Karl Pilkington: "Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant Conned Me" 

Kiwi Chuckles wish I'd read this comment before watching. The host of this show is fucking annoying.

Kiwi Chuckles ikr

I wanted to dislike this video for the same reason, but liked it because of Karl.

I'm just glad I found another Pilkio video that I didn't know about

Kiwi Chuckles in

marcotoni231 Agreed. A genuine human being too.

His slaphead tickles my ribs.

He is though. He's an actor.

@@beyondbackwater4933 have you listened to all of the ricky gervais podcasts from the beginning? Karl is genuinely the real deal and has the strangest mind I've ever come across. Yes he does acting now for shows but 99% of the shit he says outside of those is straight up how he thinks and isn't some sort of character acting

@@cloudbloom he hams it up a bit, defo.

I love how he just give it a little bit credit.I mean its not shit but its not just great.

The Alright Wall of China

ObservableFiction we bloomin' well agree!

+Absolute Radio That was a bit stupid to say you knob head.

Hahaha

+ObservableFiction Shame he's such a vegetable though (with apologies to actual vegetables out there).

I can cope with being called pathetic, but I JUST WON'T BE referred to as "p.c." OK?????? Are you being serious...or is it a sense-of-humour-fail? p.s. in UK no such thing-there are still a bunch of banned books, and see how far you get with free-speech if you tell a muslim to fuck off back to the cat-litter they crawled out of...

My dad is also from Manchester so they have almost identical accents (my dad’s isn’t as strong because he moved to the US in his 20s), so listening to Karl is like listening to my dad, if my dad were the type to ramble on and on and on 😂 I LOVE it 😃

Yes, it's the accent

When it comes to British accents, his is actually intelligible and smooth. Most others, i have no clue what they are saying.

Of course 😌

Every night

He is genuinely stupid

Just a normal manc lad

I wish it had also been broadcast in my country but I found a couple of episodes on internet and I loved it

About as funny as a kick in the bollocks

@@TheWelwyn21 those are funny sometimes

​@@TheWelwyn21Are you the guy that wrote that article review?

In my 20's I left the US to live abroad for a few years, and traveled to many of these places (and not for the handful of days Karl spent, but for 3-4 months at a time) and it was not a whinge fest. It depends on the person, not the place.

good eye

Probably thinking that even "Mr. K. Dilkington" would've been better than "K man".

haha

Fodi he would have preferred Brett more

TheCamorra2011 no it made him smile a bit. He sighed before then when he heard K man his eyes looked up and he smiled.

Hahahaha

Karl dilkington

Jellyfish pun! How many people do you think liked this comment that didn’t catch that?

"People thumping other people all the time, no one bats an eye. Thump a monkey, people go, you thumped a monkey."

turns orange, yellow and its throat swells up

Very true.. without Ricky or Stephen he seems like a normal guy and very funny!

Ricky Gervais just gets so annoying when he's yelling at Karl doesn't he..?

It’s also the fact that he never talks over anyone and stops talking as soon as someone interrupts. He understands how messy radio can sound.

@@tsepangmalephane5427 No.... only to the uneducated.

You’re an idiot because if you listened to the first xfm radio station with Ricky and Stephen Karl was shy awkward and insecure.

🤣🤣🤣

Like a fuckin orange

Manc bald twat

+chris leigh it's all scripted (his boss Gervais makes sure of that) after all Pilkington is so dull he can barely string a sentence together let alone be spontaneous and amusing !

@@revol148 He strung sentences together and was amusing in this video.

@@deaddoll1361.....to you he was amusing

@Insert insult Here great username by the way !

It is a diamond in a turd. The area is littered with garbage on the outskirts where kids pick through it.

+Daniel Naidu He probably has some idea. He's had several programs and books made about him now. He just doesn't give a toss

+Daniel Naidu Of course he does

+Daniel Naidu He's really good at deadpan delivery. Maybe he doesn't know that it will be funny before he says it, but once people start laughing he keeps it together, even if he knows it sounds ridiculous

+Daniel Naidu Course he does

It’s like when he told the story of his neighbors with a horse living in the living room. He didn’t realize that was odd and funny part of the story.

You don't have any mates

@@leonardhpls6-account made 11 years ago -definitely over 30 years old -stays inside trolling all day

to be honest, the harassement was worth the outlandish laugh accompaning Karl's mind blowing word cacophanys :D :D

@@ghostehh Gervais' laugh is a cackle, it's disgusting. It makes me want to close his throat. Permanently.

AH HAH HAH HAH HAA HESAIDRICKYWASHARASSING AHHAHHAHHAHHAAAAAAA oooooooooohhh

No it isn't. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Pisses me right off that. Everytime Karl has a good or funny point Ricky jus stomps him down and shuts him up. Prick

oh goodness yes to this!!

It’s around the time I first found out about Karl... I was 12!

Yea plus Rocky and Stephen aren't constantly tearing him down.

It’s these moments of candour without the other 2 in the room that shows the Karl that Ricky fell in love with.

I lol’d so hard when he was like “oh did you sleep in a kabob shop? No, Well alright then there you go, sounds like you had a nice trip”

That's because Ricky wrote it his script, the bloke pretending he was thick. You don't get.a job as a producer at a Radio station if your thick.

@@TheWelwyn21 By his own admission, all he had to do was ‘press the buttons’ and ‘make a few jingles’. And like Steve once said ‘do you think we would have wasted a character this good on this tinpot radio station?’

@@thepontiacbandit7874 you cannot get a job as a producer in a radio station without a great education you have to be a graduate to get anywhere near being a radio producer. Do you honestly think HR at his interview went the Job is a piece of piss all you have to do is push a few buttons theirs labels on them to make it easier for you. Use your brain for goodness sake

farfangled 9

Yeah? Just curious. Where can I hear such a thing?

Yeah, I mean he is a professional producer, but he's also Carl. I mean, I actually know somebody like him who really doesn't have a sense of humor and isn't self aware. Might even be mild autism.

He's still bent but way less crumpled when he's not being bullied.

Geoffrey Zoref He does have a sense of humour obviously, he puts it on when he acts dumb and/or oblivious to humour.

i'd react about the same

The only one of the wonders I've been to that Karl visited is the pyramids. Whilst they are indeed pretty cool getting CONSTANTLY hassled by people trying to flog you tat or sell you a ride on an emaciated camel ruins it, along with all the litter etc.

I know right. I've always pondered the reasoning behind that, but I've never been able to find an answer.

​@@haleynic I've been listening to the podcasts recently (yet again), what I put it down to is mainly Karl's vocabulary. He has said this himself that he has trouble expressing his thoughts clearly into the right words and struggled with school, we still understand what he means, but the slight errors cause confusion with Ricky and Steve who didn't struggle with school as much. But the hilarious thing is that Ricky and Steve see themselves as intellectually superior due to their 'academic intelligence', which is mainly the ability to retain knowledge and regurgitate it back. Karl I would argue is just as intelligent (if not more) than Ricky and Steve, it's a natural, curious, intuitive intelligence, and he can think laterally in a way that the others can't. TL;DR: Karl is living proof that you don't need to be well-read and academically gifted to be a very intelligent and perceptive person. It was most likely it the schooling system that has led him and others to perceive him as less intelligent, it's a shame because he's actually brilliant

@@nloc1929 also his nerves used to be too short, he has problems with his legs, not to mention he is unsure of if he’s in charge of his brain or vice versa.

@@BRIDGEBURNERSTV Haha! "You're the sort of person who's eyes can see further than you can"

What are y’all on about…? laughter is when something diverts from expectation, who here can tell where a Karl story is going to end up once he starts talking? It’s the pov he has that differs from many other people that draws people to Karl. Ex 4:50 how many people would consider what he said to be a positive/motivating thing if he didn’t explain it? He purposefully went against the grain, which is why he’s appreciated by those that understand his thought process. Just my 2cents

Hobbits are right little shits though. If you read the book Bilbo, Frodo etc were an exception to the rule. The others were just inbred and spiteful.

King Loser in the appendixes app all the hobbits did was get off with each other

Karl doesn’t put up with bullshit and thinks for himself

Pretty sure simple living makes ALL people without inferiority complex and other mental issues happier. You have less shit to care about and can focus on the more important and relevant things and if you get bored you can still go out, meet people or travel without worrying about useless stuff you paid shitloads of money for.

That is... a brilliant analogy.

I agree

+Mike Shuttleworth I think it's more Ricky Gervais and his utter arrogance that pushes to make Karl out to be an idiot. Frankly Karl has some good ideas. He is good at looking at things from a different perspective. He analyzes things that others take for granted. He may be a little ignorant on things that are common knowledge to others but he more than makes up for it by coming up with ideas of how things may work from the knowledge he does have.

James Morris No, I'm sorry but he's a real idiot. See my comment above.

he's an original thinker. not perfectly logical, but a natural comedian

Go listen to the Karl vs Steve compilation, Karl lets them shit on him and make him look dumb

LOL!!!

Then I'll join you, it's about 95% for me

He does make some great points out of the gobbledegook. He just words things differently & always makes a point you never knew was revelant

Me too! About 85%. The rest seems logical but from very limited perspectives...lol

Unfortunately though, only 37% of what he says makes sense to himself.

Alot of what karl says is gobbledegook, its nonsense.

33hegemon haha he really does! 😂

And looks like him too

@@stepheng4218 no

Altrincham is not in sale , different towns, as a wythenshawe lad I reckon sale is the better of the two

I am sorry. Let me rephrase. He just thinks differently than normal people.

***** Don't be a twat

***** Jesus fucking christ he's not implying anything negative, get over it.

If you are a poster on this thread and your name is really Karl, please click like. We can keep it anonymous but we know who you are.

***** And to be clear Karl was the one implying that its obvious and that everyone agrees that the icing is not the best part. I am sure most of the inhabitants of the world would rather eat the icing but Karl thinks we just need to think about it and then we will realize that its not the best part. Thats what makes him different. Maybe some people don't like the icing (I am sure its a minority), but those who do like icing are very certain further study is not needed.

Credit to Christian O’ Connell. This is the only interview with Karl i’ve ever heard where the interviewer isn’t doing an impersonation of ricky and steve and simply mocking or laughing at Karl.

+DJBusinessCake1 The Allright Wall of China.

+DJBusinessCake1 have you ever been?

sorryibrokethetrees hahaha ooooh you're an idiot

Oh. Ok.

+DJBusinessCake1 You can see it from space, in low Earth orbit. The often quoted phrase is you can see it from the moon, which is indeed false.

TheCamorra2011 Weird innit?

The first one was Suzanne. There is a picture of the two on the Internet and it is the same girl. It has to be her.

Nilly You're correct. I've seen another video where karl was walking next to a girl who had teh same face and paparrazi were taking pictures. Suzzane is quite large lol. Round figure for sure

Yeah I'm pretty sure it is her too!

I agree i thought it was suzanne as well. It has to be her. It is the same girl from the picture of him and her in the street.

Adam Johnson even better because she was being a baby he didn't kiss her arse. Good

Didn't she then lose all her hair?

It's the lack of forced humour. There's no jokes or gimicks, no over the top script. Just 1 mans opinion and it's an opinion that for a second sounds ridiculous but rarely can you disagree. If people watch expecting a 'sit com' type script there not going to hear what is a refreshing take on making a point.

Something I find with Karl is that he gets funnier the more you get to know his personality. Because part of what makes it funny is kind of knowing how his brain works, and also the dynamic in the show with him and Ricky and Steve.

I think about this too! I find him endlessly comedic no matter what he's saying. My first attempt at trying to describe it is that I find it amazing how I can't predict what he's going to say but every time I somehow completely agree with him. He said in an interview that he's happiest when he's washing the dishes by himself and I thought that was really sweet and inspiring even. In the cases I don't because he's obviously got some facts mixed up, the mix up is so funny. It's even funnier with Ricky and Steve who don't always seem to see where the mixup happened. Like the story with the astronaut monkey. He got it right that they sent a monkey to space but then he made up the part in his head that that means that the monkey controlled it too and therefore must have been pavlovian contioned into learning to fly a rocket. I would like to hear more theories if you guys have them on why he's so goddamn funny. I don't usually find people this funny.