Free and Wonderful Audio

For those of you who have seen The Office, probably the funniest televison show of recent years, I must alert you to the presence of a free and wonderful gift from the internet (in the form of the online version of Britain's excellent The Guardian newspaper).
For those of you who have not seen The Office (the first season is the best) said gift is still free although perhaps slightly less wonderful.

The aforementioned gift is a series of downloadable podcasts of The Ricky Gervais Show, the latest comic endeavor from The Office boss Ricky Gervais. While the show sadly lacks the presence of Dawn, Tim, and the excellently bollixable Gareth, we do get a new character named Karl (Pilkington). Karl's inane insights make up the comic heart of the show (at least the episodes I have heard) to the extent that it could be called "The Karl Show"; however, Gervais makes significant comic contributions (his description of thumbs as "one of the major milestones of human evolution" comes to mind) and I continue to find his shrieking outbursts of laughter
and interjections of "brilliant" funny after the 87th time.

Although the show is somewhat "less good" than The Office, it's still hours of first-rate mindless entertainment. And what's more, (not to contradict the above mindlessness) it is even educational: factual tidbits such as Plato's death by egg and a 30-second summary of Descartes' Discourse On Method are liable to crop up at any time. And, as if that isn't enough, it's free. And wonderful.
Available: here