Portal: Karl Pilkington

Karl Pilkington From the Fourteenth Video Podcast. Karl Pilkington (born September 23, 1972 in Manchester, UK) is an English radio producer who formerly produced Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant on the radio station Xfm in London. After leaving Xfm, Pilkington reached an international audience through his appearances with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on The Ricky Gervais Show podcast. In August 2006, Karl made four programmes for the Channel 4 short documentary series 3 Minute Wonder. In September 2006, Pilkington released a book, The World Of Karl Pilkington. This contained transcripts from the first twelve podcasts, as well as other thoughts and illustrations by Pilkington. ...Full Biography

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Featured Picture This was taken for the article the Sunday Telegraph did about him and his book. ...More Karl Pictures

News Happy Birthday Karl The K Man turns 34 today. You can leave your birthday wishes Here (Sat 23 Sept 2006) The World of Karl Pilkington Karl's book is released in the UK today. It's got transcripts from the The Ricky Gervais Show podcast, stories from Karl's childhood, and all illstrations are done by The K Man. Buy it from Amazon.co.uk for less than a fiver. (Mon 18 Sept 2006) Telegraph Publish Pilkington Book Excerpts On 17th September the Sunday Torygraph will have exclusive extracts from The World of Karl Pilkington, and a competition to win original K Man drawings. (Wed 13 Sept 2006) ...More News Downloads Karl turn JR Hartley for Video Podcast 15 (18 Sept 2006) Karl on Flipside TV (16 Sept 2006) 3 Minute Wonder (18 Aug 2006) ...More Downloads

Quotes "Could the world fall?" -Podcast Series 2, Episode Three "Why is it alright to be going around, going mental with a gun, shooting all the monkeys and killing them? Because one day we're going to run out." -Podcast Series 1, Episode Three "In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock." -Podcast Series 3, Episode Two "Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain't been back. It can't have been that good." -3 Minute Wonder, Episode 2 ...More Karl Quotes

Anecdote I got involved once... with the police and that, when I lived in Manchester and saw a bit of car crime going on. And I got involved, it was hassle, tellin' you. Cos I thought "Well, I'd hope somebody did it with my car." And, I had to stand on a balcony in this tower block that I lived in, police shouting up at me and I'm stood there with me underpants on, right? So I call up the police and that, right? Said "Right, listen, errm, car's been robbed" and they said "Where is it?" I said "I dunno, just across the road from where I live." Right? So I tell them where I live. So she's, she's askin' loads of questions and that, I'm saying "Look, whilst you're asking all of this they're actually getting away so, you know we'll leave it." And she's like "No, err, we'll track it down blah blah blah." So I said "Well look I work nights." I could see some lads, just pushing a car. It was late at night and that... And you don’t wanna start the engine. Anyway I said, "Look, don't call back I’m going to bed. Alright? I got work in a bit." Next thing, right the phone's going- "Hello, it’s the police again." "I said I told you not to call me." They said "Right, the police are outside, can you go on your balcony?" So I’m ten stories up, right? So I’m stood on the balcony with like me underpants on. Alright? And the police are saying "Where's the car?" And I’m saying "I don't know they've gone down that road now." So I’m trying to point to ‘em. They're shouting up saying "Which road?" and all that. And I just thought, why did I get involved? I don't think they found it, it was hassle. Just don't get involved. Don’t get… after that… ~ K.P. (as told on 15 November 2003)