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If you weren’t one of the millions of listeners to the podcast of The Ricky Gervais Show, then you really missed something special. Gervais and creative partner, Stephen Merchant created the podcast through Guardian UK as a thank you to the fans of “The Office” (both UK and US versions) and the HBO series, “Extras.” The (perhaps) unexpected result of the podcast was the emergence of Karl Pilkington as not only the star of the show but something of an internet phenomenon. Pilkington is an engineer, producer that Gervais and Merchant had met on another project. His world views and philosophies are (as Gervais put it) “unencumbered by erudition and impervious to logic.” Karl believes what he reads on the internet and and in weekly tabloids. One of the most popular segments of the first season was “Monkey News,” featuring a Pilkington “true” story that illustrated his obsession with primates. This is an animated version of one of those segments, the audio is straight from the original show. Gervais released this as a free video podcast inbetween the two podcast series.