Karl Pilkington: The Moaning Of Life - Sundays 9pm - Sky 1 / Sky 1 HD
 

Oh no not him :bored:

Not a fan?

Second trailer added.

Not really no :laugh:

Fair enough :laugh:.

I'll watch it, hopefully it'll be as funny as Idiot Abroad.

Oh I'm looking forward to this.. I adore Karl pilkington :love:

More of him. :bored:

More of you ::bored:

I'm over him now.

Without Warwick 3rd series of Idiot Abroad would have been ****e.

..:amazed:..I still love Karl..:love:..but I do admit the Idiot Abroad got a bit stale...

There's always one :rolleyes:. Been a fan of his now since the first podcasts in '05, don't think I ever will be.
Warwick was the weak element to the third series, Karl's funniest when he's moaning to himself unquestioned. Warwick's constant picking at everything he said and playing up to the camera for laughs took slightly from it. Though it was still brilliant television.
I don't think it was the show that got stale, it only ran for 2 full series, series 3 was intended as a finishing christmas special, but Sky's repeating of it, like Channel 4 with Friends, they over did (and still do) it, that said, unlike Friends, I still laugh several times everytime, even though I know off by heart what's coming. I do prefer his animated series though, and do think they should have stuck with the original plan for series 2 of sending him to the natural wonders rather than making him do a bucket list, Karl's funniest when he's interested in and questioning things, which is the case with Moaning Of Life, so hopefully should be really good.

don't really know why i just got a rolleye for not appreciating everything he does but k.

Wasn't aimed specifically at you, but at the general fickleness towards any popular show / film series / band that go beyond a second series / film / album in this country, particularly comedy. We seem to have a very short national attention span.

That's the Eifel tower that is. It's bloody big isn't it. Why would anyone want to climb that?

First ep available to watch now On Demand. Very funny.

..it didn't disappoint, then..?..

Nope, brilliant. Won't reveal too much in case you want to wait till it airs but theme of the episode is marriage and dating, Karl has to meet a potential bride and her family about a possible arranged marriage between them :D.

..oh so each episode is like a set up scenario then, yeah I can see that being a good one, meeting her parents lol...when does it air on TV then..?..oh I should just read the OP....

Each episode has a theme, but there are a few scenarios related to that theme explored. As for when it airs, Sunday, but the first ep is available now On Demand on Sky and on Sky Go online.

..I'll probably wait until Sunday because I'm watching lots of things atm and trying to catch up but from what you've said it's going to be something to look forward to...even though I think the Idiot Abroad got a little tired towards the end, I don't think that was Karl, just the programme ..his lack of enthusiasm over everything and cynic in him always make me smile...

The first two series were brilliant but the addition of Warwick in series 3 spoilt it slightly, he kept mugging to the camera and picking Karl up on everything he said and the special treatment he got made you fully sympathise with Karl rather than laugh at the things he said. The form of rants in Moaning are about the topics rather than what he's doing and the locations, so it adds a new dynamic to it.

Sid - have you downloaded the old xfm radio shows they did years ago? If you haven't, then you really should. You hear Karl go from someone who they talk to a couple of times throughout the show, to becoming the star of it!

Yeah, they're brilliant. Especially Karl's ill thought out features :D.

..yeah, I agree with you about that, it was spoiled at the end and Karl's 'rants' are what he does best and when he's most funny because the thing is that even though he can go on a bit, you do actually relate to most of what he says and things that 'irritate' ...

..I think I saw a few of those, they were very funny..are those the cartoon ones..?...

Do we need em'?

Karl in a film is genius though.

Let people in wheelchairs play swingball instead of tennis.

Hairy Chinese kids

Old men eating a twix.


Absolute insanely brilliant.

Sort of, they're visual adaptions of their later podcasts. He's referring to these radio shows they did in the early noughties when Ricky and Karl first met, Karl was in his twenties then so even more daft than now:

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...long&lclk=long

No, they were the animated versions of the podcasts, but these were radio shows the 3 of them did from about 2001-2005 intermittently based around the recording of the office. It's before Karl became Karl.

Educating Ricky was my favourite, just where did he get some of those stories from? :D As were Karl's mum's point missing contributions to Rock Busters :laugh:.

..oh I don't think I've seen any of those, I'll take a look at them, thank you...

I've been working through them again over the last week as I do quite a bit of walking.

The 2 kids with massive heads and webbed fingers that went to his school, but weren't related or mates. Because it would have been obvious. The woman with a horse in her house. Stealing a tank for some fags. The list goes on.

It's a shame they didn't incorporate some stuff from them into a series 5 of The Ricky Gervais Show, they only included stuff from the podcasts, though there are some fan animated takes on them on YouTube that predate the HBO show.

The man thought to be Karl's tank stealing brother BTW, not sure if it actually is but there is a similarity:

Definitely got the Pilkington hairline, and there is a passing resemblance. Is there anything else other than them being swarthy Mancs that makes this plausible?

Didn't Karl say he's always in and out of prison these days?

Probably for the benefit fraud :D, and only the name (Mark Pilkington) and similarities (the hair line, the eye brow ridge, the mannerisms, hesitating before they swear and apologising before they diss people :D, moaning to themselves out loud), though out of the several Mark Pilkingtons Pilkipedia have looked when trying to find him, he fits best.

I didn't realise his name was Pilkington as well. Well that's the game changer then. It more than likely is then as well.

His dad stealing food from the phone box.

Putting the disabled kid in a wheelie bin.

Yup.
Karl's reaction when he realised he'd just grassed on him on the radio :D.

:laugh2:

Gays go out late.

So many classic moments. I absolutely love those radio shows, as you can hear it's all completely innocent and non-scripted. The podcasts were often recreations of the best bits with new classics, like "I could eat a nob at night".

:D

Karl's naiveness in those days made for some amazing radio, and yeah, the dance remixes that spawned :D.