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Probably why he does it. He knows it's funny

Hahahahaahha I love it

baseballplayer1251 Haha, I know. I quite like to think of the Hobbit as an Office Christmas Special.

Indefinite Idea That's amazing! Thank you so much :-D

Brilliant...

They also had Ian McKellen in extras saying lines from lotr

They slagged off Harry Potter aswell and had Daniel Radcliffe in extras

"put it in the 'oles, the 'oles are there"

Januaryastral mechant*

your dad it's Merchant

Unomatique his dad is a merchant?

+your dad mitchell*

+Unomatique- There's a vid on youtube that will explain this for you (; : "Mechant!!! Stephen Merchant reads out an insult on air"

fpGrumms he definitely is..... " it's become a family tradition" is such a bullshit excuse hahaha

was thinking the same thing, but he knows ricky doesnt like it, and doesnt want to seem geeky

fpGrumms of course he is! look at him! bet he's a Doctor Who fan, too!

He can't remember Frodo's name, arguably the most important character in the whole series, yet he knows that he's a hobbit. Something fishy there..........

He does say he visited a "Shires Horse centre" in this ep.--sounds fishy to me...

This is one of Steve's best lines, I love it.

Benjamin Ayson i actually laughed at Steve’s jokes for once 😂

Whilst it was completely normal to say bender and to describe stuff as 'gay' in 2004, I wouldn't say these terms now as I'm no longer an adolescent and it is homophobic.

Yawn

​@AA-hg5fk Thanks for that random opinion. Keep in mind that's just your opinion. Not mine, jokes are jokes. It could be a problem with your sense of humour?

When you get to series 3 you know its near the end

@@markjackson6151 Not at all. Got all of season 4, five seasons of podcasts, the Guides To, the radio specials, the one off podcast specials. That being said... I did finish everything. So, now I'm on round 2. At the end of season 1 of xfm.

Here in October 🙌🏻

Here on the night that England was told it would go back into another month of lockdown, unnecessarily

@@HaydnG266 Sorry brother 😓. Stay strong, and keep listening to the bald, manc twat!

Watched it recently I couldn’t stop thinking that Steve would’ve creamed himself watching it

Had to go see the trilogy book because it was a family thing, yeah alright smerch 😉

@@Nickersons-Theme Frido, Freda, Frodo. As if he doesn’t know the name of every hobbit in Hobbiton

​@@TheDissidentBritthey also mentioned The Getaway

@@qwertyx7tsblack Monday

Wind problems. That's how she's ascending to heaven.

@@McShaggswell Lol.

Try 20 years mate, since they first came out.

Bilbo learned to stick up for the less fortunate 👍

Wasn't Enya on the LOTR soundtrack, though? It's not much of an observation.

@@guskim434 Enya was on one of the soundtracks but that doesn't make it any more or less than an observation. What the person was saying as that the LotR films were the _equivalent_ of an Enya song, meaning they're of the same essence - they're the visual representation of the feel her music.

RiC David i.e Shite.

@@Sean-ce1hu 👌

@@Scallion_D it’s funny, in another comment someone thought Steve was only joking about his disdain for Lord of the Rings because he had seen them all in theatre but it’s the same for me. I saw the trailer for the first one and I thought, okay, looks like an amazing spectacle, I’m going to see it. Get there, watching it, and thinking, what is with all these elves and fairy creatures talking politics about events and other fairy characters I could not possibly care less about? The worst. Then time goes by and the trailer for part 2 comes out and it’s filled with cool special effects and you fall for the same trick again and you’re back in the theatre listening to a 2 hour hearing of the UN fairy council droning on about nonsense, interrupted by some special effects that seemed better in the trailers. Repeat once more for the third one. The Enya comparison is hilarious.

September 7th and that.

Until Ricky laughs then i wake up

December 27th 🙋‍♂️

2020

January 24th 2020.

was it two northerners giving the tour?

@@magicaIpineapple and did they answer any questions this time?

Did you get ripped off at the little coffee shop as well?

Same! Did it in 2007. About 3 years after this show. Water in the hole didn’t impress me too much but I thought the volcano was pretty cool. No plans on going back though!

Ah so he cuts the 'silent' parts between the actors' lines and uses that ambience behind his own lines. I used to wonder how he made them sound natural and fluid, having messed about with audio editing in the past.

I remember on one of those edits Ricky said to Karl “that’s the best thing you’ve ever done I’m proud of ya” - they are brilliant aren’t they!

Karl is one of those people who's good at pretty much everything they try their hand at simply because they don't give a shit. He's good at dancing, he can draw, he can act, etc

@@danielamin Is Karl good at drawing? I'd really want to see any art of his

@@kevlar3994 He's brilliant! He has like a cool cartoony children's book style. His illustrations are difficult to find on google, they're mostly on his books, but do a search for "Karl Pilkington Sheep Poem" and you'll see one. There's a video on youtube of him drawing for his book as well (he does auntie Nora and the time he flashed his ass to his neighbor), it's called "Ricky Gervais Presents the World of Karl Pilkington".

that's every other episode sometimes 🤣

'olidays, we don't say vacation in Britain

I say toob

look at the shine on that, look at the gleam

Like gold rope

+ryan west Haha, too true!

iuuty the UK jkmoot

@@donnakinsey5411 no

I don’t get it. Please help

@@BoManton he means the crabs would think lazarote is too shit for them to bother being there.

Look at the gleam on that lol.

Thats an investment that

Like rope

But it's not just the holes, they've left the lava everywhere!

@@emilyj9497 but... it’s molten rock..

they also basically fought all wars before WW2, we pretty much owe the modern world to them.

I went there as a teenager. With my next door neighbours and their daughters. The make shire horse got a huge erection. Like a telescope!! We couldn’t have been ushered on faster.

He clearly has disdain for the films. No one's that good at pretending they hate something when they secretly love it.

He slags it off far too much though. Done it a number of times and then pretends he doesn’t remember what the name of Frodo was 😂

@@Jeerioz he literally mentions Beorn who is only ever mentioned in the Hobbit book lmao

@@evoke97 I think that was just coincidence as he tried to remember the correct hobbit name

@@Christoff070 what lol? by coincidence he says something really specific and really far off any other of the hobbits names? i dont think so mate

That your Scirocco?

@@blunderbuss9984 true that, only some of the earlier ones Steve and Ricky are speaking so quietly you have to put up the volume then Ricky laughs and destroys your ear drum

Karl needed to crank up the compressor for sure!

Most producers aren't on air, Karl was spinning many plates so you need to cut him some slack. He also had to source the prizes, make the coffee etc

@@WollongongWacko It's like being asked to name a type of nut and saying "shell".

That cracked me up too!!

Björn and Benny

I think Merchant has let on he's a need that read Tolkien as Bjorn or 'Beorn' is only in the Hobbit, not LOTR.

Arbitrary

Man alive...

Sure, sure

Oooh, I dunno. Neil Fox / Dr Fox / Dr Frog

And each time he brings it up he cant remember which brother is dead. Every time

Chris Sweeney steve doesn't seem to invite ricky to things either, though.. but I still feel bad for steve I don't know why

J. Peterse well Ricky has loads of friends and doesn’t need Steve but Steve is a lonely geek without many friends so he needs all he can get. But Ricky doesn’t want his cool friends to think he and Steve are more than just coworkers.

How do you not realise what a load of obvious shite that is?

Steve has his own family and friends.

I saw a video of them on Alan Carr where Steve says Ricky hasn't even been to his house. Brutal. Yet Ricky seems to be more than willing to hang out with celebs as much as possible. I like Ricky a lot but this trait of his is bad.

Him pretending to not know the characters names lol he's a Dr. Who fan, of course he likes LOTR haha

You can watch a series of 3 films and not really enjoy them.

Bid lin

doesn't mean it's any good.

@@lilme7052 lotr is objectively good. you might not like it, but there is no possible justification for saying its bad

@@oremstale8558 don't know what I was on that day. it's not bad.

@@lilme7052 fair enough 😂

Emily J have you seen any hairy kids?

Are there any homeless there? You never see a Chinese homeless...

Not yet! But I will keep looking!

Actually no! I did in Hong Kong, but that really doesn't count...

head Chinaman. wonder if Steve has seen those films now.

the difference is that they are clearly talking shit but Karl is so stone faced it's hard to tell whether he's serious or not.

do you not know the expression stone faced?

chunkycake101 it does make perfect sense genius

Ricky: "I wouldn't do it." Steve: "I wouldn't do it either." Karl: "Yeah, I wouldn't do it." Ricky: "WHY NOT??"

roxxyfoxify correct. Personally I'd rather watch paint dry

Lord of the Rings is incredible though. It's sad that he hates it

Boring.

Hes right though, i remember watching the 3rd movie in the theater and wondering when it was just going to fucking end. The idea of that movie winning an academy award is an absolute joke.

Yeah but who doesn't like LOTR??

Why? You can bulldoze things flat.. why not push the debris up into the hole? Time consuming and expensive but it could be done.

Excuse me, what about 'how would I know which one I was?' the doppelganger part?

Nah.

Ricky almost certainly hasn't read the books and Steve was just sucking up to him as he often did. I know Steve had watched the films and I agree all three were crap!

@@JustinKlineTheComedian what an interesting, thought-provoking comment. Thank you for that.

too bad we never got to hear how, cuz ricky nd steve interrupted ;/

That should be in the video title

Steve should be in lord of the rings

@@pvthudson5069 steve is lord of the rings

@@WollongongWacko He IS Queen's Boulevard

Steve slags off Lord of the Rings yet is a Star Wars fan and doesn't seem to understand the irony there (and here I thought the British had irony as a sixth sense...).

Every episode for me is : hairy Chinese kid, little gay fellas, Steve getting bullied by Karl, rock busters and then a childhood story by Karl as the cherry on top.

@@LittleWittleKitty The perfect formula for a radio show!

I commute 120 miles a week by bike and listen to these 80% of the time. Can’t begin to imagine how many times I’ve been through them.

Especially as he works Saturdays and 6 days a week, it is very normal to have that many, I always thought this too!

Ricky doesn't know how work works.

hes just winding Karl up, its really not much to do with how many holidays he has, its just a tool for him to annoy karl

So true. When he says "we have loads of jobs" he's equating a full-time 9-5 job to him pissing about doing various stuff; that pisses me off. Does he think his life is worse than nurses, factory workers, oil riggers etc.? He's a dick for saying that, he's got it easy, and I can understand Karl's anger.

It's interesting they've all been with their partners for "ages" as Karl would say but all never married.

@@feelthejoy Martin and his eventually split in 2016!

Jesus Christ.. NO, Martin Freeman is NOT in Lord of the Rings. He is in The Hobbit, which came out 8 years after this broadcast... knobhead.

@@DubbleTee what a delightful young man you are

@@user-uh9ut7uu9c Probably has orc written on his school books.