The Ricky Gervais podcasts

Are you guys familiar? Oh please tell me you've listened to them. My friend Leigh gave me 12 episodes for christmas and we listened to all six hours straight through on the drive back from Buffalo. It's Ricky and Stephen Merchant talking to their producer Karl Pilkington. It's that simple. It is deliriously funny. I giggled like a maniac on the train this morning. This dude is such an idiot, it's hard to believe. Listening to Ricky and Stephen laughing at him makes me laugh harder than just about anything. Three episodes are available through iTunes for free.

Karl has a number of possible causes of his baldness. It may have been caused by the fact that he once worked a 24-hour-shift overseeing the production of audio cassettes, or perhaps due to the negligence of a Manchester barber who cut the young Pilkington's hair in a shack near the local train station. His lack of a fulsome barnet never really bothers him, except when he was on Jury Duty and felt some form of hairpiece might be in order to diguise him from any proximate ne'er-do-wells.