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Episode 11 February 13 2006
In which Ricky, Steve and Karl discuss...
The cult of Karl going global; how no well-appointed planet should be without one; Karl's contributions to the curriculum; playground pugilism; verbiage on the vermiform appendix; horological considerations for interstellar pioneers; further entries from the dimwitted diarist; monkey news.

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Episode 10 February 6 2006
In which Ricky, Steve and Karl discuss...
Proposals of marriage by proxy by podcast; getting hitched the hi-tech way; Karl's chelonian conversation; why Karl is temporally nonplussed; who did what and where on the Oriental express; the continuing chronicles of Karl; monkey news.

Episode 9 January 30 2006
In which Ricky, Steve and Karl discuss...
Internet abuse; Karl's moral dilemma; the further chronicles of Karl; unwelcome side effects of transplant surgery; bringing up baby and how careless torque costs lives; Oriental wisdom; mollusc makeovers and Noah's missed opportunity; monkey news.

Episode 8 January 23 2006
In which Ricky, Steve and Karl discuss...
Karl's recent and unwarranted excursion to the Canaries; Karl's chronicle; podcasts unsurpassed and other superlatives; unflattering epithets in the schoolyard; verbal encryption on the public airwaves; monkey news.

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http://www.rickygervais.com/karlisacult.php

Podcast creates an unlikely Internet icon

By Mark Egan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unemployed radio producer Karl Pilkington has become an unlikely superstar by using the new medium of podcasting for his bizarre statement about eating an animal's private parts.

Pilkington plays the village idiot on The Ricky Gervais Show, with Gervais and Stephen Merchant, a hit podcast -- the new media craze of blending iPod with broadcast. The free audio or video shows on the Internet can be downloaded onto iPods and MP3 players.

It was during a discussion on the Gervais show about a reality TV show, where contestants were asked to eat an animal's penis, that Pilkington made Internet history. First he said he could not eat an animal's penis in the morning because he has a delicate stomach.

He then proclaimed, "I could eat a knob at night."

His "knob" soundbite has become so popular that a Google search for "I could eat a knob at night" yields more than half a million listings. Among them are T-shirts featuring the slogan and Pilkington's bald head selling for $17 (10 pounds).

The BBC was among the earliest adopters of podcasting technology. It carried Radio Five Live podcasts in 2004. By last fall, major media on both sides of the Atlantic had begun podcasts. Podcasts now see amateurs and media titans alike battling for the eyes and ears of the "iPod generation."

"This is another new Internet paradigm," Vanity Fair media critic Michael Wolff said, adding that like other recent changes to the media world, "It happened outside the official channels, so we are all unaware of it until it is huge."

A few years ago, media companies woke up to Internet theft of music on Napster. Last year they heard about blogs, and now they are "like deers caught in the headlights again" trying to figure out podcasting, Wolff said.

Among popular podcasts are shows from America's National Public Radio, CBS' news magazine show "60 Minutes" and audio essays from Slate.com. Myriad amateur podcasts include sports fans talking about favourite teams and podcasts like "open source sex," which promises "erotica, sex ed and more ..."

But the most popular podcast of all is The Ricky Gervais show, where Pilkington made his name.

After Gervais mused on the show that the soundbite could be used in a dance remix, it took just a few days for the Internet to be awash with songs using the soundbite as a hook.

Gervais says in his ninth episode that his is the world's most popular podcast. He boasts 2.5 million downloads and says he expects 4 million downloads when the 12 episodes are done.

His hit format is simple: Gervais and Merchant verbally beat up Pilkington, their former producer at the radio station Xfm, as they discuss his off-beat pronouncements. The show is strictly available as a podcast.

Wolff said the question now for mainstream media companies is how to make money from the new technology. "The traditional media are asking themselves with some degree of desperation how they can make money out of this."

Gervais himself has jokingly lamented giving his show away for free, saying in a recent podcast, "I have been a fool."

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from the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia...

Karl grew up in Manchester, where he regularly missed school, because his parents took him on caravaning holidays during the school term.

He once claimed that he was given an award for attendance and speculates that this award was merely invented by his teachers to try and persuade him to spend more time at school. He also claimed that his teachers never once said "Well done" to him and that, on parents evening, his parents were informed by one of his teachers that he "Will never be a high flyer".

Karl had a "different" upbringing. He remembers receiving a computer for Christmas at about the age of 8, he wanted a ZX Spectrum, but was given the inferior ZX81. He tried to play a game, but was thwarted by the absence of a required accessory. He recalls that he vomited due to stress of the situation; one of the factors he attributes towards his baldness.

He spontaneously played the drums for the song Little Donkey in his school's nativity play, sometime between the ages of 6 and 13.

For a short time he had a pet magpie, which he named Maggie which sometimes pecked at his head. The magpie flew away when Karl took it to school to show his class and never returned. Karl's family also went through several cats, because they lived on a main road.

Pilkington left school without collecting his exam results, live on air (XFM) Ricky Gervais revealed that he had attained a single "E" GCSE grade. Pilkington went through a number of jobs, his favourite being his paper round.

Karl's anecdotes about his family are often a source of much amusement to Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais. His father once crashed a train into Manchester Central Station, his mother shaved one of their cats after it kept being sick, and his brother was thrown out of the Army for driving to the shops in a tank to buy a packet of cigarettes.

Karl has a number of possible causes of his baldness. It may have been caused by the fact that he once worked a 24-hour-shift overseeing the production of audio cassettes, or perhaps due to the negligence of a Manchester barber who cut the young Pilkington's hair in a shack near the local train station. His lack of a fulsome barnet never really bothers him, except when he was on Jury Duty and felt some form of hairpiece might be in order to diguise him from any proximate ne'er-do-wells.

Karl's neighbourhood contained other strange and eccentric personalities, such as a woman who rode around on a tricycle with her husband sitting in a basket attached to the end of it; a family who kept a horse in their front room; an elderly witch with a penchant for dishwashers and a woman who pushed a pram around with a bucket that had a face drawn on it, instead of a real baby.

Karl's anecdotes about his family are often a source of much amusement to Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais. His father once crashed a train into Manchester Central Station, his mother shaved one of their cats after it kept being sick, his uncle slept in a dinghy instead of a bed.

Karl was the producer of Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais' Xfm radio show. Some of Pilkington's most popular contributions to the show include Monkey News (news which is supposed to be about monkeys, but is almost always about chimpanzees), Rockbusters (which is nothing like Blockbusters despite punning on its title) and Knob News (a spin off of Monkey News, with the feature containing "knob-related news", such as "a man who grew a knob on his arm"). Other features normally tie in with Karl's eccentric interests and theories, like Do We Need 'Em?, normally about Karl's irritation with animals deemed by him to be irrelevant superfluous. Cheeky Freak of the Week, (a rundown of Karl's favourite freaks), and Songs With A Story (Karl only likes songs "with a little story goin' on and that", such as Eric Clapton's Wonderful Tonight, which is supposedly about "a little fella in a wheelchair").

In December 2005, Karl left his producing job at Xfm after 10 years of loyal service. When asked by his colleagues what he would like for a leaving gift, Karl requested a digital camera. When he was presented with the gift at his leaving party, he declined to open the gift-wrapped box as he intended to give the camera to his girlfriend for Christmas. Karl is considering two new sources of income - a paper round and dog walking (only if it doesn't rain). They may not pay as much money as working as Head of Production at Xfm, but according to Karl, "its about being happy, innit?"
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and this on his apparent opinions and beliefs...

Pilkington has expressed several opinions which most people would find unusual (and sometimes offensive). These include:

Gay people go out too late at the weekend. In reference to the Rod Stewart song 'The Killing of Georgie', they wouldn't have as much trouble if they were in bed by ten.

Gay people should have their own public toilets.

Issac Newton did not contribute much to human civilization as discovering gravity did not affect us as it had always been there. Had everyone been floating about then he would rightfully deserve the amount of credit he receives. Einstein's contribution to humanity is similarly unimpressive as Pilkington has never had to use the theory of relativity, whereas, in contrast, whoever invented the video recorder has received no recognition despite the fact that he watches one a week.

An infinite number of monkeys using an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time, could not produce the complete work of Shakespeare, unless they have read it.

Chinese people age badly in comparison to other races.

You never see old men eating Twix bars.

He thought the diaries of Anne Frank were "an Adrian Mole sort of thing"


It is important to note that, while some people have been offended by his comments in the past, particularly those regarding the chinese and homosexual communities, he has stated his goal was never to offend, merely state his opinion.
On the interview with Ricky Gervais, which can be found on the DVD Politics, he stated that "We're all the same really" when asked about the issue of race and responded that "Gays are alright" when asked about homosexuality. Karl often inadvertently provides material for Gervais' stand-up act.

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Episode 12 February 20 2006
In which Ricky, Steve and Karl discuss...
Coughing up for Karl; Karl talking hyperbolics; pragmatism and romanticism combined; life with the lions; coping strategies post-transmogrification; extracts from the diary of an idiot; the last monkey news.

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Why are people saying Metaman has ass sex on iPOD?

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thx for the bump, never had heard of ricky doing this :D

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Hilarious show

That Karl is a genius!

Here's the full first season :
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I heard the 2nd won't be free anymore

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