Karl Pilkington

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Film Actor · Born Sep 23, 1972 · United Kingdom · Male

Karl Pilkington (born 23 September 1972) is an English television presenter, author, comedian, radio producer, actor, and voice actor. Pilkington gained prominence as the producer of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's radio programme on XFM. He appeared on The Ricky Gervais Show, presented the Sky travel comedy series An Idiot Abroad, and made his full acting debut (following a cameo appearance in the final episode of Extras) on Gervais' 2012 comedy-drama series Derek. Pilkington is a co-founder, along with Gervais and Merchant, of RiSK Productions, a television production company. Pilkington recently starred in the Sky 1 travel documentary comedy series The Moaning of Life (2013–2015). This is his first show to not have any involvement from either Gervais or Merchant. 2Early life Pilkington was born on 23 September 1972 in Manchester. 2Career 3Early work Pilkington moved to London from Manchester to work with XFM as a producer. While there, he unintentionally caused Gail Porter to leave the station in tears after only one show: he criticised her performance, which Pilkington says was an attempt to encourage improvement. After several years he began work on The Ricky Gervais Show. Initially Pilkington was solely the programme's produce

All humor (5)travel (4)Life (3)Nature (3)Science (2)Death (2)Existence (2)Water (1)Change of perspective (1)Fame (1)Reading (1)Identity (1)Do not disturb (1)Perception (1)Silence (1)

From “The Moaning of Life”

“A life without death would be like a day without sleep.”

Tagged: Life, Death, Sleep, Day, Existence

“I sometimes wear headphones even though I’m not listening to anything just so I’m left alone. It’s the next best thing to wearing a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign.”

Tagged: Silence, Solitude, Do not disturb, Alone

“You’re bound to fall out and have arguments and you should work at getting the relationship back together, but nobody wants to any more.”

Tagged: Relationships, fights, arguments, H4D-17

From “The Ricky Gervais Show”

“Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.”

Tagged: Walls, window, Change of perspective, Nature, Art

“They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.”

Tagged: Climate Change, humor, fish, Science, Jokes ABout Climate Change

From “An Idiot Abroad”

“I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.”

Tagged: Fart, Biology, Science, human

“I told her that I can't be doing with the Wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake... I've never liked wedding cake due to the amount of icing, but then imagine a wedding cake without it; just a dark, stodgy, horrible dry sponge. The icing covers up the mess, and…”

Tagged: Wonders, travel, Attraction, Deception

“There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly.”

Tagged: Ants, Flying, Nature, ability

“It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.”

Tagged: Clutter, Archaeology, History, humor

“I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.”

Tagged: Pyramids, Structure, Building

“The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much.”

Tagged: Religion, Belief, Church

“I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for.”

Tagged: Identity, humor, stupidity

“I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the Wonders I have seen so far. The fact that this one is called the 'Great' Wall of China annoys me. I'll decide if it's great or not. It might end up being the 'All Right Wall of China' to me.”

Tagged: Perception, travel, Preference, Decisions

“Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [...] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.”

Tagged: Gandhi, humor, camera, India, travel

From “Happyslapped by a Jellyfish”

“It annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.”

Tagged: Animals, Squirrels, Rats, Upbringing

From “The Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad”

“I’ve found out that Malakula was named by Captain James Cook. It comes from the French mal au cul which means ‘pain in the arse’ after Cook found it difficult to deal with cannibals, volcanoes and other annoying features. It’s good to know proper explorers sometimes share the feelings I have on my…”

Tagged: Discovery, name, Exploration, travel

“The problem is, these days you have to listen to too many parts of your body. Sometimes I go with my gut feeling, some say go with what your heart says - it's only a matter of time before my appendix will have an opinion. This is probably why there are so many helplines these days. No one knows who…”

Tagged: Body, Feelings, Listening To Your Heart, Listening to your body, unknown

From “Karlology”

“There are more idiots in the world than bright ones, but it’s the odd good one that makes a big difference.”

Tagged: idiots, Making A Difference, Knowledge

“Stay green, stay in the woods, and stay safe.”

Tagged: Nature, Safe, Woods

“I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book'”

Tagged: book, Life, Existence, Reading

Karl Pilkington

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