I started in 2007 downloading the mp3s from the xfm website. I dread to think how many times through I have listened to it. At one stage I listened every night for 5 years, now its still at least once it twice a week 17 years later.
i wish you could access the full show. as in 2 hours incl music. be so cool to just have on in background. it would be a great product if someone made it,
The segment where they talk about his old classmates is one of my favorite Ricky show moments. Karl sounds genuinely happy, like he’s just hanging with the boys at a bar. Season 1 has many gems like that.
This is basically what I was gonna post. Just nice to hear Karl sounding so much happier and actually laughing a fair amount. Especially in contrast to the final season which I just finished again. Paused to comment at the same moment you referenced.
17:04 Steve: "Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded ..." ... Karl: "Did you know that the only king that has got a moustache ... is ... no ... The only king that asn't got a moustache is the king of 'arts. On the playing cards" Ricky: "What was the record you were gonna play?" Steve: "Umm, I want to resurrect the career of a different artist every week" (In the background: Karl saying "king of 'arts") Steve: "This is an artist that is overlooked by the general public" Karl: "It's a red card"
• • he mentioned later he’d change the subject from travelling (or something) to talking about king of hearts.. that must be his go to thing to change a subject lmao
I honestly always heard it as "I don't know if they even had families back back then", like families in general. Though that might have been too stupid even for Karl. I think HE doesn't even know what he means exactly. It probably doesn't mean anything other than "I can't imagine/conceptualise my family existing of people that died before I was born".
21:05 You know what drives me crazy? Is the immediate cut to commercials as soon as he finishes. To me that says this is one of two things: This was staged OR This was edited after the fact, and we're missing a reaction. What do you think? 🧐 🤔
P.S. No one ever talks about that immediate cut, it's so weird... Even the RGS Facebook group I'm in has never mentioned it. It's almost like it's some kind of crazy secret...
In dozens of listens, I never noticed that Ricky nearly gives away Karl's GCSE results around 06:20. He talks about them and says "result...s" to cover himself.
The XFM shows and the podcasts have been a constant feature of my life, in good times and bad, since I first discovered them in 2007. Somehow, even though I've got just about every line memorised by now, they never stop being fresh and surprising. To commemorate my I-don't-even-know-what-number run through, this one in the time of The Great Coronavirus Lockdown, I'm going to humbly submit a few suggestions for new titles along the way. For this one, S1 E14, I think either "Face Full o' Battenberg" or "A Whole Row of George Bernard Shaws". Man Moth, you are a living legend. Thanks for everything that you do.
I've listened to these shows since day of broadcast and going through a little phase of chilling to these on a night and I've never commented but I have to say merchant is a dick and u couldn't have described his ridiculous fake, trying to fit in farmers laugh👍
@@benhart6183 I also thought as much for a little while but after listening again and again, I kind of feel like Steve is playing an accentuated version of himself in a way. His one anecdote in a later episode about the woman on the train that he thinks about talking to before she meets this other guy is hilarious, much in the same way that David Brent is hilarious. Steve essentially framed the story around the fragility of his ego and I definitely think he meant to do that. His harping on about Lord of the Rings or Rik Waller does get really annoying, but I think a lot of what he speaks about comes more from this nerdy late 20s incel character rather than the real Steve Merchant. Either that, or he has little to no self-awareness regarding how he comes across on the radio.
E.H. Sorensoni his bitterness often comes through, sometimes he isn’t really joking and the facade is so thin you can tell he’s just unreasonably indignant about something pointless and that gets annoying immediately in those situations Most of the time he’s okay though, not great but ok
Weirdly I actually felt compelled to google which Friends episode Steve was referring to when he said it was a good episode that week. Turns out it was The One Where Joey Tells Rachel, for anyone wondering.
I love when all three are wrong. When talking about Rasputin, Karl wasn't thinking about Rapunzel. She was the girl in the tower with the long hair. Karl was thinking about Rumpelstiltskin, who wasn't living under a bridge by the way. So no one was right.
I do feel sorry for Karl. His childhood stories hint at his being neglected to some degree. Not to a criminal level, but his parents seem to give him him scant regard from time to time (failing to register him for his exams, for instance).
I completely agree with you. His Mum and Dad were definitely a bit lax. I’ve met other people who had much older siblings, and it’s like their parents thought ‘I’ve done all my parenting, now. This one will just have to be along for the ride’. For example, keeping him off school for weeks at a time; that must be classed as neglect. And his manners are appalling. Look at the example with poor Robin in the pub. Karl obviously loves his parents very much, but look at how much his Dad hurt his feelings with the ‘twat in the hat’ remark. Your parents should raise you up, not put you down.
Distracting an eccentric teacher by asking them to tell stories, I can relate to. We had a biology teacher who loved to tell two stories, one about a jar of moss he'd been growing in the classroom for years, and another story about a really hot dish he got out of the oven and burnt himself with. Good times....
I had a science teacher who used to go hunting for big foot in Northern Hampshire, we’d have him going all lesson. He was also a spit image of Dr Weeto, which made it even more outlandish.
33:25 - "And er...and 'e ate these cakes and it just didn't kill him and they were like "God what's goin' on?" and kept giving him more and more cakes and..." "He wasn't suspicious?" "And it didn't work so the fella said "Ah that's it I'm gonna shoot 'im." *laughs* Such a great condensed version of Yusupov's decision to shoot Rasputin xD
Only a little part of the show but Amie Mann went on to win 2 Grammys shortly after this and set up her own label Still going strong released album last year I like to think Steve Merchant played a small part with revival plays 🤣
Fun fact, I'm from the same town as Karl, I went to the same school (Ashton-on-Mersey, formerly Cecil Ave) although 10 years apart. Would have loved him as a classmate.
31:10 "Rapunzel you had to guess his name" Rapunzel is the chick with the long hair. Karl got Rasputin and a troll mixed up, Ricky got Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin mixed up. Wow.
Weird this.. I've just re-read "The Further Adventures of an idiot abroad".. here Karl states: (About his Pet Magpie) "The final straw was when it popped the tyres on my Raleigh Grifter, so I rode to the water park with it and then sneaked off as it was trying to steal some bait off some fishermen. I never saw it again"..
Ricky laughed at Karl for getting Rasputin mixed up with Rapunsel, saying "no, that's the fella where you have to say his name." No, that's Rumplestiltskin. Honestly, what did they teach back then??
@@Glozboy22 It's "incredible" how many UA-cam comments are inaccurate in some way, and it's "incredible" how often people, including myself, feel the need to correct it. I know this, and I still fall victim to myself, e.g. the correct spelling is Rapunzel. Good ol' Kerry Godliman was a guest on Deadly Sirius, and she taught me that it's much more enjoyable to hold back the urge to correct people online and simply enjoy the fascinating drivel that they spew.
24:41 I'm 21 years of age and I always believed that the PS2 only played games , I now know that it can be used as a DVD Player. Some useful knowledge there , don't have a dvd Player, whack out your dad's old PS2... Nice. Completely irrelevant but my dad owned a playstation 2 slim and he was walking to the local corner shop and spotted a bag with a ps2 sticking out of it outside someone's house, as if they where waiting for bin men to collect it, This was somewhere between 2009-2011. It was also chucking down with rain, he rang me up on my Nokia brick and said "better get down here I've seen a ps2 in a bag and it's getting soaked, might work, ya never know" I ran our the door and couple streets away where he said he seen it , no coat just had to get there ASAP , there was a PS2 (the original fat 1) with no word of a lie at least 50+ games and karaoke microphone thing and even a ps2 camera, (guess it's like the Kinnect for xbox 360) Harry Potter, Simpsons hit and run THE LOT, I ran home with the bag and dried it off and plugged it in , and to my surprise it actually worked , EVERY single game , I was shocked and played all the games for hours, that was a good day. I just couldn't believe someone would want to throw away a perfectly good ps2 , in my opinion, the games are better than what they offer now, so much more effort put into them for the Player to enjoy , not all just focused on marketing/money/graphics. Good Times
I love how Ricky, when correcting Karl and his girlfriend about the troll that lives under the bridge, also gets it wrong and says it's Rapunzel. I think he's actually thinking of Rumpelstiltskin, but he didn't live under a bridge either. Of course, it's all Ra-Ra-Rasputin's fault
The older I get the more I realise Ricky was talking a lot of shit back then. “GCSE’s are vocational, they’re vocationally for sixteen year olds to go on to A levels.” What does that even mean? 🤣
Is it me or does Karl seem to laugh a lot more in series one? Must just be something about Gervais and Merchant's company, as much as I love them, I doubt I'd be able to stand it😂 great work, as ever Man Moth, cheers
I think Ricky and Steve were much more friendly towards Karl in season 1. So Karl actually felt appreciated. After that I felt like Ricky was just milking Karl for cheap laughs xp
I’ve wondered that too, something about being more easily annoyed or bored of them, or it’s just funnier if he pretends not to laugh at anything, or when you are less good friends with someone you laugh with them a little easier? Idk
The2011Collector just after I commented that it got to the bit where Karl said ‘if you were me friends you’d have said nah we couldn’t find them’ and I think he’s right Why would you tell your friend they’d only got one gcse and not done well in it on live air, yeah it’s entertaining but it’d be right to make you feel some sort of way towards them
To be fair to Karl, at 12:52 where he's asking 'Do you do that before the exam' it seems like he's reliving the exam day in his head & is asking: do you register for it immediately prior, on the same day of the exam or weeks / months before.
I've lied on every application form about results. I also didn't bother picking them up. Was too busy getting high and drunk (most likely, actually can't remember). Most employers don't even care what grades you have. The interview and showing you have interpersonal skills are far more important. Hell, I got a job doing CAD at 17, merely by showing I had a willingness to learn.
+WollongongWacko Because she's a woman that strokes bees and puts Tipex on a spider XD Of COURSE she was going to sing it differently than everyone else XD (No offense to her..)
I've never thought to look at the Friends Reunited website. I just looked it up for the first time and it closed down just two years ago, in 2016. I suppose it was a precursor of Facebook. I knew there was email and chatrooms at the turn of the century, but I didn't know social networking was already starting up. This radio show is a great historical document. It's a pity we can't look up the profiles of these people, but maybe they're on Facebook now XD
One thing that's always bothered me about this episode is that I have 10 GCSEs and I didn't 'register' for any of them. The school does it automatically surely? Based on the go ahead of the subject teacher I presume. So Karl's history teacher must have had faith in him. But why are Ricky and Steve making out that they have personally registered for their GCSEs?
I reckon the school didn't register him to keep results up. I worked in the school where they kept the special needs or non English speaking ones in a separate classroom so the grades didn't reflect the embarrassing children. Karl is smart but he hardly spent time at school so his results would reflect that
Karl says is Rasputin the one under the bridge? No says Jane, that's Rapunzel, and Ricky points out that that's the one where you have to say the name 3 times which is in turn wrong, that's Rumplestiltskin. 3 people couldn't be more wrong about 3 characters with names beginning with R 😂
To this day the results bit is one of the most spectacular bits of bullying I've ever heard. The glee in Ricky's voice when he knows Karl failed the one exam is actually sad. I love these but really hate this one.
+BigJamook Thieves are millionaires? unless your making a clever point about the banking system, thieves are usually Thieves because the don't have money, you don't get millionaires stealing a TV.
+expressrobkill Petty thieves maybe. I was thinking more of organised crime and high end gangsters if there is such a thing. Bankers yes, of course. Politicians. My point being that money is not the measure of a man. x
Still love Karl! IMO they never bettered these original XFM shows. Apart from the office, this was their apex. f you're a fan of the K-man and you missed his cameo as the copper recently in ‘the thief, his wife and the Canoe’ he was genuinely good. Was pleasantly surprised. The whole show was good too! But seeing him call ‘bullshit’ made it all worthwhile. Would never have guessed from these days he’d ever be able to act. Miles better than in Derek. Displayed some actual nuance...
The thing with Karl is, he doesn't buy into hype or the hive mind. If he doesn't like something, he'll just say it outright. Doesn't matter that Gladiator is a classic or won loads of awards or whatever. He just didn't like it that much. Fair fucking play.
It’s 2023. I’ve listened to the entire catalogue 5 or 6 times through and it continues to make me laugh and give me immense joy.
That's nice, I've listened to these thru over and over again since 2008, send help or a time machine please
Been listing for about 12 years now 😂😂 still cracks me up
I started in 2007 downloading the mp3s from the xfm website. I dread to think how many times through I have listened to it. At one stage I listened every night for 5 years, now its still at least once it twice a week 17 years later.
i wish you could access the full show. as in 2 hours incl music. be so cool to just have on in background.
it would be a great product if someone made it,
5th time around now, still loving it. This round has been a 4 year break so it feels like most of everything is completely new 😁
You can hear a genuine smile when Karl says "He was one of me best mates" when Darren Buckley is mentioned. Quite sweet.
He was still thinking about Sarah Morris.
@@NxDoyle She was another nice one.
Good ol Daz
But you can tell he would never have a chance with her
@@NxDoyle he definitely was!
The segment where they talk about his old classmates is one of my favorite Ricky show moments. Karl sounds genuinely happy, like he’s just hanging with the boys at a bar. Season 1 has many gems like that.
This is basically what I was gonna post. Just nice to hear Karl sounding so much happier and actually laughing a fair amount. Especially in contrast to the final season which I just finished again. Paused to comment at the same moment you referenced.
17:04
Steve: "Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded ..."
...
Karl: "Did you know that the only king that has got a moustache ... is ... no ...
The only king that asn't got a moustache is the king of 'arts. On the playing cards"
Ricky: "What was the record you were gonna play?"
Steve: "Umm, I want to resurrect the career of a different artist every week" (In the background: Karl saying "king of 'arts")
Steve: "This is an artist that is overlooked by the general public"
Karl: "It's a red card"
Poor karl.
Divorce headloss and all that
• • he mentioned later he’d change the subject from travelling (or something) to talking about king of hearts.. that must be his go to thing to change a subject lmao
27:13 when he talks about the horses knees bleeding. The way Karl looks at things is worth looking at in itself. Remarkable human.
..one of my most favorite moments of all the shows..
Nothin cheers me up more than this, helped me sleep after I lost my nana in May, stopped me overthinking and took my mind off things 😊
Aw...I'm sorry about your nana. I agree, this show is just the ticket when you need a break from things
w t f is na na ??? Virginity ???
@luuke furtado you're an idiot play a record... play two records.
luuke luketer it means grand mother you fool!
@@luukeluketer1024 Virginity? Lol.
"Helped me sleep after I lost my virginity."
What.
Hahaha. "I don't even know if I had a family back then." Karl, you legend.
Brilliant
@@jscarlip God knows. Series 1 he was at his dumbest imo.
I honestly always heard it as "I don't know if they even had families back back then", like families in general.
Though that might have been too stupid even for Karl.
I think HE doesn't even know what he means exactly. It probably doesn't mean anything other than "I can't imagine/conceptualise my family existing of people that died before I was born".
It's one of Karl's key 'failings'. He has a very hard time imagining things beyond what he's actually experienced, either himself or read/seen.
@@omikronweapon I thought the same
little did Karl know that doing this show was his lottery ticket
Simon Phromchat Woah...
He cant be doing that well, he's working as a janitor at my nephews school in Bolton.
@@guypritchard2451 what?
Yeah, he's there everyday term time
@@guypritchard2451 bollocks
Karl singing his version of the alphabet song is just the most cutely innocent thing ive ever heard
21:05 You know what drives me crazy? Is the immediate cut to commercials as soon as he finishes. To me that says this is one of two things:
This was staged
OR
This was edited after the fact, and we're missing a reaction.
What do you think? 🧐 🤔
P.S. No one ever talks about that immediate cut, it's so weird... Even the RGS Facebook group I'm in has never mentioned it. It's almost like it's some kind of crazy secret...
Hearing Karl genuinely laugh at 41:47 brings me immense joy.
In dozens of listens, I never noticed that Ricky nearly gives away Karl's GCSE results around 06:20. He talks about them and says "result...s" to cover himself.
WardyYNWA great attention to detail
Nice ear!
WardyYNWA Haha good spot
scoured the comments to see if someone else noticed this. I'm 3 years late.
Shit!
I have listened to these for almost 15 years and never heard that!
So funny
even the fact that karl had to learn a different alphabet to normal people just shows how strangely his brain works
"It flew away."
I havent laughed that hard since last episode!
Karl's comedic timing and delivery is absolutely flawless.
The XFM shows and the podcasts have been a constant feature of my life, in good times and bad, since I first discovered them in 2007. Somehow, even though I've got just about every line memorised by now, they never stop being fresh and surprising.
To commemorate my I-don't-even-know-what-number run through, this one in the time of The Great Coronavirus Lockdown, I'm going to humbly submit a few suggestions for new titles along the way.
For this one, S1 E14, I think either "Face Full o' Battenberg" or "A Whole Row of George Bernard Shaws".
Man Moth, you are a living legend. Thanks for everything that you do.
20 years later and i'm still loving this
Funny to think that Darren Buckley's 2 year old son Lewis would now be 18 or 19. If you're listening in 2018.
And Karl is almost 50 in 2021!
You say funny, I say scary 😟
6 years ago now, mate.
Crazy he was 29 in this @@jasonbushell7080
And now he'd be 47. Darren Buckley would be 142. Suzanne's friend Tompo would be 123422
It’s 2021 and they still bring me immense joy.
i’m 15 and can’t sleep without these shows
It's 2023 and they still bring me immense joy.
I think the improv around Debbir Carr is one of the funniest bits of all the shows. "Come here you little beauty!"
32:00 you can hear Ricky put his glass of water down and trying not to spit it out whilst laughing 😂
2:50 it's like Steve's just going through various types of laughs: "ha hoo hoo hoo hoo, ha ha ha ha ha ha, hee hee hee hee"
I've listened to these shows since day of broadcast and going through a little phase of chilling to these on a night and I've never commented but I have to say merchant is a dick and u couldn't have described his ridiculous fake, trying to fit in farmers laugh👍
@@benhart6183 Oh right that's a nice comment then
@@benhart6183 I also thought as much for a little while but after listening again and again, I kind of feel like Steve is playing an accentuated version of himself in a way. His one anecdote in a later episode about the woman on the train that he thinks about talking to before she meets this other guy is hilarious, much in the same way that David Brent is hilarious. Steve essentially framed the story around the fragility of his ego and I definitely think he meant to do that. His harping on about Lord of the Rings or Rik Waller does get really annoying, but I think a lot of what he speaks about comes more from this nerdy late 20s incel character rather than the real Steve Merchant. Either that, or he has little to no self-awareness regarding how he comes across on the radio.
E.H. Sorensoni his bitterness often comes through, sometimes he isn’t really joking and the facade is so thin you can tell he’s just unreasonably indignant about something pointless and that gets annoying immediately in those situations
Most of the time he’s okay though, not great but ok
You look like Woody Harrelson after chemo.
Karl's in-depth look at Rasputin never fails to make me laugh "He loved cakes as well as women"
“I don’t think I had a family back then”
The best quote in humanity... of all things ever.. forever infinite.
It's 2021, but I'd still love to see a show where karl goes back to school and retakes History.
This episode woulda been even better if Ricky and Steve didn't know his grades and whatnot beforehand. Imagine the reactions
There's no way those two couldn't look
Weirdly I actually felt compelled to google which Friends episode Steve was referring to when he said it was a good episode that week. Turns out it was The One Where Joey Tells Rachel, for anyone wondering.
I love when all three are wrong. When talking about Rasputin, Karl wasn't thinking about Rapunzel. She was the girl in the tower with the long hair. Karl was thinking about Rumpelstiltskin, who wasn't living under a bridge by the way. So no one was right.
absolutely mental hahahaha this part was actually playing as i was reading this. Does that prove all the woo woo stuff karl belives in??? lmao
I do feel sorry for Karl. His childhood stories hint at his being neglected to some degree. Not to a criminal level, but his parents seem to give him him scant regard from time to time (failing to register him for his exams, for instance).
He's done well
I completely agree with you. His Mum and Dad were definitely a bit lax. I’ve met other people who had much older siblings, and it’s like their parents thought ‘I’ve done all my parenting, now. This one will just have to be along for the ride’.
For example, keeping him off school for weeks at a time; that must be classed as neglect.
And his manners are appalling. Look at the example with poor Robin in the pub.
Karl obviously loves his parents very much, but look at how much his Dad hurt his feelings with the ‘twat in the hat’ remark.
Your parents should raise you up, not put you down.
@ThePontiacBandit91 at least karl doesn't seem to express any harm/trauma as far as I can (admittedly not saying much) tell
To be fair, and I'm putting it politely, they were obviously thick as pig shit as well 😂
Grow up. Don’t be so bloody soft
47:05 "no she wasn't that nice.. but she wanted me" LOL
hahahaha Is that a euphamism??? so good
This episode is actually Karl's true debut as the star, definitively
This is the goat xfm episode
I can absolutely staunch through series 1 great fun listening to Ricky and Steve getting to know Karl
Still in 2024 after many listens, I always look forward to this episode especially when it comes to talking about his old school friends
literally listening to it at this moment so that's (insert here) years later. lmao cheers m8!
"World War II.......loved that" Brilliant.
This is one of the very best episodes.
This was definitely the breakthrough episode
"So you didn’t get any action with Shufflebotham, or her friend?"
"No. And as she got older, she went a bit off."
😂
Distracting an eccentric teacher by asking them to tell stories, I can relate to. We had a biology teacher who loved to tell two stories, one about a jar of moss he'd been growing in the classroom for years, and another story about a really hot dish he got out of the oven and burnt himself with. Good times....
That second story reminds me of when that farmer got his arm trapped in a combined harvester...
I had a science teacher who used to go hunting for big foot in Northern Hampshire, we’d have him going all lesson. He was also a spit image of Dr Weeto, which made it even more outlandish.
"Howd'ya do in history, boy?" LOL
Gutbucket absolutely killed me 😂😂😂
I try to save these for while im in work but I can't help it, perfect way to get me through work and perfect for relaxing
@@jdmhbeats I’m surprised you’re employed at all. You come across like an ignorant benefit scrounger.
33:25 - "And er...and 'e ate these cakes and it just didn't kill him and they were like "God what's goin' on?" and kept giving him more and more cakes and..." "He wasn't suspicious?" "And it didn't work so the fella said "Ah that's it I'm gonna shoot 'im." *laughs* Such a great condensed version of Yusupov's decision to shoot Rasputin xD
....‘Yep. Face full of battenburg’
Ricky messing up Karl's GCSE conversation at 4:15 is perfect timing 😂
I love how Adam cliffton writes exactly like Karl does in his diary
Only a little part of the show but Amie Mann went on to win 2 Grammys shortly after this and set up her own label
Still going strong released album last year
I like to think Steve Merchant played a small part with revival plays 🤣
Karl actually sounds like he's having fun in this episode
"Horse, head loss, dandruff, legs." - a lesser known detail of Tudor history. LoL!
It sounds like an Ian Dury song.
@Derek Knight haha! I’m singing these lyrics from now on!
Poor Karl lol, he genuinely seemed devastated at his results reveal.
This is one of my favourites. So many classic bits.
20:36 "and what does it spell out?"
Literally the mind of a child. Even the way he learned to recite the alphabet is totally unheard of.
Fun fact, I'm from the same town as Karl, I went to the same school (Ashton-on-Mersey, formerly Cecil Ave) although 10 years apart. Would have loved him as a classmate.
"Face full of Battenberg" gets me every time XD
"Did you know last week, when you gave me this, did you know my result for History?"
"No."
"That’s weird, innit."
"Yep."
Lol.
Always listened to this thinking Karl was remembering really old school memories but he was 29 so was only thinking back to like 14 years ago
It's now probably been longer since he told these stories on this radio show than it was between the actual event and the radio show.
The way Karl sings his abcs 😂😂😂
31:10 "Rapunzel you had to guess his name"
Rapunzel is the chick with the long hair.
Karl got Rasputin and a troll mixed up, Ricky got Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin mixed up. Wow.
Had to scroll wayyyyy too far for this
When Karl says no-one's gonna want to teach me at 22:57 🥺he's such a cutie in this episode
Karl was so much more lively back then. They really ran him down in the later seasons. Kinda sad but so entertaining
Yeah it's like they gave him depression
Also… he got bored and aimless and the well of charming anecdotes dried up plus Ricky eventually got to him
And made him a millionaire
multimillionaire@@TheManorBeast
This is a good episode. Before Karl annoyed the other two with his terrible features :D They're all happy.
Karl’s ‘terrible’ features make the show haha
"He was a monk."
"Mad?"
When Woolworths was a thing 😊
Once saw a guy in the job centre who wrote Woolworths as one of his job searches.
About a year after they had closed
@@aaronturner4597 lol.
Karl's alphabet song xD
JiayoJames it's very odd lol
Jake Williams of course it is 😅
20:54 Karl is so precious :)
It's quite genius I think. It takes about half the time to sing it his way vs. the traditional way
Its so sweet.
Weird this.. I've just re-read "The Further Adventures of an idiot abroad".. here Karl states: (About his Pet Magpie) "The final straw was when it popped the tyres on my Raleigh Grifter, so I rode to the water park with it and then sneaked off as it was trying to steal some bait off some fishermen. I never saw it again"..
Ricky laughed at Karl for getting Rasputin mixed up with Rapunsel, saying "no, that's the fella where you have to say his name." No, that's Rumplestiltskin.
Honestly, what did they teach back then??
I know, it's incredible how often Ricky gets things wrong when trying to correct Karl.
@@Glozboy22 It's "incredible" how many UA-cam comments are inaccurate in some way, and it's "incredible" how often people, including myself, feel the need to correct it. I know this, and I still fall victim to myself, e.g. the correct spelling is Rapunzel.
Good ol' Kerry Godliman was a guest on Deadly Sirius, and she taught me that it's much more enjoyable to hold back the urge to correct people online and simply enjoy the fascinating drivel that they spew.
24:41 I'm 21 years of age and I always believed that the PS2 only played games , I now know that it can be used as a DVD Player.
Some useful knowledge there , don't have a dvd Player, whack out your dad's old PS2... Nice.
Completely irrelevant but my dad owned a playstation 2 slim and he was walking to the local corner shop and spotted a bag with a ps2 sticking out of it outside someone's house, as if they where waiting for bin men to collect it, This was somewhere between 2009-2011. It was also chucking down with rain, he rang me up on my Nokia brick and said "better get down here I've seen a ps2 in a bag and it's getting soaked, might work, ya never know"
I ran our the door and couple streets away where he said he seen it , no coat just had to get there ASAP , there was a PS2 (the original fat 1) with no word of a lie at least 50+ games and karaoke microphone thing and even a ps2 camera, (guess it's like the Kinnect for xbox 360) Harry Potter, Simpsons hit and run THE LOT, I ran home with the bag and dried it off and plugged it in , and to my surprise it actually worked , EVERY single game , I was shocked and played all the games for hours, that was a good day.
I just couldn't believe someone would want to throw away a perfectly good ps2 , in my opinion, the games are better than what they offer now, so much more effort put into them for the Player to enjoy , not all just focused on marketing/money/graphics.
Good Times
Ps2 in my cupboard, still works to this day.
I bet that was an angry parent punishing their kid or something.
One man's trash and all that. I agree though just downloaded an emulator for some memberberries
2:49 Huh huhuhuhuhuhuhuuh, hahahahahahah, ehihihii
So weird 😂😂
I love how Ricky, when correcting Karl and his girlfriend about the troll that lives under the bridge, also gets it wrong and says it's Rapunzel.
I think he's actually thinking of Rumpelstiltskin, but he didn't live under a bridge either.
Of course, it's all Ra-Ra-Rasputin's fault
I love the way Karl just belts out statements like... "His boyfriend (who was a wrestler) strangled him."
The older I get the more I realise Ricky was talking a lot of shit back then. “GCSE’s are vocational, they’re vocationally for sixteen year olds to go on to A levels.”
What does that even mean? 🤣
Yeah lol, what nonsense.
Is it me or does Karl seem to laugh a lot more in series one? Must just be something about Gervais and Merchant's company, as much as I love them, I doubt I'd be able to stand it😂 great work, as ever Man Moth, cheers
+smalla ss yeah I'd agree, the first series was very much figuring out the humour of the show
I think Ricky and Steve were much more friendly towards Karl in season 1. So Karl actually felt appreciated. After that I felt like Ricky was just milking Karl for cheap laughs xp
They've always just been themselves. People forget, but years of content go by in a few weeks for us.
I’ve wondered that too, something about being more easily annoyed or bored of them, or it’s just funnier if he pretends not to laugh at anything, or when you are less good friends with someone you laugh with them a little easier? Idk
The2011Collector just after I commented that it got to the bit where Karl said ‘if you were me friends you’d have said nah we couldn’t find them’ and I think he’s right Why would you tell your friend they’d only got one gcse and not done well in it on live air, yeah it’s entertaining but it’d be right to make you feel some sort of way towards them
Karl's Al Capone joke killed me. I love his sly little lines hes so proud of himself
To be fair to Karl, at 12:52 where he's asking 'Do you do that before the exam' it seems like he's reliving the exam day in his head & is asking: do you register for it immediately prior, on the same day of the exam or weeks / months before.
rasputin reminds karl of his brother ha ha ha
Hilaaaaarious!
Easily my favourite episode of the lot!
19:24 "I kinda treated meself to a D and a couple of C's...." hahahaha
I've lied on every application form about results. I also didn't bother picking them up. Was too busy getting high and drunk (most likely, actually can't remember). Most employers don't even care what grades you have. The interview and showing you have interpersonal skills are far more important.
Hell, I got a job doing CAD at 17, merely by showing I had a willingness to learn.
i got an E in business. 10 years later im a regional account manager lol
Assistant *to* the Regional Account Manager
Whoopee.
I'm a regional manager. The region is my council flat.
to be fair, I think the point of getting good grades is that you can START at that level, rather than having to claw your way up.
@@johnhill2176 Class!!!
Karl's "No" at 39:00 is so dramatic.
21:00 I know Ricky and Steve are always saying that there is nobody else like Karl, but I think this is proof. He really is one of a kind.
God Karl when he did the Alphabet song XD!! Hilarious!
Ikr xD
+Daisy Chambers i think his version is better
why didn't his mom teach him the usual one? interesting family.
+WollongongWacko Because she's a woman that strokes bees and puts Tipex on a spider XD Of COURSE she was going to sing it differently than everyone else XD (No offense to her..)
***** You're a hundred percent correct about that Dais.
I've never thought to look at the Friends Reunited website. I just looked it up for the first time and it closed down just two years ago, in 2016. I suppose it was a precursor of Facebook. I knew there was email and chatrooms at the turn of the century, but I didn't know social networking was already starting up. This radio show is a great historical document. It's a pity we can't look up the profiles of these people, but maybe they're on Facebook now XD
One thing that's always bothered me about this episode is that I have 10 GCSEs and I didn't 'register' for any of them. The school does it automatically surely? Based on the go ahead of the subject teacher I presume. So Karl's history teacher must have had faith in him. But why are Ricky and Steve making out that they have personally registered for their GCSEs?
I reckon the school didn't register him to keep results up. I worked in the school where they kept the special needs or non English speaking ones in a separate classroom so the grades didn't reflect the embarrassing children. Karl is smart but he hardly spent time at school so his results would reflect that
He says he missed a lot of school too, so maybe that has something to do with it.
31:29 Dont do that while I’m drinking Karl please mate 😂😂😂😂😂😂
08700 800 1234... and Ricky did Maths. 😂😂
37:15 I just learned the term "invigilator", might not be used in the US but what a cool sounding name for a test giver.
How we going here guys? Still listening on the verge of 2024?
Karl says is Rasputin the one under the bridge? No says Jane, that's Rapunzel, and Ricky points out that that's the one where you have to say the name 3 times which is in turn wrong, that's Rumplestiltskin. 3 people couldn't be more wrong about 3 characters with names beginning with R 😂
33:33 they kept giving him more and more cakes. he wasn't suspicious? 😂😅
To this day the results bit is one of the most spectacular bits of bullying I've ever heard. The glee in Ricky's voice when he knows Karl failed the one exam is actually sad. I love these but really hate this one.
"i'd be talking to me mates, sittin' on me grifta".
Karl Didn't do well in school, but he;s a millionaire now for sure..... nice one
yeah ure right
+AdeTheBloody Tarantino dropped out at 15, those kids keep their creativity and actually make something of themselves.
So are many thieves and murderers and complete cunts. x
+BigJamook Thieves are millionaires? unless your making a clever point about the banking system, thieves are usually Thieves because the don't have money, you don't get millionaires stealing a TV.
+expressrobkill Petty thieves maybe. I was thinking more of organised crime and high end gangsters if there is such a thing. Bankers yes, of course. Politicians. My point being that money is not the measure of a man. x
Caesar's kid's name: "Comedian"
He kills Ceaser's kid...no his sister poisoned him....no his boyfriend who was a wrestler killed him....
13:50 more smerch comedy gold
Still love Karl! IMO they never bettered these original XFM shows. Apart from the office, this was their apex. f you're a fan of the K-man and you missed his cameo as the copper recently in ‘the thief, his wife and the Canoe’ he was genuinely good. Was pleasantly surprised. The whole show was good too! But seeing him call ‘bullshit’ made it all worthwhile. Would never have guessed from these days he’d ever be able to act. Miles better than in Derek. Displayed some actual nuance...
I would love to meet karls family,epsecially his dad and brother to see if there as wacky as he his....!!!
his brother was on jeremy kyle a few years back
Its on UA-cam i found it search Jeremy kyle mark and Debbie
m.ua-cam.com/video/SD5zABD9OMg/v-deo.html
His brother was on a programme about trying to find work after being recently released from prison. It’s on UA-cam
51:07 - could someone tell me what song this is please :)
The Anderson shelters 😂
I so wish Karl had given Gladiator a "9", just for old times' sake.
I wonder, do the people who insist that Karl is a fictional character think that Ricky and Steve just made up all this Friends Reunited stuff?
Christophee1987 and auntie nora and the horse in the house and the pet magpie... it's too far fetched to be all made up
your dad Karl's life is too strange to be fiction..
32:00 love Karl forcing Ricky to hold in whatever he was drinking .
The audio is fucked, probably Karls fault. All my roommate hears next door is silence interrupted by bursts of Rickys maniacal laughter.
It's not his volt
The thing with Karl is, he doesn't buy into hype or the hive mind. If he doesn't like something, he'll just say it outright. Doesn't matter that Gladiator is a classic or won loads of awards or whatever. He just didn't like it that much. Fair fucking play.
He’s right. Gladiator is lame.