Public Ridicule

Karl Pilkington is an idiot of epic proportions. Worse than how little he knows is how poorly he regurgitates the information he has learned. The information is invariably filtered through some intellectual sieve that lets the important details slip through while catching the completely irrelevant parts. Once Karl has all the irrelevant parts accumulated he reformulates the information in his own way. For this reason, he is the perfect subject to be featured here on Public Ridicule - and, as Ricky Gervais has pointed out, he has a head like a fucking orange. It’s a perfectly round orb just sitting on a stump of neck doing nothing.

Ricky Gervais (creator of the original version of “The Office” in Britain) did a series of podcasts with writing partner Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. Karl had worked at the radio station where Ricky and Stephen did a show. It was on that radio show that the fascinating mind of Karl Pilkington came to light. The podcasts are genius and demonstrate how utterly inept Karl is at basic reasoning and critical thought. I highly recommend you get them. The laughs are tremendous.

Ricky has decided to torture Karl. Karl is upset that people think he’s a “character” and wants no part of any further podcasts. So, Ricky is going blog Karl’s every move to annoy him - and it’s working.

Check out Ricky’s Karl Pilkington blog.

To give you a little taste of Karl’s unintentional comedy genius, here is an animation created by a fan of the Ricky Gervais podcasts. Karl did a regular feature on the podcast called “Monkey News” where he would tell Ricky and Stephen some completely misunderstood and surreal news about monkeys.

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