An Idiot Appeal | Comic Relief

Ricky Gervais , Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington do their bit for Red Nose Day 2011.
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[@USER-G291]

Whenever Ricky says “Karl, thoughts?” You know absolute gold is coming

[@willmcpherson2]

"Go on then"

[@thomasdove2908]

When he takes that deep breath as soon as they ask him,love it!

[@TheJokerEffect]

I love how relaxed Ricky and Stephen are when Karl is with them. They don't have to worry about trying to be funny, they just keep poking the magic 8 ball of comedy that is Karl Pilkington.

[@yunngmelt1858]

Here before 600 comments

[@robwright1286]

@@yunngmelt1858 cool

[@Kaiiak97]

"Where's your brother? He died."

[@connorbool6179]

Wrong clip

[@Clive_Warren]

Give us a sandwhich!

[@remmshaft]

​@@Clive_WarrenNO. YOU CAN'T HAVE ANOTHER SANDWICH.

[@jason12794]

Am I the only one who thought that Karl was spot on with every comment?

[@1Richmar]

+jason12794 not alone, i agree.

[@genericmodz]

same mate

[@ryanje8147]

I agree as well.

[@helloitonoff]

he always is...no matter the topic

[@joebonnet4037]

Anthony Gudgeon Not really the attitude to have. I could understand if a particular charity meant a lot to you but even then you shouldn't say to basically forget a charity if they're doing a good thing.

[@WilsoMusic]

"Straight on the phone to Lennie Henry again."

[@melmiz9315]

Class 😂

[@drumgol]

"Let's have an all time low this year." I nearly choked laughing...holy crap I wasn't expecting that. Karl never disappoints

[@TheLithiumFlower]

This is funnier than any comic relief sketch I've ever seen.

[@matthewlewis8757]

I lost my shit at "JLS sat in a tin of beans"

[@celv1]

I love how he said 'Thank you' at the end as if he actually persuaded people to give money

[@mightisright]

KP has made me laugh more than John Cleese, who's probably a genius. Get more Karl on the telly.

[@varun009]

It's a lot of hassle though innit?

[@jonnyl6400]

Karl is a genius in his own way

[@jakes2503]

"not with some toad" hahahha funniest thing ever srs

[@trj_creative846]

Karl Pilkington: "let's have an all time low for charity donations this year!" 😂

[@Mr._Magee]

I can listen to these conversations all day, makes me smile. Everybody needs to smile, have a little smile.

[@undercoverbrother67]

+Andy Magee Think of a happy moment in your life.

[@MetalDreadHead]

I agree, i listen to the XFM podcasts every night to help me go to sleep. They make me so happy even when times are sad. 💜

[@markhammett397]

I don't think Karl moans at all. He simply says it how it is and cuts through all the crap. He says what a lot of people are thinking but too afraid to say it. He is just what television needs and long may his career go on. I think he would make the perfect prime minister. ..

[@vegnachaos]

ohh hell yeah id love him as Prime Minister :D

[@Ray_D_Tutto]

KP looks after me.

[@Twyzan]

No way, I love Karl and all but he definitely loves a bit of a moan. He even said once, it helps him relieve his stress.

[@reverseengineeredbot3387]

willz HatesU yeah I’m definitely sure he wouldn’t support trump

[@BLPOL]

KARL WOULD NOT MAKE A GOOD PRIME MINISTER

[@Jessebella1]

I listen to Karl ricky and steve every single night on their old xfm pod casts or watch the animated series of them on youtube and just like this ive probably heard or see them all a 1000 times and just like this they never get old! Always funny every single time regardless.

[@stratocaster1986able]

KP plumbin

[@Lloydy0105]

MarcusAurelius you’re not coming back here... FUCK OFF

[@ScottishBackgrounds]

"Get the transport" 😂

[@CaptainObvious007]

*ring ring*

[@mikeairmax23]

I'm going to take you to a fucking tribunal you bald headed wanker!!

[@Christoff070]

Get back to work

[@lawlestest]

I hope we get a scientific breakthrough and that we get to immortalize this man. What a legend.

[@microsoftword213]

Karl wouldn't go for that

[@doctor_gibbo1392]

Just need to wait until he's seventy eight then when he dies a seed drops out of him that grows another Karl.

[@esotericVideos]

"Give me some of your money, and I'll give it away"

[@adambritain5774]

You could give Karl 100 million quid and he’d be exactly the same man. He’s absolute comedy gold. There’s never a dull moment. He could read the weather and I’d be ending myself.

[@socialpiratekeyboardwarrio6546]

He wouldn’t dare tell Susann she would be looking to go on holidays

[@claytux7755]

He would be the same but he would get his Boiler fixed

[@tomsurtees9393]

“The other day in the paper” that elephant story he told ten years before this 🤣

[@emyrwyn604]

love the sincere 'thank you' at the end! Brilliant

[@jul30ie]

I don’t know why but Karl’s closing ‘thank you’ really cracked me up 😂😂

[@leroybrown1994]

I come back to this every so often and it’s still just as funny. I miss these 3 blokes.

[@TheScottishSaurus]

i lost it at all time low this year

[@OliverBeatson]

This is very cleverly done. Carl is clearly very sharp and the act is a pretty slick way of giving some publicity to a lot of problems that are glanced over.

[@alexmaguire9303]

Everything he said is absolutely true !

[@aliens4143]

No. Certainly not. Idiot.

[@nonenone2632]

The dole thing was bang on point

[@mattclayton8474]

4 years later and it still is

[@Cowbelly3000]

Karl relates to 4 different topics that were already used on the Ricky gervais show "plumbing u bends business" , " slippers for elephant ", "avoiding clipboard people" , "Edna going on holiday with a tan"

[@TWisM009]

He's just telling the same stories to a different audience...

[@MartinEiken]

I noticed that as well. I really hope he is genuine and that none of the things hes done are scripted, but after watching this I'm not too sure anymore. It's almost word for word exactly the things he has said before

[@TamrielicScholar]

@@MartinEiken ok so if you tell the same story twice I'll assume you're lying, what a normal way of thinking

[@simoneroets4382]

To be fair, my fiance probably heard all my stories at least 5 times. If he had new stories for every new show / interview, I'd have though he was scripted at best, a pathological liar at worst.

[@Christoff070]

@@MartinEiken course he's genuine. Rocky explained it best in one xfm episode, where a reporter called Chris Campling doubted Karl and suggested it was all scripted. So Ricky said it takes him and Steve about a month to write half an hour of script for their tv shows, so how long would it take to write for two hours of xfm with Karl, every week? Physically impossible to write such genius that Karl has.

[@Christoff070]

Steves laugh at the end always tickles me

[@mattlm64]

5:00 Karl is spot on!

[@aliens4143]

Makes no logical sense whatsoever, but if one has an ideological grudge...

[@PiglipsMaximus]

Hahaha when karl says "Give me your money ill give it away!" Then the head movement 😂

[@WildSheldonMarch]

Karl is 100% correct. This was filmed 10 years ago, and there are more hands out now than ever before.

[@JamesV1]

Maybe what you take away from that shouldn't be "more hands out now than ever before" but we are in a situation where more people need help, and there is more opportunities to help others.

[@charliejones3119]

@@JamesV1 so why can't the charities take a bigger cut

[@mmc1086]

And what do you suggest for people who are unemployed because of lockdown? Who are applying for jobs and getting nowhere? I have a degree and experience.

[@rogueuniversities6866]

nonsense

[@alexs7028]

@@JamesV1maybe you should start questioning the charities, that they’re not as charitable as they claim to be. How can so much money be raised on a yearly basis yet things keep getting worse and worse… doesn’t add up.

[@YangSing1]

"Well let let's go mental, no, let's not go mental" That part made me lol.

[@rangerwhite7091]

Karl's honesty is just brilliant. That "thankyou" at the end is lol funny. Those XFM podcasts are comedy gold.

[@JaixBlud]

If Karl ran for president, this country would be saved, he doesn't even realise how much of a genius he is. Straight up, no bullshit, straight to the point and brutally honest, and entertaining at the same time, unlike the majority of polititions who run the country now. What a top bloke

[@crinihendrix1350]

Isn't that what you already have as president?

[@rebelfriend1818]

lol no

[@andyb2830]

Love Karl's "douchey good guy" dance at 3.15

[@PROUDCANADIANGIRL]

just finished the best of Dougie....im a care giver for seniors here and I couldnt tell you how much we need a Dougie to ream out greedy kids when grandma passes away...that ring scene was pretty spot on...sadly... Derek ist nothing but a masterpiece..is it cause I work in a pace like this nursing home and treat all the residents like my own grandparents? either way...I LOVED IT ...well done fellas

[@veronica4004]

These 3 have been my summer 2020 entertainment. Love Karl

[@shaneweightman]

i agree with almost all Karls views could be my twin

[@christonamtb4089]

shaneweightman have you got a head like a fucking orange?

[@stud105]

+shaneweightman he wasn't taking the piss out of you. That's what ricky says to karl. head like a fucking orange...😁

[@crashdudes911]

Thought you would get that joke mate, agree with you by the way

[@draekon8995]

Go to the doctors

[@davidwhitfield7864]

"Let's have a bit of a lull. An all-time low this year."

[@afatasidylan]

every time ricky is listening to karl go on and hes got this big smile and starts chuckling leading up to a big laugh, i start laughing every time. man i love seeing these three talk about anything.

[@Jessebella1]

Still listening and still watching lol

[@lindamon5101]

Thanks god for subtitles

[@DonJoshua66]

Karl's an unrecognized genius

[@atbglenn]

Karl is the funniest person alive. What's even funnier, he doesn't know it.

[@davidwood3761]

“Let’s have a bit of a lull this year” 🤣🤣🤣

[@mrlozmoore]

deafkids. com haha! : )

[@theteenspirit]

I remember as that finished it cut back to studio with Claudia winkleman in stunned silence before saying ‘…I think what the boys mean…is give generously..?’

[@Joolz1982]

Amazing!! As usual.

[@willbournerv2259]

Most of the money raised for charity, especially for comic relief, gets privately pocketed

[@sarahparsons5092]

Thats awful.

[@ThumpRat]

Evidence?

[@tobymcelhinney5354]

@@ThumpRat Trust me bro

[@Fonzleberry]

100% agree with Karl about people on the dole giving the tax payers money away.

[@NC-ck5oj]

Except Karl doesnt actually believe that in the real world

[@gillianm9185]

Comedy genius you are Ricky !

[@nesspriestley249]

I love you Karl! Please never change!!!🥰

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

Has to be the funniest vid I have seen on You tube.

[@TheOmlink]

This trio has become a legend!

[@7288georgeinstA]

Ohhh always smile wen I see u 3 pop up on you tube 😂

[@nicolalocke5409]

Lol I think you should make birthday cards with Karl's voice singing happy birthday....... We all would love that.

[@danielwalls]

How ironic, a 'Head and Shoulders' shampoo commercial before watching a video featuring Mr. Dilkington.

[@MetalDreadHead]

Karl Pilkington is My Hero 💜

[@trippplefive]

Gervais has a nice office.

[@tiffcat77]

I'm in luv w Karl fantastic we need him here in USA

[@D0W666]

America doesn't deserve Karl Pilkington... you people like James Corden ffs

[@JP-ci4sh]

I loved his comment about people on the doll giving money away...that tickled me😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mcgeough10]

Love this ahaha. So true. Much love carl!

[@tonituesdaymusic]

'Stay in the woods. Stay green and stay safe.'

[@MrBrianNZ]

Great that Lenny Henry was the one to get knighted & Curtis is still waiting

[@bleeptester]

Yes I love his laugh, its so funny.

[@ryanlewis4556]

i agree with karl, every year hundreds of millions of pounds are given to africa to pay for clean water and mosquito nets, yet every year it seems to get worse and worse. How about we actually solve the problem instead of just helping 2% of them.

[@mikecf9580]

It isn't getting worse. It's progressively getting better each year. That's not to say that millions of lives couldn't be saved every year if us privileged folk lived a little less lavishly for a few years though.

[@ryanlewis4556]

money shouldnt go towards mosquito nets, it should go towards research for a cure for HIV and a water system that pumps water from the sea to where those people live, if they can pump oil across africa they can do the same with water

[@mikecf9580]

***** You make it sound like malaria isn't a huge problem that's the most easy and immediate thing to address.

[@ryanlewis4556]

but we've got a cure for malaria, and by the way i dont try to sound mean or anything

[@mikecf9580]

***** So? We've got enough food to feed everyone a balanced meal every day and enough money to house them as well. That doesn't mean that the people that actually need those things get them.

[@leonreaper90]

well you'd think with all those millions every year there must be clean water everywhere by now

[@six8031]

I love it when Karl starts a little improv and then Ricky jumps on it to get some more out of Karl.

[@Missrose100]

Love this guy because he's got it bang on he's only speaking truth

[@Andreh78]

This guy is my hero.

[@MrSniperscope]

the voice of the people!

[@sdgsdgsdgish]

This is Gold

[@MetalMatt]

That thank you at the end 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@neilaarondudgeon]

"You cross the road, there's another one there, what am I going to do?" Just freeze.

[@ISetYourFaceOnFire]

I like how Karl says words, like toad. hahaha

[@jameswyattranks]

Even the “thank you” at the end makes me laugh

[@WilliamAhlert]

when he brings up JLS..ohhhh no the flashbacks are coming now

[@flynnyboy99]

Thank You

[@openyourlies]

Brilliant.

[@noveltybobel]

I remember watching this. The audience in the comic relief studio (who were watching this video) just didnt get it at all. When they switched the shot back to the studio there was next to no reaction from the audience at all.

[@sahilprashar567]

great comedy loved it ,,i know they were really promoting and had a campaign which would be understood by the masses...they made their point indirectly by saying the opposite of what everyone always says ,,,fgenius

[@willb7868]

love it no1

[@zabey786]

"an all time low." i love karl. oh and thank you.

[@sbox001]

F-ing brilliant!!

[@harrynelson9203]

Thank you 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@organzola40]

I freeking love KP!

[@q3znw6j88aywnwy]

Karl just said exactly what he said on RGS

[@jameswatson1590]

I thought I had heard this before

[@MrThetipsta]

+k And?

[@Penthox]

+k Because thats what he thinks?

[@jameswatson1590]

+Penthox but it is not the first time

[@Penthox]

James Watson He probably puts on a bit

[@bensimps123]

little karl saying thank you at the end ..aawww

[@jpetch95]

'Straight back on to Lenny Henry again' - Genius.

[@Zorocanify]

LOL love Karl's face at 2:02

[@connorscoarsefishingjourne7680]

So right with the dole comment 😂😂😂

[@91Holdem]

HAHAHAHAHHAAHAH he always goes for plumbing supplies "lets have an all time low!" hahaha he is too good

[@davidtag6599]

The untold truth is that the money ends up in corrupt hands and there's been evidence showing that if ended up being spent on arms in one case! They should keep the money here and send the hard supplies needed like medicine and vaccines.

[@Tarka98]

lol he's obsessed with his u-bends!

[@eyemoeba]

fucking gold.

[@legend9177]

"can I have a holiday? no you can't we got a deadline to meet" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@pacco9532]

The boilers knackered

[@ironduke3376]

Couldnt agree more.....

[@AbadyDoubleX]

dont you just love ricky's lough