# Ricky Gervais Show on HBO 02/19/10 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420 "2010-02-18T02:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420/1 "2010-02-18T02:05:19Z")
Ricky Gervais has a new show this Friday. It looks like it’s going to be a rerun of his podcasts with some cheap ass animation. Is he havin’ a laff? ---
**Author:** ![ProfessorX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@ProfessorX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProfessorX)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420/2 "2010-02-19T16:58:41Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Ricky Gervais has a new show this Friday. It looks like it’s going to be a rerun of his podcasts with some cheap ass animation. Is he havin’ a laff? Oh damnit! I was hoping this was another standup. “Out of England” is gold. Up there with Louis CK, Lewis Black and Carlin as some of the finest in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420/3 "2010-02-19T20:29:43Z")
I was excited about this until I realized that it’s animation. Seems like something along the lines of “The Critic” (Jon Lovitz) and will probably last about as long. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420/4 "2010-02-19T21:36:33Z")
Is it re-airing his old podcasts or is it **continuing** the format with animation? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420/5 "2010-02-19T21:42:33Z")
I found [this snippet](http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/6871970.html) from the “new” show. > [@](#): > > In the first installment, they dive into 20th-century inventions with Pilkington intimating that everything people really need was invented before the turn of that century. He has one idea, however, that he suggests could improve life: a “nontraditional” way to have kids. “Everyone would live to be 78,” he reasons, “and just as you die, you have a little baby inside you, and as you die, your life carries on.” > > This way, he explains, “babies aren’t being born left, right and center … it’s controlled … as someone dies, someone’s born.” That’s lifted from the podcast. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420/6 "2010-02-19T21:44:32Z")
And just to confirm he’s [milking a dead horse](http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/the_tab/when-your-friend-is-an-idiot-you-never-run-out--of-material-84680872.html) > [@](#): > > The Ricky Gervais Show, which premieres Friday at 8 p.m. on HBO Canada, takes the audio from Gervais’s record-breaking podcast and pairs it with some fairly kitschy, old-school animation to create a 13-episode cartoon series. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420/7 "2010-02-23T15:59:10Z")
It sucks. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420/8 "2010-02-23T16:02:43Z")
Having not heard the podcasts before, I enjoyed it. Rubbish. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420/9 "2010-05-05T21:12:23Z")
Strangely enough, I like the cartoon _better_ than the podcasts. Somehow it’s more charming. And the visuals help to counter Gervais’s annoying cackling and screeching. I hope they animate all the podcasts. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricky-gervais-show-on-hbo-02-19-10/529420/10 "2010-05-05T23:38:32Z")
I gave the show a shot. Watched the first one. Hmmm, kind of sucks. Gave it another shot and was bored to death half way through it. I was done with it.