>That was Yellow by Coldplay on Xfm 104.9. Alright Karl?
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>That was Yellow by Coldplay on Xfm 104.9.
>That was Yellow by Coldplay on Xfm 104.9. Alright Karl?
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he's sort of a... half-man half-woman...
MAN WOMAN MAN, MAN WOMAN TV, TV PROGRAM
Person woman man camera tv
Hickory dickory dock, some blokes wrote a song called 'Clocks' - those blokes were Coldplay.
mm yellow
>not whilst Coldplay are here...
>hickory dickory dock, some lads there, just wrote a song called Clocks. The lads are Coldplay
Thought i saw an old man eating a twix the other day, turns out little monkey fella
>THIS IS SUCH SHIT, THIS IS SUCH SHIT
let him finish!
>THIS, was on the Internet
>what's that thing you're doing with your face Karl?
>I'm smiling!
>THAT'S a smile?!
Also, possible big headed lad next to him? unfortunate whatever it is, must be from the local nuclear waste facillity
>i could frown before i could walk
What do your think his life on the estate was actually like?
I live in and grew up on an like this estate. All sounds reasonable.
Even the horse?
I can see a dimwit family in Manchester keep a horse in a house for a bit, not that crazy i think. Maybe they even kept it for a farm owner in an emergency, or just being frickhead idiots who don't realise what it means to take care of a horse. As i remember Karl even said it wasn't for very long
Damn, thanks anon.
Saw some pikies walking a horse just a few weeks ago. There was a story not that long ago about one getting stolen and ridden around at night and it's feet were all fricked up. Also my mom used to have goats in the garden when she was a "kid," and apparently they were an absolute menace.
i often wonder how much people like karl pilkington and theo von embellish their stories.
>balding at 7
The eternal Anglo
Wonder if the black kid is that Olympic gold medallist that Karl used to push around on a go-kart?
*used to push Karl around
woops.
Not sure, but i have seen that guy (forget his name) confirm the story in an interview once
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Campbell
>Campbell was a childhood friend of English comedy personality Karl Pilkington, as described in The Ricky Gervais Show podcasts. In a podcast episode, Pilkington claimed to have been responsible for much of Campbell's early training, which mainly involved allowing him to push a go kart that Pilkington sat in. Campbell later thanked Pilkington in a tweet.
Darren Campbell
The bit about his dad crashing a train and his brother borrowing a tank were bullshit, but its totally possible that they lied to him and he believed it tbf
That was for someone else but I cba scrolling back up to find the right post
Despite the low res I can see the teacher's erect nipple.
I think that's Carl Grimshaw
Karl put putty in his hair and he had to have it shaved, and he had a funny shaped head so it looked weird
>hair of a chinaman
Yeah Karl is the one in the white shirt next to the bald lad, you can see Karl trying his best at doing a "smile"
I HAVE NEVER HEARD SUCH DRIBBLE. YOU ARE A MADMAN.
It's
>drivel
>KARL IF HE ENDS UP BEING A MONKEY I'M NEVER DOING THIS SHOW AGAIN
>KARL YOU FRICKING MONGOLOID, YOU HAVE A BIG SOPPY c**t FOR A BRAIN, I CAN'T BELIEVE Y
>oh you're right actually
An' he 'ears a squawk in the backroun'
"Oh, 'ave you got a parrot?"
"Nope. That's just me down syndromed kid."
>They will never come back and do another round of podcasts because they hate each other
It wouldn't be the same - the reason XFM was so good was because it was so chaotic and they were broadcasting to barely any people so felt free to just talk shit.
The podcast is meh by comparison because of how much more structured it was and they knew they had an audience for it, it would be even more cringy and stilted today.
>they were broadcasting to barely any people
Any bongistanis confirm if this is true? Was XFM really as tinpot as they made it out to be? I always figured it was a mid-range to borderline popular station and they were just joking about having no listeners. Seemed like they always got good responses to the contests and Ricky and Steve were somewhat big at the time from The Office. Plus they won a few awards. Was it really a shambles?
What you have to bear in mind is this is in the early days of digital, so most of the listener's would have only been in London. That being said, the official figures (Radio Joint Audience Research Limited), say XFM in the third quarter of 2002 (series 2 started in August of that year) had a reach of 535,000 people. Reach was defined as the number of people who tuned in to the station for at least a 15 minute period over the course of a week.
So they were largely joking about the poor listenership, the equipment itself was pretty shoddy though from the sounds of it.
They obviously played up the station's crappiness for laughs but they had an absolutely terrible timeslot, 1pm-3pm on a saturday iirc.
Their jokes about XFM not even being the most popular station in the building were true though, KISS, Capital etc. were much bigger.
The main reason that the Xfm show is better than the later podcasts in my opinion is that they only had 2 hours to cram in all their materiel (or lack thereof) plus a mandatory amount of music and adverts, meaning that they're in such a chaotic rush to get everything in. Hilarity ensues.
it could be funny to hear them try to get along again
why do they hate each other now? karl got sick of ricky using him like a freak in the circus?
Pretty much. I believe Ricky farting on his head during the filming of Derek was the last straw.
Karl and Steve still stay in touch apparently. What you also have to remember is Steve lives in LA and Karl's gone back up north I believe. Ricky is outside of London. Also, Ricky was in his late 30s/early 40s when they did the office and XFM, Steve was 27/28 so there's quite an age gap
Wasn't Karl only like 29 when the show started though? He and Ricky had a big age gap as well. What really separated Steve from Ricky/Karl early on was their stage in life imo. Steve was still a single guy who wanted to go out clubbing and pick up girls, Ricky and Karl were both basically married in long term relationships. The episodes where Ricky would talk about the dinner parties that Karl was invited to and Steve wasn't were a bit sad but also made sense in that way because Steve really would have been out of place there among a bunch of boring mellowed out couples.
>Steve was still a single guy who wanted to go out clubbing and pick up girls
'e would have to pick them up... only way they could see 'is googly eyes innit
>Karl and Steve still stay in touch apparently
Of course they are, Steve doesn't have his 50p back yet
Steve was completely in the right about the 50p debate
I remember Karl saying in a morning show interview promoting "sick of it" that he and Ricky still talks every week
I want more episodes of them being cartoons with cutaways.
>A retro cut there, Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe a Word on XFM 104.9. I'm Ricky Gervais, with me Steve Merchant. Bobidy-boo! Who's that over there? It's Karly Pilk-boys.
My favourite one
I've only watched An Idiot Abroad, and I found Ricky and Stephen to be incredibly pretentious
That's what contrasts them with Karl. They're actively chasing celebrity and fame and so construct whole personalities around liberal-elite platitudes about "experiencing other cultures" and "broadening your mind with the wonders of the world" whereas Karl is true to his actual self and just worries about the bad local food and lack of decent toilets.
That cellphone call Karl made to Suzanne in the jungle that just ended up with them talking about the boiler convinced me they are meant to be.
this. karl acts like a british colonizer would have if he landed in india.
To an extent yes but overall its an act, especially in the tv series
It seemed genuine with Stephen
Did they ever get their listener numbers up to the double digits
Hello!
Any phrases that you use in your daily life only because of RSK? I like to say >of a saturday and >job of work.
>I could eat a X at night
>can't be bothered
>mental
Must be others I'm not thinking of right now
arbitrary
squoze
kek, I love when I have the opportunity to use it
>weird innit.
Grippage
don't speak any english irl but somtimes i copy steves mannerisms even though he was a nerdlinger he was quick witted.
>do you ski yes or no ricky?
Turns out, little monkey fella
I'm a burger but find myself using "knocking about" a lot
my friends and i do "weird innit" but the whole sarcastic dialogue.
>hold on though, so you've got..
>let me just count a second. 1, 2, 3....
>so i've got 2 balls on the table and you've got 5 which is 3 more than me
>even though i potted 2 of yours
>that's weird innit
it's just part of our everyday vernacular now
>Knocking about
>Bullshit (in the the same tone as bullshit man)
>erm
>bit of DIY
I like that song.
That Song Sounds Good
Only one I can stand next to "Clocks"
FAT BABY, FAT BABY, FAT BABY ON TELLY, FAT BABY ON TELLY
DEAD AIR KARL
Do they just send Karl out in Idiot Abroad? I wish they went together.
they wouldn't have lasted two days on those trips
Are you familiar with the phrase... monkey business?
something's said
Alright kirsty?
Can I just say, It's in Karl Pilkington's mind?
never saw the manhole cover again
WHAT'S GOING ON THERE
SOMETHING WEIRD IS GOING ON THERE
>How would I know which one is me?
This is absolutely right, the clone would think it was the original person as well.
I agree but he should've phrased it better. Putting it like that is practically begging Ricky to shit on him.
>Ok Karl, this watch that tells you when you will die that you've invent, how does it work?
>you put it on your wrist and it tells you when you'll die.
>NO! W-WHAT DO YOU MEAN JUST PUT IT ON YOUR WRIST?!.. JUST PUT IT ON YOUR WRIST... HOW DOES THIS FRICKING WORK?
>Yeah but what I'm saying is, if you didn't know that, then you wouldn't be looking in it because you wouldn't know the book is about that, so if you don't know the word dictionary and what it means, you wouldn't be looking at the dictionary you'd be looking at an A-Z
As usual, Karl was entirely correct
he contradicts himself within that sentence.
When I recognise the reference I upvote
Oh no, we better come up with something like sneed we can spam these threads to death with
Men in Black 2
there's this thing in it
>...big eyes...it was gangly..
one if his best
>Karl humanizes bugs when feeling existential observing them
>THEY'RE NOT THINKING YOU IDIOT THEY DONT HAVE A CONSCIOUS
Ricky is a textbook pseudo intellectual.
I mean, he and steve are the quintessential Reddit atheists. They are 100% materialists. Just more likable and funny with it.
Didn't he once point out that while observing ants he noticed that some of them weren't really hard working at all? Gervais laughed at him for that observation, but it turned out to be true. Some ants really are NEETs
Yeah he noticed there was a constant 20% or so of lazy ants. Same shit happens in human workplaces.
>tfw you're the lazy ant
bliss
I know it's just a comedy show, but he made an accurate empirical observation and got laughed at for it by a smug frick who just believes whatever he's told. It doesn't sit well with me.
Monkey News
Cheap as Chimps (not the same thing as Monkey News)
Rockbusters
Educating Ricky
Songs of Phrase
Cheeky Freak of the Week
Karl in a Film
Do We Need 'Em?
Which was your favourite?
Monkey news for sure, but i love rockbusters as well. For some reason i see a lot of people hating on rockbusters online these days. I like all his segments anyway
Was Rockbusters the music quiz show with the esoteric clues?
>esoteric
craptic.
Educating Ricky brought out the most laughs I think
>every single fact was just the origin of some figure of speech
>and it was wrong
Karl is do beautifully frustrating.
Thats not fair, some of it was twaddle from the Fortean Times or Ananova
Songs of Phrase was the GOAT, it's a shame that it came and went so fast but I guess it was a pain to splice songs together every week.
>I know you're just sixteen but looking all of twenty one THAT'S because the Chineeeesssseeee look OLDER
That's the most convoluted, ridiculous, racist thing ever to be said on air!
PLAY IT AGAIN
>but I guess it was a pain to splice songs together every week.
Doubtful, that was basically his job for several years before the Ricky Gervais show. He could probably shit out something like that in 15 minutes.
Karl in a film was fantastic
Monkey News easily the most iconic but Karl talking about freaks is top notch stuff
>says Merchant, eyes bulging with imagined riches
hair like a chinaman
no other podcast has beaten them. Then again, I've never listened to O&A
o and a are only good with guests. as long as that guest is patrice.
>Chinese: great people, right? Women. really good looking... as- as younger people
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
>put em in a wheelie bin
>DON'T TALK SHIT
how do you respond without sounding mad?
>I'm just sayin
weird innit
No it's not weird Karl it's bollocks. You..... ignoramus.
I like Gervais' work but this animated show was criminally unfunny. But that's probably true for every improvised show.
If anyone has ever seen that manhole cover, please get in touch..
I could eat a knob at night
>another episode of Ricky shouting and screaming at Karl for not doing any work, despite Ricky just sleeping and drinking wine while Steve does the real work
I love the banter usually, but can't stand how this is what Ricky screams the loudest at Karl for of anything, the hypocrisy
Steve usually turns it around on Ricky and shits on him for just sleeping and eating cheese
cow hit by train lands on farmer's wife
BONG
>WHERE THE FRICK'S MY 50P?!
>GIVE ME BACK MY 50P KARL, I'M GETTING REALLY ANGRY WITH YOU NOW
Is Sick Of It worth watching?