahead of when it'd be most needed; many of his quotes apply directly to the restrictive culture we're dealing with now: "The power of accurate observation... is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." "Write your Sad times in Sand. Write your Good times in Stone." "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." Other favorites, critical of today's irrational, monolithic, self-absorbed, puritanical liberal thinking: "Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute." "The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it." "If you cannot get rid of a family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can depend on the support of Paul." "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." Even more illuminating: "This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy..." In an age where corruption and insustainability dominate our lives, our methods are oriented in a conceit repellent to progress or its possibility, an attitude expressly unfit and unhelpful in producing amicable change. Have never seen such prescience before, so many things that can help us understand and negotiate our present circumstances. Many more speak to the present straits facing our conservatives right now: "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it." (That one applies as much to most of our liberal thinking these days, too, though.) A rarer gift, like that of Mark Twain's humorous social commentary: "No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office." This nugget of Bernard Shaw's perhaps illustrates best what it is I'm trying to say about the present orientation of the liberal approach: "A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dogs wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most." We're presently too rigid in our general thinking, psychologically, culturally and politically, simply taking ourselves too seriously to be effective in anything we pursue. Growth cannot occur unless it comes from a rational and consensual place, and neither rationality nor consent can occur without a little humility-- the freedom to play and make mistakes, be forgiven them to make more, that we then can learn: tolerance. Prohibiting these last things, we end up with resentment, pessimism, resistance, irrationality, neuropathy, the need to be perfect, denial strategies, strategies of aggression, anti-pluralism and progress' miserable, 4-ton cousin: stagnation. Play, forgive, grow, repeat; that's the formula we've stopped using. End of tangential skyscraper of optimisms, of my insufferable musing. Can't believe you took the time to read all this, so thanks. Perhaps a necessary change in how we treat one another will result if the irrational take the time to look at Shaw's work, too; seems it would be very palatable and effective in that regard. 'Til the next pony ride, Cheers.

Samm looks different.

do you know what i mean?

STOP SAYING "DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?"!!!

RG has a real love of animals. Why hasn't he went the David Attenborough route? Could easily add that kind of thing if he wanted.

It was only after the fact that I realized Ricky engineered situations in which he appeared to be on the same level as great comedians. Talking Funny was the most obvious, but the sit-downs with Larry David, Garry Shandling and Christopher Guest were also a kind of artificial elevation to a place he doesn't really inhabit naturally on his own. By the time he and Steve Merchant parted ways (the truth of which is only apparent in Ricky's career revisionism, a canny bit of work that effectively paints Ricky as the sole creator of The Office and Extras), it was apparent that Ricky's abilities on his own were no more than the sum of their parts. And oddly, he seems to admit that his stand up is didactic, something that only works in the hands of a master.

He never says anything new ever. Does he not realise people see other interviews he Does?

You can tell he didn't like the rockbusters. The host is like that cringey stepdad trying to earn cool points by using the same inside jokes to a kid that he and his real dad share.

I think that Ricky and Steve fell out when Steve went off to do the Hello Ladies TV show. I think that Steve must have told Ricky that he shouldn't be involved because the show is about a single guy whose rubbish with women. Ricky hasn't had those experiences because he has been with his girlfriend Jane for years. I think then Ricky got Steve back by doing David Brent: Life in the Road without Steve. Ricky occasionally mentions Karl in some of his recent interviews, there's one interview where he is asked directly about Steve and he makes a joke and uses up time so they have to move on to another question (I think it was Rick at Oxford university QandA) It's a shame if this they have fallen out. Maybe it's to do with them having worked together for years and they just want to spend some time apart? Ps: Pleas subscribe to my channel. Cheers.

People who opposed Trump should beg for forgiveness.

40 sec intro really? :/

Sounds like Ricky has a case of misophonia. i can identify.

Who is this chunky Samm stand-in? Wtf!!!!!!!!!

No one likes a comic that shoots down.... I mean what is the point?

more lipstick on jamie's teeth than lips this time. so distracting every time

How does this have a downvote already?? wtf

ha, this hasnt aged well

Incredibly boring. What a let down

RG: ‘You can’t have your own facts.’ Well then RG, why do you deny existence of God?

I wish he stops banging on about aethism ...its boring and unfunny. His interviews nowadays seem to be defensive and how he's being attacked. HERE'S SOMETHING RADICAL..... GO BACK TO BEING FUNNY!!! It's a long way from the Office and XFM. Regards from a bloke from a bin who could not be arsed about religion.

ugggh ricky you're so obsessed with your opinions and yourself and you want to be self-aware but fall just short. moving on.

These interviews are great but what's the deal with the sidekicks? They aren't funny and they aren't interesting. I don't mean to be rude, but constructively this would be better, I think, without them.

he actually said 'steroids and aids' so...