An Idiot Appeal | Comic Relief
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- Published on Mar 17, 2011
- Ricky Gervais , Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington do their bit for Red Nose Day 2011.
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I love how relaxed Ricky and Stephen are when Karl is with them. They don't have to worry about trying to be funny, they just keep poking the magic 8 ball of comedy that is Karl Pilkington.
@Yunng Melt cool
Here before 600 comments
Whenever Ricky says “Karl, thoughts?” You know absolute gold is coming
"Go on then"
I don't think Karl moans at all. He simply says it how it is and cuts through all the crap. He says what a lot of people are thinking but too afraid to say it. He is just what television needs and long may his career go on. I think he would make the perfect prime minister. ..
💯💯💯💯
Yeeeees Karl for prime minister. Everything would be so simple
He could make a special division of security called the Round Head Police
KARL WOULD NOT MAKE A GOOD PRIME MINISTER
willz HatesU yeah I’m definitely sure he wouldn’t support trump
This is funnier than any comic relief sketch I've ever seen.
KP has made me laugh more than John Cleese, who's probably a genius. Get more Karl on the telly.
Karl is a genius in his own way
It's a lot of hassle though innit?
I can listen to these conversations all day, makes me smile. Everybody needs to smile, have a little smile.
I agree, i listen to the XFM podcasts every night to help me go to sleep. They make me so happy even when times are sad. 💜
+Andy Magee Think of a happy moment in your life.
"Let's have an all time low this year." I nearly choked laughing...holy crap I wasn't expecting that. Karl never disappoints
i agree with karl, every year hundreds of millions of pounds are given to africa to pay for clean water and mosquito nets, yet every year it seems to get worse and worse. How about we actually solve the problem instead of just helping 2% of them.
Slightly late reply lol, but youre right, troubles is it's the middle men, every company, bank or person from the show to the Africans that need it are taking their cut, prices get inflated because they know they are coming, even in charity shops, the owners and the staff are taking their cut, usually picking the best gear out for themselves, so £50mil will not be spent 100% on the Africans, wish we could find out how much they do get.
Africa is booming. Look at the population numbers. Not our responsibility.
@Mike CF I think the point is, let's give them actual infrastructure, set up sustainable sources of food and places for education so they can be self sufficient (for the most part) and have real governments instead of regimes that lead to civil war.
Ryan Purchase Don’t ever give money donate things if anything
Am I the only one who thought that Karl was spot on with every comment?
@Areus White Yours is one of my favourite comments Ive ever seen on youtube. You are so right about there being poor people at home, and some of them are desperate for help. Keep on voicing your mind Areus, its worth more than most.
Not about poor people on welfare, and if you 'agree' with that, shame on you. The whole thing is ironic. Dry humour. A joke. Karl doesnt actually think that. Hes being comical. Jesus, some people.
Jason12794 This is how i was introduced to KP and found it hilarious, being from africa, i also agree with some of the comments he made and i belive thats because he wanted us to by calling out some of these charities and how they operate, the rest of it was just pure comedy and its pure gold, any1 who thinks he was serious in every comment he made then cant be good for society
How is having an all-time low good?
@Dylan Carter Oh GOOD one… so you ARE just as thick as him and just didn’t have a good rebuttal huh? Got it.
I hope we get a scientific breakthrough and that we get to immortalize this man.
What a legend.
I listen to Karl ricky and steve every single night on their old xfm pod casts or watch the animated series of them on youtube and just like this ive probably heard or see them all a 1000 times and just like this they never get old! Always funny every single time regardless.
Karl is 100% correct. This was filmed 10 years ago, and there are more hands out now than ever before.
nonsense
And what do you suggest for people who are unemployed because of lockdown? Who are applying for jobs and getting nowhere? I have a degree and experience.
@James so why can't the charities take a bigger cut
Maybe what you take away from that shouldn't be "more hands out now than ever before" but we are in a situation where more people need help, and there is more opportunities to help others.
every time ricky is listening to karl go on and hes got this big smile and starts chuckling leading up to a big laugh, i start laughing every time. man i love seeing these three talk about anything.
I love how he said 'Thank you' at the end as if he actually persuaded people to give money
Everything he said is absolutely true !
Hahaha, brilliant! And Karl's spot on about the scroungers giving away our money, not theirs.
Karl Pilkington: "let's have an all time low for charity donations this year!" 😂
If Karl ran for president, this country would be saved, he doesn't even realise how much of a genius he is. Straight up, no bullshit, straight to the point and brutally honest, and entertaining at the same time, unlike the majority of polititions who run the country now. What a top bloke
lol no
Isn't that what you already have as president?
Karl's honesty is just brilliant. That "thankyou" at the end is lol funny. Those XFM podcasts are comedy gold.
These 3 have been my summer 2020 entertainment. Love Karl
Karl's an unrecognized genius
You could give Karl 100 million quid and he’d be exactly the same man. He’s absolute comedy gold. There’s never a dull moment. He could read the weather and I’d be ending myself.
He wouldn’t dare tell Susann she would be looking to go on holidays
Karl is the funniest person alive. What's even funnier, he doesn't know it.
"Where's your brother? He died."
Give us a sandwhich!
Wrong clip
great comedy loved it ,,i know they were really promoting and had a campaign which would be understood by the masses...they made their point indirectly by saying the opposite of what everyone always says ,,,fgenius
I don’t know why but Karl’s closing ‘thank you’ really cracked me up 😂😂
I love it when Karl starts a little improv and then Ricky jumps on it to get some more out of Karl.
hes talking a lot of sense. there are a lot of dodgy charities out there and you never hear of where the comic relief money actually goes. 2/3 dont go to charity!
Hahaha when karl says "Give me your money ill give it away!" Then the head movement 😂
Steves laugh at the end always tickles me
"not with some toad" hahahha funniest thing ever srs
Karl is a national treasure 😂
Love Karl's "douchey good guy" dance at 3.15
Let's have an all time low
Possibly the greatest advice ever given by anyone
Even the “thank you” at the end makes me laugh
love the sincere 'thank you' at the end! Brilliant
Karl is 100% right.
Karl relates to 4 different topics that were already used on the Ricky gervais show "plumbing u bends business" , " slippers for elephant ", "avoiding clipboard people" , "Edna going on holiday with a tan"
@Martin O. Eiken course he's genuine. Rocky explained it best in one xfm episode, where a reporter called Chris Campling doubted Karl and suggested it was all scripted. So Ricky said it takes him and Steve about a month to write half an hour of script for their tv shows, so how long would it take to write for two hours of xfm with Karl, every week? Physically impossible to write such genius that Karl has.
To be fair, my fiance probably heard all my stories at least 5 times. If he had new stories for every new show / interview, I'd have though he was scripted at best, a pathological liar at worst.
@Martin O. Eiken ok so if you tell the same story twice I'll assume you're lying, what a normal way of thinking
Martin Eiken yeah if you think this makes you believe in the shows being scripted look up karls youtube channel.
I noticed that as well. I really hope he is genuine and that none of the things hes done are scripted, but after watching this I'm not too sure anymore. It's almost word for word exactly the things he has said before
We now, of course, know that Comic Relief was actually investing in arms companies, which adds a whole new dimension to this discussion
Love it or hate it he was absolutely right lmao!
Karl mirrors the thoughts of every normal working person
I agree with Karl though I think it should be just one charity each year, you never really do hear about whatever problem you’re donating towards gets solved
I lost my shit at "JLS sat in a tin of beans"
Yes I love his laugh, its so funny.
I'm pretty consistent, I have never given a penny to comic relief, live aid, ferryaid, or bandaid, or children in need. Grasping bastards.
I love you Karl! Please never change!!!🥰
"Well let let's go mental, no, let's not go mental" That part made me lol.
I do agree that it's harder to give away money you've grafted for than you have been given
Karl isn't a round headed buffoon. He's just hyper realistic.
This trio has become a legend!
5:00 Karl is spot on!
Makes no logical sense whatsoever, but if one has an ideological grudge...
Comedy genius you are Ricky !
HAHAHAHAHHAAHAH he always goes for plumbing supplies "lets have an all time low!" hahaha he is too good
Love this ahaha. So true. Much love carl!
I got to say he’s got a point. Love you round headed buffoon!!!
Karl speaks 99% sense in this video.
Still fuckin hilarious.
Most of the money raised for charity, especially for comic relief, gets privately pocketed
@ThumpRat Trust me bro
Evidence?
Thats awful.
That thank you at the end 😂🤣😂🤣😂
"Straight on the phone to Lennie Henry again."
Class 😂
Again, Carl as a voice of reason next to two bourgeois liberal celebs. Love Ricky and Steve for their creative output but their worldview is massively skewed.
Karl is a very smart man. Oh and we want more podcast cartoons please.
“The other day in the paper” that elephant story he told ten years before this 🤣
An all time low this year 😂😂
one of the best secretly paid comedians in the job, old Karl.
I wholeheartedly agree with Karl regarding annual charities
Karl Pilkington is My Hero 💜
Lol I think you should make birthday cards with Karl's voice singing happy birthday....... We all would love that.
Love this guy because he's got it bang on he's only speaking truth
i lost it at all time low this year
Karl is the man. He speaks for the normal working class average human
Karl is smarter than Ricky
Karl is usually right which just makes it ten times better
He's not afraid to say what people really think.
Remember watching this on TV and the reaction of the presenters when it finished was just like 'well... fuck.'
5:20 - I love how Ricky is trying to be all high and mighty morally whilst Karl's being realistic. I wonder how much Ricky's vast $80 million wealth he's given to Comic Relief.
Ben Ahmed It’s not really though is it? That could easily equate to a weeks work maybe more. Can’t see you giving away a weeks wages to charity
@Feng Sports I mean come on, perhaps it is a drop in the ocean but he doesn't have to do it yet he does.
@Out the gate prisoner a drop in the ocean
It's public record that in 2018 he gave £300,000. I hope that's an acceptable amount for you mate.
Joey Lock he gives to cancer & animal charities. A fair bit
"Give me some of your money, and I'll give it away"
"Let's have a bit of a lull. An all-time low this year."
Just realised how hilarious his pronunciation of aged was
I like how Karl says words, like toad. hahaha
The fact is, he is so right about these charities.
Funny how karl says lets have an all time low, then the 2011 figure surpasses all the other totals of all the other red nose days!
Lol Karl moans and Ricky turns it into a bit for his stand up, brilliant.
5:14 one genuine voice of the working class
well you'd think with all those millions every year there must be clean water everywhere by now
Karl is bang on with just about everything he says here.
I agree with Karl on the whole welfare thing
"i know exactly what it's like to live on welfare, my partner used to"
oh i'm sorry then if you know a single family who ONCE did then you know all about it, my mistake.
+ticklish Mate, take a breath and think about what you're saying. When did I say that I feel that I'm being ripped off by welfare?
You're right on one thing, I did say that they haven't truly earned it. There's a difference between earning and deserving.
I know one thing, benefits/welfare are for wise use not for giving away. I know exactly what it's like to live on welfare, my partner and her family once lived on welfare.
Also, I noticed you told me to "get nobbed." Now I'm assuming that means you're English. Well, I'm Australian so take that into account when you're reading my words.
+ticklish sorry, what?
Imagine what Karl would think if he was actually tight with his money!
Karl is bloody right about benefits!
This is very cleverly done. Carl is clearly very sharp and the act is a pretty slick way of giving some publicity to a lot of problems that are glanced over.
Karl is the #1 dry Humorist in comedy.
Karl is spot on here comic relief is a con
"can I have a holiday? no you can't we got a deadline to meet" 😂😂😂😂😂
Karl makes some good points
The dole thing was bang on point
6:10 nearly finished me off first time I saw this 🤣🤣🤣
karl.. always brutaly honest
Could agree with Carl more. Ricky and steve hand jobing the shit out of comic relief.
The untold truth is that the money ends up in corrupt hands and there's been evidence showing that if ended up being spent on arms in one case! They should keep the money here and send the hard supplies needed like medicine and vaccines.
Karl is clearly the brains in that operation
An all time low 😂😂😂