Karl Pilkington: "Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant Conned Me"
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- Funny interview. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant conned Karl into his new TV show, according to KP in this interview with Christian O'Connell.
He starts by telling the story of how he met Ricky and Stephen. Also hear Karl talk about how he unintentionally made Gail Porter quit her job after one day and why everyone should visit Wales. - Komedie
At no point in this video did Karl say that Ricky and Steve conned him. Misleading title for clickbaiting = dislike
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
Englands greatest comedian who isn't a comedian.
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.
"It's the alright wall of China." - Karl Pilkington
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
Imagine spending decades perfecting your comedy craft then Karl pops along and immediately surpasses you.
Anyone else find Karl's voice dead satisfying to listen to 😂
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
This fucking guy is so shitting funny
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...
You cannot teach Karl's humor. It's so natural and organic, he is really one of a kind.
He is genuinely stupid
Just a normal manc lad
At exactly 1 minute you can see Karl close his eyes and sigh in his hatred for the nickname "K man" - which he always said he didn't like.
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.
An idiot abroad is the best travel show ever made. It shows what travelling to these places is really like.
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.
48 people are spiteful to put Karl in a Trifle.
Hahahaha
Karl dilkington
Jellyfish pun! How many people do you think liked this comment that didn’t catch that?
The headphones accentuate the beautiful spherical dome that is Karl's skull.
🤣🤣🤣
Like a fuckin orange
Manc bald twat
I love it when Karl slips in a bit of advertising into his interviews. "It'll be good when you watch it tonight, Sky One HD… 9PM"
You can tell he's worked in radio for years. He's quite natural and he always closes with a snappy line! He's really quite a witty man, it comes out more without Ricky constantly shouting in his face.
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.
I could literally listen to this man talk non-stop for the rest of my life...Never gets old.
One of my favourite Karl quotes is when he said that the Taj Mahal is ' like a diamond in a turd '
+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.
The funniest thing about KP is he doesn't realise how funny he is
+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.
it's nice to hear karl's opinions without ricky harassing him every 10 seconds
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
Funniest line from Plinkington. Someone told him showed him a chameleon and said “it changes color to whatever you put it on”. The reply was: “what happens if you put it on a mirror?”
"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
Karl Pilkington is truly an everyman. I think what makes him so charming is that he doesn't put on any airs. He really feels like a bloke you could share a brew with for hours on end with, talking about whatever interesting nonsense came into your mind. KP is my kind of mate.
You don't have any mates
@@leonardhpls6-account made 11 years ago
-definitely over 30 years old
-stays inside trolling all day
“…I dunno why they picked me, ive never bin run over.” his unintentional comedy is just the golden goose that keeps on laying haha
"It's not gonna win any awards". Porter. SLAMMED. Fuckin' brilliant!
I firmly believe we lost a wonder of the world without the documentary of Karl Dilkington talking about dangerous roads.
Dangerous Roads with Karl Pilkington definitely should be made
Man, Karl really is funny. It's great to see him interacting with other people than Ricky and Steve.
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
I like hearing Karl being competent
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.
Karl sounds so much more intelligent during this interview. It's probably because he's more comfortable.
Yea plus Rocky and Stephen aren't constantly tearing him down.
After 8 years of knowing about Karl and listening to podcasts / watching videos, this video has made me connect with Karl the most.
can't believe this is nearly 10 years old
It’s around the time I first found out about Karl... I was 12!
I love Karl. The host asks him about literally a life changing moment in terms of his career regarding Claire Sturgess being off and him getting to work with Ricky and Steve and his answer is 'I dunno.' Like you'd asked him what he had for dinner last tuesday.
Karl’s comedic timing is impeccable.
I had always wondered if his reactions on An Idiot Abroad were genuine. Now I have the proof. Months later and thousands of miles away, Karl is still visibly pissed and unimpressed with his forced trip to the wonders of the world.
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.
Head like a fucking orange!! I'd love to be able to say I've "squoze" it.
oh goodness yes to this!!
I like this interview, you can tell Karl isn't as stupid as he's made out to be.
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
When I first watched this same video years ago, I didn't know who Christian O'Connell was.
It was a gutsy move for him to take on doing a breakfast radio show in Melbourne Australia in 2018. After an initial ratings slump due to him being a complete unknown (with an English accent not helping) he persevered and has made it to #1 by the end of 2020. Congrats Christian!
Karl's honest,that's why he's liked. He's not as fake as 99% of the media
I like this presenter. All too often with these interviews, the person doesn't know Karl beyond the podcasts and can be very rude and condescending. This guy clearly knows Karl well and respects him. It's refreshing to see compared to the interviews on those horrible chat shows.
Karl is like the real-life equivalent of a hobbit. He just enjoys simple living.
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.
Karl is great...he is honest and from the heart...and in a world of so called "spin", he will of course be put down for his down to earth outlook ...Great stuff Karl !!!
Well, this was a revelation for me. I only knew of Karl Pilkington through his relationship with Ricky Gervais and this was the first time I realised he’d had a long career in radio and is actually a comedian. I had always imagined him as a plumber who’d gone to Ricky’s house to fix his toilet and they’d become friends, which then led to work in tv. Lol!
Either that man is genuinely the grumpiest man alive - bah humbug - or he deserves an Oscar for his acting and comedic skills. This interview really makes me laugh.
"But she didn't, she packed it in."
Fucking brilliant.
"I used to go to Wales a lot as a kid"
"Sorry to hear that..."
LOL!!!
“I used to go to Wales as a kid” “I’m sorry to hear that “
One of the best stand-up comediands ever, that doesn't know he is a comedian. He could be a Burr if he wanted.
"I was sort of like Alan Sugar, sort of make it tough for them and they get stronger quicker, but she didn't she packed it in." Comedy gold.
I love how he goes "it's not meant to be funny".
Literally one of the funniest shows ever made.
This man is the best, may he have a long life, we need him.
I feel bad for Karl, he's always getting mocked to his face despite clearly being the cleverest person in the room
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
I rewatch this every so often. Love it
I've Googled "The Ugly House." It's quite picturesque.
"The Pyramids, honestly, they're not good."
-- Karl Pilkington
"Did you stay in a kebab shop?" One of his finest lines!!
People say he's a character, I don't believe that but I do believe he developed himself into a more vocal version of himself and knew what people liked and played on it more. I think perhaps his confidence just grew more around Ricky and Steve and they just seen potential in him.
I love it when Karl tries to play it cool "you'll have to tune into This Morning to find out"
The change of girl at around 6 mins 30 is crazy fast, like those quick change artists.
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.
Thank you for uploading this interview!
90% of what he says makes perfect sense to me. If that makes me as odd as Karl then fair enough.
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.
You actually can't see the Great Wall of China from space... The more you know.
+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.
6.32 Karl does something magical and the girl at the back completely changes her appearance. He's such a clever man.
"Did you stay in a Kebab shop" has to be one of the funniest things I've heard.
Every time Karl says something funny I hear Ricky's high pitched laugh in my head :)
Karl Pilkington is one of the most naturally funny people I've ever seen! Would really like to have a beer with him :)
Love the fact he was the boss of people 😂
What I like about Karl is that he has no filter. He says things how he sees it, and doesn't worry about people judging him.
O'Connell sounds like Alan Partridge!
33hegemon haha he really does! 😂
And looks like him too
@@stepheng4218 no
He's great and reminds me why I left the posh part of Sale (AKA Altrincham) in 1968. Brilliant! He's spot on with the tourist tat - I've travelled to many countries and not seen most of their tourist traps but really enjoyed sitting in backstreet cafes and wandering right off the beaten track. But the Taj *is* awesome in the true sense of the word.
Altrincham is not in sale , different towns, as a wythenshawe lad I reckon sale is the better of the two
I'm just imagining Karl presenting dangerous roads after that scene from moaning of life where those people dance in the middle of the road and he gets so pissed off 😂😂
Karl is awesome. Love to spend the day just talking with him.
"The icing is not the best part when think about it" - I think this all you need to know about Karl Pilkington. He just thinks differently than everyone else.
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.
What if the Buddha walks amongst us and his name is Karl Pilkington, bastion of serenity
I could just listen to these 3 forever
This man is naturally brilliant at what he does.
His naivety and spontaneity turned out to be a type of comedy never seen before. I've been following him since XFM, I particularly like the podcasts. I genuinely thing that he's a good person and he's entertained me so many times. I'm totally different from him, but I understand him. Thanks Karl! I wouldn't want to meet any celebrity, Hollywood stars, I don't care, but I'd love to go for a walk with him.
"There's a place in Wales called the Ugly House..." typical Karl.😂
He made Gail Porter cry...Brilliant. Hehehe
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?
when he said "there's a place in wales called the ugly house" i finally cracked x'D it's funny on so many levels
It's great being able to hear Karl talk on his own. Obviously I love Ricky and Steve, but sometimes it's annoying how they never let Karl talk.
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.
I hated the way the interviewer was laughing at Karl when he was trying to explain his point of view.
+Vigilant Citizen Christian and Karl worked together for years. Part of the banter.
didn't u hear the xfm shows and ricky's laughter when karl's explaining his view points ?????
Love Christian always makes my mornings
he's laughing because he's funny...
Did it remind you of all the times people laughed at you when you were trying to explain your point of view?
Probably one of the best interviews ever
I love that you can hear Christian laughing throughout the entire interview.
I’d like to see more of these two, it’s fresh but they have clear chemistry Cos of past work
"So I should drop the 'O'?"
"Try it."
Love Karl.
I know I'm definitely not the only one who finds Karl hilarious pretty much 100% of the time no matter what he's saying or doing, but I can't even articulate why and furthermore, believe or not, some people don't get it or think it's funny. I had my husband and my mother listen to one of the shows he was on with Ricky and Steve and I'm literally dying laughing but neither my husband or my mom thought it was funny. They both ended up laughing but only because I was literally laughing so hard I couldn't breathe and they thought that was funny lol. So what is it? Why is he so funny to some of us? I can't put my finger on it.
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.
"Did you stay in a kebab shop?"
I'd love to see a show with Karl's Wonders of the World so we can hear him wax poetic on places like the Ugly House
absolutely amazing!
The more you watch of him the stranger of a personality Karl appears to be. Sometimes he seems really sharp and quick with his responses, but on other times the exact opposite. Also he's obviously very naive.
It's so difficult to say whether this man is intelligent or not. He's hilarious, at least we know that for sure
Very good I know someone just like this.
he has the intelligence of a child. He sees things exactly as they are presented to him, so any nuance in the background flies over his head, like when he wasn't impressed with Newton's work. While that might look "smart" in the sense that doesn't get distracted too much from stuff out his reach and he thinks (and comment) stuff that we might miss out for the sake of routine (therefore appearing as "intelligent"), is that exact same mentality that makes people like him get deeply impressed by, to the point of believing, magic tricks. Since there is no obvious and inmediate reason to doubt what just happend in front of their eyes, then it should be true.
That type of behavior are clear marks of mental retardation. A really good example in fiction would be Forrest Gump.
I think Karl is pointing out what isn't so great.
Wonders should make you go how did this happen etc, but take the pyramids, they are fenced off enclosed areas with a ton of people trying to sell you shit you never wanted in the first place.
And then there's 100,000 people around all doing the exact same shit.
So some people are going to think WTF is this shithole, seeing pictures and docos doesn't give you the reality of the place.
Another is Pompeii tons of places fenced off and you can only see 1 tenth of the total area because it's full of porn all over the walls. As the Romans loved having orgies and threesomes and gay sex etc all over the place.
The more money you had the bigger the pron murals you'd have to show off.
But people don't know that stuff as they don't tell that
I think it's at least in part an act. Otherwise it would be borderline unethical to make shows with him and Ricky and Steve wouldn't have done that. Also because it wouldn't be particularly funny.
its an act, its called comedy.
Am I the only one thinking 'just let Karl talk!
yes
Karl must spend his life up ladder
12:03 "There's a place in Wales called the ugly house" made me do a Ricky Gervais laugh
His wisdom is the most under-rated thing.
Give him a stage!!! The best stand up comedian in the world!!
Karl is 10x funnier than Ricky. Had to say it. Love him hahaha. Such a brilliant personality.
Karl is not trying to be funny though it's his stupid seriousness that makes it so funny
GlowVaa Gaming That's what makes him so much better than most comedians. It's all natural, none of it is forced.
True thats true
The only thing funny about Gervais is his laugh. All of his jokes come from Pilkington.
Yes, Karl is far more funny than Ricky, which is why he's asked to host the Golden Globes and does worldwide comedy tours. Oh wait, that's Ricky, sorry.
Cant imagine anyone who wouldnt love Karl
I think he makes a great point regarding the wonders and how actually experiencing them would be more stressful than desired because EVERYONE there is rushing in to see them
"I was ill ... out of both ends" 😂
"ive never been run over" !!!
Karl is naturally funny. He didn't even have to try.
Someone get Karl and Bill Burr together in a room...
OMG I've thought about that as well!!😊
Always thought the same
Adam Chlebovec I don’t think bill likes English people lol
Yeah Bill Burr and Karl Pilkington would be amazing
They would get on like a house on fire
Been traveling the world. Never seen any of the great wonders, never been interested, but the culture is fascinating. I agree with Karl 100%.
U ain't been anywhere but your mum's basement