They actually have the technology to give him a more normal-sounding voice, but he declined because he now identifies with the robotic one we’re all familiar with
Someday, many years from now, Karl Pilkington will be remembered as one of the greatest innovative thinkers of our generation... Not sure whether to shake my head or bust out laughing.
I think Karl seems to be more of an introvert, which explains why he thinks whole sentences in his head and, practically, has conversations with himself. I often do that. Introverts tend to sit back and think.
inner discourse is a normal occurrence and a helpful tool in problem solving for humans. if ricky and steve don't have inner discourse, they're the weird ones. everyone i know says they think in sentences. it's not like it's a constant thing but i can turn it on or off so to speak.
Jaqen H'ghar they didn't say conversing with yourself was weird, it's the complete sentence part that's off. And it is. Usually thinking in complete sentences hints at a developmental disability, mental illness, or dissociation, as does dreaming in third person instead of first person.
Cory Mck My bad for assuming people would understand what I was talking about. There’s a difference in intentionally vs unintentionally thinking in complete sentences. What I was trying to suggest is that, if you are incapable of thinking without complete sentences, that’s a sign that something is very wrong. A normal brain is able to think in concepts, so unless you are intentionally forming complete sentences with your thoughts, that isn’t something that should be happening.
6:38 - 6:47 May just be my favourite moment in the entire series. The banality of both the description and of the moment itself. The fact it's just four men brought together by happenstance in an otherwise empty bar with nothing better or more entertaining to do than just watch a Cat do Cat stuff; alongside the blank and somewhat disappointed look on their faces as they watch and drink. All of that punctuated by Ricky's appropriate laughter at the situation Karl happened to live through and conjure up a wonderful image through the bland language which was effortlessly delivered by Steve. Just ten seconds of hilarious humanity.
@@noahmay7708 Ricky is always so quick to judge him and call him "An idiot" or in his Karl's predictions, "not gonna happen, shut up!", yet it did with VR or smart watches. Karl just finds it hard to explain things, Ricky is often so unnecessary mean and dismissive not giving Karl any time to explain and have a conversation.
Karl is a true anomaly. He’s like a truly insightful and intuitive idiot. If his iq was higher he might be an actual genius whereas some people who do have a high iq don’t have Karl’s insightful ness and couldn’t be a genius. So In a sense Karl is a smart guy just in his own hilariously entertaining way
Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of the 20th century, thought in words and not conceptually. There's an audio interview where he discusses how weird he thinks this is.
3:34 the darts part killed killed me. And that thinker position that karl makes at 8:08 made me remember Lenny from the simpsons at the Oscars ahahahahaha
there is nothing better in world to Cheer you up then the Ricky Gervais show, xfm, podcasts, cartoons. fucking genius these are the cure for depression
i love how the format of the segment takes shape in the first few minutes. ricky has a go at reading but isn't fluent enough because his thinking about the diary throws off his delivery, then steve takes over the reading with much better rhythm leaving ricky to react as the audience hears it.
This is honestly one of the best shows I have ever seen, Its so flippen funny!!! I also love how they actually animate other characters with thier voices when they are telling stories, I wish this was on the radio or tv back in Canada!
I just loooove the voice of Stephen Merchant - it's so ducking relaxing and funny! He should read in some books or stories - i would by that in a second. Also Portal !!
It's a pretty even split, some people do, some don't, but because it's something we never really talk about, it's mindblowing when you find out that other people don't think to themselves the same way you do. Aphantasia is another good one. Most people can visualise a picture in their head but some people can't. Most people who can't don't find out for years because they think they're normal.
Love how ricky always treats carl as stupid but outs himself as not having an internal monologue and clearly doesn't know where hawkin's from but just guesses he's from oxford or cambridge because there are universities there (accidentally being right).
I've been listening to the old Xfm shows (which weren't adapted in the animated series), and it's fun to compare how different these three were back then, compared to the later shows that this series was adapted from. For instance, it was a lot more common for Ricky to get excited about things to do with Karl, the way he does in this episode when he hears about his diary. It was pretty sweet, actually. They were nicer to him back then as well. And Karl seemed to be more lighthearted; his voice sounded a bit happier, and he even laughed sometimes. (In the animated series he only laughs once and it's treated as a big deal even by Ricky.) It makes the later shows kind of depressing by comparison.
I hear ya. I too have listened to almost all the xfm shows lately and it was all a lot more natural back then and not as much the 2 on 1 system that it later became. Karl was certainly not the fool they tried to make him out to be though and eventually worked it to his advantage. I've no doubt they did actually think a lot of Karl though, it just never came across that way later on, you're right.
Karl is one of those persons with a beautiful mind. He has absoloutly no censorship. He tells it straight out like it is.. That is why he's so bloody brilliant!
I love, love, love Karl! He is an absolute genius! I think Ricky and Steve are jerks to him, though :-\ It's gotten to the point where I hate the sound of their voices- I just put up with it to hear more of the genius that is Karl :-)
i loved the last episode of Idiot Abroad where Karl goes on hiliday to his favorite place, it was a dreary moble-home park near a cold stoney beach. all he did was sit and stare,... hillarious!
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I love how ecstatic Ricky is when first hearing about this, like he discovered gold, which of course he did because Karl's diary is brilliant.
It has made Ricky alot of money.
@Mai Nyigguh yeah of course he is but he knows gold when he sees it
"I...Karl!"
Yeah, it's almost like they planned it...🙄
@@JohnyG29 lol
I love the watch that counts down to your death bit.
"How does it work?"
"You pop it on your wrist."
thing is tho, the watch can read ya pulse, so if ye pulse slows down, watch lights up, "yer gunna die"
Karl predicted the 2011 movie "In Time "
Poh i on ya rist.
But can it tell if you're going to die in a disaster?
@Marshall Carwood just so you know, I did read this in Karl's voice. Brilliant
Karl's diary is one of the greatest literary works of the 21st century.
Speedy Gonzalez 21st*
It’s the best ever pal
Most Definitely
Up there with Ann Frank
like samual pepys diary
"...but we never saw his wife."
I don't know why that kills me every time, but it does! XDD
Poetic
I wonder if Hawking even remembers what his voice sounded like.
evilemperordude would you?
I mean, he wouldn't just stop thinking. His voice in his head wouldn't just turn robotic as well..?
They actually have the technology to give him a more normal-sounding voice, but he declined because he now identifies with the robotic one we’re all familiar with
Andy Matz
I find him crushingly boring. He now has political views. He goes to strip clubs. I just don't get his appeal as an icon.
Gordon M well I guess it wouldn't matter anymore because now he's dead.
Someday, many years from now, Karl Pilkington will be remembered as one of the greatest innovative thinkers of our generation...
Not sure whether to shake my head or bust out laughing.
"Brilliant. You're an idiot."
That pretty much sums up this whole show.
He is actually a genius.
John Buoy not
No, he can have wise moments, but a lot of his ideas are completely idiotic
No...he's an idiot. And if you actually think he's a genius then you're also an idiot.
@@brokenwave6125 Comedic genius. You're the idiot.
He's actually really smart, he just lacks the vocabulary to communicate his thoughts.
I think Karl seems to be more of an introvert, which explains why he thinks whole sentences in his head and, practically, has conversations with himself. I often do that. Introverts tend to sit back and think.
Extroverts don't do that (have conversations in their head)?
Isabelle they do too, but it's the thought being in full complete sentences that's a bit off.
ah ok, get it :)
Jay Gemmell which would explain why his diary is hilarious because he sits back and notices everything while extroverts dont
extroverts are boring
Karl is clearly referring to an inner monalog. all humans experience this
@Ties de Jong Karl's the braindead one here, he has no idea how to properly express his thoughts to them.
@@buzzytrombone4353 not everyone has an internal monologue. i do but not everyone does.
MrRayndog yeah some people just don’t hear there voice in their head
If you don't have an internal monologue then you are an NPC.
Not all do. Possible ricky doesnt...
it's so weird hearing Karl say things in proper English like "isn't it"
grace l OMG GRACE
Alexa OMG WHAT?!
grace l i don't know if it's you but I believe I saw u at wheldrakes
Alexa OMG YES PROBABLY!!!
grace l OMGGG A SMALL WORD. I HOPE IM NOT CREEPY
"Everyone sat and watched one of the local cats lick it's bollocks"
This killed me!
6:39
I'm fucking dead 😂
Me too😅
Best thing ever.
6:39
@@ChilupaKing how do you do that lol
I would totally buy his diary LMAO
Buy some of his books! They're basically just his travel diaries anyway :)
+Callum Bateman omg just realised
I definitely would
Happyslapped by a jellyfish is a great book, basically a diary but there are also pictures and they're really funny
He's got best sellers. They're just precious.
The actual Diary is already probably worth millions.
"susan didnt laugh when I said your ass has the same problem."
Susan confirmed for EXTRA THICC?
inner discourse is a normal occurrence and a helpful tool in problem solving for humans. if ricky and steve don't have inner discourse, they're the weird ones. everyone i know says they think in sentences. it's not like it's a constant thing but i can turn it on or off so to speak.
Jaqen H'ghar they didn't say conversing with yourself was weird, it's the complete sentence part that's off. And it is.
Usually thinking in complete sentences hints at a developmental disability, mental illness, or dissociation, as does dreaming in third person instead of first person.
+Emi Other I highly doubt that
Jaqen H'ghar u talk in third person out loud all the time...who is weird now.
@@emmettdonkeydoodle6230 where did you fabricate this from?
Cory Mck My bad for assuming people would understand what I was talking about.
There’s a difference in intentionally vs unintentionally thinking in complete sentences.
What I was trying to suggest is that, if you are incapable of thinking without complete sentences, that’s a sign that something is very wrong.
A normal brain is able to think in concepts, so unless you are intentionally forming complete sentences with your thoughts, that isn’t something that should be happening.
'have you heard of joined up writing?'
'There's no point, is there?! Cause sometimes you can't read it.'
I love Karl with all my heart.
I love how Ricky is BEGGING Karl "Please can I read it?"
Karl was trying to say no because he knew what was coming 😂
susanne thicc af
Karl’s lucky innit
AleK 7:49 PHWOAAR!
Too bad she's just fat irl lmao
orange polo That isn’t Suzanne though...
@Sharpy because Karl always complain about her fat arse...
6:38 - 6:47
May just be my favourite moment in the entire series. The banality of both the description and of the moment itself. The fact it's just four men brought together by happenstance in an otherwise empty bar with nothing better or more entertaining to do than just watch a Cat do Cat stuff; alongside the blank and somewhat disappointed look on their faces as they watch and drink. All of that punctuated by Ricky's appropriate laughter at the situation Karl happened to live through and conjure up a wonderful image through the bland language which was effortlessly delivered by Steve. Just ten seconds of hilarious humanity.
“Not much going on in Anne Frank’s life at that point”
“Whereas you’ve been to Gran Canaria”
1:26 "Me writing's quite big, innit?"
**only seven words take up two whole pages**
I love that part
This is quite clearly the birth place of “Idiot Abroad”
-Breathed in...
-Breathed out again.
Bit weird, innit?
"there was a fat bloke from Bolton" haha could have been anyone!
Karl is honestly one of the most interesting people
Karl totally gave the writer of In Time their whole idea for the movie.
from where, which season/episode (or title/link)?
Mr. Dilkington has me fucking rolling
“He’s that fat and lazy that he can’t play a more active game on a game’s console” is fucking hilarious, Karl is a genius
"Sat in a bar watching the cat lick his bollocks" had me in stitches 🤣🤣🤣ffs
Karl is ahead of his time. Smart Watches are being invented that monitor your health and will alert you if there is anything wrong with your readings.
He's got the right idea sometimes, its just his way of saying things makes it sound like absolute bollocks.
bollocks
@Alfredo just pop it on your wrist!
@@noahmay7708 Ricky is always so quick to judge him and call him "An idiot" or in his Karl's predictions, "not gonna happen, shut up!", yet it did with VR or smart watches. Karl just finds it hard to explain things, Ricky is often so unnecessary mean and dismissive not giving Karl any time to explain and have a conversation.
The Cat Licking its Bullocks had me on the floor 😂😂😂😂
I love how he even acknowledges people's passive-aggressive reactions in his entries. Love it.
Karl is a true anomaly. He’s like a truly insightful and intuitive idiot. If his iq was higher he might be an actual genius whereas some people who do have a high iq don’t have Karl’s insightful ness and couldn’t be a genius. So
In a sense Karl is a smart guy just in his own hilariously entertaining way
I SO want to buy that diary.
I want to buy that watch.
I want to buy Karl himself.
Karl is a freaking genius
Maria petrov yep
I like how this clip reveals that Karl is likely the most intelligent of the three.
Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of the 20th century, thought in words and not conceptually. There's an audio interview where he discusses how weird he thinks this is.
I totally get that about thinking in your accent; I've asked people who speak two languages, which language they think or dream in.....
".. but we never saw his wife" i have no idea why but that sentence has me rolling on the floor with laughter
'everyone watched one of the local cats lick it's bollocks'
1:14 Ladies...
Ricky's laugh is the best 🤣 Everytime he laughs, I'm busting a gut too. 3:43 got me good.
7:48 daamn suzanne
Ikr
6:05 it priceless XD
It's interesting that Ricky said that Stephen Hawking is either from Oxford or Cambridge, because he was born in Oxford and died in Cambridge.
this show aired LONG before he died..
This is one of the few instances where the animation is infinitely better than it would be if it were live action.
3:34 the darts part killed killed me. And that thinker position that karl makes at 8:08 made me remember Lenny from the simpsons at the Oscars ahahahahaha
there is nothing better in world to Cheer you up then the Ricky Gervais show, xfm, podcasts, cartoons. fucking genius these are the cure for depression
i love how the format of the segment takes shape in the first few minutes. ricky has a go at reading but isn't fluent enough because his thinking about the diary throws off his delivery, then steve takes over the reading with much better rhythm leaving ricky to react as the audience hears it.
i love how his invention is the main story for the movie "in time"
I'm so glad I live in the parallel universe where Steve took over the reading of Karl's diary from Ricky.
Ricky may have genuinely died if he went on.
This is honestly one of the best shows I have ever seen, Its so flippen funny!!! I also love how they actually animate other characters with thier voices when they are telling stories, I wish this was on the radio or tv back in Canada!
I just loooove the voice of Stephen Merchant - it's so ducking relaxing and funny! He should read in some books or stories - i would by that in a second. Also Portal !!
I would love an adaptation of this animation set in Portal universe!
And Suzanne would be played by GlaDOS.
I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but I realized that Ricky really looks like Fred Flintstone in this art style.
"The hotel's a bit odd. I've never seen as many cross-eyed people in one location". LMAO XD XD XD XD XD Oh, my stomach hurts.
This is actually really precious. Karl is a precious bean.
Ricky’s laugh can cure depression
I love that the animator hears Karl say “pie and chips” and animates him eating cherry pie.
karl is brilliant. 😂
Steve taking the diary off Ricky was the defining moment of this segment
Tbh I think about sentences, its like a conversation in my head...
"if moths had eyes"
Ricky: *FUCK ME!*
I’m with Karl on thinking sentences I’m sure everyone does it
It's a pretty even split, some people do, some don't, but because it's something we never really talk about, it's mindblowing when you find out that other people don't think to themselves the same way you do.
Aphantasia is another good one. Most people can visualise a picture in their head but some people can't. Most people who can't don't find out for years because they think they're normal.
🤣😂🤣😂 the guy in the patents office looked like an older Fred Flintstone.
2:57 awh poor Karl they made him look so hurt haha
Karl is a genius ,nobody could be that funny and not know 🤣🤣
Carl has such a refreshing perspective
These podcasts do actually take you on an adventure
I have no idea why ricky and steve find everything so funny. they just seem like teenagers enjoying contempt for everything.
It's funny to listen to them.
I doubt I could stand working with them or being friends in real life though
Love how ricky always treats carl as stupid but outs himself as not having an internal monologue and clearly doesn't know where hawkin's from but just guesses he's from oxford or cambridge because there are universities there (accidentally being right).
"you can't just say "wouldn't it be good"" but like...you CAN.
My favourite Ricky laugh is easily when he starts around 3:43 after hearing about the fat, airplane darts-PSP-playing passenger. 😂😂😂😂😂
I love how Karl objects at first to reading it, but suspiciously he brought it with him. :)
I'm absolutely in love with that quick shot of Karl's writing in the diary.
4:26 Ricky Gervais - confirmed NPC
What
@@dunbass7149
They're calling him brainless
I LOVE karl!
I downloaded the podcast with this bit in it and I listen to it every night! love it love it love it!
3:45 Ricky's laugh is so infectious!
They need to bring this show back! It was SO funny. 😂😂😂
It’s like he thinks in one liners
It’s amazing how the cartoon is exactly how his face is always
Imagine being able to make Rick laugh like that haha.
The bit about the cat in the pub made me fall off my chair.
I've been listening to the old Xfm shows (which weren't adapted in the animated series), and it's fun to compare how different these three were back then, compared to the later shows that this series was adapted from. For instance, it was a lot more common for Ricky to get excited about things to do with Karl, the way he does in this episode when he hears about his diary. It was pretty sweet, actually. They were nicer to him back then as well. And Karl seemed to be more lighthearted; his voice sounded a bit happier, and he even laughed sometimes. (In the animated series he only laughs once and it's treated as a big deal even by Ricky.) It makes the later shows kind of depressing by comparison.
I hear ya. I too have listened to almost all the xfm shows lately and it was all a lot more natural back then and not as much the 2 on 1 system that it later became. Karl was certainly not the fool they tried to make him out to be though and eventually worked it to his advantage. I've no doubt they did actually think a lot of Karl though, it just never came across that way later on, you're right.
after a while I always return to the show. I need a Karl fix . Love him!!! He makes me normal. He balances me out !!! ⭐️⭐️
I miss this show.
Lmao "brilliant we're only at day two 😀"
This is fucking legendary
Ricky looks like Fred Flintstone 😂😂
Or like Fred and Barney been spliced.
Karl is one of those persons with a beautiful mind. He has absoloutly no censorship. He tells it straight out like it is.. That is why he's so bloody brilliant!
I love, love, love Karl! He is an absolute genius! I think Ricky and Steve are jerks to him, though :-\ It's gotten to the point where I hate the sound of their voices- I just put up with it to hear more of the genius that is Karl :-)
They're not 'jerks' to him. It's just three mates having a bit of banter and taking the piss out of each other. That's standard friendship in Britain.
Plus is scripted
@@louisdavis4837 it ain't
I love Ricky's laugh. It's the greatest hahah
I think the diary is the best thing that happened to the show.
i loved the last episode of Idiot Abroad where Karl goes on hiliday to his favorite place, it was a dreary moble-home park near a cold stoney beach. all he did was sit and stare,... hillarious!
the cat licking it's bollox I literally died
Shane Willy *figuratively
The part about the cafe called Tattoos is my favourite, love the animation of Karl suspiciously writing in his diary 😂
The way that they draw karl just makes you feel bad for him
I will never get over how goofy they make Stephen look. Its great.
When you're at a bar watching a cat lick it's butt, that must show how bored you all are.
I can't get enough of Karl .after all this years loool
6:40 I'm dead 😂😂😂
Jimmy Smith R.I.P
Should have gotten that watch
Best podcast ever. This one has had me in tears so many times.