I met him outside the theater in Denver when he was in "The Elephant Man" in 1980. He signed autographs and said a few words into my tape recorder as a greeting to my family. He was very gracious. He was also the first one I ever saw wearing a Sony Walkman at that time, that was right before it became hugely popular.

Last good thing he did, IMHO. I bought everything he did up through this one, saw him on the 1976 tour, 1978 tour, 1983 tour, saw him in The Elephant Man in Denver in 1980. But after this he just got stale, it happened to McCartney right around the same time.

@residue

Backstory is that karl pilkington has a huge cult following amongst people in the know. He met gervais and merchant working at XFM radio station (small local london station) which gervais did as a favour to someone who gave him a job early in his life.

Since then, gervais has mercilessly taken the piss out of karl. Karl is unique in that he's the only person in the world who's both the stupidest person ever and a complete and utter genius.

They made loads of radio shows and loads of podcasts, then they made an idiot abroad. The format basically goes like this: Karl says something rediculous, gervais and merchant take the piss out of him. They often ask him questions which he has no chance of understanding just to see what stupid things he'll say. He is fascinated by anything different (such as warrick, the elephant man, gay people, siamese twins, ANYTHING different to your average human), he's entranced by monkies and thinks that monkies are basically humans who can't speak properly.

He used to come up with pathetic game shows in which he'd come up with clues that he'd label cryptic (to gervais' chagrin) where he'd give a clue and a pair of initials, and you would have to guess what band or artist name he was referring to, it amounted to this;
"The jamaican fellow is swinging a fish around his head, DS"
-- Detroit Spinners (The trout spinners, in a jamaican accent - de trout spinners)
"I told the gay man that the grape tree was mine, MG"
-- Marvin Gaye (My vine, gay)

The radio show was an absolute shambles, it was barely even a radio show and more a case of 3 blokes having a chat in a pub with a microphone left running. And i will say with certainty that i have never laughed so hard or so much at any kind of comedy. I'd say gervais' BEST work is the podcasts and radio shows he did with pilkington.

During the course of the podcasts, pilkington has dropped MANY clangers and had many more catchphrases - gervais uses a lot of references to karl in his work. For example whenever gervais wants to play his 'arrogant jerk' routine he refers to a gay person he says "little gay fellow", because it's inherently condescending. That's actually something he got off karl who refers to EVERY diversity as "little <x> fellow" - little gay fellows, little chinese fellows, little gay chinese fellows, little disabled fellows and very particularly "little midget fellow".

So.....gervais introduced him to warrick. And they've talked about warrick on the radio show/podcasts before.

Edit:
Might actually post this as a sift talk so people know who the new guy on the sift is.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'david lynch, bbc, mark cousins, blue velvet, elephant man, twin peaks' to 'david lynch, bbc, mark cousins, blue velvet, elephant man, twin peaks, donut, duck, eye' - edited by Eklek

In mild defense of David Lynch...
* David Lynch is capable of making non-surreal movies and making them very well.... the Elephant Man, The Straight Story... I'm sure Empire Strikes Back would have been great if he did it.
* Lynch got the DGA to allow him to remove his name from the credits from at least one version of Dune. Parts of the movie weren't so great (Sting) but parts were awesome weren't they? Like the Guild Navigators?
* Dune was on the table to be made before Star Wars. I think it was on a commentary I heard people involved say that Tatooine (Skywalker's desert planet) was basically stolen from Dune because the pre-production illustrations of Dune were seen by the folks who did Star Wars... same company I guess. They showed the illustrations and it was kind of surprising.
* This video would have better if they dubbed over Darth Vader the voice of Dennis Hopper saying "mommy mommy, baby wants to fuck" as he huffs on the nitrous tank from Blue Velvet.

TREVES
Very good, very good. Now, when
your visitor comes today I want
you to say it exactly the way you
said it just now. I will introduce
him to you and you will say
the words you've learned. If you
have any trouble with any of the
words, I'll help you. I'm sure
you'll be just fine. If you do as
well for him as you've done for me
these last two davs, then I'm sure
our visitor will be very pleased.
Now, let's go through the whole
thing again, shall we? I will say
"May I introduce you to Mr. Carr
Gomm." And you will say...

MERRICK
Hello, my name is John Merrick. I
am very pleased to meet you!


- Elephant Man

i am not an animal, i am a pc!

>> ^Sarzy:
Sweet Jesus.


That's certainly the first thing that went through my mind.

And yeah, why did they wait so long, going for a record or something? Also.. the jar bit was entirely unnecessary :-(

I hate to be a pedantic prick (but I will be )

But that's not 'The Elephant Man'

The REAL Elephant man, the subject of the movie etc. was called Joseph Merrick and lived in the 19th Century.

If this were a video on him I'd watch it, but alas, just someone else with a hideous deformity.

"Dear Dumb Person, I'm sorry that you've apparently had both your sense of humor and sense of irony surgically removed. Hopefully they will grow back."

"Hey Crushbug. Try watching 'Elephant Man' on your phone. Hopefully not while driving. Although maybe these young'uns on their ADD drugs can pull it off. Enjoy!"

Sorry that the two of you misunderstood my flippant and sarcastic response. =P I don't have an iPhone and I agree with Lynch; I just always find it funny when someone out there starts trying to tell people how they should or should not do something.

I only know one person that watches movies on her iPod, and its for a very specific reason, after transferring it from DVD. Of course she has seen the movie in both the theatre and on her TV. Since its most likely a tertiary viewing of the movie, why would anyone really care.

Please let's not turn this into the YouTube comments section

Hey Crushbug. Try watching 'Elephant Man' on your phone. Hopefully not while driving. Although maybe these young'uns on their ADD drugs can pull it off. Enjoy!

Westy, cheers mate, those new Merck spelling pills are doing a great job!!!!


hey krupo...heard of a woman who got an infection cause her husband was hittin'the nappy livestock dugout, on the side....Blame Hollywood man, Beauty and the Beast, Swampthing, the Fly, Elephant Man...they got white women fucking all kindsa stuff.......

I must be a cheap seater, I haven't figured out who/what "elephant man" is.

Oh and, please, what topic was off??....Now who has the cheap seat!! Doesn't the poster begin the discussion.??..."invalid" or "unable to compute", is a better invocation-or perhaps fine print is not worth reading!
Almost forgot, Thank you Swampgirl, you elephant man fan!