Who's listening in 2024? 😮❤😊

I love hearing ricky laugh in the background during karls movie clips

Ricky's "Didn't say that....didn't say that" during the worm story is possibly my favourite bit ever.

20 years later and it's still so popular. How is this possible

"I'm phoning about your plugs" might be one of my favourite lines of these shows.

"That's probably the most homophobic thing we've had said on the show today... Thankyou very much for your call". Makes me laugh everytime I hear it 😂

The fact that I can identify any XFM song from 2001-05 from the end of the song haha😂😂

'Hit parade or shit parade?' I always find it hard to believe this went out live on the radio on a saturday afternoon, steve at his finest 😂

It's so funny how Steve is alway mean to the callers

"With ‘er marrow. Marrow an’ that"

I love how Ricky is just laughing in the background during Karl's movie segment.

Karl: "I'm lookin' at the woman's knob though!"

Any time they fade into Mad World it's a magic moment...

It’s madness that people listening to this at the time didn’t have a clue what Karl looked like

Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you man moth

in 2014 i was in the hospital cause i fucked my knee up so badly and had to have an operation, i was given such a high amount of drugs that i started telling the nurse about the ancient babylonian thing, crying my eyes out with hysterical laughter about how Karl said “from Baba”. I was 14 then and that was my first time around on the XFM loop. I think about that moment every time i come back to this episode

Definitely one of the best episodes, It has so many great bits. Marrow, the whole leech thing, "from baba". Classic stuff.

I so wish these were recorded in the era where radio shows/podcasts were filmed, imagine being able to see this conversation?!

"I wanna know what kind of things I can buy this weekend" "Buttplugs?" Oh, my sides lol.

"He's from Baba"

I am very relieved to find these here... don't know what I'd do without them.

"Can I just stop you there... What's a Babylonian?" One of my favorite parts of any of these works of art hahahaha

The best opening 21 minutes of any show!

He had a look of frightenedness 😂

"She 'ad a problem with 'er marrow."

"Eyyyyyy!!!! There's naught so barm as cakes!! Know me know my ways! Get out ya twiddled flunt!"

I love how the intro for mad world starts playing after ''Who took his head off? He took his own head off?''.

“If you’re morally objectionable...”

When Karl says the name of the song by Toffee 'Born Depressed' and Steve instantly replies "oh dear" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I always get that song stuck in my head for days after I hear it...

i love how when it comes to Rick, Steve & Karl- everyone: gay, straight, chinese, english, old, young, female and male are...fellas" :.)

55:00 to 55:25 is the funniest moment (to me) out of the entirety of these series. When I first heard it, I remember almost getting into a car accident because I laughed so hard, teared up, and couldn't see where I was going 🤣

Thank you for the uploads, Man Moth. Listen to these every night to get to sleep!

It’s so frustrating when you want to answer a question or something they got wrong but then you remember how long ago this was recorded 😂

Ricky’s spot on with Karl’s hypothetical version of the Peter the Great story. :D “In Karl’s version it would’ve been: ‘summin’ weird ‘appened right and turns out ‘e was still alive an’ so she was still ‘avin sex with body and his ‘ed was watchin’”

E took is own ed off

Karls meeting with his sister in a car park was brutal 😂

I wish radio shows today would be this good

Is Karl the only person to ever do 3 films with Jack Nicholson?

It weird listening to these radio shows as I used to go into London on a near weekly basis when I was a young kid. So I've been in and/or walked passed almost all the locations they have mentioned on the radio show which I cant help but think about when I find myself around those areas again. The Virgin Megastore that used to be In Oxford Circus where Steve bought that PS2 before presumably going to the walking down the road to the HMV near the former Sega World/Funland Arcade and seeing that he could have got the PS2 and GTA 3 for £20 less. The fact that China Town is not so much a town but a street with Bright orange chicken in the windows, one pagoda and two betting shops The Mc Donald's in Leicester Square two minutes away from the XFM offices where they got the burgers from for Karls World Record Breaking attempt (There should be a blue English heritage plaque for that) The 'freaks' who live in Forbidden Planet. Cant say what that place used to be like though but one of my favourite stores though I have also seen that chef clothing shop that they mentioned once and possibly that antique store with the "Old Russian wood" and The most expensive pub in London in Covent Garden That newsagents where Steve said that it looked like she was trapped by snacks and had to sell her way out of it. That I believe is/was outside of Tottenham Court Road station which I think is where he 'haggled" for a Laptop There was a nice Japanese restaurant Ten Ten Tei that I used to be taken to, Great food but some of the worst toilets I've ever seen. Id rather use that one in trainspotting. But we never went further down that road as much as I wanted to just to satisfy a curiosity as to what could be down there. Now that I'm older and have been down that road myself I realise why. All the sex shops, not a complaint just an observation. If anyone wants a Ricky Gervais Show XFM tour of London let me know lol

Been using "play a record" any time I can to end a conversation at work....😂

whatssss a babalonian?

Listen to these before I sleep. Cheers man moth

thanks for the uploads, really given me a lot to listen to whilst I fall asleep lol

Everytime i hear Peter the great, i look forward to karls trouble understanding what happend, and i also get a little bit annoyed, because i cant work out how he cant work out what happend. 🤣😂

Ricky at 36:00 talking about putting Karl in an acting role and how good he would be, Karl saying he would be best in deep stuff. Fast forward several years later Derek comes along and Karl is adlibing shouting at a heartless executive trying to turn a profit from the elderly 👍it's great how things work out

One of the all time greatest episodes, in my humble opinion.

That feature where they play three upcoming band tracks was awesome, I wish this occured more. I'd rather here a few tracks from different bands and then vote then one track that I could take it or leave it

Nice little surprise to hear the Jimquisition theme.

'HIT parade or SHIT parade?'

Jack Nicholson is getting old but before he dies I want him to hear these clips of him acting with Karl... I’d love to hear his reaction

Just listening to this while working on commissions. I am getting so much work done...

Narrator: Years later, Karl found out that his blind date was simply allergic to zucchinis.

Karl comes up with something to moan about, eg, David Bowie changes his songs when performing live. Ricky and Steve explain that it's not true, or a misconception, and explain why it's not the way Karl thinks it is. Eg, Bowie changed a note here and there but it was a faithful rendition. Karl ploughs on without listening to a word they said, and gets annoyed at what he's just made up in his own head. Eg, the titanic not sinking. I've been listening to this formula for over a decade and it's still incredible. I'll never get tired of Karl.

Something massive came out my mates nose! Doc sent it off for testing, turns out it was a lump of chicken. Apparently he had fallen asleep eating a chicken kebab, and a piece had worked its way into he's nasal passage, when it came out it looked nothing like chicken, more like some sort of brain mucus, and that's what he thought it was lol gave him a proper scare. True story that also fucking funny, when he got he's results. Lol

“I’m calling about your plugs!”

20 seconds in and Im already laughing!

23:01 I like the way Karl always says 'yesterday'. YestaDAY. It's kind of quaint and charming. I always pronounce it like that in daily conversation now.

"Its why I like short stories and that"

I’m playing these in order, like I’m sure many of you are. Almost every episode a moment comes up where I think “this is probably my favourite part of the whole series”, and then of course something even better is on the next one up. But the problem with the marrow… it’s gotta be up there.

he's from baba.. that part nearly killed me 😁

12:31 Ricky's "OH!" is brilliant, reminds me of his reaction when Karl was talking about Chinese people "not ageing well" for the first time!

I like how they forgot about opening that person's mail live on air haha

Can anyone else recite these from memory? 60+ time around.

Doing a law degree, every time I need a study break I put these guys on because I just need to listen to some drivel, thanks for the uploads!

The Babylonian part kills me. 😂😂😂

Enters Jim Sterling - 48:16 seriously I was shocked when I heard that :D

I'm loving the story of Peter the Great and Derek the Terrible (aka Derek the Rubbish).

The Pilkington family history snippets we get fascinate me.

48:15 - mad...I'd always wondered where that Jim Sterling title music came from... Baffled by how the two are connected

Bed time! Thanks man moth!

Karl's comedic timing on the movie clips is incredible

listen to these on loop!! Thanks man moth!

Love listening to these, thank for uploading!

love to see these three back.

Thanks for upload I'm 15 and my dad told me about them and I love them listen when going to bed :)

Wish I got to see Bottom live 😞

Thanks for all the great uploads Man Moth

Something that has just occurred to me listening today after many years of listening, Karl has stories about his brother in the army, past Xmas times, his brother womanising etc, but not a single story about his sister, apart from this brief mention. I wonder why?

"e took 'is own 'ed off?"

I love when Karl starts winning. So Ricky quickly talks louder over the top of Karl. Always makes me smile.

One of the great episodes this one

I love you, Man Moth

Perrfek/ this classic never gets ole. Gota be the greatest radio show of all time-just my opin.🤝8yrs ltr

Thanks for uploading these!

Jimquisition intro in the middle

After hearing this years ago I got some stuff from picture centre and listen to it all the time. It’s

Baba....Enough said😂😂

I would love that Picture Centre album.

20:43 Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah

Oh man, "someone from Baba" caught me off guard.

‘Walking in today...’ ‘Well you don’t walk - you mince, don’t ya?’

We see how Karl got into acting here... Little dos he know he'd be dougy the caretaker. The best character in Derek

"What did you think of (every song ever played on the show), Karl?" "Yeh it's alrite"

Thanks for uploading!

“So would ‘e ‘ave wore a jumper for pants?” 😂😂😂😂😂 Dying.

Something came out of your nose...that was massive.

Steve said the guys comment about butt plugs was homophobic yet he said the same thing just earlier not even 5 minutes before

Man moth you're a fucking hero

"I'm calling about your plugs" "Well, not my plugs...." 🤣🤣

Just came across this by chance on the day that Bowie died - as fitting a tribute as anything out there - RIP