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.

With so much time on my hands yesterday due to the snow storm, I fancied a wee surf in the iTunes Music Store… I was in the market for some new Podcasts. After some fruitless searching for anything that really caught my eye, I noticed a listing for the most popular podcasts pertaining to the number of downloads - the #1 spot was held by The Ricky Gervais Show. If you’re British, Ricky won’t need an introduction - if you’re not, he’s the bloke behind the UK version of The Office - that’d be the funny version, not the fucking American rip off, starring Steve “Fudgenugget McAssbandit” Carell.

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So I decide to give Ricky’s podcast a listen to - and bare in mind, I have a very limited podcast library… just one, to be exact - which is the PGRevolution.com PSP Podcast. Seeing as I had the extra space on my Nano, I felt like downloading the entire list from iTunes (which was the most recent 4 episodes) and load ‘em up.

The Ricky Gervais Show Podcast has 3 chaps sounding off - Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington. From listener e-mails to readings of Karl’s personal diary, this podcast is the funniest thing I have ever heard. If you have a mp3 player, download it. If you don’t have a mp3 player, download it and play it on your PC.

Just so we’re clear, download the fucking podcast - Ricky, you personify comedic genius.

www.rickygervais.com.