The first season of Ricky Gervais podcasts is done, and I’m seriously considering paying actual money to listen to the new series. It’s just that funny.
Yes, Ricky’s bigger than ever. His podcast, which he shares with Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington, will be featured in this year’s Guinness Book as the most downloaded. There will be more episodes of the cringe-worthy Extras for HBO eventually, but we’ll be seeing Ricky animated sooner than that.
Gervais has written an episode of The Simpsons entitled “Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife,” which is set to air March 26.
From RickyGervais.com:
Gervais’ character in The Simpsons is based on David Brent from The Office sitcom. He moves into The Simpson household with Marge as the family take part in an episode of Wife Swap, while Homer moves in with his wife. Gervais was invited to pen the episode by Groening, who is a fan of The Office. He described writing the episode as a “dream come true”.
See some Simpsons storyboards here.
But that’s not all… Gervais and Merchant will also be penning an episode of the American Office for next season.
From RickyGervais.com:
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the creators of The Office, will hop across the pond to work on their show’s American counterpart.
Mr. Gervais and Mr. Merchant will write an episode of NBC’s version of The Office sometime next season, NBC tells Zap2it.com.
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Gervais acts as Executive Producer on the show and has reportedly already made more from the remake than from the original. Apart from change of format deals, The Office is shown in over 80 countries making it the BBC’s most successful comedy export of all time.
“I had extended an open invitation for them to write or direct at any time, but I think they were smart to wait until we had developed our own following and our own style,” says Greg Daniels, executive producer of NBC’s Office.
It’s pretty cool that NBC’s The Office is actually popular. I mean, in addition to being really good. Now that people are watching, it could stick around for several more seasons.
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