Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant & Karl Pilkington.

Love their radio shows & podcasts

I've been enjoying some of the new ones and I've been listening to some of the old XFM podcasts as well.
In one I was listening to today they were talking about the nursery rhyme Old Mother Hubbard.

I didn't realise how many other verses it has, and how crazy that dog really is.
It tries to fake it's own death for crying out loud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mother_Hubbard

They are great.

Loved the XFM podcasts, they did make tiling our bathroom from top to bottom so much more enjoyable :)

All three men are fantastic. Love em!

XFM series one is possibly the funniest thing I've ever listened to, for series 2 they've became aware of how amazing Karl could be and it resulted in all these terrible ideas for competitions that he had taking it over, 3 and 4 are both great though.

Podcasts are decent but nowhere close. Karl doesn't seem too happy to be doing them so they're held together by Steve, who is a very funny man.

Doesn't Gervais look like Fred Flintstone!

Ha, oh yeah!

That did have me really laughing hard in a few places.

Yes, but... it's not really very visual is it? I mean, these were podcasts/radio for a reason weren't they?

I've seen a few of these now and really enjoy it. I like the way the animate Karl's stories, Merchant with his "Ye Olde knob on a stick" had me laughing out loud (and I've seen it before).

It's not all that visual no, but I haven't heard that much of the podcast stuff, so it was still enjoyable to me.

Yeah,, to be fair they do try to vary the visuals. I was being harsh. But it works best as audio, really. Especially when Gervais doesn't look anything like Gervais.

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:D

I haven't watched it yet, but I'm guessing they are taking it all from the Post XFM podcasts.

I still loved the episode when they were talking about Old Mother Hubbard & then realised how many verses there were.
It was one of those where I did laugh out loud on the train.

It is a crazy Nuresery Rhyme:

Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone:
When she came there,
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.

She went to the baker's
To buy him some bread;
When she came back
The dog was dead!

She went to the undertaker's
To buy him a coffin;
When she came back
The dog was laughing.

She took a clean dish
to get him some tripe;
When she came back
He was smoking his pipe.

She went to the alehouse
To get him some beer;
When she came back
The dog sat in a chair.

She went to the tavern
For white wine and red;
When she came back
The dog stood on his head.

She went to the fruiterer's
To buy him some fruit;
When she came back
He was playing the flute.

She went to the tailor's
To buy him a coat;
When she came back
He was riding a goat.

She went to the hatter's
To buy him a hat;
When she came back
He was feeding her cat.

She went to the barber's
To buy him a wig
When she came back
He was dancing a jig.

She went to the cobbler's
To buy him some shoes;
When she came back
He was reading the news.

She went to the sempstress
To buy him some linen;
When she came back
The dog was spinning.

She went to the hosier's
To buy him some hose;
When she came back
He was dressed in his clothes.

The Dame made a curtsy,
The dog made a bow;
The Dame said, Your servant;
The dog said, Bow-wow.

This wonderful dog
Was Dame Hubbard's delight,
He could read, he could dance,
He could sing, he could write;
She gave him rich dainties
Whenever he fed,
And erected this monument
When he was dead.[1]

Only caught bits, but I'm not sure this is worthy of a TV show in its own right. Works well on radio as a podcast, but this smacks of cashing in on the Gervais brand. He wants to watch out, he'll be rivalling Peter Kay soon at mining his own past purely for the money.