August 2021 will make the 20th anniversary since the first broadcast of the hit comedy radio show, The Ricky Gervais Show on XFM. Running for a rememberable 4 seasons The Ricky Gervais show didn’t only help boost the carrier of Ricky and Stephen Merchant after the success of The Office but also turned the public eye onto their bald, round head producer, Karl Pilkington. Despite being named after the more famous Gervais, it mostly revolves around the life and ideas of Pilkington.

After its 4 series run, the show was formatted in what is considered the godfather of podcasts and ran for another 12 special episodes sponsored by The Guardian Unlimited. Throughout January and February 2006, the podcast was consistently ranked the number one podcast in the world; it appeared in the 2007 Guinness World Record for the world's most downloaded podcast, having gained an average of 261,670 downloads per episode during its first month. As of March 2011, the podcast has been downloaded over 300 million times.

In 2010 an animated version of the podcast “The Ricky Gervais Show” aired on HBO in America and Channel 4 in the UK.

The radio show and podcast had interesting features such as Knob News, Monkey News, Educating Ricky, Karl’s Diary, White Van Karl, Songs of Phrase and the outstanding, original quiz Rockbusters. A lot of these features would be interested with facts and stories about Karl and his strange upbringing in Manchester including a woman who pushed a bucket around in a pram, a house with a horse in it and two kids with big heads and webbed fingers… who were not related but did hang out together.

2021 will make the 20th anniversary of this groundbreaking movement in modern media and to me, it seems irresponsible to have the anniversary missed. This is why is propose a special, one-off series of podcasts where Ricky, Steve and Karl are reunited and catch up on what has been going on in Karl’s life for the last few years. Fans of the show want to know what new haircuts have Susan had, is Karl’s dad still stealing food from a phone box in wales and has Karl even seen his siblings since his rise to fame.

It’s my understanding that all three parties are incredibly busy working on their projects, Ricky with his hit Netflix series Afterlife, Steve appearing in several Hollywood comedy films and TV drams and Karl with his Sky One comedy-drama, Sick of It. But I think it would be a huge disappointment to let this moment pass by without a reunion to please fans. The old XFM shows are still listened to daily on YouTube as well as clips from other Karl projects such as An Idiot Abroad.

So please, sign this petition and draw the attention of these comedy giants to give the people what they want. Not a Victoria Plumb gnome, but a one-off, mini-series of The Ricky Gervais Show.