Video Podcast

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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

Karl peeks out his window

Friday 24th March 2006

Length: 2:26

Watch it: Episode 1 on YouTube

Download: Savefile (.avi)

  • 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

Karl draws a hand with just one big finger

Sunday 2nd April 2006

Length: 2:46

Watch it: Episode 2 on YouTube

Download: Savefile (.avi)

  • 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

...from buliding to building just building.

Friday 7th April 2006

Length: 4:13

Watch it: Episode 3 on YouTube

Download: Savefile (.avi)

  • 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.


Episode Four

Corkhead Karl

Wednesday 24th April 2006

Length: 3:32

Watch it: Episode 4 on YouTube

Download: Savefile (.avi)

  • 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

Ricky and Steve gaying up Karl.

Friday 26th April 2006

Length: 3:38

Watch it: Episode 5 on YouTube

Download: Savefile (.avi)

"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

The Three-Legged Juggler

Monday 1st May 2006

Length: 4:11

Watch it: Episode 6 on YouTube

Download: Savefile (.avi)



Episode Seven

The K Files

Saturday 20th May 2006

Length: 3:15

Watch it: Episode 7 on YouTube

Download: Savefile (.avi)

  • Beginning with an audio clip from the very first podcast, where Karl tells Ricky and Steve about a run-down stately home, that doubled-up as a mental institution. In this house Karl discovered 3000 flies and a condom, which Ricky and Steve found hilarious and incredulous. In this video, Karl visits the house and shows the world proof that his story wasn't a lie an that.


Episode Eight

Ricky shows off his new colostomy bag.

Saturday 10th June 2006

Length: 6:59

Watch it: Episode 8 on YouTube

Download: Savefile (.avi)


  • Direct from the set of the second series of Extras, Ricky and Steve give an update of how filming is going, while back at Ricky's house, Karl is hoovering when he discovers some illustrations for a new Flanimals book, Flanimals Of The Deep, providing some of his challenging opinions of animal and flanimal life.


Episode Nine

Karl wingin' about Ollie.

Monday 24th July 2006

Length: 3:52

Watch it: Episode 9 on YouTube

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  • Karl spends four minutes complaining about how spoilt Ricky's cat Ollie is. The podcast includes clips of when Jonathan Ross gave Ricky the cat on his chat show.


Episode Ten

Dreaming Ricky Gervais

Wednesday 9th August 2006

Length: 4:02

Watch it: Episode 10 on YouTube


  • Ricky, Steve and Karl catch up after their summer apart and spend a little time daydreaming.




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