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
It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.
But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge.
I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.
Where you are is what you eat. When I'm in London I'll have beans on toast for lunch. On holiday - what? Tapas? Go on then I'll have a bit. You eat whatevers in that area.
That impresses me more, inventin' electricity.
So you're sayin that it's easy to send somat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine?