Video Podcast
Following the very successful second series of the audio podcasts Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington produced an irregular series of free short video podcasts, downloadable from iTunes.
Episode One
Friday 24th March 2006
Length: 2:26
Watch it: Episode 1 on YouTube
- Ricky asks Karl to choose between letting Ricky tie his head to his knees and be locked in a caged until he was permanently deformed into that shape, or, to allow Ricky to perform facial surgery to sew up his mouth, nose and eyes and remove his ears.
Episode Two
Sunday 2nd April 2006
Length: 2:46
Watch it: Episode 2 on YouTube
- In one of Gervais' most iffy moments, he uses the video podcast the advertise his and Karl's forthcoming book Ricky Gervais presents The World of Karl Pilkington. While Ricky talks to the camera and behaves with charmless superiority, Karl quietly sits beside him, answers questions, and sketches out some drawings for the book.
Pre-order 'The World of Karl Pilkington' from Amazon.co.uk
Episode Three
Friday 7th April 2006
Length: 4:13
Watch it: Episode 3 on YouTube
- This video podcast was an animation of Monkey News from the seventh episode of Podcast Series 1. It told the story of a monkey builder who built from top to bottom and who literally worked for peanuts. It was animated by Laurie Peters, an old schoolfriend of Karl Pilkington's, who also made some animations with Karl for Bo Selecta.
- More Karl animations at Laurie Peters' website Stinky Winkles
Episode Four
Wednesday 24th April 2006
Length: 3:32
Watch it: Episode 4 on YouTube
- This podcast was a collection of unrelated material and began with the radio ad for the Prostate Cancer Charity. It was written by Ricky Gervais, featuring Karl Pilkington and Stephen Merchant. The ad won an Aerial radio advertising Gold award.
- A short acceptance film where Steve presents Ricky with the Aerial award and discusses Ricky's charity contributions. Karl appears at the end of the film and Ricky asks him if he has any thoughts and he replies "Just one. It's 2006, why we still using the finger?"
- Ricky interviews Chris Martin from Coldplay.
- Steve shot this video of Ricky opening a Champagne bottle and firing the cork at Karl's head in the Xfm studio while broadcasting the 28 May 2005 show from Xfm Series 4.
Episode Five
Friday 26th April 2006
Length: 3:38
Watch it: Episode 5 on YouTube
"The Day Ricky and Steve made Karl watch Brokeback Mountain"
Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington settle down on the sofa to watch Brokeback Mountain, but Karl has trouble understanding how gay relationships work. In the end Ricky and Steve start touching Karl.
Episode Six
Another shameless plug from Ricky Gervais on Karl's book, Ricky Gervais presents The World of Karl Pilkington, showing the viewers some snippets of what would be going into the book, including visual representations of the famous big headed kids, and the pillow man, one of Karl's favourite freaks.