You are downloading The Ricky Gervais Show and Sowerby and Luff's Big Squeeze, aren't you? You're listening right now? There will be at least twelve Gervais/Merchant/Pilkington podcasts (there are already four), and, I hope, Georgina Sowerby and Brian Luff will never stop tying each other up, waxing, going on fictional cross-country trips in search of ten pairs of pants, drinking in the Gay Legs, and scoring badly on the children's edition of American Trivial Pursuit. As they explain on the Big Squeeze website, "Contains strong language and a mince pie."


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Between Big Squeeze and the Office loons, you've got the perfect soundtrack for 2006: ridiculous dialogues with occasional singing, ghostly-farmer sound effects, dead brilliant deadpan, and plenty of monkey news.



That's what your iTunes can look like if you act now. If you, like me, are deciding what to do with the rest of your life, start by listening to British babble by some of the funniest minds on the continent. Big Squeeze also contains quite a bit of nudity.

Update: Here's an interview with the scamps at Big Squeeze (you'll have to click on the link once there), plus some funny pictures of Brian (after listening to dozens of their podcasts, I say you get to use their first names) looking like an indie-rocker and Georgina doing an arabesque. Is that an arabesque? My ballet days were short and painful. Swing, now, that's another thing. Georgina hints at a past stint on a "naughty chat line"; Brian says he's turned on by cheese on toast. As they say in their disclaimer, product may contain nuts.

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