The Ricky Gervais Show

Series Similar to The Ricky Gervais Show

If you enjoyed The Ricky Gervais Show, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Silicon Valley

   2014 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4), also on HBO.

   In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. From Mike Judge comes this satire about a programmer whose game-changing algorithm becomes the subject of a valley-wide bidding war.

2. South Park

   1997 · Comedy · returning99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.3).

   South Park is an adult comedy animation show centred around 4 children in the small town of south park. Its humour is often dark involving satirical elements and mocking current real-life events.

3. Better Off Ted

   2009 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Better Off Ted is a satirical office comedy about successful good guy, Ted Crisp, who runs research and development at Veridian Dynamics, a company with a morally questionable approach to its employees. Whether it's standing by a memo with a typo that encourages employees to now (as opposed to not) use offensive language with each other, to championing interoffice dating based on DNA matching to save money on health care, Veridian is a company that puts its bottom line first and employees last. Ted's a single dad to a seven year old girl, and he loves his job, but he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely dubious practices.

4. Brickleberry

   2012 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Brickleberry follows the hapless rangers at Brickleberry National Park as they do their worst to keep the park open. Having been through everything from "Steve's" invention of Squabbits to the birth of the anti-Christ, the rangers are back and ready for anything.

5. Inside Job

   2021 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   In the Department of Homeland Conspiracy, every conspiracy theory is true -- and one woman struggles to keep it all under wraps. A workplace comedy.

6. Little Britain USA

   2008 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, also on HBO.

   Adaptation of the British sketch-comedy series, featuring some characters from the original, such as hospital receptionist Carol Beer and Prime Minister Sebastian Love, and new ones in the U.S., including astronaut Bing Gordyn and a foul-mouthed little girl named Ellie-Grace.

7. Ugly Americans

   2010 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Ugly Americans is an animated horror-comedy series that follows Mark Lilly, social worker at the Department of Integration, as he helps human and "other" citizens adapt to life in the Big Apple. There are vampires, land-whales, werewolves, a demon ex-girlfriend and a zombie roommate to contend with, but Mark's up to the challenge.

8. Frisky Dingo

   2006 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Frisky Dingo is an eleven minute animated series airing on Adult Swim by Matt Thompson and Adam Reed, co-creators of the cult hit, Sealab 2021. Supervillain Killface is finding that, in theory, destroying the world seems like a lot of fun, but in actual practice, it is a very dull and complicated process. There are many boring details to work out such as media buys, budgets and marketing. Every great villain needs a nemesis. Enter billionaire playboy Xander Crews. As the superhero Awesome X, Xander seems to be doing everything he can to stop Killface, but actually he just wants to make it look that way so his action figure line stays in business.

9. Metalocalypse

   2006 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Metalocalypse is an eleven-minute flash animated comedy airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha. The series follows the exploits of a fictitious half American/half Scandinavian death metal band known as Dethklok. The band and its members are huge the world over, but incredibly stupid - a death metal version of Spinal Tap. Watch as they leave a trail of destruction and mayhem in their wake with their ear-melting onslaught of metal!

10. Sit Down, Shut Up

    2009 · Comedy · ended99% match

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

    Sit Down, Shut Up focuses on the dysfunctional faculty and staff at a high school in a small Florida fishing town as they strive to do anything... but teach. Based on the hit live-action Australian series with animation set against a live-action backdrop, the series lampoons modern society while exposing the dreams, flaws and struggling humanity of our first and most formative authority figures: teachers.