Turns out

Turns out...

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It's a nigger

Lil gay hairy Chinese fella

How did they not get kicked off the air?

Small amount of listeners.
In the early series Ricky says 'phone's ringing' every now and then, that was how few people were calling. They used to mention the people that rang up during the songs, you could just phone up and Karl would answer. Remember when he sold his futon to someone that called up, and next week he said the bloke popped round and picked it up. XFM was basically local radio, they only did the show on it because they used to work there before the Office was made

something I always wondered..

was 'chimpanzee that' supposed to be a play on some other phrase for a news show on tv or something? Was it just supposed to be like 'fancy that' or something?

Ricky fucks kids with the queen. Steve makes career on own merit.

Yeah it was 'fancy that', how he says it the first few times makes it sound more like it's supposed to rhyme

just a play on fancy that I think. just Ricky being g retarded and going with the first thing that came into his head

Karl Pilkington agrees to sit down and have a 30 minute discussion with you. What would you ask him?

i would ask him profound questions, karl seems like the type of fella to have answers to everything. probably ask if he wants to watch men in black 2

LET HIM FINSH!

I was just listening to the episode where they talked about tales of the unexpected and I was curious about the episode where the guy gets trapped underground and gets his finger knocked off by a woman in heels. Was this show any good or creepy or was it shit?

Do you guys think Karl likes being well known? Or do you think he wishes he had never met Ricky? I haven't seen his "Sick of It" show, which I'm pretty sure follows that premise.

I would talk about insects

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>went from having to work saturdays to pay for a new kitchen to retiring at 40 and living in a mansion in kent

DONT TALK SHIT
THATS BOLLOCKS

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Yeah I'm sure he loves the money. But he seems like the kind of guy that would hate fame. It just seems like the kind of thing he would moan about, despite the money.

little gay monkey fella

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>ur an ideeut play a reckurd

Fuckin kek. "Lil ___ fella" always makes me laugh no matter what it's referring to

Hard to believe this guy got a philosophy degree.

He moves straight out of London to be fair. But I remember reading an interview with him where he said when people try to sneak photos of him when he's shopping, he always tells them they can just come and have a chat

right so im making posts as usual nothin weird goin on but suddenly i start get responses.
only turns out right. whole time. i was talking to a lil user fella

What a moron, he can't even read. He thinks God Himself didn't say how many different names He'd been known by to Moses, and the name He'd been known by to Abraham. Fag thinks there have been other capital G Gods? Thinks Allah is not Brahma?

different time mixed with it being pretty local

No idea why Ricky harps on atheism so much, especially now when the western world isn't super spiritual anyway. Atheism isn't funny. Back when it was edgy maybe, but not now. Absolutely shite comedian.

What do you guys think Karl does online these days? They always mentioned him going on weird sites to find things to talk about. If Karl came here I'm certain his main board would be /x/

Comedians are supposed to be controversial or against the grain, if you do that now you get cancelled so they have to instead be mouthpieces of establishment politics while critiquing caricatures of past traditions.

Correct, and that's why it's peak comfy.
It's just three blokes having some laughs (though you could see that Ricky was a bit rotten from the start) - in fact, you probably know a Ricky, a Steve, and certainly a Karl.

Nothing unless you pay him

Fuck, I forgot comedy is dead. Guess that's why I'm in a thread for a funny radio show from almost 20 years ago

why the fuck does nobody acknowledge that Ricky stutters ALL THE FUCKING TIME. it's especially blatant when he tries remembering all the shallow scientific terms he was taught in college, it's barely comprehensibl

I love how Ricky tried to play Karl quitting Derek off as him not enjoying acting. Karl then goes straight out and makes his own sitcom.

Nothing to do with Karl possibly being fed up of being Ricky's literal punch bag.

>there’s a shadow somewhere....

Back then it was surprising. The past few years have taught me different.

Because stuttering is something people cant really control and no one gives a shit?

he could control it if he didn't try to explain shit he doesn't know anything about all the time

Karl is a complex character. He's gone on record as saying Ricky and Steve made the podcasts to make him look like an idiot, but then elsewhere said he produced the podcasts too so he must have known what was going into them, and ultimately it was he had final edit on them.
He knew he was playing up to this character, but then distanced himself from it. He's not an idiot.
Something I noticed about Karl in early videos is he smiles loads, but never laughs, and I think that's a factor is his accidental creation of the character of 'karl' he was obviously enjoying himself on the xfm shows, and having a laugh, but it doesn't translate to radio because we can't see him.
I remember in one episode they open a wine bottle on his head, Ricky records it for his website, and on the radio it seems like he's the down trodden one, not into it and just a simple idiot they're exploiting. but I found the clip Gervais recorded and he's grinning the whole way through.
Then when he made the move to tv with Idiot abroad he's the same as then but now he can't smile either. So it creates this illusion of Karl being this person that totally doesn't get anything, and is never impressed and never understands, because that's how he seemed on the radio when we couldn't see he was in on it. I remember seeing outakes of the one he did with Warwick and he says 'ah I smiled, go again' it's that bad. He's accidentally created this persona that wasn't him and can't back out.

Yup, and the greatest irony being that Karl was the best part of Derek. Once he left the show it instantly became unfunny.

God the worst thing about the xfm shows is how Ricky never finishes a fucking sentence, it's so irritating when you notice it.
>Yeah I was sayin aboujghksdg-... because he's gone andsggjdsg.. he came back withgljlsd...
Fucking hell it's annoying, every sentence just devolves to nothing.
Also when he has to jump to the end of a karl or steve story to prove he's already heard it. He never thinks about the listener
>Karl: there was this bloke farmin' yeah an'
>Ricky: yeah his arm got cut off
Brilliant, thanks Ricky, another karl story we won't hear now

Jesus that's sad. The worst part is that few things bring me as much joy as seeing Karl smile or laugh, it's so rare to see him enjoying himself. I hope he continues to make stuff on his own and maybe we can see the real Karl some day.

Being at a loss for the words youre looking for and stuttering is different. He doesnt stutter during stand up

but he stutters during the xfm show which is my fucking point. this is an xfm thread

yeah, but i can't help to think that that persona is just bits from himself exaggerated or uninhabited, on purpose.

Has Suzanne written anything?
They said she worked in sport for the BBC but that might have been in production, like Karl.

they make a joke about it at the beginning of nearly every episode in the first series

they absolutely don't, merchant mentions it once during the entire series. I very recently listened to it

>real Karl
You mean Graham?

I refuse to believe he's been using a fake name from the start

You're talking about the podcasts, everyone else is talking about the xfm shows

Weirder than that

but I'm talking about the xfm shows too, he literally mentions it ones in the entirety of all 4 seasons