Karl Pilkington - Organising charity

Karl Pilkington's advice on how charity should be organised.
From "The Ricky Gervais Show" series 3, episode 2.

[@hamishwoodland7424]

"He died" is still one of the best unintentional punchlines ever.

[@shyjames83]

Hamish Woodland Pretty much all of Karl’s punchlines are unintentional...that’s what makes him so funny

[@Station9.75]

The best unintentional punchline Karl ever did was in an interview with Warwick Davis, where he said Warwick's been in everything. Then plucks Labyrinth, as an example of something he hasn't been in, out of no where and Warwick has to break the news to him.

[@brettgallagher5306]

I must be missing something. How is it an unintentional punchline / why is it so funny?

[@corpsemachine6949]

@@brettgallagher5306 hes not joking when he says it but it's funny so that's why its unintentional.

[@Christoff070]

Every second thing Karl's says is a punchline tho 🤣

[@harrychalmers2141]

"who's let you in?"

[@enthrallingusername]

I burst when he said that

[@fireclaw2]

That's the million dollar question. The asshole that let him in could've lead him to the fridge or a cafe.

[@oscarpye8151]

Best part of it 😂

[@CommissarKane]

"A vase with shit in it" had me dying with laughter.

[@amruthagirish1532]

Karl is right about companies using charity as a means to just build their brand rather than solving actual problems

[@AA-hg5fk]

Yup, same concept with greenwashing

[@PingingAndThat]

"I'm blind..." "Right... Well ya not hungry are ya!'

[@dickkickem8422]

Bit peckish...

[@fctylerfc]

@@dickkickem8422 that was funny xD

[@StrangerE0ns]

I’m blind “Well you’re not hungry are you?” Help I’m blind and hungry “Who let you in?”

[@nlgatewood]

He's actually making a good point about how charity is organized today and how companies use it lol

[@JonJones-x5f]

There's companys who jump on the back of this 😂

[@Milan_Smidt]

*''Sticking a plaster over a hole or something, and the plaster comes off it's a problem again.''* - Mark Twain

[@NxDoyle]

"I don't remember saying that!" - Mark Twain.

[@thesprawl2361]

The baffling wonder of YT comments: an identical post, only posted by someone else three years before this one, only gets a tenth of the likes.

[@vocalist92]

Its just a vase with shit in it XD classic

[@miguelsilva9118]

I love it.

[@enigma7784]

That had me in stitches

[@picks_1993]

3:39

[@OfficialFinlayJones]

"NO! You're not having another sandwich" .... You can actually hear the anger in his voice... Literally laughed like Ricky did when I first heard this!

[@JungianHeights]

The animation of the slapping of the hand makes it even more hilarious 😂

[@tinkertime7165]

“It’s just a vase with sh*t in it.” ROFL

[@jacobs752]

The best part of this is how they expect karl to have a fully fleshed out solution, but when karl asks ricky what his solution is he just goes "oh i dont know, i dont pretend to know" after pretending to know for 5 minutes. Karl's solution at the end is essentially sam kinison's bit on world hunger.

[@Xenomorthian]

Yeah I notice they tend to hypocritically hold Karl to higher standards of scrutiny they don't hold themselves to and its not like as if Karl's idea is totally wrong like what he's essentially saying is provide education on how to produce their own food and irrigate instead of just providing food (which can never be consistently spread out) which just delays the problem not solve it or if the land they're living on is unsuitable for human life relocate (and of course there are questions of the land being their ancestral homelands that complicate the matter but Karl doesn't know that)

[@brandonhaygood5286]

​@Xenomorthian I think it's all intentional. I think all three are aware of the comedic potential of their personality traits and exaggerate them for comedic effect. They're all probably mostly like that in real life but I think Ricky and Steve are more interested in bringing out Karl's funniest aspects, like mining for gold, than actually being fully in the right.

[@schpleeb]

where's your brother? 'e died... - one of the best utterings of all time

[@oswald2799]

His entire argument is basically "give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, feed him for a life time"

[@HS-ig4ly]

except more retarded

[@I_Mark_Mills]

@@HS-ig4ly Is he wrong though? No. He's absolutely right about charities doing it profit and to look good.

[@choclateorange8275]

@Peter Phillips you sound like a fucking nutter mate.

[@crasnicul3371]

@@choclateorange8275 Nah I think he’s spot on honestly. Look at live aid and what it’s achieved when the whole reason was “let’s help starving africans”. It was a massive PR move, meanwhile africa has doubled it’s population but it’s still starving. That money could’ve been used here, not like there aren’t any homeless or hungry people in Britain.

[@choclateorange8275]

@@crasnicul3371 i mean it shouldn't be bob geldof's job to solve poverty, it should be the responsibility of developed governments to invest in foreign aid, but what he's talking about is colonialism - by-and-large the reason why live aid was a thing at all

[@Luminousreign]

This is actually how the charity stuff pretty much works. The U.N. chooses to raise awareness on a certain issue, and the corresponding charities have a good year

[@SteampunkResistance]

How Karl protects his sandwich "No you're not having it! You're not having it, no." lol

[@thesegundovolante]

Karl is spot on here

[@WackyAnteater]

"There's no water yadopeycunt, that's why we're starving yadopeycunt"

[@robbiepowell3157]

The base of Carl's idea is actually quite decent and makes quite a lot of sense.

[@mitchellneuhoff9946]

No you’re right the base is good it’s how he wants to do it that’s the problem it’s a little more complicated than that

[@sirraymondluxuryyacht8131]

I lost it when the blind guy comes in and Karl asks "Is this a different person?" hahaaaa

[@JacOfArts]

Karl has a point though. Give a man a fish, he’ll survive for a day, teach a man to fish, he’ll survive for a lifetime.

[@danielhuelsman76]

True, but there's no water. Then again, if it's inhospitable, why live there?

[@JacOfArts]

Daniel Huelsman exactly, “there’s no water” that has been prime real estate since Mesopotamia. If you choose to live somewhere with no water, that’s kinda your own fault.

[@JacOfArts]

Daniel Huelsman ok that’s an excellent point if that’s true

[@thesprawl2361]

@@JacOfArts They don't 'choose' to live there, they're born there through sheer luck, just like you were lucky enough(I'm assuming) to be born in the west. And even if the families could afford to move and find a better life, people like you would complain about them immigrating.

[@JacOfArts]

The Sprawl I wouldn’t, actually. They can absolutely choose to go places though, but I’m not part of the ‘Red Scare anti-immigration party’ everyone thinks America is a part of.

[@bruhdiconwassi5074]

It’s so weird, every time Stephen talks my mind just literally goes “Wheatley” because I’ve played Portal for years before I knew who he was. He’s hilarious tho

[@zeeweed150]

He’s also Pi staker from hot fuzz

[@LihoShammy]

To be fair, Karl has a point about most charities being largely useless. Even disregarding the whole subject of giving useless things, you don't fix things like world hunger by constantly giving them food. It just ends up creating a society that relies on constant handouts to survive. Plus, the problem is going to become worse because the amount of mouths to feed is only going to increase.

[@patrinizer346]

Just let em die out then, Oh wait, they fuck like rabbits and have a shit ton of kids. Never mind then.

[@minimongu123]

Of course there is water, there are almost 900’000 hectares of certified organic agricultural land, land that gets watered. Its the infrastructure that needs sorting out. Majority of Charities don't want change because it helps them raise money.

[@BananaMike780]

He's got a point about the laptop thing, though.

[@0tispunkm3y3r]

The animator had a field day with this. Absolutely gold.

[@DarkAutumn3D]

"Do you think we should go out every month, every year, with sandwiches. Is that your answer? Like some sort of buffet - an 'all you can eat' thing, once a year?" I love when he's getting angry and running out of breath lol.

[@josephine9975]

I love the zooming in of 4:30 and Ricky's way of telling Karl how his idea doesn't work. It's just hilarious.

[@jannash8334]

I've just starting watching these videos, and I've been binge-watching for hours! Whoever does the animating is a genius. I've laughed so much, I hurt all over. Thanks, I need to laugh. Love you guys!

[@SimHarrison]

"I don't know it's sort of sticking a plaster over a hole or something and the plaster comes off, it's a problem again" -Mark Twain

[@themysteriouscatperson9483]

The podcast: Ricky and Steve: hey Karl have you got a solution to this? Karl: uh lemme think, sure Ricky and Steve: THATS A STUPID SOLUTION YOU MORON AHAHAHA” Karl: right what’s your solution then? Ricky and Steve: um idk

[@qty1315]

I think the reason why this podcast was so popular at the time was because it appealed to a very specific type of person that dominated internet culture at that time. It's the type of person that will lecture anyone who will listen about how they totally wouldn't have fallen for the Theranos scam or the Fyre Festival scam, but you know damn well they would have fallen for it because you've seen them falling for crypto rug pulls and believing a ton of similar lies. I think my favourite Karl moment was when he predicted that augmented reality would probably be the big thing in the future and Ricky Gervais laughed at how stupid the idea was. Just a few years later we had Google Glass which... failed because no one wanted to wear the dumb looking glasses, but now we have a decent amount of AR games, and one of them is the incredibly successful Pokemon Go.

[@slim9484]

“well...bit peckish” only thing gervais has ever said that made me bust a gut laughing

[@TheMjdollar]

Karl is talking in a roundabout way about economic ... Unlimited wants and limited resources. Genius

[@rifow1]

Tbf Karl has a point, this is something which is called effective altruism. It looks at the most effective way for donations to go as far as possible whilst making the most change.

[@cartmanofsp]

Love how the people in the meeting leave, lmao.

[@t0p-D]

These conversations are timeless.

[@xxtalzixx]

"where's your brother?" "he died." fucking shat myself! hahahahahahaha!!!

[@thepontiacbandit7874]

Karl really commits with the role play!

[@TheHuntermj]

If we spent the entire charity budget on providing advanced farms and water infrastructure it would probably solve most of the problems.

[@qty1315]

In practice that just becomes a more expensive version of giving them a sandwich. It's like how people are always saying "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime," but they forget that to catch a fish you need tools. You need a fishing rod, a net, a boat, some bait, as well as patience and some practical experience. But, what if the fishing rod breaks and you have no way of getting a new one. What do you do then? Now, imagine that with big, expensive farming equipment and water infrastructure. What happens when the tractors break? What happens when the pipes break? Heck, it's a third-world country, what happens if the tractors keep getting stolen, and the water infrastructure keeps getting harvested for resources? It's why I think people tend to go for the "I'm gonna just give you a fish to eat," in practice, because the alternative tends to be giving someone a perfectly good fishing rod every day and listening to a new story of how it got broken/lost/stolen the next day.

[@vantheman1238]

Karl Pilkington is the perfect example of someone who can grow and become more than he or anyone else imagined. Certainly more than Ricky Gervais imagined. Sick of it, the TV programme on Sky One, is Karl’s show. He wrote it. When you think of that and how far Karl has come since saying that he didn’t know if his brain controlled him or he controlled his brain really is, literally mind blowing.

[@BetterOnichThanSorry]

Oim ungry gimme a sandwhich ne-ne-neeeh NO! YOWR NOT 'AVIN A BWROODY SANDWICH!! I like how he gets genuinely mad at fictional Africans

[@kyledrummond9750]

BetterOnichThanSorry oooh my god hahaha hahaha

[@corpsemachine6949]

He got mad at his own fucking thoughts,what a bald headed twat.Poor Karl

[@radicalskullz2305]

"Could I have a sandwich?" " where's your brother?" "He died" I was dying!

[@rangegod98]

Not as much as his brother.

[@radicalskullz2305]

ha

[@TipTheScales27]

A vase with shit in it had me dying too

[@ujlt7198]

the reason it's so funny is because he just said that to himself.

[@bastardmario7090]

@@ujlt7198 i think it's more his comedic timing tbh.

[@freakkiller277]

Listening to the podcasts is great but seeing a cartoon to go with it just makes it that much better!

[@Paul-A01]

If you're living in a place with literally no water, moving sounds like a great idea.

[@seanieboi1234]

"It's just vase full of shit in there!" I DIED

[@youhustlinmeboi5335]

Carl is the realist person on the planet

[@jubaldurden4638]

They mock him, but he has more common sense than both of them.

[@amiradil1060]

He is normal person with genuine and genius thoughts. Ricky and Steve are arrogant and indifferent rich kids now.

[@jubaldurden4638]

@@amiradil1060 - Karl is pretty wealthy now too. He's a multi-millionaire that still makes 6 figures a year.

[@youhustlinmeboi5335]

I think Carl could make 7 figures a year and still be real but unfortunately for us the more money Carl makes the less we will see him. He works to live he doesn't live to work. But it certainly was a pleasure watching someone like Carl Pilkington in all his glory. It really did help me through some dark times , I never thought and bet Carl never thought he would inspire so many people with depression...........just being himself. Love you Carl, we all will miss you , hope you enjoy pottering around getting stuff done.

[@jubaldurden4638]

@@youhustlinmeboi5335 - I was replying to someone that was attacking wealth as part of the cause in the difference... but thanks for making my point that wealth didn't play a role.

[@beyondbackwater4933]

Karl is right. They need educating. Look at how Rhodesia was before it was Zimbabwe. Look at Australia how well the farms to there despite how dry it can be.

[@amitkenan3878]

But Steven is also right. Not all of these lands have the natural resources to grow food

[@althepsyphros3314]

The thing is, Karl's right lol! Country's have been "helped" by charities for decades, but are still in just the same state. We need big change, fundamental, big scale change, not donations.

[@69nixon69]

It's just a vase with shit in it!

[@SinnohGreen]

Karl is painted out to be ignorant but he’s pointing out really important stuff like how charities aren’t as efficient as they should be. If we could spend a year focussing all our efforts into fixing one global problem at a time, eventually maybe we could sort it out full time so it’s not even a problem anymore. If you’re trying to sort out 10,000 problems at once how the fuck are you ever gonna make progress?

[@Skizze37]

"I don't even pretend to know." No, you definitely do.

[@makara80]

Karl's uncompromising observations on modern charity are some of the most pertinent and accurate of anything he's ever said - well, proposing to finance only a single charitable cause per year excepted of course! He also unwittingly exposes Ricky and Steve for being the stereotypically faux compassionate, virtue-signalling celebrity tossers they so blatantly are to boot! Good stuff.

[@roachdoggjr7393]

Wouldn’t say Steve was acting that way. He just wanted to hear Karl’s idea. Ricky definitely used Karl’s ignorance on subjects to show off his intelligence, wisdom and moral values. All terms I use loosely in this case.

[@prettyhollypolly7553]

Exactly!

[@azmanabdula]

@@JohnnyBGoode-xn9mo Well Karls right Especially about the food situation You have people living in a place where they themselves cant produce enough food to survive Whats giving food to them going to do? Make more hungry people...

[@azmanabdula]

@@JohnnyBGoode-xn9mo Says the moron antifascist "No, it just means you don’t understand what the situation is." You're an idiot " It’s not that there’s literally not enough food. " No its that they dont fucking produce any

[@azmanabdula]

@@JohnnyBGoode-xn9mo " they help people make a sustainable future." Why dont they work for it like our ancestors had to Fancy sitting in a situation of despair, and doing nothing Now imagine this but it never ends

[@cordovalark5295]

"I'm a bit a peckish yeah." ROFL.

[@tedmitten8832]

Feeds the hungry once. *Ignore them for two decades after*

[@salsamancer]

Interesting idea. Just deciding to tackle one problem at a time, combined effort. I wonder if it could work.

[@araxa8]

true pretty interesting, with hunger it could work, other issues might just be harder

[@NeedleHitsTheGroove]

3:39: Brilliant homage to "Platoon" (think you can even hear Barber's Adagio for Strings in the backbround). Good work.

[@wanttojoin]

"I'm blind and hungry cos I don't know where the fridge is" "Who's let you in?" Laughed for about 5 minutes at that, had to replay the video. Gotta love Karl Pilkington

[@MegaPikachu5]

Karl Pilkington was the first thanos

[@tranidite]

@David Davesby Please don't tell me your pfp is you. If it is jesus christ you're the definition of a mmmmmmmmmmmm'lady redditor.

[@Mesk33]

It's true! If they focus all efforts on lets say malaria they could cure it and move on to the next problem.

[@pavanm7590]

" ee died"

[@vnhcoltridge]

I like the part that comes after, when Ricky pretends to be a starving man asking for a sandwich xD

[@kykahl]

LOL turns out, they still do it in a hole. "so its just a vase with shit in it" LOL holy hell...

[@moistfarticles6211]

I absolutely agree with him on how just giving leads nowhere (even if It’s a nice gesture and has It’s place in the picture of course). Take third world nations for example, the end goal should be to aid them just enough so that they are able to effectively steer the ship by themselves. Charities on mass scales tend to stunt the internal economic growth of these nations anyway. Why buy clothes made by the local guy when we can get bags of them for free?

[@Technickcall]

I love that there was no mention of the brother before hand

[@CaliforniaJazzy]

"Where's your brother? He died." Oh God, i almost pissed myself!

[@S....]

I agree with Karl completly on that.

[@jackallenproductions]

I think one of the things I cringe about looking back at these, is that they've typecast Karl to such a specific role, the butt of the joke, that he gets mocked even when he's bringing up reasonable points. Sure, he doesn't articulate them the best, but their is valid discourse to be had around the premises. Simple food aid it just propping up an unsustainable system that is only more and more exacerbated. More food = larger population = more mouths to feed in a region that cant support the artificially inflated population. There was a discussion to be had there, albeit not in this format. But handwaving away the concepts Karl brings up and the audience then adopting the same mindset shrinks our ability to properly make sense of these issues.

[@placebodomingo3277]

The angry Karl animation is genius

[@volafox]

I love how Ricky sounds like he's laying a freaking egg when he laughs!

[@mqbitsko25]

The man has a point. We're not solving a damn thing. Leaving aside for the moment the question of whether you can solve ANY social ills just by throwing money at them we're not spending enough on any given problem to give it a fair hearing. Three problems: 1. Is money going to solve it AT ALL? Is that even possible? Nobody ever asks. 2. If money will solve it, are we spreading the available money around too much? Spreading it too thin? 3. Is the money being spent efficiently, or is "welfare" in general just a self-serving, self-interested organism that consumes resources to maintain itself? "Dependence" is currently, by FAR, the largest industry on the planet. Nothing else is even in the same league. And in terms of problems solved per dollar spent it's hard to imagine a bigger waste of money.

[@TherealL394]

Love the fact I get served adverts for charities at the start of this video!

[@Chrinik]

Why do they call Karl Ill-informed, when he is absolutely right. Instead of trying to feed the people who are hungry and sick because there is no water and the ground is an agricultural pain in the ass, they should move to more habbitable places... If you look at it in a smaller scale, if I wish to live out in the middle of the Sahara, and I complain to you "Gimme food and water, theres nothing of that here but I need it so much!" you would totally tell me "Well you wanted to live there..."

[@MistaMase102]

what? people with no food or water or money moving to somewhere where they can drink, grow food and make some money... how would that ruin the economy in any way?

[@arealhuman826]

To be fair, if there's no water, then moving is the only option

[@harrytaylor20]

Karl makes good points as it will be the same every year. Sometimes its the way he says it but he knows what he is on about.

[@ArtypNk]

Nothing is set in stone, and you don't have to start planting right away. You always can use rainforest plant matter and some imported fertilizer to enrich the soil somewhat, or add some volcanic ash or whatever, put in some fast growing genetically engineered algae with minimal requirements and short lifespan, use the redirected river water to feed it, it dies, adds additional nutrients to soil.

[@andyh7777]

I wonder what would happen though, if we put all donations worldwide that are normally diversely spread and put them towards one thing at a time. I would imagine people would suffer on a micro level, but grand scheme of things globally in 50 years a lot of issues would be solved

[@gnack420]

You can't just throw money at problems to fix them...

[@andyh7777]

@@gnack420 nope, but it often helps. I feel like a research team looking at cancer cures would do a better job if they could pay the rent

[@Kee2Oz]

Comedy or not, Karl's thoughts are rational.

[@GrilloJ123]

I have always thought he is a brilliant mind while others shrug him off as an idiot.

[@kly45]

+GrilloJ123 that's because you're an idiot

[@ihatenumberinemail]

+Aimee Frost What's wrong with that?

[@TheGrayRoast]

Hi Karl

[@williamarmstrong8337]

And ricky's are just basic cunty.

[@DoneDragon1]

Best thing to do is to build infrastructure and create commerce in the impoverished nations, look how well Japan is doing after the U.S.a updated all their production methods after ww2?

[@krashd]

Japan was an industrialised nation, just because they built houses out of wood doesn't mean they had to rely on toothfairies to bring them their battleships and planes...

[@509Gman]

Yeah, US tried that real hard in a lot of places that weren’t Germany and Japan, didn’t work out much.

[@clem-hk2di]

"there is no water there, so they should move?" Well yes of course they should, our ancestors did it thousand years ago, they didn't stay in a place where they couldn't live, even animals move if there is no water or food

[@troywright359]

Yes, move and take over more fertile land from those who already have it. That's the ancestor way!

[@clem-hk2di]

@@troywright359 survival of the fittest

[@CorellianSmuggler]

Love the animation on this show :)

[@tommyjd12345]

I never realised Sean Penn was blind

[@victoriaduffy7666]

interesting how he cant say its anymore than 'that programme when i was in the jungle' -- what a gem was waiting around the corner for us to witness :P

[@509Gman]

Victoria Duffy this show was on HBO, while “An Idiot Abroad” was on Science Channel. It might be contractual instead of “can’t be bothered”

[@thecircleoft.e.d2121]

“‘Ere’s some seeds.” “We don’t have any water!” “Well, that’s the point to call it a lost cause, really.” XD! Never have I ever heard of someone being given a good backup plan, and immediately throw it away as spectacularly stupid as that!

[@hhautala]

I'am with Karl in this issue. Just giving them food is not helping anything. it's just pushing solution further and harder to do. Nature is looking for balance and fighting agains it will just make the fall harder.

[@ArtypNk]

Terraforming. You use charity money to bring in rich soil from nearby unused rain forest regions, you dig wells/redirect rivers, you set up communal farms.

[@arckocsog253]

ArtypNk You have to preserve Rain forests, they are the lungs of the Earth.

[@elfinstuff8934]

I know this is a year old but it's untrue, a VAST majority of oxygen comes from ocean algae.

[@SpencerLemay]

Karl is always right.

[@jfmc2581]

Carl is 100% correct with this one!!!

[@isabellacrump103]

4:51 That laugh is so contagious XD

[@Derikimi]

Karl really fed a person once and thought he solved hunger.

[@Capt.SlightlyBlueBeard]

"who let you in?!"

[@TheOpenmindStudio]

Even though they're mocking him, they're missing the point that Karl generally hates that we waste stuff in countries that have access to a ridiculous amount of food which we chuck; while other people out there can't even grow potatoes and have no water. He has the WISDOM to want it fixed, but doesn't have the INTELLIGENCE to figure out how to do it.

[@grthjryrd7552]

Like you

[@gregnonam7402]

"Well a bit peckish."

[@VividPagan]

It's so weird to me how Karl has always been like about ... 17% right on most topics.

[@mitchellneuhoff9946]

It doesn’t really matter when he’s 83% wrong.

[@XenosFiles]

His punchlines are accidental genius

[@MrSpud900]

1:50 “who’s let you in”

[@joesmoe6947]

“You can give a horse a sandwich and feed him for a day. You can build a horse a subway and feed him for a lifetime.” - Mark Twain

[@jimlivio2985]

“It’s just a vase, with shit in it.”

[@FrankandRaul]

Even if his solutions are half-baked, at least he's trying. He's got the right idea, trying to cure the disease instead of just treating it. And when Karl asks, "What do you think we should do?" Ricky and Steve offer no solution, and just keep making fun of him. They act intellectually superior, but it comes to the big questions like this, they're even more clueless than Karl.

[@scythegod69]

he actually has some good points..