Alrite?

Can someone give me a quick rundown on this guy?

>>86595547
Former radio producer from Manchaster who shot to fame after working with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who exploited his obscure views of the world for monetary gain by revolving the radio show on him, creating a series of popular podcasts and eventually sending him on a series of travel documentaries.

Or if you want the short version: he's a bald little mank with a head like a FUCKING ORANGE

Head like an orange

I actually prefer The Moaning of Life to An Idiot Abroad now. It's almost unsettling how open-minded Karl has become over the years

>>86595547
Was part of a podcast with Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant back in the early 2000s. Ricky and Steve used him in Idiot Abroad for some easy $$$ but it backfired when Karl ended up being more entertaining and loveable than either Ricky or Steve

Personal favourite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu4DT9_w7yM

>>86596632
he was always quite a sweet guy though (except for how he treated robin ince)

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>>86596835
I know, he's a good guy. But when you compare Idiot Abroad with Moaning the difference is staggering. He used to be slagging things off, refusing to take part in stuff before reluctantly half-arsing it. But in Moaning of Life he's positive about just about everything he sees and takes real joy in it, and I loved seeing that.
Also how genuinely happy he was with his hair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYHWn7Vfc5s

>>86597024
moaning was his own little project

hope he comes out of retirement to do something else. but hes too happy pottering about at home n that

>>86597024
The difference with Moaning of Life is that everything he's doing is because he wanted to do it and knew about it before hand. Idiot Abroad was him being forced to do gnarly shit at the drop of a hat, usually with the intent of putting him in incredibly uncomfortable/awkward situations for the comedy effect.

>>86597024
That's because he chose the things himself. In An Idiot Abroad Ricky and Steve chose for him.

>>86597024
I always assumed that he was happier due to less meddling from gervais

kind of sad we wont get any new material from RSK anymore. Doesn't seem like any one of them wants to do it.

>>86597141
I think Ricky will manage to dig him up and get him on the telly or the radio at one point, when he realises his Hollywood career is going nowhere.

>>86597250
Steve and Karl can't stand being around Ricky anymore.

>>86597283
Why do people keep peddling this meme when Karl and Steve have both said this is bullshit? Is it because Gervais makes people asshurt on twitter so they assume Karl/Steve hate him now?

>>86597283
Could you? He makes me laugh but he'd be insufferable as a mate.

>>86597337
They always clam up whenever people bring it up. All of them say something dismissive or awkward sounding.

So how staged was an idiot abroad?

Like I get they payed people to be dicks to him on purpose, but was it more staged than that?

>>86597283
Can you blame them? He's a pretentious asshole.
They used him to get some fame and money and dumped him, which is exactly what he deserves.

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>>86595514
Each time I see his face on 4chan I wonder why Pierre Woodman keeps being posted.
>My daughter Alexandra is very beautiful. She’s 25 and looks like a top model. She writes, acts, she does a lot. When my daughter was young I started to speak with her about sex and explain how to take care of a man. She started having sex at age 18 and I told her a blowjob should be the last thing you do with a guy when you begin dating. The blowjob is the cherry on the cake. You need to wait for the man to prove he has a good heart and his intentions are correct before giving him a blowjob. I have a perfect relationship with my daughter and my son. Both of my children don’t smoke, drink or do drugs. They are very normal. Many people think, “ah, to be the daughter of Pierre Woodman, the monster, she must be insane too?” Then people see my daughter and she is so pure, so normal. It’s the same with my son. People are shocked that I’m cool with my children and my wife and that our lives are perfect.
Pic related is his wife not his daughter

>>86597384
>They always clam up whenever people bring it up. All of them say something dismissive or awkward sounding.

actual autism

>>86597419
How do you mean? Karl documented the whole thing in his books. The trips happened in a different order to the one shown on TV and anyone who listened to the podcasts knows the shtick about Karl being little Englander who's never been out of his comfort zone is bollocks as he was on holiday every other week from XFM but other than that it was all pretty legit.

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>>86597501
>post about Pierre Woodman
>picture showing Karl with Suzanne

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>KP: Nobody was really bothered about who I was, until I started producing the radio program
>RG: Was exposing yourself as a manc twat live-on-air part of your plan?
>KP: Uuuhhhhhhh, not really. I mean, you can't really help it, can you?
>RG: If I took away your features would you get all stroppy?
>KP: It would be a bit a rubbish
>RG: You're a bald guy
>KP: For you

>>86595547
Manc mong; head like an orange.

>>86597825
to be fair you aren't exposed to much novelty when you go on holiday to st. lucia and lanzagrotty
I think a lot of english people would have reacted like he did when he saw people eating duck fetuses and stuff

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>>86597024
>mfw that fat-arse Suzanne said his hair looked stupid and he got rid of it

Destroying his confidence because the hair would have put him out of her league.

>that moment when karl and suzanne actually split up over the hair incident

Wonder if that was a really dark time for Karl or if he truly didnt give a fuck

>>86597839
Daring synthesis

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>it's a Karl proves Ricky wrong episode

>>86596835
Wait what did Karl do to Robin?

>>86598224
He looked magnificent and so happy with it. I bet you anything Suzanne took one look at that picture he sent her and thought "fuck, he's gonna leave me".

>>86597825
I ought to take a look at his books. As for staged, I guess the phone calls and voicemails were staged but for the rest it looked legit. Did Karl really have no idea where he was going or what he was going to do each day?

>>86595547
Absolute madman. Manc twat. Bald fuck. Lunatick. A fucking idiot. HEAD LIKE A FUCKING ORANGE!

>>86598437
Wasn't Robin that guy over at Ricky's who Karl didn't like? I remember Karl talking about how he found him annoying and asking Ricky if Robin would be there that evening. Ricky lied and said no and as soon as Karl arrived and saw Robin he publicly said something like
>You told me he wasn't gonna be here, you know I don't like him, that I find him annoying
And then tried to leave. Very rude.

>>86598411

Last night I listened to the one where he proved him right twice, first the guy going to the doctors for an ear infection only for his balls to be taken off, then the Donna Eyre gorilla story.

>>86598655

Yeah that's him. These are great if you've never seen them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LideSwXtEIk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQkZXGHDeog

>>86598411
Other than the lighthouse incident, what other times has he proven him wrong?

My favourite episodes are the ones where Karl comes out with something generally brilliant, like when he suggested giving homeless people clothes with adverts on them.

>>86598692
The more I learn about Ricky, the more I hate him.

>>86598333
He didn't seem arsed.

>high and dry
>high=smells

Ricky and the caller are retarded

>>86598508
The books are great. You get a proper insight into just how hard a time he was having. The calls are real but a few of his reactions to them probably had to be staged due to time zone differences etc. They weren't filming 24/7.

>>86598692
Is he the one with the big thumbs?

>>86598333
>>86598978
You're winding me up right? Are they really separated now?

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will there ever be a podcast as comfy, lads?

>>86598655
I can vaguely remember that in that episode rick said that karl and robin actually got on quite well in the end

>>86598692
Oh fuck I remember watching those vids years ago. Ricky is such a cunt and a terrible friend. This whole weird power play he does with his "friends", knowing they can't complain or do anything because he's the one who got them work/famous.

>>86598784
He never got to prove Ricky wrong, but Karl's "What's Tomato With You" story wasn't bullshit

>>86597024
he looked good with hair lol.

>>86598224
this pissed me off too, tbqh.

>>86599512
nah back during the xfm days (in one of the later seasons I think) karl had an argument over suzanne's haircut and split up for a short amount of time. it had all been sorted out by the time they spoke about it again

>>86598333
what does she look like?

>>86599598
meant for:
>>86599470

>>86599128
high is used to describe something smelly in the UK

>>86599530
Because Robin was quite after that.

>>86598784
Pretty much every time in Educating Ricky.

>>86599576
The acid/lead plate one? Yeah now that you've come to mention it, there have been a few of Karl's stories that have turned out to be true, albeit in the exact same way Karl told them.

>>86599598
They didn't break up over it. He bought her a new coat as an apology and that was it.

>>86599598
Oh right. I thought you were talking about recent times. I thought you meant Karl's hair.
I was worried for a bit there. I don't think Karl can function on his own.

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>>86599778
tfw no level headed and understanding gf

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>>86599816
>mfw the "sausages inside the toaster" story

does suzanne actually exist? or was she a figment of karls imagination?

>>86599906
I'm still not convinced, just because there is zero proof of her existence. No interview, no photo of them together, no footage at all. Just that one photo of a blonde woman on her own who could be anyone

>>86597250
Because
>steve and karl living the comfy life
>smug fatty wants to make fun of karl and incite him against stephen for $$$

I'd tell him to fuck of as well

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thoughts on idiot abroad 3?

>>86600273
Ricky's career is flooded with shit, but he's still got a career and he's a household name in the UK and the US. I'm sure he doesn't need a return to podcasts.

>steve and karl living the comfy life
Really? I know Karl's just happy doing his thing and he's got some money in the bank. No idea what Steve's doing these days except for random cameo appearances.

>>86600342
From what I remember it wasn't as good as the first two, partly because of the lack of chemistry between Karl and Warwick

>>86600342
It was a small disappointment. Warwick is insufferable.

I read Karl's AMA yesterday and it's pretty interesting stuff in case you haven't read it yet.

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>>86600060
what about this?
>got a fat arse
>blonde
>looks like a member of the band Slade

>>86601505
shit forgot to post vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk6rtTLT1go

>>86601505
>>86601673
Fuck, I always thought that was just a pic and thought the woman was just a random passerby, but I never knew there was video footage. Could very well be her.

>>86595547
Here's a quick rundown on Karl Pilkington

>The BBC bows to him
>In contact with primates
>Possesess bullshit detection abilities
>Owns radio and telly globally
>Direct descendants of the ancient english royal blood line
>Will bankroll the first cities on Mars (Pilkinburg will be be the first city)
>Own 99% of jellyfish DNA editing research facilities on Earth
>First designer babies will in all likelihood be orangeheaded manc cunt babies
>said to have an IQ of 70, such intelligence on Earth has only existed deep in dirty council estates in Manchester

>>86597273
Neither Ricky, Karl, or Stephen are on good terms with each other anymore. So it's highly unlikely at this point.

>>86601673
90% sure that's not her. She's taller and more butch from what I remember seeing.

>>86602978
Have a little faith.

>>86601505
thats an office assistant

>>86602978
>Neither Ricky, Karl, or Stephen are on good terms with each other anymore
Source: your ass

DICKERS!

>>86603058
MORE butch? Jesus.

>>86602978
>>86603130
Hmm, I'm not sure. Karl's gone on record saying he doesn't keep in touch, but even if you put Ricky out of the equation, Karl's money is going to run out at some point. At the moment he's doing nothing, but he'll have to get work sooner or later. Whether that's a telly thing or just back to radio is another story. Personally, it feels like he's done with the telly and the attention.

>>86600342
Warwick can't take the bantz and it spoils the show. Still has it's moments tho.

>>86600930
This stuff is gold
>Q: In a age where literally everyone has a camera in their phones, how is it possible that no one has ever gotten a definitive picture of Suzanne out in public with you somewhere? Not saying she doesn't exist; it is just remarkable that not one picture has surfaced in 15 years.
>A: No one wants her picture.

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>>86601505

That's a Sky employee.

>>86603401

I think this is Suzanne, of course her face is obscured. It is pretty crazy how there's no definitive pic

>>86603401
>What life lesson have you learnt that everyone should know?
>If you put your finger in and out of your ear it makes the sound that Pac Man makes when he's eating.

This one genuinely blew my mind.

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The only known face pic of Suzanne

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>>86603510
yeah your right, also heres a bit of her head lol

>>86599634
looks like dave hill from slade

So do you feel like Karl is just a funny bloke with interesting views and ideas, or would you say he's a modern day philosopher either intentional or not?

>>86604144
hes a relatively normal guy with a strange upbringing
salford is an odd place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYdox4ctUlA

>piss on marble?

>>86604144
Honestly don't know, he's a bit of an enigma. But there are moments where I'm genuinely blown away by his look at life and how he makes sense of the world in a really profound way

>>86598784
The moon thing about the same side facing the earth

>>86604483
>unilad

>>86604502
Man moth?

>>86600342
I really got sick of Warwick crying and moaning all the time like a little spoiled kid.

>>86604900
hes half the man karl is

>>86604900
Been a while since I watched it but I thought I remember it was warwick who was interested in trying stuff and karl would bitch about shit all the time and never want to do anything.

>Karl's story about how they 'found' a vampire
>person who found the vampire blended its heart and drank it
>now he's in prison
>'if it wasn't dodgy stuff, why are they in prison?'

>>86604483

Karl was right about the North Pole/Desert choice

>>86604990
Warwick got really angry every time Karl didn't like the same things he did. The difference between them is that Karl doesn't try to nag or manipulate people to do stuff they don't like, while Warwick, if I remember correctly, cried like a little baby just because he had to climb a few stairs up to a temple for his own sake.

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>>86604483

>Shitting out a Rugby Ball

I'll take the marble

>>86604990

Everything Warwick wanted to try was gay as fuck

>>86604834
It's that readiness to believe in things like man moth hybrids that makes me love his mind so much. He might not be a philosopher, but his way of thinking and his way of juxtaposing the things he sees and experiences abroad with elements of the everyday life of the average joe is really honest, genuine and profound.

>>86604900
I didn't like Warwick's addition much either. They didn't seem to get on well and Warwick was indeed very moany. I tend to skip S3 when rewatching. I don't remember the exact circumstances but I think they went to some kind of dwarf village and Warwick just got really upset and angry. No idea why they thought pairing Karl and Warwick up would make for good television.

>>86603204
Karl said on his reddit AMA that he doesn't keep in touch with Ricky anymore and will probably never work with either him or Stephen again. It sounded like they were on relatively bad terms, like Karl finally got fed up with the immature "bullying". If you want to sift through the AMA then be my guest.

Then Stephen Merchant made some similar comments over Instagram about how he and Ricky don't work together anymore and had a falling out of sorts.

>>86603130
>>86603307
Yeah, it's possible that one day they'll make up and try to collaborate again. But as long as things are stable for all of them then I don't see it.

>Karl Pilkington, live on air, talking shit agaaaaain

>>86605297
I can understand why Karl would rather be without Ricky and Steve, and I could just as well understand why Ricky would rather work without Steve. Steve often came off as something of a sociopath on the radio shows sometimes, and Ricky could sometimes be like a childish bully. I guess they will get together if either of them run out of money.

>>86605535

Steve's career is on the up while Ricky's is going down and Karl just doesn't care about his fame. Ricky is probably to proud to crawl back to Steve

>what lake is the Loch Ness Monster in?

>>86605535
>Steve often came off as something of a sociopath on the radio shows sometimes
I've often wondered about Steve. Sometimes he could show a really creepy, sociopathic side that was slightly troubling.

>>86605297
Any chance of you finding Steves comment about Ricky or pointing me in the right direction of them?

>>86599854
>singin' happy birthday for the 8th time that day

>Migrants, what do they do? No, what do they do? Get rid of em'.
Jesus christ karl...

>and I thought, I thought when I put it on, I thought I looked a bit like Sean Connery as James Bond, apparently I look like Tattoo from Fantasy Island

>>86605297
>>86605892
Seconded. I read Karl's AMA but I'd like to see Steve's words.

>>86605297
Ricky and Stephen never seemed like friends, it always seemed like just a working relationship. On the radio show Ricky would often talk about funny things he and Karl did together without Steve.

>I told you already that if you're a bloke and you go to Argentina and have a steak you can wake up with breasts
>did you say that on air
>yes
will we ever really hear this argentina theory?

>Then Stephen Merchant made some similar comments over Instagram about how he and Ricky don't work together anymore and had a falling out of sorts.
I haven't seen him say anything about falling out with him

>>86606104
No, they were definitely very good friends but Ricky just didn't seem to appreciate him as much as his other friends

>that episode where Karl talks about swearing and how everyone does it
>says even Jesus must've been swearing because getting nails hammered through your hands really hurts
>Ricky angrily cutting Karl off saying he can't believe how he just insulted Christianity

What a fucking hypocrite. You could tell Karl didn't mean any offense at all, and we all know how Ricky openly criticizes and belittles Christianity to an almost unfair length.
I don't even want Ricky, Steve and Karl to get back together. Just let Karl do his own thing. Look at how great The Moaning of Life was, now that Karl wasn't shackled to Ricky and Steve.

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>it's a Karl wants to genocide Africa episode

so she was kinda useless

He and Merch need a show. Call it Manc and Lank or something.

>>86597024

Damn! Karl looks like that??!?

>>86606169
rick didn't even take him to meet bowie

>>86606104
>>86606169
It always felt awkward to me with Ricky mentioning some sort of party or get-together almost every week and Steve wasn't there. Especially when Karl WAS there, and often some celebrities as well. Steve never comments on it but it makes you wonder. Sure, Steve could've had prior engagements, but only about one in twenty party anecdotes from Ricky involve Steve being there, to the point where you start to think Ricky just doesn't invite him.

>the episode where Steve is genuinely angry at Ricky for not inviting him when Ricky went to a Jonathan Ross party with David Bowie there, knowing how much it would've meant for Steve to meet Bowie

>>86595547
Actor friend of Ricky Gervais. His real name is Graham. The whole Karl Pilkington character is just an act. Suzanne doesn't exist. He is actually from Liverpool, not Manchester.

>"I was walking home the other night, and I was thinking about it, and do you worry that when you're old you will be on your own?"
karl was fucking brutal

>>86606477
It was ridiculous how good Karl looked with hair. The man wasn't even lying to please him, Karl really did look ten years younger with that snazzy hairdo.

>>86606454
Not enough chemistry I think. Even though things sometimes got too heated, the Ricky/Steve/Karl trio worked best, with Karl's "nonsense", Ricky's anger and Steve acting as a mediator between the two. Just Steve and Karl wouldn't work. Karl on his own works though, get him on the telly again!

it could've been your brother

How can he get a job at XFM without any qualifications?

>>86606497
Yeah he brought his girlfriend, he also didn't bring any of his other friends to meet Bowie.

From Karl's AMA:
>We ain’t fallen out but I hardly ever see either of them. Doing the podcasts used to mean we had to meet up but since we knocked them on the head we’ve just been getting on with our own things. Can’t say I’ve missed them that much though to be honest. One of the last times I saw Ricky he farted on my head so I’m not in a rush to meet with him anytime soon. Steve sent me a photo of him the other day and he’s now totally bald! Not sure if he’s ill or he’s shaved it for a part in a film.

>>86606568
Yea ti was awkward, as I said he appreciated Karl more as a friend, doesn't mean he wasn't good friends with Steve too, if you notice when Karl was retelling that dilemma he gave to Ricky he said "God, I don't know he's my best mate" and if you watch anything from that time they seem like genuine friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVVX42UACs8

Who was in the wrong here?

>>86607285
they were most likely playing it up for the camera but robin came off as a pushover here
fun video though

>>86607111
I'm sure Ricky and Steve were good pals. You don't come together and write stuff like The Office and Extras together without getting on well and sharing the same type of humour.

It just makes me wonder why Steve seemed so absent from Ricky and Karl's social life. Maybe Steve's social awkwardness was just at its peak during the XFM days, because these days he seems pretty confident and outgoing. But then again he did get upset a couple of times for not being invited. I just don't know what he was up to outside of work. Either he didn't like hanging out all the time outside of work hours or maybe he was just bad company. I guess we'll never know, unless Steve does an AMA like Karl and Ricky did.

>>86602201
Absolutely underrated

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BONG

Man pushes 114 watsits up his bottom

>>86607049
>Anons unironically reads this as Karl somehow being mad at Ricky and Steve

>>86607935

How could you shove a wotsit up your arse, wouldn't it just crumple?

>>86607979
Yeah, people read to much into this stuff. He's just being honest, they've moved on and are doing their own thing. He's not putting a fake showbizzy spin on it like saying how he'd love to meet up again, he's being honest and saying Ricky was a pain to deal with sometimes. No harm intended.

>>86607836
The only two times he was upset was the Bowie concert that Ricky did have a good excuse for, he could only get two tickets and only because he was a big name in UK and he went with his girlfriend and the other time at the party where he had no excuse, that one was weird. But other than that they seemed to refer to each other as friends and it seemed genuine to me, not saying they were inseparable best friends, Ricky has friends he liked more for sure, I was just disputing the claim that that anon made that they were purely in a working relationship

Nothing can replace the feeling of going through all the XFM episodes for the first time. It saddens me.

>>86604985
lmao

>>86608377
I'm currently going through the XFM stuff for the first time, so I'm experiencing it right now. I'm nearing the end of the second series and I have to say I'm getting a bit sick of it all. There's much less general chat and interesting musings from Karl than before. Almost every episode starts with an argument between any one of them, the atmosphere is very tense, and Ricky and Steve are constantly threatening to axe Karl's features even though they're the only things holding the show up now that Ricky and Steve have decided not to prepare any chat beforehand.
I just hope this is a bump in the road that will be gone in later episodes but at the moment it's kinda bugging me how they're all at each other's throats.

>>86608740
I think they're just riffing a lot of the time. Season 2 is the best, they become even more argumentative in 3 and 4

if you get a bulb, and you look after it, right, you look after that bulb, and you teach it stuff, and all that, what are you doin there? do you know what i mean

>>86608894
I know most of it is either staged or exaggerated (I think Rockbusters has been officially cancelled and come back four times now), but it still feels a bit tense. Karl's having a go at Steve a lot more which is funny but Steve obviously can't handle it. Ricky's constantly blaming Karl for the lack of quality even though he doesn't bring anything to the table himself, and he refuses to hear Karl out on stuff, even when it's proven to be correct.
I kinda miss the old banter, this new banter feels too hostile and undeserved.

steves ugly inner self really shines through in his xfm days. especially whenever he brings up rick waller. really insecure

>>86609154
rockbusters gets cancelled pretty much every episode for the rest of the show as far as I can remember lol

>>86607836
Steve was also pretty young during the xfm years

>Karl's house rules are that if there's not something on the telly that you really want to watch, the telly goes off and Suzanne has to talk to him about things he's learned
I imagine Suzanne suddenly started becoming a fan of a number of tv series after that

>>86609176
If you haven't seen it, check out the interview he did for Norm MacDonald's webseries.

>>86608740
You just can't handle the bantz

>>86596632
I feel like series 3 of An Idiot Abroad was really the turning point. He obviously felt the need to constantly upstage Warwick, which led to Karl taking the lead and actually pushing the envelope himself.

Of course, with Moaning of Life he also obviously didn't have Gervais and Merchant fucking with him constantly.

>>86609381
whats the basic gestalt

>>86609449
I can tell the difference between banter and genuine frustration. It's a miracle they went on for so long and did the podcasts afterwards. I guess money makes you put up with anything.

>>86609580
Merchant spends the whole interview worried that he'll accidentally offend someone and is clearly annoyed that he's living in Ricky and Karl's shadow.

>Karl's continuous boiler problems over the years made him decide to move house instead of finally getting it fixed
Sometimes I feel very much like Karl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpqMlWblZRo

Great vid lads

>>86609829
I love it when Karl has a go at Stephen's look, especially because Stephen hates it and is rubbish at comebacks. Ricky pulling the strings and goading Karl into taking the piss is also always great.

>>86606273
Out of all three, ricky, karl and steve, pilkington walks away the richer man.

ricky became a flaming anti christian warship for hollywood and steve a bitter hungry skeleton

meanwhile Karl is probably comfy as fuck in his holiday home in wales.

>>86610138
>meanwhile Karl is probably comfy as fuck in his holiday home in wales.
Probably helps that he can get free shopping from the local phone box

>>86597024
He still has the look of a joiner from Salford to him

>>86597024
I still can't get over how much of a difference that hair makes. He has a bunch of different styles in that episode and he genuinely looks really good.

>>86610511
His whole family besides his mum all seem rather dodgy
>Brother was a notorious womanizer who got kicked out of the army for stealing a fucking Tank to buy cigs
>Dad steals groceries, has shady contacts likely getting him things off the back of the truck (like the crate of tic tacs), trespasses to avoid paying £2.50 parking fee etc.

>>86610734
didn't his dad leave a retarded kid in the middle of nowhere because he wouldn't quiet down on a bus?

You're musclely

>>86610734
To be fair his mum wasn't really normal either. I struggle to remember everything but didn't she shave her cat because it was throwing up all the time and she got sick of cleaning it? And then there's the pet spider she keeps under the telly.
It's like every time you learn more about Karl's family you start to understand how he turned out the way he did.

>>86596835
To be fair robin is a cunt m80s. The only reason ricky has him around is to act as a punching bag phsycially and mentally.

>>86611111
>CHECK THESE THOUGH

>>86611111
ayooo

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>>86611111
those digits

>>86611111
>The only reason ricky has him around is to act as a punching bag phsycially and mentally.
And that somehow makes Robin a cunt, and not Ricky?

>>86595547

The one thing you have to know about Karl is little monkey fella

>>86611111
Oh boy.

my quads//

>>86611331
>quads
>quads
>5

>>86611275
Not thats not what i meant. Ricky was a cunt too. But so was Robin..... I guess the better term would be pussy for putting up eith ricky's faggotry.

>Q: In a age where literally everyone has a camera in their phones, how is it possible that no one has ever gotten a definitive picture of Suzanne out in public with you somewhere? Not saying she doesn't exist; it is just remarkable that not one picture has surfaced in 15 years.
>Karl: No one wants her picture

>>86597024
WHAT

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>>86611401
Shit, didn't even realize i was working with quints

Starting to change my mind now while rewatching An Idiot Abroad. It's hilarious to see Karl forced out of his comfort zone and being confronted with new cultures, foods and travels.
Moaning is only great because Karl's matured a bit, but it's An Idiot Abroad that really started it.

>>86611465
HE'S DONE YOU AGAIN

>>86597501
>says perfect that much, insists everything is normal.
Red flag

>>86605892
>>86605978
From what I remember it was somewhere here: https://www.instagram.com/stephenmerchant

But maybe I was reading an interview at the same time and just associated the words he said with his instagram. This was over a year ago. I'm not sure how to find things that people say on instagram. For all I know it could have also been on his reddit.

>>86599512
MBMBAM is pretty good.

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>>86602201
good post

>>86611407
I don't really know the details but wasn't Robin working for Ricky at that point? He, and just about anyone else subject to Ricky's abuse, was working under him. Is they started complaining, they'd be out of a job they really liked. I said it before but it's that power play from Ricky's side that really annoys me. Knowing he can fuck around with everyone, testing his limits, because nobody would stand up to him cause they'd probably lose their job
Like I said, I enjoy Ricky's comedy (Office, Extras, XFM) but I wouldn't want to share a single day with him. He'd just be sqoozing my head all day and I'm not even bald.

>the episode of the Rocky Gervais show podcast where they talk about the vat you go in and it simulates the perfect world
>the XFM show where Karl can't understand the concept that a million monkeys on a million typewriters with infinite time will eventually write Shakespeare
>the episode where Karl comes up with a pitch for a movie where the boyfriend dies but his brain is fused into his girlfriend's head

>>86611465
The thing with Karl is that he's hilarious both accidentally and intentionally. He's like oblivious to why some of the stuff he says is so fucking funny but then he also is hilarious on purpose. I love him so much.

>>86611866
After so many times, the Shakespeare-monkey thing still enrages me.

>>86606169
Ricky was so into Karl in this interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrEFqpnbrxY&t=482s

>anything you said would be funny!
>repeats it
He never got so excited about Steve's jokes.

>>86611866
So who was wrong with the whole infinite time monkey Shakespeare thing? I see a lot of people defending Karl, but people don't seem to understand the concept of infinity.

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I don't understand the Monkey News jingle.
What does "Ooh, chimpanzee that Monkey News?" mean?

>>86595547
fake and gay

>>86612016
Karl was wrong. Alot of people can't grasp infinity.

>>86612152
Not sure if spinoff of chuck and fuck meme, but it's meant to sound like "Ooooooh fancy that! its Monkey News"

>>86612184
A lot of people also can't grasp that 0.99... = 1

>>86612016
Karl was wrong, but it also fell on Ricky and Steve to explain it better. Granted, there's no comedy in that, so it's understandable why they didn't

>>86612184
It's a hard thing to grasp, but in Ricky's simple words "infinity solves everything". It's as simple as that. Repeat an event or experiment an INFINITE number of times and eventually the monkey would write Shakespeare. But all Karl's thinking is how much of the story the monkey knows before trying, completely missing the point

>>86612232
I was being genuine, thanks for clearing it up for me.

>>86612260
You been reading up on Dialectical Materialism, anon?

>>86612260
It's .999, not .99

Big distinction.

>>86612283
Did Karl ever touch on Schrodinger's cat?

Unrelated, but I'd love to see how he would tackle a murder mystery.

>>86612329
It's the ... (repeating) that matters. 0.99 != 1, but 0.99... does.

>>86612308
No, I just knew that mentioning it would make people argue.

>>86612487
If you write .999 it tells you it'll repeat. .99 doesn't to that.

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>Mfw 6'2", saw Karl IRL and he's the same size as me

Was ducking shocked. The podcasts led me to believe Karl was a little average fella. He's tall.

>>86612534
.999 is still terminal. So is .9999, so is .99999.

>>86612579
Is his head really abnormally round?

>>86612616
Yeah it is quite round. Its his bald ass head and puffy cheeks.

>>86612524
Well played.

>>86612260
I'm reading the wikipedia article and I'm struggling to wrap my head around it.

>>86612402
I seem to remember a short discussion on Shrodinger's Cat. And I'd kill for a murder mystery series starring an unscripted Karl trying to figure things out.

>>86612579
How'd you see him?

>>86612771
The easiest way to understand it is that there are multiple ways to represent each numberical value in mathematics.

For example 1+1 = 2, and 4-2 = 2. So 4-2 and 1+1 are the same number.

This extends to fractions and decimal notation.

1/3 = 0.33...
2/3 = 0.66...
3/3 = 0.99...

Good thread. Time for bed. This has been the Ricky Gervais show, so it's goodbye from me Ricky Gervais, and Steve Merchant, goodbye, and.....Karl Pilkington....Alri'?
See you next week but we're playing you off with, what is it Steve? Oh yeah, The Darkness, you'll enjoy this. See you...next week.
Alri'.

>>86612908
Oh! that's a good way of explaining it.

>>86611685
It's good, but far from comfy. Imagine having three children and all of them have fucked up annoying nasally voices like that.

>>86613921
To each their own. We can agree to disagree. I think it's comfy, banter between siblings who grew up close. Kind of like the Brothers Chaps' works.
My brother is 11 years older than me and we rarely chatted much, I'm biased to romanticizing family dynamics as comfy.

I saw Elis James and John Robins on tv yesterrday and apparently they've got a very popular show at XFM (now radio X). Anyone listen to that, is it any good?

>>86598784
A Love of Two Brains would be amazing.