A collection of the best moments from the record-breaking 'Ricky Gervais Show' podcasts with additional musings and original drawings by Karl Pilkington, the show's unlikely star. Karl Pilkington, the Confuctian-like savant of the 'Ricky Gervais Show', has led an extraordinary and curiously individual life. As a kid growing up in Manchester he regularly missed school to accompany his parents on caravanning holidays and left without collecting his exam results: his family weaned him well. His father once crashed a train into Manchester Central Station, his mother shaved one of their cats after it kept being sick and his uncle slept in a dinghy instead of a bed -- genes, some acolytes say, that have contributed to his cryptic views on life. Pilkington's is a brilliant mind, locked inside a perfectly round head, and uncluttered by the unhelpful constraints of logic or common sense; factors that have led him to such dazzling insights as 'you never see old men eating Twix bars' or that the 'Diary of Anne Frank' was 'an Adrian Mole sort of thing'. In this pithy and hilarious book, Karl is in conversation with (the often bewildered) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the writers and stars of 'The Office' and 'Extras', outwitting even these comedy Goliaths with his take on such contentious issues as charity, the lack of Chinese homeless people, reincarnation, the rights of monkeys and favourite superpowers. Featuring Karl's original illustrations, imaginative scribblings, full-colour pictures sent in by fans, the best conversations of the first twelve podcasts, and to be published alongside the second series of the internationally acclaimed and Guinness Record-winning Ricky Gervais Show (downloaded over 4,000,000 times -- the most popular podcast ever), this is a unique trip into the world of one of our most innovative thinkers, visionaries and prophets, or as Gervais and Merchant know him, 'the funniest man alive in Britain today'.
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'Not many idiots could make something this funny.' Guardian 'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!' Sunday Telegraph
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Karl Pilkington is a radio producer previously best known for producing The Ricky Gervais Show on Xfm. After leaving Xfm, Pilkington has reached an international audience through his appearances with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on The Ricky Gervais Show podcast. He lives in London; this is his first book.
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Karl Pilkington, the new Mark Twain. Witty and a great story teller. His descriptions of his adventures kept me in stitches from the first to the last page.
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Chimpanze THIS! Karl Pilkington is a prophet!,
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Mark my words, when future generations talk judge our current civilization it will be based on the works of this man.
You will never encounter a person this honest in your life. Almost everything that comes out of his mouth is false but, he's not lying. If someone has gone to the trouble of writing it out, it must be fact in the world of Karl. Here are just some of the 100's of musings of Karl Pilkington (The "K Man" to some): "Even caveman had little pants on when you see footage of them." "What were the things in 'Gremlins' called? " "You never see a black ghost, do you?" "It was bacteria, fish, mermaid, man, onwards and what have you." - Karl ponders the stages of man's evolution. "They say they've got a new pope, he's hardly new is he?" "Why didn't evolution give them genes to make them good at carpentry then, so they could build a ladder instead of growing long necks?" - On the evolution of the giraffe. Karl truly is the voice of our generation. Wait till this book is sold and it takes the world by storm. Karl has an opinion on any given subject. He takes nothing for granted. His literal takes on analogies, proverbs, and fables are the stuff of pure genius. Here are some examples: "It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey." - Expressing his disbelief regarding Infinite monkey theorem. "Don't chuck stuff about because you'll break it." - Karl fails to grasp the metaphorical nature of the 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones' proverb. "Don't be chucking that out you might need it later." - Karl's interpretation of Benjamin Franklin's "Waste not, want not." "A little story told quickly." - Karl's definition of an analogy This book will be a masterpiece!
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This review is from: The World of Karl Pilkington (Hardcover)
It took me about 7 years to integrate into the British psyche and culture sufficiently to even begin to appreciate that sharpest tool of all tools available to those of this nation: their humour.
If you don't 'get it', you're just completely lost, not even any point in attempting; if you do 'get it', you're on... Karl Pilkington and co. are fine specimens, undeniably. Good for a few chuckles!
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