Most of you regulars will know that I’m a big fan of the Ricky Gervais show on podcast. It is a strange show in that most of the humour, in fact, speaking, doesn’t come from Ricky, or from writing \ directing partner Stephen Merchant, but from their old XFM producer, Karl Pilkington.
Karl’s view of the world differs from most through a fundamental misunderstanding of the basic laws of the universe. Gravity aside, theories of evolution, conservation of energy, time and space do not trouble his thoughts. Ever. My favourite idea of Karl’s is that they could make a watch that tells you how long you have left to live. Not sure why you would want to know but there you go. Other daft comments include:
“I’m saying, who’s happy at the end of this? You’ve got a fella who hasn’t got a present over here because their mate brought ‘em a goat. So there’s one bloke he’s not happy. Then, you’ve got the person who’s opened it, who like I said, wanted something else, right, it’s a goat, and they go ‘who’s gonna look after this?’, right, so another one, he’s not happy, and then you got the goat going ‘what am I doing here?””
-On Oxfam’s scheme to buy a goat for someone in Africa instead of an Xmas present for a friend. ” It wouldn’t happen… There hasn’t been one publication by a monkey.”
-Expressing his disbelief regarding Infinite monkey theorem.
Don’t be chucking that out you might need it later.
-Karl’s interpretation of Benjamin Franklin’s “Waste not, want not.”
I once laughed myself to sleep, because I couldn’t believe my luck.
-Karl on the joy of sleeping when he was a kid.
Anyway I digress. The reason for this post is to tell you that Karl is releasing a book. Entitled “Ricky Gervais Presents: The World According to Karl Pilkington“, it is being released in the autumn. And everyone is getting it for Christmas.
Get it and read an alternative view of the world from the cold facts presented by most books based purely, you know, on science.
