The Ricky Gervais Show

My God! I love this show! If some of you don't know about The Ricky Gervais Show. It's a animated series based a podcast with the same name. It's mosty about Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant ask questions to thier friend Karl Pilkington.

Here's some clips.






I wonder LM, CineMax and STAR got influenced by this to make thier CCS podcast?

I liked the one about the doors to Heaven and Hell, even though I still don't get the logic behind it. Yeah, it would work (i.e., asking what door you're guarding) if you know who's who, but you don't. I mean, obviously both the angel and the devil will say they're guarding Heaven. So, what's the catch?

Also, no. Don't know about LaughingMan or *STAR*, but personally I've never even heard of this show before today.

I think for the "he's lying/telling the truth" riddle I'd simply ask them what color my shirt was.

"What's 2+2?"

@LaughingMan: *Raises finger to object* I... Stop. You son of a gun, I can't believe it's that simple!

Of course! If the Devil will lie no matter what you ask, you might as well ask what color is the friggin' sky and he'll still tell you it's purple. I'm telling you, either these guys falsely paraphrased the riddle or the riddle itself is broken. Unless, of course, the goal is to deceive you into thinking you're supposed to ask one and only one ultra-sophisticated question and not, say, something as simple as "What's two plus two?", just like Kenny had proposed. 'Cos if that's the case, then those fucks fooled me...

Here's some more.

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Like you said, the riddle is broken and it is just to make you over-think rather than be lazy-... er, "clever" enough to think of some indisputable yet simple truth. I think Ken's 2+2 question would be best because one could say that the color of my purple shirt was Lavender and one could say it was Eggplant, then you'd still be fucked.

I've heard that riddle ever since I was in the second grade. Nobody even imagines that it's that simple so they try to be too elaborate. It's like a burglar breaking in through the sunroof of a house without checking to see if the front door is unlocked.

So, in other words, it's the same shit as: "How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?" Bah! Hate this kind of riddles...

Hell, they're not even genuine riddles! They're bullshit!
Still, what got me as aggravated wasn't the riddle itself, but rather their answer. Meh, whatever... Anyone know any good, real conundrums?

The biggest trick is that people don't start simple and work towards more complex solutions. Occam's Razor: The simplest solution is usually the right one.


First you need a good food processor...