A little over a week ago I wrote about the comedic genius of The Ricky Gervais Show, a brand new podcast to the ‘cast world, and how I couldn’t get enough of this sharp wit and the hapless Karl Pilkington. They released their final 12th episode the other day, and to my complete surprise, Ricky announced that they would start charging a fee for their season 2 of the podcast.
CHARGING FOR A PODCAST?!?! Is he serious?
Ricky, Podcasts are so popular because they’re FREE… you have the largest downloads of any podcast because:
1. your show is hilarious
and…
2. IT WAS FREE!
Rick, you tight bastard - don’t you make enough money as it is without charging $6.95 for 4 of the new episodes? I can guarantee, you will lose about 60% of your podcast fan base over this. Besides all that, #11 and #12 were utter shite - what are you thinking doing the ads with a Mr T voice? TERRIBLE!
What a wanker.
February 25th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Another soul sold to Satan.
March 16th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
yeah–i had a sense this weas going to happen tho’. lure them in, make them want it, and then make them pay. i will say, considering nothing is free these days, and at least we got something out of him.
March 16th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
I’m finding his new podcasts via other means.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
ricky gervais is fucking shite - PERIOD!