Ricky Gervais + Unscripted + HBO + Cartoon
= Do I really have to answer that?
The first picture has been released showing the animation style of Ricky Gervais’ upcoming HBO comedy based on his radio show. Take a look below. (I love how Karl looks like an older, more aloof version of Charlie Brown. That round-headed chimp.)
Here’s what we know:
- The Ricky Gervais Show is the most downloaded podcast of all-time.
- This won’t be the first time Gervais and his partner Steven Merchant have worked with HBO (check out Extras if for some ungodly reason you haven’t already)
- The show will be “based” on the podcasts (as in using original TRGS recordings)
- And Karl Pilkerton will be the star (how you could have a “star” of an unscripted cartoon radio-based show, I have no idea)
Here’s what we don’t know:
- Really, everything else.
I honestly don’t know how this show is going to work, how it’ll make sense and seem worthwhile, but I trust Gervais. And I trust his excitement for the project. Here’s something he wrote about it on his slice-of-celebrity-life blog:
“It’s weird. I’m really excited about The Invention of Lying and Cemetery Junction and the tour and the Flanimals movie and everything else I’m doing, but when I watch a new animatic or talk about the press campaign for the HBO thing I actually get an adrenalin rush. I want it to be a success like I’ve never wanted anything else to be successful. It’s partly because I love working with HBO. It’s partly because it started out as a laugh – a labour of love. It’s partly because the animators have done an amazing job. And it’s partly because there’s nothing quite like it.”
And here’s something else he posted. If you’ve never seen or heard Karl, the famous idiot-savant-ish character he is, this will give you an idea of what he’s all about.
I’m so ridiculously on board for this. Expect it after Christmas.
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