Invented creatures and recycled broadcast humour make up most of Ricky Gervais’s book catalogue. Flanimals invents grotesque creatures with names, habits and mock-natural-history descriptions, using nonsense classification and cartoon illustration to parody children’s animal reference books; later volumes expand the invented ecosystem. The World of Karl Pilkington and related books preserve conversations and material from the radio and podcast projects Gervais made with Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington, where Pilkington’s observations become the centre of the joke. Gervais’s written humour is blunt, absurd and heavily dependent on voice and timing. The most useful neighbouring categories are comic gift books, invented-creature picture books and television or podcast humour rather than long-form fiction. Read more Less
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