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
The reason there are so many gyms in London is because the amount of gay people who are here now.
From someone whose dad buys him a spade for Christmas, I thought you'd be grateful!
And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
There’s fish in here that I’ve read about that are so see-through that they’re invisible. So I don’t even think they know they exist.
I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.
All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
Chinese people age overnight.
Comedy's really subjective, you know.
I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
We all just want to sit on our ass.
You don't get anything done by planning
I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.
People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!