Gervais podcast in the record books

Good for them…

He’s got two hit series, two Golden Globes and too many Baftas to mention. But now Ricky Gervais has a world record after his podcast became the most downloaded ever.

Gervais’s weekly show on Guardian Unlimited, featuring writing partner Stephen Merchant and sidekick Karl Pilkington, averaged 261,670 downloads a week during its first month.

The Ricky Gervais Show will be included in the 2007 edition of the Guinness World Records’ book - as long as no other podcast tops it before it is published in the autumn.

“The podcast is the thing we have most fun with at the moment - more than Extras, The Office, or The Simpsons,” said Gervais.

“Karl wanted to charge a quid [for each show] and now we have got 5 million downloads. He is gutted. He gave up his job to do this. I might give him something.”

Poor Stephen Merchant...he’s as vital to the success of Gervais as Gervais is, and the poor guy gets left out of every piece of media about The Office or Extras, and now the podcast.  :)

If you’re not listening to The Ricky Gervais Show...go.  Now.  They’re almost done with the first run.  12 episodes, then they break to make Series 2 of Extras.  It’s frigging hysterical...Gervais and Merchant, and even Karl, deserve the recognition.

Posted by JimK at 03:16 PM on February 06, 2006
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