I am absolutely certain that Karl didn't even realize he was meant to be acting most of the time. This is legitimately just his regular self in different clothes.
Derek is Gervais' most underrated work. And I just love the way Karl is seamlessly incorporated into the concept without having to change a thing. Just put him in a wig and tell him to be himself. I bet he didn't even have scripted lines, hahahaha
No-one is under-rating it. You’re not special because you like it. It’s generally acclaimed and the acting is superb. We all know this, Peggy Hill. What the fuck is it with RUclips cunts saying anything they like is “under-rated”?
I find Dougie the most inspiring of the characters because he has completely accepted his lot in life and he really couldn't give a fuck what anyone thinks.
Taylor Lynn It's funny I didn't like Karl in those other shows, like Idiot abroad etc but in this he was hands down brilliant. Best actor, even better than Ricky, and incredibly well written (thanks to Ricky). Such a huge shame he didn't do season 2.. I couldn't even finish season 2. Apparently he was scared of acting.. even though he is so good at it! I think maybe he did't like the wig.
Makes it seem like his persona is all an act. If this is how he "acts", then his whole stupid petsonality might be an act. In the early seasons of XFM, you can hear him laugh sometimes, like he's breaking character.
Karls 'acting' isnt really acting, Ricky told Karl to just react to whats happening how he would in real life - karl said that when he kicked off with that woman who was sniffing around after her mums money that he genuinely got annoyed cos he imagined it was really happening, he said he was shaking afterwards - i loved Dougie cos really it was just Karl being Karl
"People go, 'Oh, you're quite good in it'. I think I got away with it - it wasn't acting!" said Pilkington."I can put myself in a situation dead easy and get wound up by it, but for me, if you'd said, 'Right, that's brilliant Karl, [now] do it in Irish' - that to me is a proper actor! If you can't do that stuff, then you're not really acting, you're just remembering s**t."
Karl's character was important to the series, he was like a narrator of sorts. a bit of an outsider commenting on it all. his presence was definitely missed.
Derek is probably one of the best comedy shows I’ve ever seen. It teaches life lessons about family, friends, the little things that we sometimes take for granted, to be kind, etc, all while having a jolly good laugh at the same time. Ricky is a genius for creating this show.
Why does this show hit me so hard every. fucking. time? I can't think of any show I've shed more tears from than this one. Happy tears, and sad tears. Well done Mr. Gervais.
I can't believe Karl thought his performance was bad in this - he's fucking brilliant. I was so sad when he left after the first season. Love you Karl.
This show is beautiful. That's the only way I can describe it. In every sense it is beauty. The concept, the acting the approach to the subject matter, the execution. So very well done. By a couple of guys with no formal training and some wonderful actors. Brilliant.
Brilliant 😂 I cried and laughed through the whole series. It's brilliant I watched it all in a day. Derek's such a nice person who keeps losing people but keeps on being happy and kind
It's hard to act, even being yourself. Karl is genuinely a natural at acting. Karl could of easily been so wooden, but he's so effortless whilst working with a script! I'd love to see him do more acting!
I love Derek... and one to the huge reasons is Dougie. EVERY episode is a gem. I'm laughing my head off - and then I'm crying the next moment. Brilliant cast, wonderful writing... just LOVE it! Karl ... (Dougie) ... You're a gem!
The attention to detail with this show is unreal. I love how Dougie was in the library and the book on the table in front of him was "Positive Psychology". Fucking brilliant 🤘
Among his reasons for quitting the show is that he doesn't consider himself to be an "actor." He's a brilliant actor. Yes, he's just playing himself, pretty much. But how many people can do that in such a completely natural, un-affected way? Watch any sitcom when they have some sports star or some other famous non-actor appear as himself. They "act" like a chunk of two-by-four. Karl seems completely unaware that there is a camera in the room.
Mickey Bitsko I think Karl is just used to a studio environment as he's worked as a producer for multiple shows over the years as well as had camera's in his face a lot for things like An Idiot Abroad. If you watch him on the old podcasts or Rickey Gervais Show he does a lot of improv scenarios with Ricky and Steve and takes them seriously enough as if they were actually happening which is very natural and very funny V:
+Cal DW I don't think any producer could appear that relaxed and natural. On top of that he's also very interesting, he doesn't bore you in the slightest. This is all very hard to pull off. Sportsmen are also used to cameras in their face. No matter how you put it he is very talented.
Iv Ko Again I don't think this is down to Karl's knowledge that he's trying to act, he just sort of does it. He can over complicate scenarios when he gets into them but I don't think he's aware he's doing it. He's very imaginative in some respects and oblivious in others which is why he can sometimes come up with complex details to a scenario Ricky or Steve never thought of but he has a habit of taking scenarios too literally at the same time. Ricky and Steve for example have tried telling him famous proverbs like "Peoples in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" and in Karl's head he is thinking of all the negative drawbacks there would be to actually living in a glass house but he doesn't understand how it relates to the real world as a metaphor. In one aspects he's very creative and in another he's just oblivious. This isn't a bad thing mind, he's a very interesting individual and very creative, but I don't think he's learned or trained to be that way like many actors have actually done with full understanding, he just sort of does what he does naturally because that's how his mind works.
Iv Ko Musicians still need to learn instruments and artists still need to learn how to draw. There's a certain level of learning involved when it comes to certain kinds of work and forms of expression. Karl's naturally good at getting into character but he still would have had to learn how to do what he does while considering where the camera will be, sound production and so on though chances are he learned a lot of that back when he was a producer.
Karl has something very rare. Comedy genius without trying. Its just Karl. Ricky knows this and lets him be who he is. The result is classic comedy. Karl doesnt even know what acting is it seems, doesnt care even. Does his lines and its perfect
The part with Dougie and the clingy lady with the mothers ring, one of the best bits and Karl REALLY bit into the scene and character, you could tell. Hate those kind of people that only care about money and jewelry. "How's the ring fit?! Nice that. You want that but what about the box full of pictures, that's your moms memories but you don't care about that".
I don't know what was more heartwarming. What Karl's character said from 3:25 to 4:05, or the fact that it was Karl who said it. I know it was probably scripted, but coming from him, it was pretty awesome. I'm annoyed that Netflix Australia took this down. I've been watching it for years.
To reiterate something someone said earlier in the comments: You try and act natural in front of camera and crew... It's a talent and a gift this Karl has, that many people don't possess.
I found Karl on here a month ago and he is my most favorite person I have never met.I have known of Ricky for years and could not stand him yet a couple days ago I found this show and I have to say Ricky is one hell of a damn good actor and I have a new found respect for his work and Karl's along for the ride to. : )
I can't tel if he's memorising a script he read or has been add lipping through out the whole series. I can't tell the difference between the character Dougie and his actual character personality.
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I am absolutely certain that Karl didn't even realize he was meant to be acting most of the time. This is legitimately just his regular self in different clothes.
He said in an interview that that's true. He admitted he didn't want to try to act, he was just being himself
66kaisersoza
That is brilliant and absolutely something Karl would do.
SupraSeaPea Haha i was just thinking the same thing.
+PaintraSeaPea Wait, he's acting? Seems like he walked out with no rehearsing, while wearing the hair thing and said "Right, let's start." lol
+PaintraSeaPea Karl has an a amazing ability to get worked up about made up situations hahaha
I like how Dougie is pretty much Karl in a wig
No shit
jimmyboy141414 he means his exact personality
thanks:)
Nathaniel Gatewood yeah the dougie character is basically karl being himself lol
Nathaniel Gatewood Ricky is not an idiot. He knows he cant write a character that is better or funnier for Karl than Karl himself.
The way Dougie explains the frog to Derek is basically how Ricky used to have to explain things to Karl
That bit makes me laugh so much
I loved their AIDS vs Rabies discussion
@@flo-calfishing8274 “what would win out of an ambulance and a police car? And a fire engine?”
Derek is Gervais' most underrated work. And I just love the way Karl is seamlessly incorporated into the concept without having to change a thing. Just put him in a wig and tell him to be himself. I bet he didn't even have scripted lines, hahahaha
No-one is under-rating it. You’re not special because you like it. It’s generally acclaimed and the acting is superb. We all know this, Peggy Hill. What the fuck is it with RUclips cunts saying anything they like is “under-rated”?
Derek made me tear up multiple times man it’s a great show
I find Dougie the most inspiring of the characters because he has completely accepted his lot in life and he really couldn't give a fuck what anyone thinks.
It's the only way to achieve any semblance of happiness.
Not a bad way to live at all!
Thats the way to be
"80's still 80. You're fucked." - that got me so hard 😂😂
Jordy Stewart What about 90? You don't have to worry about that. XD
It's true though
It’s how causally he says it while fixing the lamp😂😂
Crying at that one ...Classic line
Karl was hugely missed in series 2.
I agree....karl is a genius
That Mother's ring episode was amazing. Such an iconic scene from a wonderful, yet sadly underrated show
Unlucky
Yes totally agree, it's the clip that really choked me up that series.
"What about 90?"
"You don't have to worry about that."
HOW? HOW DO THEY KEEP STRAIGHT FACES? LOL.
editting
They have to do a lot of takes.... eventually they will get one without laughing.
80s still 80 you’re fucked.
"80 is still 80, you're fucked" 😂😂
What about 90. Don't worry about it! 😋
"Everybody says, 'I'm different'. No you're not. You're the same as the last knobhead who was on. Get a trade."
Seeing Karl smile when he's offered a cup of tea.
🤣🤣 shell shocked
:>
We need a series based on Karl's childhood and Karl plays his own dad.....wouldn't that be weird and wonderful. Karl's a pretty good actor.
Someone get BBC on the line! We got a show here, folks!
Penny Colquitt he wasn't even acting. That was his real self tbf
Guess fucking what: Karl is doing a sitcom for Sky, and the premise is him living a life without Suzanne and having dialogue bits with his brain.
Isn't that the premise for Garfield Minus Garfield?
I kicked me height
The best of Dougie is every scene he's in, basically haha. Karl was this show. hands down.
John Watson fan I must admit, there were very few scenes I cut out with him in it hahaha
***** I get around.. british tv on youtube. lol.
Taylor Lynn he definitely made the first series, but I honestly think David Earl's character Kev in the second series made up for the loss.
Taylor Lynn It's funny I didn't like Karl in those other shows, like Idiot abroad etc but in this he was hands down brilliant. Best actor, even better than Ricky, and incredibly well written (thanks to Ricky). Such a huge shame he didn't do season 2.. I couldn't even finish season 2. Apparently he was scared of acting.. even though he is so good at it! I think maybe he did't like the wig.
Makes it seem like his persona is all an act. If this is how he "acts", then his whole stupid petsonality might be an act. In the early seasons of XFM, you can hear him laugh sometimes, like he's breaking character.
Karls 'acting' isnt really acting, Ricky told Karl to just react to whats happening how he would in real life - karl said that when he kicked off with that woman who was sniffing around after her mums money that he genuinely got annoyed cos he imagined it was really happening, he said he was shaking afterwards - i loved Dougie cos really it was just Karl being Karl
Isn't that acting though? To imagine you are living the scene?
Novinophobic it is, but i dont think karl realises that
+Novinophobic good point.
"People go, 'Oh, you're quite good in it'. I think I got away with it - it wasn't acting!" said Pilkington."I can put myself in a situation dead easy and get wound up by it, but for me, if you'd said, 'Right, that's brilliant Karl, [now] do it in Irish' - that to me is a proper actor! If you can't do that stuff, then you're not really acting, you're just remembering s**t."
adlufc1141 but that's the beauty...innit?
"youre like a fucking magpie coming in gettin anything thats shiney"
Fucking mint line!
Cheers
The true star of Derek, really missed KP in the 2nd series
***** He wasn't comfortable working with the other actors so he left at the beginning of series 2.
***** Yeah Dougie should have been the main character!
Karl's character was important to the series, he was like a narrator of sorts. a bit of an outsider commenting on it all. his presence was definitely missed.
Raj Nagarkatti Yeah, it was almost meaningless to watch season 2 and the special.
Chrisbajs It was still a good season
Derek is probably one of the best comedy shows I’ve ever seen. It teaches life lessons about family, friends, the little things that we sometimes take for granted, to be kind, etc, all while having a jolly good laugh at the same time. Ricky is a genius for creating this show.
Absolutely, well said!
Why does this show hit me so hard every. fucking. time?
I can't think of any show I've shed more tears from than this one. Happy tears, and sad tears. Well done Mr. Gervais.
Whatever you do, don't even THINK about watching Afterlife if this makes you emotional!
British comedy at it's best, nothing touches this.
Oh me too. It's way better than Afterlife.
@@LusciousTwinkle You can't really compare them. Afterlife is really well written.
@@dommidavros2211 They are totally comparable as they are almost the exact same genre. Derek is also well-written.
I can't believe Karl thought his performance was bad in this - he's fucking brilliant. I was so sad when he left after the first season. Love you Karl.
Seeing Karl act so well makes me giggle. He truly is an enigma of our time.
That is Karl in general. He played himself or his dad. Just remembering some of the lines. But he's a great guy.
an egg with sideburns lmfao
As long as it's annoying you I'll leave it
over the past few weeks I've become such a Karl Pilkington fan
same here!
You're a KP Nut
welcome to the club
The frog scene is comedic genius.
'I just shat myself... Meetings over'
Change the old trousers
I love the concept that the Chinese invented a machine that they switched it off straight away after they saw what it made.
Lololol
The machine didn't age well
"Brown, blue and sort of Earth..."
Backup, Dougie, your Karl is showing LOL!
Dougie was the highlight of the show :)
...And now he's gone
Jon Hill Karl is always the highlight -everyone else is just filler😂
This show is beautiful. That's the only way I can describe it. In every sense it is beauty. The concept, the acting the approach to the subject matter, the execution. So very well done. By a couple of guys with no formal training and some wonderful actors. Brilliant.
Brilliant 😂 I cried and laughed through the whole series. It's brilliant I watched it all in a day. Derek's such a nice person who keeps losing people but keeps on being happy and kind
Karl is actually a brilliant actor. who would've thought.
Tbf he's playing himself
@@Shagyamum mmm tbf try and be natural infront of a camera and crew
@@jase6709 his names graham
@@Shagyamum It's not necessarily easy to play oneself.
Yeah he’s not acting but he’s always been good at role playing with Ricky so I think it’s playing into that skill
The frog scene is cracking me up! lol
It's hard to act, even being yourself. Karl is genuinely a natural at acting. Karl could of easily been so wooden, but he's so effortless whilst working with a script! I'd love to see him do more acting!
The frog scene is just classic!! When Derek is looking for the "other" one, this had me in stitches!
I love Derek... and one to the huge reasons is Dougie.
EVERY episode is a gem. I'm laughing my head off - and then I'm crying the next moment.
Brilliant cast, wonderful writing... just LOVE it!
Karl ... (Dougie) ... You're a gem!
"Thats what life is, someone givin' you a slappin, and a load of cryin'....thats life"
An' bein' a blob o' spunk.
@@2DReanimation Well at least Dougie got to win the race to the egg... how's that for having something to show for in your life, eh?
"Highlight of my whole existence was being a blob of spunk"😂
This is such a mood lol
Dougie - superb character. Brilliantly played by Karl Pilkington.
Karl doesn't know how good he actually is in these roles. He was a important character to this series
Karl is just pure comedy gold. The bloke surely just doesn't know how funny he is just being himself. He kills me every time.
I swear that Karl didn't even have a script for Derek. He seems just like the way he is normally. It's brilliant!!!
+SaSdUde123 He did have a script and he's a great actor.
Ludvig Svendsen it wasn't much of a script since he adds so much improv lmao
10:01 When he goes up telling them to sod off is just brilliant. That is acting. Proper acting.
That was my favorite scene in the show.
You're like a magpie 😂
The attention to detail with this show is unreal. I love how Dougie was in the library and the book on the table in front of him was "Positive Psychology". Fucking brilliant 🤘
"Well what's 80 then?"
"80 is still 80. You're fucked."
I laughed sooo hard.
I absolutely ADORE Karl as Dougie 😂😂😂 the way he goes on about the frog... I lost it!!! 😂😂😂
Seriously, one of the most underrated shows on either side of the Atlantic.
the scene with the mention of Neil Diamond's I Am I Said cracks me up every time.
"get a trade."
brilliant.
2:06 "Brown, blue, and... sort of earth" ❤️
Karls rant at 9:50 was so real hahahaha!
12:58
"Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why don't they play the game of swing ball?"
+Jordy Boothy Play a record!
+Jordy Boothy songs of phrase or as some people call it songs of arse. hahaha
that scene is genius and beautifully filmed. and so many others, as well.
Among his reasons for quitting the show is that he doesn't consider himself to be an "actor."
He's a brilliant actor. Yes, he's just playing himself, pretty much. But how many people can do that in such a completely natural, un-affected way? Watch any sitcom when they have some sports star or some other famous non-actor appear as himself. They "act" like a chunk of two-by-four. Karl seems completely unaware that there is a camera in the room.
Mickey Bitsko I think Karl is just used to a studio environment as he's worked as a producer for multiple shows over the years as well as had camera's in his face a lot for things like An Idiot Abroad. If you watch him on the old podcasts or Rickey Gervais Show he does a lot of improv scenarios with Ricky and Steve and takes them seriously enough as if they were actually happening which is very natural and very funny V:
+Cal DW I don't think any producer could appear that relaxed and natural. On top of that he's also very interesting, he doesn't bore you in the slightest. This is all very hard to pull off. Sportsmen are also used to cameras in their face. No matter how you put it he is very talented.
Iv Ko Again I don't think this is down to Karl's knowledge that he's trying to act, he just sort of does it. He can over complicate scenarios when he gets into them but I don't think he's aware he's doing it. He's very imaginative in some respects and oblivious in others which is why he can sometimes come up with complex details to a scenario Ricky or Steve never thought of but he has a habit of taking scenarios too literally at the same time.
Ricky and Steve for example have tried telling him famous proverbs like "Peoples in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" and in Karl's head he is thinking of all the negative drawbacks there would be to actually living in a glass house but he doesn't understand how it relates to the real world as a metaphor. In one aspects he's very creative and in another he's just oblivious. This isn't a bad thing mind, he's a very interesting individual and very creative, but I don't think he's learned or trained to be that way like many actors have actually done with full understanding, he just sort of does what he does naturally because that's how his mind works.
Cal DW I agree. He's a natural hence I said talent. You can't learn talent.
Iv Ko Musicians still need to learn instruments and artists still need to learn how to draw. There's a certain level of learning involved when it comes to certain kinds of work and forms of expression. Karl's naturally good at getting into character but he still would have had to learn how to do what he does while considering where the camera will be, sound production and so on though chances are he learned a lot of that back when he was a producer.
Karl has something very rare. Comedy genius without trying. Its just Karl. Ricky knows this and lets him be who he is. The result is classic comedy. Karl doesnt even know what acting is it seems, doesnt care even. Does his lines and its perfect
the bit with the frog had me in tears
Same lol
9:40 - I imagine Karl getting a standing ovation from the crew after that scene.
Derek never got the recognition it deserved IMO... a work of art in so many ways
I thought after "An Idiot Abroad" and "The Moaning of Life" ended that I would never get new KP content. What a dude.
I never thought I'd see Karl Pilkington have more brain cells than Ricky Gervais.
always had. gervais is just a parrot who falls for religion called scientism and atheism.
Truth Matters lmao
@@ONCEuponAtime999 What a bullshit. Ricky wrote this show you moron
@@ONCEuponAtime999 The fuck does that even mean?
@@ONCEuponAtime999 funny how nothing that comes out the mouth of a religious person never have any substance to it... its all just sheit
am i the only one who loves every character in this series and the acting..? hands down one of my fave shows
I didn’t really like Dougies replacement
Karl's a surprisingly good actor. Mind you, he is basically playing himself.
look at Ricky's in the office and extras..... Rick wasn't exactly straining his acting range either lol
Most actors play themselves.
Adam Sandler and Jeff Goldblum do the exact same thing and look where they've gone
"It's me feeling sick from breathing turps all day rubbing twat off back of a crab".
- probably one of the funniest lines ever.
And how he pauses, then goes, “You’d never heard that sentence, before have you?”
Karl should have been up for a BAFTA for this
This is basically just Karl Pilkington not having to act, yet still being an amazing actor at the same time lol
6:45 best scene throughout the entire show
How Ricky managed to keep straight during that frog scene I will never know🤣 must've been take 2000
I just discovered this show and Karl is killing it. I'm dying just listening to him.
The scene with the frog is hilarious then the next scene with the lady's ring is heartbreaking.
Karl did an amazing job on this show. I bet it was even better than when he played the drums in little donkey
It's so weird seeing Karl trying to explain stuff to Ricky and being the smarter one.
The part with Dougie and the clingy lady with the mothers ring, one of the best bits and Karl REALLY bit into the scene and character, you could tell.
Hate those kind of people that only care about money and jewelry. "How's the ring fit?! Nice that. You want that but what about the box full of pictures, that's your moms memories but you don't care about that".
I absolutely love the re-used cast in all of Ricky's shows & films
Dougie is basically just Karl and Derek is Ricky if he got Lobotomised haha
Mirage Music o
Fucking love Dougie (Karl Pilkington) Speaks his mind and doesn't give a shit.
9:44
I was so happy that Dougie intervened. Greatest actor ever
Great show! Karl is awesome - comedically perfect without even realising it.
7:29
they turned the machine off immediately after they saw what they'd produced lmao
This show is underrated.
I don't know what was more heartwarming. What Karl's character said from 3:25 to 4:05, or the fact that it was Karl who said it. I know it was probably scripted, but coming from him, it was pretty awesome. I'm annoyed that Netflix Australia took this down. I've been watching it for years.
At 9:41 when Karl storms in LMAO
'Like a fucking magpie coming in here taking everything shiny'
HAD2 Good morning, Mrs. Magpie
Mr fucking T
aah thank god you wrote that.. i tought for a second he said " missed her fucking tea" so there you go xD ty
Dave Carr What does Mr fucking T mean? Cheers
Oliver Horner Type 'Mr T' into Google Images and you'll understand.
+Oliver Horner mr T is a guy who wore loads of jewellery on a 90's TV show called the Ateam!
+Larry hoover it was the 80s
Karl is a brillaint actor, I was sad when he jacked it in after the first season.
Mr. K. Dilkington
+The Endercube I threw it in the bin!
Actually, his not trying to act comes across the most authentic of the characters. Sincere.
Karl Pilkington - you are friggin mint - end of!
To reiterate something someone said earlier in the comments:
You try and act natural in front of camera and crew...
It's a talent and a gift this Karl has, that many people don't possess.
"What about 90?"
"You don't have to worry about that"
Glad to see the dickie bird anecdote from the xfm shows making an appearance
I found Karl on here a month ago and he is my most favorite person I have never met.I have known of Ricky for years and could not stand him yet a couple days ago I found this show and I have to say Ricky is one hell of a damn good actor and I have a new found respect for his work and Karl's along for the ride to. : )
6 years too late but, welcome to the club, hope you've watched alot more stuff over the years?
Brilliant, comedy & pathos written by a genius!
Old people have so much wisdom.
Such a good job he did.
I could not sleep after watching this, I haven't laughed so much in years.
Bloody ❤ this show!!!!
4:15 karl smiling is such a treasure
Literally the only time I have ever seen him smile haha
This is the only thing I came here to say and it was the first comment I saw.
he is a good actor, damn
Dougie killed me at, " he is gonna kill me with his affection".
Fantastic.
9:44 to 10:18 has got to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen
This was the compilation i needed. Thanks a lot!
I can't tel if he's memorising a script he read or has been add lipping through out the whole series. I can't tell the difference between the character Dougie and his actual character personality.
its not a character, it's just karl
Yep defo no script fro karl
Ad-libbing not lipping
The most underrated show Rickey ever made..the characters were wall brilliant, laughter and tears..genius.