Quick Audiobook Review: The Ricky Gervais Show- Season 5

If you have not listened to seasons, one through four of the Ricky Gervais Show I can utterly and wholeheartedly recommend that you do not purchase this audiobook. If you have listened to the ramblings of Ricky, longtime creative partner Stephen Merchant, and the shaven ape that is Karl Pilkington, then I must demand you purchase this worthy finale to their podcast odyssey. While this new season lacks the formula of Monkey News or Karl’s diary it’s still a delightful mix of jackassery, cruelty, and comradely amongst men. It never gets old to hear Ricky describe the perfect orange shape of the Karl’s head or to hear about Karl’s obtuse thoughts about science. My complaints on this installment are two fold. First, the run time on this is right around two hours and you can tell the guys struggled to fill even that. The previous seasons ran at much greater length and never felt as forced. Second, this seems to be the last run by Ricky, Stephen and Karl. While we’ve heard that before and the gang has come back, this time around it smacks of finality as the material is slightly below their standards and they just seem ready. That being said, we can at least say they are going out on a high note.