British comedian Ricky Gervais, creator of the original (and best) TV series “The Office,” is topping the podcast download charts here and in the U.K. with his offering, the not-surprisingly-named “The Ricky Gervais Show”.
According to Reuters: “Also featured is ‘Office’ co-writer Stephen Merchant and their former radio producer Karl Pilkington, as the trio take on a succession of offbeat topics from vampires to a regular segment called ‘Monkey News.’ “
“When I heard that we were the number one podcast, my first thought was that it wasn’t a fair fight as The Office is shown in over 80 countries around the world,” Gervais told the Guardian. “Steve’s first thought was: ‘why aren’t we charging for it?’, and Karl’s first thought was: ‘Is a chimp allowed to win the lottery?”‘
I think Steve works here at NW.com.
The latest podcast, available here, features: “little people tormenting big cats and the market-testing of a Serbian sex machine….the blight of the charity mugger and the greater blight of talkative vagrants….an expos
