Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkingtonis an English television presenter, author, actor and former radio producer. He 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 debuton Gervais' 2012 comedy-drama series Derek. Pilkington is a co-founder, along with Gervais and Merchant, of RiSK Productions, a television production company. Pilkington currently stars in the Sky 1 travel documentary...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth23 September 1972
CityManchester, England
I've always wanted to kick a duck up the arse
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle?
A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
We're just a weed in the universe
I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book
Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.
It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
I'm just sayin', I don't like fun
The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top.
There's a lot of idiots in the world, so live with it.
It's 2006, why are they still using the index finger?