The Ricky Gervais Show

Last night I was watching an episode of The Ricky Gervais Show on TV. Basically, a few years ago writers, actors and directors Ricky Gervias and Stephen Merchant (who created The Office and Extras) and producer Karl Pilkington did a series of radio shows and podcasts where basically they just chat about anything that comes to mind, and they've been turned into an animated TV series by HBO. The show is really funny, mostly consisting of Pilkington coming up with various bizarre or naive theories while being prompted, mocked and laughed at by Gervais and Merchant.

I also listened to another radio adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, in this one Holmes and Watson are pitted against a particularly evil blackmailer. In the end Conan Doyle wrote fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories and four novels, but apparently he really resented his own creation and it's massive fame because he thought it was taking his time away from his more "important" works (i.e. his historical novels).

I went to get my groceries this morning along with the latest issue of Empire magazine which had an interesting article about the history of the Three Stooges comedy team. I do remember I used to like the old Three Stooges short films when they were on TV, even though they never seemed to catch on as much outside the US.