Karl Pilkington

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Karl Pilkington is an English radio producer previously best known for producing The Ricky Gervais Show on the radio station Xfm. After leaving Xfm, Pilkington reached an international audience through his appearances with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on The Ricky Gervais Show. He is also a published author and the star of a Channel 4 documentary.

Karl began his on-air role by occasionally interjecting during the Xfm show co-hosted by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. As more of his anecdotes and opinions were revealed, he became more of a focal point of the show. Eventually, he began to take part in and create segments. The first bit that focused on Karl was White Van Karl where Karl spoke his thoughts on current events and minor news stories. Karl began creating his own segments after awhile such as Educating Ricky, Monkey News, and Rockbusters. With these bits, Karl's relative status on the show grew, Ricky eventually saying it should be called "the Karl Pilkington show". After the end of the Xfm show, Karl remained part of the trio, giving up his position as head of production at Xfm to make podcasts with Ricky and Steve and work on his writing.

The podcasts are the most downloaded ever with over 300million and rising!

Plus he has an amazing travel show called 'An Idiot Abroad' in which Ricky and Steve send him around the world to see the 7 wonders of the world. The show is up for a second season in which he is doing all the things you have to do before you die... The bucket list.

Plus you can see animated versions of the podcasts on HBO and E4 on 'The Ricky Gervais Show'.

Download the podcast on iTunes NOW!

Famous Karl Quotes

On Art... 'Stop Looking At The Walls... Look Out Of The Window'

On Old Age... 'By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it'

On The Elephant Man... 'The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, ‘Oh, God. Look at me hair today.'

On I'm A Celebrity... 'I Could Eat A Knob At Night'.

On Food... 'But hummus. When did that happen?...but there's a restaurant down the road that that's all they do. That is isn't a proper meal, that's a side-order innit? That's like having a restaurant just floggin' tomato ketchup. Hummus isn't a meal. They don't even try and kid ya to get you in to flog you just hummus, they actually say "Oh it's hummus today." Not gonna work, they shut down within a month'.

On Food... 'What's that plate that's above a saucer but below a plate?'
On Nature... 'Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back'.