popular british comedian ricky Gervais known for his hit sitcom, the office and newer sitcom, extras, aswell as doing stand up comedy, also has a podcast, infact its the most popular podcast, along with his sidekicks; karl pilkington and stephen merchant.
Listeners interacted with the show by e-mail (podcast@rickygervais.com) and via Ricky Gervais' website. In series one, listeners were encouraged to contribute stories to the weekly 'Monkey News' feature. In season two, an autograph of Karl Pilkington was up for grabs if you could solve Karl's 'clues' for his 'Rockbusters' game. In series four, Ricky offered signed goodies if listeners could answer vague questions such as "Do you want 'em?". As a whole however, the interactivity between the audience and the show is high with comments on the podcast and questions and funny stories for Karl forming the basis of the majority of episodes.
The Ricky Gervais Show is also the first podcast series ever to be paid-for. The second and third series' - comprising 12 episodes in total - were published as 'Audio Books'. iTunes and Audible.com sold each download for 95p or an entire series for £3.95
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i feel like ive read this before! weird
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