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He's a character actor.>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^dag:
Having Karl play a character in a scripted show kind of lets the cat out of the bag that Karl is not an idiot. There's a smart guy behind the curtain pulling the levers of dumb Karl.

But Karl was never supposed to be dumb, that's just how most of us view him on face value. Gervais has stated many times that he's one of the smartest guys he knows, just uneducated and coming from a very alternative angle.

>> ^dag:

Having Karl play a character in a scripted show kind of lets the cat out of the bag that Karl is not an idiot. There's a smart guy behind the curtain pulling the levers of dumb Karl.


But Karl was never supposed to be dumb, that's just how most of us view him on face value. Gervais has stated many times that he's one of the smartest guys he knows, just uneducated and coming from a very alternative angle.

that's kind of how it looks from the ads shown here.

what happened? gee, I wonder why people become unfunny.

success probably.>> ^Hybrid:

Well, having watched the entire Derek programme I can say that this is by faaaaar, the worst, most unfunny, cringeworthy and down right predictable "comedic" 30 minutes you could every watch. This is easily the most disappointing thing Ricky Gervais has been involved it.
It was painful to watch. What happened Ricky!?!?!?!

>> ^PlayhousePals:

His wife [?] resembles a decedent of Wilma Flintstone


Yeah, like her blonde sister, haha

>> ^cito:

that's not a deleted scene
that is Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais with Karl Pilkington and this recording is from their XFM radio days.
I have the entire XFM Ricky Gervais shows downloaded and remember this one
http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Xfm_Shows

they aired from 2001 to 2005 on XFM, before the Ricky Gervais Podcast started.
someone took the audio and overdubbed it onto a Portal 2 video.


I was pretty sure it wasn't, thanks for knowing

that's not a deleted scene

that is Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais with Karl Pilkington and this recording is from their XFM radio days.

I have the entire XFM Ricky Gervais shows downloaded and remember this one

http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Xfm_Shows


they aired from 2001 to 2005 on XFM, before the Ricky Gervais Podcast started.

someone took the audio and overdubbed it onto a Portal 2 video.

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>> ^westy:

>> ^WKB:
Was that Stephen Merchant?!? I thought this was a gag video at first with quotes from The Ricky Gervais show added.

yep it is and I think it really ruins the game for English people maby if they had applied some auto-tune / filters to it so it didn't just sound like Steve merchant doing a voice over through 60% of the game then it would have been ok.
I think they were looking for a "generic" English type person john clease typ thing and steve was the only one they could find lol.
I think most people will enjoy portal and think its utterly amazing. It is better than allot of games and is pretty polished , but at the same time i think it feels really dulled down as a game and although some of the puzzles and the mechanics available are really good , it missed allot of puzzles that would just be "fun" to do and certainly lacks puzzles that allow for th player to compleat them in multiple ways or in creative ways.
I think it suffers a tiny bit from consolitus ( no where near as bad as most games nowerdays)
What i don't understand as well is why the pc multipler is not set up in the same way as the CSS surf maps worked , where u could join into a server and play custom maps with a bunch of people that would be Realy good. i guess they wanted to do a split screen typ coop for console users.
im sure sum-one will mod it and it will evolve from there so that will be interesting to see

Didn't ruin it for me (an English person) becuase Wheatley is supposed to be a moron. Perfect voice for such a purpose.

>> ^WKB:

Was that Stephen Merchant?!? I thought this was a gag video at first with quotes from The Ricky Gervais show added.


yep it is and I think it really ruins the game for English people maby if they had applied some auto-tune / filters to it so it didn't just sound like Steve merchant doing a voice over through 60% of the game then it would have been ok.

I think they were looking for a "generic" English type person john clease typ thing and steve was the only one they could find lol.

I think most people will enjoy portal and think its utterly amazing. It is better than allot of games and is pretty polished , but at the same time i think it feels really dulled down as a game and although some of the puzzles and the mechanics available are really good , it missed allot of puzzles that would just be "fun" to do and certainly lacks puzzles that allow for th player to compleat them in multiple ways or in creative ways.

I think it suffers a tiny bit from consolitus ( no where near as bad as most games nowerdays)

What i don't understand as well is why the pc multipler is not set up in the same way as the CSS surf maps worked , where u could join into a server and play custom maps with a bunch of people that would be Realy good. i guess they wanted to do a split screen typ coop for console users.

im sure sum-one will mod it and it will evolve from there so that will be interesting to see

Was that Stephen Merchant?!? I thought this was a gag video at first with quotes from The Ricky Gervais show added.

>> ^robbersdog49:

Karl Pilkington is a comedy genius, it's as simple as that. I've never seen anyone so apparently inadvertently funny. He doesn't seem to think about it, he just is hilarious.


Yes he is and watching the Ricky Gervais Show I wanted Ricky to Shut the Fuck Up most of the time. He would constantly stop Karl thinking and saying things and it was soo amazingly annoying I couldn't take it.

BTW, please check out pilkipedia. If you liked the ricky gervais show and guides to, you can find hundreds of episodes of radio shows which are FAR FAR FAR funnier than any of the audiobooks/podcasts they did. Much of the material and format was taken from the radio shows in fact.

...I may have just sown the seed for hundreds of future pilkingtod-junkies like myself. Once you start on those radio shows, there's no going back, it's some of the funniest material of any kind i've ever come across.

I agree, he was great in the Ricky Gervais show. After watching the first season I realized like 80% of the laughs come from Carl, which is pretty impressive given Ricky is right there.

I just hope they get rid of the subtitles. Somehow they're so irritating to me that I think it would ruin the whole thing. He's not that hard to understand after a couple minutes.

Might want to add this one to your pilkington playlist (best playlist ever ).
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Ricky-Gervais-Show-Ep-1