Here's the third and final season of The Ricky Gervais Show, or at least of the version that HBO cut up and animated. (For comparison's sake, the original radio/podcast show ran for five seasons of much longer episodes.)
In a bit of irony, I ended up "watching" this season almost entirely on my phone, via YouTube, while showering and driving - which is to say I treated it exactly like the podcast it originally was and ignored the animation entirely. Oh well!
It'd be sort of interesting to follow the careers of these three guys from where The Ricky Gervais Show ended, but there's not much to say. Ricky's maintained his high-C, low-B level celebrity by doing a lot of voicework and taking some minor roles in mid-budget movies. He hosted the Golden Globes a fourth time and he had that very panned show, Derek, in which he played a mentally handicapped guy. Stephen merchant had Hello Ladies, which ran for one year on HBO, and aside form that he's mostly been cast in guest appearances and bit parts as the tall and awkward British guy that he is. (He has fifth billing in the new Logan movie, for whatever that's worth.) And Karl... well, Karl was never interested in "having a career" in show business, was he? Karl followed up An Idiot Abroad with The Moaning of Life, which I understand to have the exact same premise (he travels the world and is - not acts like, but is - a buffoon) and which I just have no interest in at this time.
I guess what I'm getting at here is that this isn't an instance of a show ending because a young and talented cast is suddenly off to bigger and better things; there's still time for Merchant to carve out his own career, but that window is closing, and Ricky meanwhile is 55 himself. So why wouldn't I expect more Ricky Gervais Show at some point? Surely as long as these three remain on good terms with one another, they'll end up back in a recording studio at some point, checking in on Karl's latest beautiful, asinine takes.
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