The Ricky Gervais Show debuted on London local radio and went to a podcast format in 2005. Gervais, the genius behind the BBC show The Office, co-hosts the show with Office co-creator and co-writer Stephen Merchant, but the show's real star is the round-headed, thick-accented Karl Pilkington, a moronic, brilliant, singular personality.

The show is unbelievably good.

I've spent the last couple of months listening to all of the podcasts (available through links from this page) and even the early local radio shows (which you can find on eBay or Bittorrent) and I LOVE THEM.

"Monkey News" is one of the show's recurring features: Pilkington tells fictitious stories involving monkeys (or, more likely, apes) to the incredulous pair of Gervais and Merchant, to hilarious effect.

Someone has animated one of the Monkey News segments in amusing fashion:



Get the podcasts and listen to them.