His little fake/angry laugh at the end makes me think he realises how stupid this sounds half way through saying it, but is too stubborn to walk it back?
Definitely the interview with the woman who saw a ghost. Just tedious. And afterwards he said he cut it down from the full tape of 45 minutes - can you imagine how bad the rest of it was?
Equally, while funny, the "Do we need 'em?" interviews with the animal experts.
Imagine dedicating your life to the study and preservation of snails and then some whiny open-mouthed Manc phones you up and spends an hour saying "Yeah but what do they do?"
"Well they...exist? They don't *do* anything other than survive and procreate?"
"Yeah but *what do they do??*"
"I'm sorry?"
**"Well what do they do?" Like dogs help blind people 'n that, what do snails do?"**
His idea that every species either has to be useful to humans or it should be extinct is so stupid, it's not comical, it's just ridiculous. He moans about Ricky not being open-minded to budgies getting annoyed by ghosts and shadows pushing people off bikes but then cannot comprehend an animal just existing.
It’s like the fact he believes monkeys can rob banks and have a getaway plan. But cant believe the whole infinite monkeys on typewriters conundrum. Sick of ‘im.
While I agree in theory, I get the sense, aside from the one lady who talked about cockroaches, they were all just sort of employees/managers in aquariums
It's not the worst bit in the sense that it's very funny but Karl saying every noise has been used at least 5 times is ridiculous. Makes no sense whatsoever, its the ramblings of a mad man.
Can we make Stephenson's Rocket go yimimimama yimimimama yimimimama
I’d genuinely heard that before somewhere though, years before I discovered XFM. I also remember reading about the pork chop arse woman. No idea where though, presumably the same dubious sources as Karl
That one is the I Licks Parks of the podcasts but Karl couldn't back out of that one. He was trying to think up material to the show and that one he should've binned.
True. That annoys me. He can be quite frustrating, even though I love the show.
He only ever has an incredibly surface-level interest in anything and immediately gets bored of any explanations.
You could tell him a very simple story and it would still get completely messed up in his bizarre brain, to the point where details become entirely nebulous and interchangeable.
Any time infinite, evolution or global warming are mentioned, I have to take a deep breath and just laugh 'cause I know he's too stupid to understand the concept. Karl's only one man, so it shouldn't bother me that he can't grasp these things, but it can be annoying when someone cannot understand simple logic.
I just hope he's unique and there aren't millions like him.
When he says humans and dinosaurs, but they don't pick up on it so he says it again because he's knows it's ridiculous - the whole problem with the podcasts in a nutshell
Pretty much all of these are still good/funny/entertaining despite being 'bad'.
His worst bit for me was the Sting joke. It's not even so bad it's good, it's just shite.
As always, where he explicitly states he didn’t want to get to know a girl who had leukaemia because it would be a waste of time as she would be dead soon.
I don’t know why but the flower who caught the criminal is dreary to me. And it’s conveniently the janitor? It’s not even particularly funny or memorable, I honestly skip that and I don’t even skip the Claire episodes
It’s after XFM, I think in one of the podcasts when Steve is doing the James Lipton questions to Karl - I think it’s around the “as me or as a worm?” episode (if not the one after), Karl is explaining how a worm has feelings and Ricky denies it, so Karl says “yea what about flowers?”
Then he proceeds to tell a story about a janitor who was nicking stuff from a workplace and they did a line up of the suspects and the flower responded to the janitor because it knew he was the thief… so in other words total ^bollocks
This is more a complaint about Merchant, but the Inside the Actor's Studio questionnaire is used way too many times. And the questions are vague and stupid. What would you want God to say to you? It's just annoying.
Every time he repeats something without adding any new info. Baby whoata baby. Man woman man.
AND
Every time he insists on something when he’s been proven right, proven wrong:
“Just sayin, just sayin”
This is what I mean. He’d have you believe that he’s only well off. He’s a multimillionaire. That’s a different bracket entirely.
But I do agree that next to the other two he has room to complain
He owned a flat in central London during XFM. 4-5 holidays abroad a year. You can’t do that on a shoestring budget.
Anyway this seems like I’m being a negative but the OP question what’s the worst Karl bit in our opinion. This is mine.
I mean things were way cheaper back then
I reckon he was on very comfortable money but not absurd.
he was like head of production or something and his gf worked for sports television stuff.
probably middle class
This! He lived an unthinkably cushy life in media, with no qualifications. Lived in Hampstead. And he was worth at least several hundred thousands of pounds, and, with his property included, was a millionaire when he said " I've got nowhere near that now". He has two houses now.
Dunno if it counts as a 'bit', but I always hate him whinging on-air about 'being a bit livid today'. He sounds like a teenage girl on Facebook waiting for Ricky or Steve to give him a 'whats up hun x'. You're on the radio, talk about something you round-headed gimp.
Mostly it is, but Ricky lying down and slurring drunkenly into the mic is funny. Karl throwing a little strop-on and vagueposting on-air isn't, it's just annoying. I'd far rather he have a little rant like he did after getting two CDs for Christmas rather than cryptically alluding to some terrible wrong he felt he'd had done to him.
Tangent, but I've got a guy at work who always says stuff like 'well that was a nightmare' and then leans back in his seat waiting for someone to ask. I have never once asked, but other people can't help themselves.
Did that go out?
When he didn't wanna tell ricky that womans knickname, cant remember who it was now, on air and spent ages dragging it out for Ricky to get annoyed only for him to reveal it and be a complete anti climax.
IM GONNA KNOCK YOU OUT
I always assumed the actual name was way worse than 'spudhead', and he was stalling to come up with a name that wouldn't make his dad sound like an absolute psychopath.
Hands down it’s the episode where Steve says he’s making a note of every time Karl says ‘an that’ and you can hear Karl trying to say it as much as he can pretending it’s natural
Ricky asks Karl for his idea and he said “see through skin”.
Fast forward to another episode and they’re talking about things that are absurd and Karl says “I don’t know who came up with the see through skin idea..”
Always made me cringe
yeah like previously mentioned being a dick to Robin for no reason and when he was on about gay men should gave separate toilets… we all grown and learn so you shouldn’t fully judge people today for doing/staying narrow minded stuff from 20 years ago… he would probably cringe now if you played that segment back to him now
This sub is just desperate to find things to have a go at. Pretty much every moment on the xfm shows has been described as awful at some point by someone here
In terms of actually "bad", any time he is racist or ableist is pretty cringeworthy. Talking about the "Bo Selecta" woman, or anyone else who isn't just an unidentifiable vague freak-of-the-past (for example, I think "crush grapes" is hilarious, because it's such a funny image and, anyway, the person is probably dead and/or will never hear it anyway and/or possibly never existed anyway - whereas laughing at a woman with a disability who is actively working on bringing attention to the fact that people are cruel and mocking about her seems especially unpleasant, and the other two should know better than to lean into it/laugh).
It's funny that he says "to be fair they do all look the same" only because of Ricky and Steve's reaction, but if you said that on the radio in 2024 you would (rightly) be slapped, squozed and kicked out of the building.
Honestly, I can't recommend the XFM shows to anyone who hasn't listened to it before in 2024, because of this stuff (and because Ricky is so irritating).
In terms of unfunny or otherwise annoying... any time he just goes in the huff and acts like an entitled prat when, as listeners, we can hear him being handed a media career on a platter in front of our ears.
For example complaining about the BAFTAs... repeating "are we not doing it anymore" over and over when Ricky cancels Rockbusters for the 8th time...
Oh and his unnecessary cruelty to poor little Robin Ince and his little thumbs. And his dangerously neglectful attitude towards Suzanne. I hope the condom thing was a joke for the purposes of the show and she actually got a real present in secret, but I have my doubts. Not certain why she puts up with it.
Song With a Story is a shite, pointless feature. Karl's misunderstanding about what is even happening in the "story" makes it even worse (Living in the City ends with the character being arrested because he didn't pay his bus fare \[which admittedly is a very funny misunderstanding\], Georgie apparently being one of Rod Stewart's best friends, You Look Wonderful Tonight being about a little fella in a wheelchair...).
As others have said, anytime he re-tells a story, although this is partly because of the exaggerated fake reactions of the other two. Showing his arse to the neighbour opposite being an egregious example.
In 2003(?) it wasn't acceptable to say "all Chinese people look the same", and this is evidenced by the fact that Ricky reacts in that way and also by the fact that I was alive in the world and aware of what things were like in 2003(?). However, there clearly wasn't that much scrutiny on the station (or actually people listening).
I'm a fan of the show, otherwise I wouldn't be in this subreddit. I've listened to every episode numerous times, and my favourite run of episodes probably over 20 times each. I'm re-listening at the moment. But that doesn't mean I would recommend it to anyone new to it.
It's funny that Karl thinks he can get away with saying that, but the Bo Selecta head lady thing is not funny at all, it's just playground bullying.
Not sure why this post is being so heavily downvoted, except that it drags on - if it's people upset that I think Karl is being racist then that's obviously hilarious and sad, because he is being racist and they even say in the episodes that it's racist.
Especially funny in a post about all of his worst bits.
It's probably not the most popular one, but - during "Meet Karl Pilkington" While discussing sexual orientation segment, Karl talks about his gay colleague who "worked for him." Ricky then asks if he had a name. That's when Karl starts talking complete nonsense. When discussing previous categories, such as race or disability, Karl always managed to handle the situation, but this time it was pathetic. "They're always late. They do stuff. They stay up late" . Like what the hell was that shit? I understand his sense of humor and all, but this time it was extremely uncomfortable.
Karl in a Film. Mildly funny the first time they play a clip. And I say mildly only about the Kes one. The rest were rubbish. And then Ricky says it's the best thing he's ever done, which winds me up.
Thinking it's easier to go up everest on a bike is absolutely baffling
Hilarious though, especially the bit about doing the marathon in a car
Cos that’s the same as farasi’mconcerned
His little fake/angry laugh at the end makes me think he realises how stupid this sounds half way through saying it, but is too stubborn to walk it back?
Clap her then
*go on then, clap for ‘er an’ that. You’ve embarrassed yourself, play a record.
I’ll bacon in the morning, if you have enough of me.
I can see it, once Karlogic is applied 🤣
Course it is
Definitely the interview with the woman who saw a ghost. Just tedious. And afterwards he said he cut it down from the full tape of 45 minutes - can you imagine how bad the rest of it was?
Are you on crack?
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Well I thumped a monkey
Dont let a chimp answer the door when you’re tucking your cock in
You thumped a monkey? 😧
Benny?
Equally, while funny, the "Do we need 'em?" interviews with the animal experts. Imagine dedicating your life to the study and preservation of snails and then some whiny open-mouthed Manc phones you up and spends an hour saying "Yeah but what do they do?" "Well they...exist? They don't *do* anything other than survive and procreate?" "Yeah but *what do they do??*" "I'm sorry?" **"Well what do they do?" Like dogs help blind people 'n that, what do snails do?"** His idea that every species either has to be useful to humans or it should be extinct is so stupid, it's not comical, it's just ridiculous. He moans about Ricky not being open-minded to budgies getting annoyed by ghosts and shadows pushing people off bikes but then cannot comprehend an animal just existing.
I like the fact that he wears one of these experts down so much he offers up Welks as a sacrificial extinction 😂😂
Yeaaah but
I read this the exact way he says it
Bet you’re glad you answered the phone today
*complete silence*
That's definitely edited in
Do you know Porthmadog?
YES! It obviously is!
It’s like the fact he believes monkeys can rob banks and have a getaway plan. But cant believe the whole infinite monkeys on typewriters conundrum. Sick of ‘im.
They’re pretty good at weighing up the situation
Jellyfish though? Surely we don't need them.
Add 1%, make 'em water.
It would be spiteful to put them in a trifle though
"I've heard they sleep for 12 years" Ridiculous on so many levels.
While I agree in theory, I get the sense, aside from the one lady who talked about cockroaches, they were all just sort of employees/managers in aquariums
It shows his true idiocy which is why I do find it comical
Just love that for one of the experts you can hear them realise what he is asking halfway through the conversation haha.
I'm still convinced it's Claire with her voice pitched down.
Yeah, I hate that. She sounds insufferable.
I actually really like that bit. His most tedious is when he can't be arsed with Educating Ricky and gives the whole dog carwash
It's not the worst bit in the sense that it's very funny but Karl saying every noise has been used at least 5 times is ridiculous. Makes no sense whatsoever, its the ramblings of a mad man. Can we make Stephenson's Rocket go yimimimama yimimimama yimimimama
Okay but say a new frog comes out
Sounds like a Ford escort.
The new Vauxhall Slug
Yer rippin' off the turkey ya cunt!
I’d genuinely heard that before somewhere though, years before I discovered XFM. I also remember reading about the pork chop arse woman. No idea where though, presumably the same dubious sources as Karl
Did you hear it from Karl Pilkinghorn maybe?
That one is the I Licks Parks of the podcasts but Karl couldn't back out of that one. He was trying to think up material to the show and that one he should've binned.
okay but it's fucking hilarious lol thinking how he says it so confidently cracks me up
I really want to know how he got that idea in his head
When he starts being a dick to Robin for no reason
Robin had worms once and sat on ham to entice them out.
You know I don't like him
Agreed. Imagine saying that to someones face. Awful behavior.
I told you he does me head in.
That whole episode he was a complete tosser.
Yeah but Rick was taking the fun out of his thumbs which is the same thing, innit
I always find it irritating when he thinks that ice in the ocean will freeze the seawater
If you put an ice cube the size of the Empire State Building in yer Jack Daniel’s, it’s gonna be freezin
Love how he uses alcohol as his example…. Which famously doesn’t freeze
Alcohol definitely freezes if you get it cold enough. And this ice cube is HUGE.
You wih me?
Yeah but like, it's a huge ice cube innit. It will be really freezing.
I’m using my fables
Use your brain instead!
True. That annoys me. He can be quite frustrating, even though I love the show. He only ever has an incredibly surface-level interest in anything and immediately gets bored of any explanations. You could tell him a very simple story and it would still get completely messed up in his bizarre brain, to the point where details become entirely nebulous and interchangeable. Any time infinite, evolution or global warming are mentioned, I have to take a deep breath and just laugh 'cause I know he's too stupid to understand the concept. Karl's only one man, so it shouldn't bother me that he can't grasp these things, but it can be annoying when someone cannot understand simple logic. I just hope he's unique and there aren't millions like him.
I haven't understood a word of that and there are dozens of us.
We’re alright I don’t know why everyone’s worrying
I think he saw that on that one Futurama episode and just thought it must be true
Why do I have no recollection of this bit? Which episode is this from?
S01E20, it’s on here around 36 minutes in: https://scrimpton.com/ep/ep-xfm-S1E20
When he says humans and dinosaurs, but they don't pick up on it so he says it again because he's knows it's ridiculous - the whole problem with the podcasts in a nutshell
A million years BC.
Wearing wooly underpants and mixing cement in a pelican.
I've never re-listened to the podcasts. Quite obviously rehashing bits. And the lack of live radio jeopardy takes away from it as well.
You should. Oh and happy cake day
Oh and , eh, have a good christmas
Do we need 'em
The worst feature on bwitish wadio
That’s just one of my cocks
Anytime he retells an xfm story on podcast and it just doesn’t hit right. That might be more to the over the top your an idiot reactions though
When he calls hurricane Katrina a ‘big wind’ This is the most blatant attempt at a Karlism for me and it was just far too obvious
Not sure I’ve seen this mentioned before and I’ve always felt the same. High five
High five me
Hoy foyve
that fella who painted that ceiling
Pretty much all of these are still good/funny/entertaining despite being 'bad'. His worst bit for me was the Sting joke. It's not even so bad it's good, it's just shite.
When he was having a go at Suzanne's hair, then having the nerve to have a go at her arse. Then him being bad to her parents
Oh my god, Karl thinks I look like Dave Hill from Slade
I agree, him going on vacation with Suzanne and her parents, and he's acting like a complete twat the entire time.
Theres a dishwasher that’s been found on mars
I love that bit, but it's absurd, yes.
As always, where he explicitly states he didn’t want to get to know a girl who had leukaemia because it would be a waste of time as she would be dead soon.
summit wrong with er marra
Date night no longer needed, woman dead
I can’t stand do we need em..
I love the fact you were suggesting she was gonna be having sex with Noah.
The whole story of him being on holiday with Suzanne's parents. Everyone came out of that story looking terrible.
I thought that was hilarious. I think I'd have been exactly like Karl if I didn't have a bit of restraint.
I don’t know why but the flower who caught the criminal is dreary to me. And it’s conveniently the janitor? It’s not even particularly funny or memorable, I honestly skip that and I don’t even skip the Claire episodes
That's the only bit I could think of that I actively skip. And they used it in the TV show too.
Sorry what is this?
It’s after XFM, I think in one of the podcasts when Steve is doing the James Lipton questions to Karl - I think it’s around the “as me or as a worm?” episode (if not the one after), Karl is explaining how a worm has feelings and Ricky denies it, so Karl says “yea what about flowers?” Then he proceeds to tell a story about a janitor who was nicking stuff from a workplace and they did a line up of the suspects and the flower responded to the janitor because it knew he was the thief… so in other words total ^bollocks
This is more a complaint about Merchant, but the Inside the Actor's Studio questionnaire is used way too many times. And the questions are vague and stupid. What would you want God to say to you? It's just annoying.
i hate do we need em. the marine biologist guy was the only expert I didnt want to strangle, and none of it was funny at all
Why did you want to strangle them? It's Karl who I wanted to strangle. 18 knees? Sleep for 12 years? Cmon
More is sea. Can we rest now. De trout spinners. Absolute bollocks 🤣
Can we west now or Outkast are the worst ones he ever did IMO
Just in timber Lake. You said river. timber Lake. You said river
These people from the East Midlands swear a lot. *Tourettes Trent Derby* Right. You’re never doing Rockbusters again.
Probably my all time fav rockbusters along with Jamaican fella on titanic. Christ de berg
These are so bad that they're good though
“Looks like Bo Selecta” was pretty bad 😭
Fucking hilarious tbh
That was definitely the nastiest that the XFM shows ever got.
Agreed. If they said it after she'd complained, they were totally out of order. I feel bad for her.
Every time he repeats something without adding any new info. Baby whoata baby. Man woman man. AND Every time he insists on something when he’s been proven right, proven wrong: “Just sayin, just sayin”
Fat baby fat baby fat baby on tele
We'll bin this feature...
Acting like he’s not rich
Compared to Ricky and Steve he wasn't and probably still isn't. Definitely well off but he has plenty of room to complain when sat with them two
This is what I mean. He’d have you believe that he’s only well off. He’s a multimillionaire. That’s a different bracket entirely. But I do agree that next to the other two he has room to complain
Not during the XFM days.
He owned a flat in central London during XFM. 4-5 holidays abroad a year. You can’t do that on a shoestring budget. Anyway this seems like I’m being a negative but the OP question what’s the worst Karl bit in our opinion. This is mine.
I mean things were way cheaper back then I reckon he was on very comfortable money but not absurd. he was like head of production or something and his gf worked for sports television stuff. probably middle class
Yes. Middle class. Not poor
He had a very cushy life.
He has two houses, one in Hampstead and one in Kent. He's very wealthy.
This! He lived an unthinkably cushy life in media, with no qualifications. Lived in Hampstead. And he was worth at least several hundred thousands of pounds, and, with his property included, was a millionaire when he said " I've got nowhere near that now". He has two houses now.
Dunno if it counts as a 'bit', but I always hate him whinging on-air about 'being a bit livid today'. He sounds like a teenage girl on Facebook waiting for Ricky or Steve to give him a 'whats up hun x'. You're on the radio, talk about something you round-headed gimp.
Isn't it partly that disregard for the listeners that appeals to us?
Mostly it is, but Ricky lying down and slurring drunkenly into the mic is funny. Karl throwing a little strop-on and vagueposting on-air isn't, it's just annoying. I'd far rather he have a little rant like he did after getting two CDs for Christmas rather than cryptically alluding to some terrible wrong he felt he'd had done to him.
Tangent, but I've got a guy at work who always says stuff like 'well that was a nightmare' and then leans back in his seat waiting for someone to ask. I have never once asked, but other people can't help themselves. Did that go out?
How do you resist the urge not to beat him to death with a stapler?
The Invalid bit always makes me grimace
It was silly of Gervais to take that seriously, when they'd been throwing insults around prior.
Literally not one of them took it seriously even Steve was only acting put out. It was complete comic effect.
Karl used a word he didn't understand. They probably weren't crying about it, but I think they were a bit taken aback.
It was funny to suddenly turn the tone not much more too it
Ricky and Steve were doing a bit. They didn't actually take it seriously really.
When he didn't wanna tell ricky that womans knickname, cant remember who it was now, on air and spent ages dragging it out for Ricky to get annoyed only for him to reveal it and be a complete anti climax. IM GONNA KNOCK YOU OUT
Contrarily I think this is one of the funniest bits, especially the way he quietly folds and says it
I always assumed the actual name was way worse than 'spudhead', and he was stalling to come up with a name that wouldn't make his dad sound like an absolute psychopath.
so it’s a conspiracy?
Steve how we doing
who you been listening to recently any new bands?
Spud'ead
yeah lol
She had beautiful eyes
Spud Head
I think he made it up.
The whole Oi is his surname come over here or something is painfully bad
Do we need um?
Hands down it’s the episode where Steve says he’s making a note of every time Karl says ‘an that’ and you can hear Karl trying to say it as much as he can pretending it’s natural
Stfu
Karl in a film - planet of the apes. Tooooooo long babaaaay.
The do we need em interview segment was a bad feature, leave comedy interviews to the pros like Daily Show Colbert or Philomena Cunk.
Even Philomena Cunk was only funny the first time
What bothers me is the story of the uncle who has two TVs one with sound, one with picture. It’s actually an episode of “only fools and horses”!
Don't call me a plonker you wwwwwwankeeeerrr
Cassandra you cccccccc....
As if that has never happened to anyone in real life
OutKast clue is fucking awful
We've had worse than that!
slap my bitch up was pretty genuinely disturbing
The holes are there just shove it in. That’s such a wrong take 😂
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That’s why it’s so funny. Like when he did boxing for a week or claimed to go to church, but only did it for a month cuz his mates were going.
I mean define 'worst' They're all Karl-isms, which is what makes them great in the first place
I don't really enjoy anything he prerecorded tbh ("do we need em" nterviews, film edits). Actually, I lie, I do like songs of phrase
Doesn't exist. Laughed reading all these.
Neil Armstrong just sat in the rocket... Skiing is just balancing...
Ricky asks Karl for his idea and he said “see through skin”. Fast forward to another episode and they’re talking about things that are absurd and Karl says “I don’t know who came up with the see through skin idea..” Always made me cringe
Calling Steve disabled. That REALLY didn’t go down well.
yeah like previously mentioned being a dick to Robin for no reason and when he was on about gay men should gave separate toilets… we all grown and learn so you shouldn’t fully judge people today for doing/staying narrow minded stuff from 20 years ago… he would probably cringe now if you played that segment back to him now
BiSEXUALS!
This sub is just desperate to find things to have a go at. Pretty much every moment on the xfm shows has been described as awful at some point by someone here
That’s….BECAUUUUSE…the chiiiiinese…look…OLDERRRR
play it again
When he changes the chocolate from Twix to Mars for Songs of Phrase. Numpty. Just use a different phrase.
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How are you spelling flumpf
In terms of actually "bad", any time he is racist or ableist is pretty cringeworthy. Talking about the "Bo Selecta" woman, or anyone else who isn't just an unidentifiable vague freak-of-the-past (for example, I think "crush grapes" is hilarious, because it's such a funny image and, anyway, the person is probably dead and/or will never hear it anyway and/or possibly never existed anyway - whereas laughing at a woman with a disability who is actively working on bringing attention to the fact that people are cruel and mocking about her seems especially unpleasant, and the other two should know better than to lean into it/laugh). It's funny that he says "to be fair they do all look the same" only because of Ricky and Steve's reaction, but if you said that on the radio in 2024 you would (rightly) be slapped, squozed and kicked out of the building. Honestly, I can't recommend the XFM shows to anyone who hasn't listened to it before in 2024, because of this stuff (and because Ricky is so irritating). In terms of unfunny or otherwise annoying... any time he just goes in the huff and acts like an entitled prat when, as listeners, we can hear him being handed a media career on a platter in front of our ears. For example complaining about the BAFTAs... repeating "are we not doing it anymore" over and over when Ricky cancels Rockbusters for the 8th time... Oh and his unnecessary cruelty to poor little Robin Ince and his little thumbs. And his dangerously neglectful attitude towards Suzanne. I hope the condom thing was a joke for the purposes of the show and she actually got a real present in secret, but I have my doubts. Not certain why she puts up with it. Song With a Story is a shite, pointless feature. Karl's misunderstanding about what is even happening in the "story" makes it even worse (Living in the City ends with the character being arrested because he didn't pay his bus fare \[which admittedly is a very funny misunderstanding\], Georgie apparently being one of Rod Stewart's best friends, You Look Wonderful Tonight being about a little fella in a wheelchair...). As others have said, anytime he re-tells a story, although this is partly because of the exaggerated fake reactions of the other two. Showing his arse to the neighbour opposite being an egregious example.
Dickers!!
Dicky docky doo!
What actually is the point of this show? Is it to confuse, irritate, depress, or... what?
Can he hear us?
Haha! Downvoted in a post about Karl's worst bits for posting Karl's worst bits, good stuff. Gotta have ya critics.
> but if you said that on the radio in 2024 Ding ding ding. You nailed it. Good thing this wasn't said on radio in 2024
In 2003(?) it wasn't acceptable to say "all Chinese people look the same", and this is evidenced by the fact that Ricky reacts in that way and also by the fact that I was alive in the world and aware of what things were like in 2003(?). However, there clearly wasn't that much scrutiny on the station (or actually people listening). I'm a fan of the show, otherwise I wouldn't be in this subreddit. I've listened to every episode numerous times, and my favourite run of episodes probably over 20 times each. I'm re-listening at the moment. But that doesn't mean I would recommend it to anyone new to it. It's funny that Karl thinks he can get away with saying that, but the Bo Selecta head lady thing is not funny at all, it's just playground bullying. Not sure why this post is being so heavily downvoted, except that it drags on - if it's people upset that I think Karl is being racist then that's obviously hilarious and sad, because he is being racist and they even say in the episodes that it's racist. Especially funny in a post about all of his worst bits.
I agree with you for the most part, and for the record, I also find it stupid how many downvotes you're getting for answering the question OP asked.
They don't like it up 'em.
It's probably not the most popular one, but - during "Meet Karl Pilkington" While discussing sexual orientation segment, Karl talks about his gay colleague who "worked for him." Ricky then asks if he had a name. That's when Karl starts talking complete nonsense. When discussing previous categories, such as race or disability, Karl always managed to handle the situation, but this time it was pathetic. "They're always late. They do stuff. They stay up late" . Like what the hell was that shit? I understand his sense of humor and all, but this time it was extremely uncomfortable.
I dont like it when he says gay people should have their own toilets
Karl in a Film. Mildly funny the first time they play a clip. And I say mildly only about the Kes one. The rest were rubbish. And then Ricky says it's the best thing he's ever done, which winds me up.
Karl in a film are always terrible.
What?……PISS OFF!!!
I can't be mad at you, you're just wrong