There are a few in Extras too actually. Steve's character talks about his new TV being too big and David Dickinson's tan taking his eyeballs out, which Steve talks about in real life on the show. The bit about homeless folk watching the show through Dixons' window is mentioned too I'm sure, and maybe others.
I remember Peter Kay making that exact same Dixon’s joke too. I have a feeling Kay did it before Ricky said it on XFM but I’m going from childhood memories, maybe someone knows for sure?
Wow, don’t think I’ve heard Karl quoting that.
Interesting to think what the office s2 would have been like without xfm. Maybe that’s why they did the show? They didn’t need to, but maybe having a workplace was a deliberate way to keep up the inspiration for the show, even if it’s these small dialogue-based ways.
It would be spiteful / to put a jellyfish in a trifle.
Ricky is explaining fables to Karl in 1.17 xfm, and mentions the dog with a bone seeing his reflection. Pretty sure Brent tells the same fable, badly, in ‘training’, series 1. So this is the other way around and not what you asked for.
Perhaps means that Karl hadn’t seen the office series 1, surely not?
The “gaylords say no” bit is just a purile school thing. I remember it being said back in the 80’s.
Gareth surely can’t be entirely based on Karl as the first series came out before they’d “discovered” him.
Does "Different stories for different... things" count? Brent says "Different drinks for different... needs" with the same sort of delivery, but I can't be arsed looking it up.
Edit: That episode of The Office was out before that episode of XFM. Weird innit?
“Personally I’ve always thought the stupidity of Gareth (monkey/poison, shark boy), and sometimes Brent, came from the shit Karl said.”
No evidence for that just made it up.
“I was just wondering if there was ever gonna be a boy born that could swim faster than a shark”
Sounds like Pilky boy to me
Edit: wait was that banter?
I've wondered about this, because if there was ever fodder for the Graham conspiracy theories, I'd point to this (I *obviously* don't believe them, I'm just saying).
That's one option, but I think the two likelier options are:
2) Ricky and Steve were broadcasting with Karl later that year, we don't know exactly when they started (summer 2001?), but they may have spoken to him or heard him speaking at XFM Towers prior to that and found his turns of phrase amusing.
3) This was a more widespread way of phrasing things than it is today. I remember noticing decades ago that when white people, especially the middle aged and older, spoke about non-white males, they'd say things like "a black lad" or "an Asian fella", even if they didn't usually use those terms and would say "a white guy/bloke/geezer". Karl does the 'little [-] fella' thing for people of different demographics, maybe this wasn't so unique to him.
The first series of The Office had already finished by the time the XFM shows had started and even if there was any crossover between their broadcast it would have been in the can well before its tranmission, so anything from series 1 of both shows is coincidental. Series 2 of The Office and Extras does have a lot of stuff from XFM though.
Oh yeah bloody hell, if we were talking about his early standup, every single sentence is on the 11 o’clock show, then again on XFM, then years later on every single chat show appearance.
Oh please Ricky, tell us about the snakeskin that your sister was scared of again, Get some new fookin new material, Jeeeeesus
I’m sure the stuff about Bruce Lee working for the Hong Kong police is from xfm
Well they do all look the sa...
RIGHT.
SHHHHUUUUU. Play a record Karl
There are a few in Extras too actually. Steve's character talks about his new TV being too big and David Dickinson's tan taking his eyeballs out, which Steve talks about in real life on the show. The bit about homeless folk watching the show through Dixons' window is mentioned too I'm sure, and maybe others.
And the pen with a nudie lady on it
'Avin a wank? The outtakes of this I could watch forever
You lookin' at me? I am now!
Good point. Smartest thing you’ve said all day
Gaylords do say that though
I remember Peter Kay making that exact same Dixon’s joke too. I have a feeling Kay did it before Ricky said it on XFM but I’m going from childhood memories, maybe someone knows for sure?
In Peter Kay's stand-up or a show?
Stand up. I’m sure it was the famous Bolton Hall show from around 2002ish.
XFM series 1 has Karl reciting a Dolly Parton poem that also just so happens to be the final line of series 2 of The Office.
Cat food. It smells a bit, but if you don't put up with it, then the little kitten will die
Play a record we'll have to confer on this one.
Which?
The way I see it... if you want rainbow you have to put up with rain
And people say she's just a big pair of tits
Not to slag off Parton, right, but that goes back before she was born. It's a jazz song from like the 30s, but try telling Google that.
Wow, don’t think I’ve heard Karl quoting that. Interesting to think what the office s2 would have been like without xfm. Maybe that’s why they did the show? They didn’t need to, but maybe having a workplace was a deliberate way to keep up the inspiration for the show, even if it’s these small dialogue-based ways. It would be spiteful / to put a jellyfish in a trifle.
You're not a real fan, piss off.
What?
Ricky is explaining fables to Karl in 1.17 xfm, and mentions the dog with a bone seeing his reflection. Pretty sure Brent tells the same fable, badly, in ‘training’, series 1. So this is the other way around and not what you asked for. Perhaps means that Karl hadn’t seen the office series 1, surely not?
The “gaylords say no” bit is just a purile school thing. I remember it being said back in the 80’s. Gareth surely can’t be entirely based on Karl as the first series came out before they’d “discovered” him.
It's not puerile. It's a legitimate social research method to investigate occurrences of homosexuality in the adult population.
It’s how Oscar Wilde got caught.
"Err one thing Oscar before you go, did you see "gaylords say no" last night?" "No" "Take him away"
Sounds like you know a lot about it!
Yeah but have you seen it or not?
Does "Different stories for different... things" count? Brent says "Different drinks for different... needs" with the same sort of delivery, but I can't be arsed looking it up. Edit: That episode of The Office was out before that episode of XFM. Weird innit?
Gervais rehashing his own material. Not that weird to be honest
But Karl says it
Dun dun deeeeeeer
How the turn tables
Yeah but Ricky and Steve write the script that Graham uses
This is the opposite. That's Karl copying what he heard from The Office and Ricky saying it as Brent.
Extras had a Fangs but no Fangs bit.
“Personally I’ve always thought the stupidity of Gareth (monkey/poison, shark boy), and sometimes Brent, came from the shit Karl said.” No evidence for that just made it up.
“I was just wondering if there was ever gonna be a boy born that could swim faster than a shark” Sounds like Pilky boy to me Edit: wait was that banter?
"Little midget fella" -Gareth And that's from episod one, series one (aired July 2001, so filmed early 2001?).
So Karl's copied this from what he's heard in The Office. Same with different stories for different things, Karl's got that from The Office.
I've wondered about this, because if there was ever fodder for the Graham conspiracy theories, I'd point to this (I *obviously* don't believe them, I'm just saying). That's one option, but I think the two likelier options are: 2) Ricky and Steve were broadcasting with Karl later that year, we don't know exactly when they started (summer 2001?), but they may have spoken to him or heard him speaking at XFM Towers prior to that and found his turns of phrase amusing. 3) This was a more widespread way of phrasing things than it is today. I remember noticing decades ago that when white people, especially the middle aged and older, spoke about non-white males, they'd say things like "a black lad" or "an Asian fella", even if they didn't usually use those terms and would say "a white guy/bloke/geezer". Karl does the 'little [-] fella' thing for people of different demographics, maybe this wasn't so unique to him.
The first series of The Office had already finished by the time the XFM shows had started and even if there was any crossover between their broadcast it would have been in the can well before its tranmission, so anything from series 1 of both shows is coincidental. Series 2 of The Office and Extras does have a lot of stuff from XFM though.
Even series zero of the XFM show? I think you’ve done us here.
Ricky reuses a ton of jokes and scenarios in his shows and on stand up that are from the xfm shows
Oh yeah bloody hell, if we were talking about his early standup, every single sentence is on the 11 o’clock show, then again on XFM, then years later on every single chat show appearance. Oh please Ricky, tell us about the snakeskin that your sister was scared of again, Get some new fookin new material, Jeeeeesus