“The only reason you don't go on holiday, is 'cause you have to spend money.”
Xfm 21 June 2003
On Stephen Merchant
Karl Pilkington 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 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 . This is his first show to not have any involvement from either Gervais or Merchant.
“The only reason you don't go on holiday, is 'cause you have to spend money.”
Xfm 21 June 2003
On Stephen Merchant
The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 2 Thanksgiving
On Calendars
The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 2 Thanksgiving
On Calendars
“You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge.”
Podcast Series 2 Episode 6
On Sayings
“Get married, get on with it, email us the pictures, we're happy to have a look.”
The Moaning of Life, Karl on Marriage
“Is there anyone else that you look like, Steve, or would you say you're a bit of a one-off?”
Xfm 28 June 2003
On Stephen Merchant
“Do you know like, when you're a bloke nudist, Do you ever get any who just have like a small knob?”
Podcast Series 1 Episode 2
On Nudity
“That's what I'm saying about Christmas, I might not be in the mood for it; December 25th”
The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 3 Christmas
On Christmas
The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 2 Thanksgiving
On Food
“Karl: I came up with a good idea…. see through skin”
Podcast Series 2 Episode 5
On Biology
“Well, you took me to the BAFTAs. Yeah, but only cos no-one else would probably wanna go with you.”
Xfm 26 October 2002
On Stephen Merchant
“If that was on my road the council would be like "Get that down, its a deathtrap!"”
To Ricky and Steve about The Great Pyramids.
An Idiot Abroad
Podcast Series 2 Episode 3
On Food
“The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, ‘Oh, God. Look at me hair today.”
Xfm 21 December 2002
On The Elephant Man
3 Minute Wonder, Episode 1
On Nature
The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 3 Christmas
On Food
Podcast Series 1 Episode 7
On Sayings
“Turns out it was another load of monkeys from another part of the island…from the rough bit…”
Xfm 21 June 2003
On Monkeys
“I think some bacteria have better lives than that [Karls interpretation on the life of an innuit]”
Podcast Series 1 Episode 5
On Life
Podcast Series 3 Episode 4
On Nature
“We're just a weed in the universe”
Podcast Series 5 Episode 4
On the Earth
“What do dogs do? Sniff each other's arse. They don't knock about going "Let's try a chatup line."”
The Moaning of Life, Karl on Marriage
Podcast Series 1, Episode Two
On Sex
“I'm really happy, I just don't choose to show it.”
The Moaning of Life, Karl on Happiness
It was an odd looking thing. I couldn't say 'Oh, it looks like you' because that would be a diss.
Podcast Series 2 Episode 2
On Medicine