remember him trying to use the typewriter monkey model explaining the concept of eternity and after an expert in statistics wrote in telling him it's not guaranteed, only very likely, he immediately buckles. thereby showing he never understood it either.
That's just a really shitty model to explain infinity. The concept of monkeys just muddles the issue - if he described it as a machine or series of machines that randomly type it would be way less confusing and way less subjective.
agreed. that's how I would explain the concept to someone who doesn't get it. maybe the monkey thing came about just as a test if you got it, like how Ricky didn't.
INFINITY SORTS IT ALL OUT FOR YOU
unironically yes. but all it took was one self-proclaimed expert in an unrelated field (infinity isn't a number) and he turns coat.
it's like half a minute and it's awful to listen to, it genuinely annoys me because he tries so hard to sound educated while stuttering and mumbling like crazy. yes I've listened to the show like 10 times
Karl keeps to himself which I think is what he always wanted in the end. Read any interview with Smerch and you'll see he's quite happy to talk about Ricky and doesn't write off working with him in the future, Ricky however refuses to even acknowledge Smerch, perhaps because he knows Smerch is the true brains behind them both and Ricky has produced nothing but hot shit since Smerch wasn't writing for him
>Ricky however refuses to even acknowledge Smerch,
he refuses to mention Karl as well, and I feel like he edits out or explicitly tells people not to mention Steve or Karl, I watched all 60 or so episodes of Ricky Gervais is deadly serious
not a single mention of Steve or Karl, they talk about the office a lot, Steve never comes up, Ricky tells stories about something a 'friend' said, that friend was Karl it happened on xfm, but Karl never gets a mention, I find it impossible that after 60 episodes and probably 100 different guests not a single one of them would ask about Steve or Karl
It's crazy to me that anyone believes that Ricky was the brains of the operation. I'm not one of those guys who thinks he was never funny, but Extras is easily their best show and it's in large part due to Merchant actually being on screen for a lot of it. I wish he got more work, he's really fricking funny in everything I've seen him in. Compare his solo efforts to Ricky's and it's immediately clear who was making the funny.
I imagine a lot of it is the power imbalance of age. Ricky and Steve got together when Ricky was about 40 and Steve was around mid-20s so he was probably a bit nervous asserting himself (especially when you remember how much of a sperg he was on the XFM shows with regards to his love life).
Ricky probably took advantage of that to 'big up' his own contributions to the writing, from what I remember of the radio show Steve not so subtly hints that Ricky spends most of their writing sessions either asleep or pissing about.
Karl keeps to himself which I think is what he always wanted in the end. Read any interview with Smerch and you'll see he's quite happy to talk about Ricky and doesn't write off working with him in the future, Ricky however refuses to even acknowledge Smerch, perhaps because he knows Smerch is the true brains behind them both and Ricky has produced nothing but hot shit since Smerch wasn't writing for him
Ricky has basically turned into a parody of himself since the Hollywood fame and Golden Globes praise went to his head.
He made a shitty David Brent spinoff film that nobody wanted and Steve refused to be a part of, and in pretty much every interview he talks about The Office as if he was the sole creator.
has some classic moments like Men in Black II and Dearest Rose, and Sturgess has a lovely voice. They're very comfy because Smerch and Ricky are bouncing off each other rather than relying on Karl. Honestly they're some of my favourites
Even if you don't like Sturgess they occasionally ring Karl in her episodes so it's worth listening to them anyway.
The classic Men in Black 2 moment is a Sturgess show.
>I know you're just sixteen, but lookin' older than you aaaare- >that's >BE-CAUUUUUSE >Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssss >looook >Older!
>"but what if a lil monkey bloke knew how ta werk a monkey wrench?" >"HAHAHAHAHAHA BLOODY HELL ya bloody wanker, bloody orange head HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHEEHEHEEHEHEHEEEEHEHEHEHEEEEEE" >"next up, Mazzy Star >LOOK ON DOWN FROM THE BRIIIIIDGE
this content made limeys piss themselves laughing in 2007
>Karl grasses up his dad for impersonating a police officer to scare a woman into not battering her husband >Karl grasses up his dad for putting a moronic kid in a wheelie bin and leaving him >Karl grasses up his dad for being a literal thief in a tiny Welsh village
I'm amazed his dad never told him to stfu. Probably never listened.
I love it when Karl gets pissed off at Ricky's characters during one of their scenarios, like when he wanted to put the kid in a home because it was bothering him about his dad not wearing a bike helmet
karl was right on the monkey shakespeare thing, they wouldn't even type most of the time since they don't even know what a typewriter is >but infinity sort of sorts it out for ya
doesn't explain anything
Song with a story is the most underrated segment >Karl playing a Stevie Wonder track and not realising that there's a whole second portion of the song he never knew about. >Karl saying The Killing of Georgie is about a Scottish fella without any evidence. >Karl saying Wonderful Tonight is about a bloke in a wheelchair without any evidence.
Definitely the funniest parts are when karl is reading out the rockbuster clues and ricky getting him to repeat the answers afterwards when karl tries to spin the names to make them work. And when each time he says the clue its different every time
The slightly different clue to 'Soft Cell' every time is one of the best, which is funny because it's actually quite a clever Rockbuster answer overall >Buy it if you want, i'm not bothered >But it if you want, look around >But it if you want, i'm not fussed
>that story about the little girl who sees the adult version of herself riding on a bike and then grows up to see the child version of herself while riding on a bike
Remember Ricky predicted The Darkness would herald rock's return to the mainstream then they broke up a year later kek.
They were hyped up by the Music Press at the time especially Kerrang
Except they're still touring
They split for 9 years.
Their Christmas song is easily the best out of all the regular shit
tbf I think they broke up because of the lead singer's insane cocaine addiction
>bands can't split up then come back together
woah...
Nice greentext strawman
no they didn't kek.
>it's a ricky tries to explain something that nobody asked for
worst example is when he explains how pelicans eat, I always skip that part
>trying to flex your intelligence on Karl Pilkington
Kek
platyhelminth
remember him trying to use the typewriter monkey model explaining the concept of eternity and after an expert in statistics wrote in telling him it's not guaranteed, only very likely, he immediately buckles. thereby showing he never understood it either.
That's just a really shitty model to explain infinity. The concept of monkeys just muddles the issue - if he described it as a machine or series of machines that randomly type it would be way less confusing and way less subjective.
agreed. that's how I would explain the concept to someone who doesn't get it. maybe the monkey thing came about just as a test if you got it, like how Ricky didn't.
unironically yes. but all it took was one self-proclaimed expert in an unrelated field (infinity isn't a number) and he turns coat.
INFINITY SORTS IT ALL OUT FOR YOU
>it's a ricky tries to explain something that nobody asked for
That is what most talk radio is like
He literally explained it in about 10 seconds. Is it really worth skipping?
it's like half a minute and it's awful to listen to, it genuinely annoys me because he tries so hard to sound educated while stuttering and mumbling like crazy. yes I've listened to the show like 10 times
They're the best band in Britain right now
Ooh, strong words, Rick
bit rash
It's Karly Pilkboys
That should be interesting for meatballs.
"Even though Pidgeon's have wings, they walk a lot"...
K. Pilkington...
BEEEEHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND *ding*
Turin Breaks, Painkiller on XFM 104.9
I know that Gervais and Merchant have fallen out but is Karl still friends with the two of them?
Karl keeps to himself which I think is what he always wanted in the end. Read any interview with Smerch and you'll see he's quite happy to talk about Ricky and doesn't write off working with him in the future, Ricky however refuses to even acknowledge Smerch, perhaps because he knows Smerch is the true brains behind them both and Ricky has produced nothing but hot shit since Smerch wasn't writing for him
>Ricky however refuses to even acknowledge Smerch,
he refuses to mention Karl as well, and I feel like he edits out or explicitly tells people not to mention Steve or Karl, I watched all 60 or so episodes of Ricky Gervais is deadly serious
not a single mention of Steve or Karl, they talk about the office a lot, Steve never comes up, Ricky tells stories about something a 'friend' said, that friend was Karl it happened on xfm, but Karl never gets a mention, I find it impossible that after 60 episodes and probably 100 different guests not a single one of them would ask about Steve or Karl
It might be the fact that people might like Karl and Steve more than Ricky's guffawing ass.
It's crazy to me that anyone believes that Ricky was the brains of the operation. I'm not one of those guys who thinks he was never funny, but Extras is easily their best show and it's in large part due to Merchant actually being on screen for a lot of it. I wish he got more work, he's really fricking funny in everything I've seen him in. Compare his solo efforts to Ricky's and it's immediately clear who was making the funny.
%3AEntertainment
I imagine a lot of it is the power imbalance of age. Ricky and Steve got together when Ricky was about 40 and Steve was around mid-20s so he was probably a bit nervous asserting himself (especially when you remember how much of a sperg he was on the XFM shows with regards to his love life).
Ricky probably took advantage of that to 'big up' his own contributions to the writing, from what I remember of the radio show Steve not so subtly hints that Ricky spends most of their writing sessions either asleep or pissing about.
what happened?
Ricky has basically turned into a parody of himself since the Hollywood fame and Golden Globes praise went to his head.
He made a shitty David Brent spinoff film that nobody wanted and Steve refused to be a part of, and in pretty much every interview he talks about The Office as if he was the sole creator.
Lmao he built his entire career being a parody of himself. Do keep up.
>and in pretty much every interview he talks about The Office as if he was the sole creator
if ricky really wrestles people, puts trash on their heads and all that other shit i can see why people would drop him after getting rich.
>Blur, 'Out of Time'
>You're kidding lads, there's still two hours to go
>They're going to have to ORDER a NEW DJ
>Well Mr Stipe, I’m not Kenneth but I can tell you the frequency is 104.9
>If this turns out to be New "Odour", I'm never listening again... right, well thats another listener gone
NO IT'S NOT DIRE STRAITS
FAT BABY FAT BABY ON TELLY
WELL TELL US ABOUT THE FAT BABY!
Ah yes, the Tic-tac incident.
I see you've re-graveled the drive.
Yes, smell it.
Su-suck the drive, if you want.
It's tinging it's way up the tube!
It's tinging it's way up the tube!
Ting-tong, ping-pong
It's tinging it's way up the tube!
You’ve got nice ankles
>have they read Shakespeare?
Some of my non-XFM favs:
>Ameriteeth
The alright wall of China.
Missy Elliott...
I don't get it, was she in the film? Missy Elliott wasn't even around back then!!
erm next one, this cafe's growing its own steaks...
>it's a listen to the entire series for the 10th time whilst sleeping episode
Nothing touches it
Do pigs come when you call them?
Childhood is skipping the Sturgess episodes
Adulthood is realising they're some of the best
Elaborate
has some classic moments like Men in Black II and Dearest Rose, and Sturgess has a lovely voice. They're very comfy because Smerch and Ricky are bouncing off each other rather than relying on Karl. Honestly they're some of my favourites
>tfw no skag head sturge gf
Even if you don't like Sturgess they occasionally ring Karl in her episodes so it's worth listening to them anyway.
The classic Men in Black 2 moment is a Sturgess show.
Says a lot that even Robin Ince thinks Ricky is a tosser now
qrd?
Haven't you got some spam to sit on
Robin Ince(l) is a lefty basedboy Guardian reading gay. There's a reason Karl didn't like him.
OH WE CANT GO ON WITHOUT STEVE, WE NEED... STING! what?
gayvid gray
just off down the shop, anyone need anything?
Are kid...
Damn it I actually watched that
I think he's dead now :/
I remember Karl talking about how the army sorted out his brother who had a wife and a house and then he just fell apart afterwards. Sad stuff
It's funny that Ricky and Karl are both 'accidents' that are much younger than all of their siblings.
ok
5 minutes, Mr. Mus!
comes off at a funny angle - hypotenuse - and the hippo et 'im
No her name wasn't "Aye Get Outta Me Winehouse"!
>I know you're just sixteen, but lookin' older than you aaaare-
>that's
>BE-CAUUUUUSE
>Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssss
>looook
>Older!
play it again!
AN THAT'S FEEDAH, ON XFM, YEA?
...smelly eyebrows
I asked if he was going to be here, you know I don't like him
Required viewing for any Ricky, Steven and Karl fans. Lots of little mentions of shit that comes up in the XFM shows.
that audio commentary is probably the most underrated thing any of the guys have done.
It's so fricking funny yeah.
>Tell papa truth
>"but what if a lil monkey bloke knew how ta werk a monkey wrench?"
>"HAHAHAHAHAHA BLOODY HELL ya bloody wanker, bloody orange head HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHEEHEHEEHEHEHEEEEHEHEHEHEEEEEE"
>"next up, Mazzy Star
>LOOK ON DOWN FROM THE BRIIIIIDGE
this content made limeys piss themselves laughing in 2007
>II KNOW THAT T'LL TAKE A WHILE, TO COME BACK AROUND!
...feeder.... come back around...
Coldplay are here..
hullooo~
>... oh and have a good Christmas
all I see
absolute horror
i cannot live
i cannot die
trapped in myself
body my holding ceeeeeelll
What was my destiny?
sorry to little gay fellas, little chinese fellas and little christian fellas
you love this lil gay fella
b
daddy never gonna stop robbing from telephone box
>Karl grasses up his dad for impersonating a police officer to scare a woman into not battering her husband
>Karl grasses up his dad for putting a moronic kid in a wheelie bin and leaving him
>Karl grasses up his dad for being a literal thief in a tiny Welsh village
I'm amazed his dad never told him to stfu. Probably never listened.
Oh frick I forgot about that one, course now I can play it in my head.
>ooh chilly weather today, why not put on a cardigan?... that was The Cardigans
IT CAAAN CAUSE SHRINKAGE
>dear Mr k. dilkington
Why is this so fricking funny
it's the 'youre one of our most valued customers' as well as being a funny name I think
not in the bin!
I love it when Karl gets pissed off at Ricky's characters during one of their scenarios, like when he wanted to put the kid in a home because it was bothering him about his dad not wearing a bike helmet
Africans. Do we need 'em?
Boxer boy here, what's your twenty
How many candles are ya burnin?
>You're muscly
These podcasts have made me a master at early to mid 2000s british pop culture
FEEDER
JUST THE WAY I'M FEELING
>of a Saturday
Ricky is such a midwit.
karl was right on the monkey shakespeare thing, they wouldn't even type most of the time since they don't even know what a typewriter is
>but infinity sort of sorts it out for ya
doesn't explain anything
>turns out little bumping fella
Man moth?
half man, half biscuit?
The sturgess episodes are unironically some of my favourites
link?
christ, de berg
spud 'ed
There's been a murder.
Detective inspector.... a bit hairier than the rest
A detective dramedy witth DCI Karl, shot in the style of Sick Of It, set in some cosy seaside town a la canoe man would be 10/10 comfy kino.
WHO'S THAT BALD c**t WHO'S JUST SHOWN UP
... and they drink milk from a saucer.
have you seen men in black 2? there's this thing in it...
>Billy The Kid? Nice to meet such a handsome outlaw!
I bet even Steve would admit that does look like him
OVEN!
What are you talking about? I tried to find this and no dice. Help a homie out
just type in rsk xfm on youtube, multiple based posters keep the library stocked with something more than 4 non blondes
PKA?
rsk
Ricky Steve Karl
Thanks mate. I thought there was a show called The Darkness. I was aware of an idiot abroad. Karl is great.
Start here
Come back when you've finished.
Song with a story is the most underrated segment
>Karl playing a Stevie Wonder track and not realising that there's a whole second portion of the song he never knew about.
>Karl saying The Killing of Georgie is about a Scottish fella without any evidence.
>Karl saying Wonderful Tonight is about a bloke in a wheelchair without any evidence.
I've got an aching... LEG
who was in the wrong here?
me
Can I just say, it's in Karl Pilkington's mind
Anyway there was this parrot
>ywn have your memory wiped and get to listen to it all again for the first time
There's this shadow that's been pushing people off their bikes
Definitely the funniest parts are when karl is reading out the rockbuster clues and ricky getting him to repeat the answers afterwards when karl tries to spin the names to make them work. And when each time he says the clue its different every time
The slightly different clue to 'Soft Cell' every time is one of the best, which is funny because it's actually quite a clever Rockbuster answer overall
>Buy it if you want, i'm not bothered
>But it if you want, look around
>But it if you want, i'm not fussed
What episode is this again? I remember wetting myself over this lmao
Go to 20:00
FUSSED HAS MADE AN APPEARANCE
The Simon Pegg and Nick Frost episodes are kino lads
Karl and Russel Brand were also a fun duo
Americans seem to really enjoy this but growing up in Britain this dynamic is common.
Nobody asked
I think it would be spiteful,
To put a jellyfish in a trifle.
>that story about the little girl who sees the adult version of herself riding on a bike and then grows up to see the child version of herself while riding on a bike
>riding on a bike
did a shadow push her off?
>that time Karl said there was a cogwozzer in the billylift
wew