The Ricky Gervais Show - Karl's Predictions

[@notmyname9261]

Karl predicted Google Glass. Ricky predicted that it would be pointless and shite. Both correct.

[@jimmy5391]

coughcoughsigh truth

[@V86_D]

Whilst describing what Google Glass would be like to a friend, I said "you could read the news and keep your eyes on the road. You nod your head to maximize the screen." He floored me with his reply. "What happens if you sneeze then? You'd go into the back of a lorry."

[@ryanb.7751]

It's not exactly google glass though is it? It's not really an awkward smart phone that's also a pair of glasses, it's a pair of glasses that overlays against real life objects around you and allows you to view them as something else. However, it is a simplified, though instead streamlined description of the Microsoft Hololense.

[@PaleManSteve83]

Microsoft is coming out with augmented reality. Karl's pretty spot on.

[@lenowin]

The idea is 50 years old or even older, he didn't predict shit.

[@lefinlay]

He predicted VR and the protein shake/health smoothie craze. Fair play to him

[@jburtson]

LeSingeEstSurLaBranche he predicted AR

[@jburtson]

I know, I'm saying what he was describing was more like AR, augmented reality.

[@marcellanthier8359]

LeSingeEstSurLaBranche augmented reality.

[@simplySY8]

There had already been VR and AR (really bad but it worked) before Karl said that but I get what he was getting at.

[@JVarley9001]

He also predicted me not wearing pants.

[@dmo8895]

karl predicted augmented reality glasses!

[@kingderpygoat]

And breakfast/protein shakes

[@donktheclown]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/naTGmYKIm9CKrck

[@ghost79ish]

Karl is not stupid. He has a difficult time articulating his thoughts... Big difference.

[@King_Athelstan01]

VR

[@AD-df5tm]

@@kingderpygoat protein shakes have been around since the 1950's lol.

[@MrHeavy466]

Karl is quite admirable: he puts forth his ideas regardless of what Steve or Ricky say, even though he is totally aware of what they're doing.

[@jayg7714]

MrHeavy466 you do know this is all a set up, they don’t actually think he’s a moron

[@Sam_T1021]

@@jayg7714 they definitely do think he's a moron. Listen to the old radio shows where it all started

[@danielosullivan4210]

@@Sam_T1021 they’re all comedians. Karl included This is his character. The simpleton It’s brilliant, but it’s an act

[@skepticusmaximus184]

@@danielosullivan4210 I rather think its agreed upon that he'll be the brunt of the laughs, but he's got the simple minded nature in real life.

[@EvanHighamGray]

@@danielosullivan4210 There are videos of his brother and his analysis of the world isn't much different. Definitely not an act.

[@o0julek0o]

Karl: "I put this at number ten." Ricky: "We're only doing five, fuck me..." hahahah, died xD

[@vivavaldez87]

Have a nice funeral

[@ValhallaBeckons]

”...scrimpton” gets me every time. Somebody PLEASE get the lads together for more podcasts.

[@BroskiRIP]

Karl and Ricky aren't as close now 😕 Steve and Karl are closer than they were. Ricky and Steve had a fallout 😐

[@teokurtaran]

@@BroskiRIP how do you know?

[@DirtyDozen6612]

@@BroskiRIP no they didn’t you cretin

[@RT-ks2zi]

@@DirtyDozen6612 they did mate, Ricky drove Karl to the point of insanity and then they stopped hanging about

[@DirtyDozen6612]

@@RT-ks2zi no, they all went separate ways for creative reasons. That doesn’t mean ‘falling out’. A literal google search would tell you that, there’s countless interviews where they say they still get along with each other. Heres just one example www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.radiox.co.uk/news/tv-film/ricky-gervais-stephen-merchant-karl-still-friends/

[@ThisCharmingMan1984]

A lot of people seem to miss the point, when it comes to the way Ricky and Steve act in these podcasts. They are being purposefully antagonistic, and argumentative, to get the best out of Karl, and make him expand on his ideas, for comic effect. Ricky and Steve realised early on, that Karl thinks differently, than other people, which is why they always wanted his opinion on things; news, science, philosophy, etc. Karl has some bizarre ideas, as well as some good ones, but, a lot of the time, he’s not very good at explaining himself; that’s when Ricky and Steve pounce. They aren’t doing it to be mean, or to make Karl look stupid; they are doing it, so that Karl will expand on his point, go deeper into weird areas, and, hopefully, more funny stuff will come out of it. They are really characters, with Ricky taking on a “know-it-all bully-type” of role, while Steve is more the “professorial mediator”, who prevents Ricky from interrupting Karl, when he’s in full flow, talking absolute bollocks, while also pretends to be a pompous know-it-all, too. But, in the end, Karl always wins haha. That’s why it was the perfect dynamic; and why the show worked so well. I really wish they were all still recording radio shows/podcasts together. It would be great to see them hosting their own KZbin show together; it could be filmed this time; then we’d get to see Karl’s expressions, as well as Ricky and Steve falling off their chairs, laughing hysterically... ...oh well, one can always dream, I suppose haha.

[@papadiddypop4940]

Didn't realise you were all best friends and knew them so well

[@mystikgleam9541]

@@papadiddypop4940 right over your head

[@concarryt]

@@papadiddypop4940 shut up

[@yugiohthecrictfan]

I would love to see them take on now as in 2010s life

[@wendyslittleprogram3984]

We can only hope. Would be amazing to get Karl's take on all the things going on today

[@LinkTheCoward]

Augmented Reality, check. Smoothies, check. Emoji, check. Is Karl a genius? Check.

[@mandowarrior123]

LinkTheCoward you mean emotes, or emoticons. That is a brand name.

[@Fulano.de.Tal.]

Warren Cash emoji isn't a brand name. Emoji comes from a mixture of japanese and english words. Emoticons are :) :/ :0 Emojis are 😜

[@runeanonymous9760]

Emoji (from the Japanese word for emoticon) are Unicode characters, emoticons are made from combinations of more common Unicode characters, and Emotes are site or service specific and can sometimes be animated.

[@bfkc111]

Really not that hard, a lot of people could have/did, it's just an individual problem of Ricky Gervais in this case, as simple as that. His reaction was pretty weird. Again: no big deal, but good for him...

[@filipzawistowski4390]

Augmented reality has been spoken about for decades - check. Didn't predict smoothies (which were introduced in the 90s anyway) said we'd all blend food because it takes too much time to chew - check He definitely did NOT mean emojis - check Karl is a fucking idiot? Check.

[@davy_K]

No. 4 is augmented reality which is partially here in 2015 - Karl is a genius.

[@cortster12]

+davy K A broken clock is right twice a day. In Karl's case he is right once a year.

[@davy_K]

+cortster12 :)

[@jorenthar9186]

davy K I'm from the future, vr still aint perfect. Trump for president. End of the world.

[@Krilium]

"We're getting somewhere with that whole VR thing actually - Especially in pornography." Sincerely, - December 2017

[@antonslavik4907]

@@jorenthar9186 We voted for Trump to make you cry. We gonna do it again :)

[@somanytakennames]

"They used to say.. an apple a day.. keeps the doctor away.. they used to SAAAAAAGGGHHHYYYY!!"

[@guscox9651]

That's a soundboard

[@mattinho5612]

4:21 Karl predicted VR.

[@feldspar1000]

More like augmented reality.

[@chrisbrown18andup]

Mattinho and emojis. kind of

[@nerd_world8919]

Mattinho more like augmented reality goggles kinda like the holo lense

[@rbeck3200tb40]

Virtual Reality was invented in the late 1970s by a NASA scientist

[@Unholyspirit]

Daniel Feldspar true although this still exists. Google glasses show how to, for example, fix a car engine

[@gunnarstratton2759]

that bit about the blended food was actually quite brilliant. it may not project to the future exactly, but he nailed a lot of the major evolutionary pressures and responses that led to the modern human diet and corresponding anatomy

[@ultrahevybeat]

Gunnar Stratton i think he was just thinking about his antie nora only eating yogurt.

[@willowbarrelmaker8269]

gary buttville you say that, but he has come up with several black mirror plots before the show even existed. He kind of has the whole idiot savant thing going on.

[@itskeke-wk8ng]

@@ultrahevybeat buttville 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@seanclements6206]

@@itskeke-wk8ng you laughing at his last name? 😂

[@benpowell5007]

Hi I'm Karl and uh... The future.

[@BachifyOfficial]

Nightcorefan Hi Glenn Gould!

[@Paul91-]

What an intro!!!!! LMFAO!!!!!!

[@eggbirdtherooster]

Karl: the future is a scary place.. well thats true nowadays with those riots, BLM, imigration, climate debate yada yada yada.. 🤔

[@frogdropkicker805]

@@eggbirdtherooster And fucking COVID

[@RoosterCogburnPhD]

"Virtual Reality is absolutely mental, pointless, and will never work" and here we are already pioneering in things like the Oculus Rift. Bravo, Ricky.

[@antoniodelgado3523]

The Joke----------------> Your head-------> WHOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHHH

[@johnkart8910]

Oculus Rift isn't a virtual reality, It's a simulation.

[@bige8949]

John Kart simulated reality is synonymous with virtual reality.

[@randomly-genrated]

John Kart There's VR that projects objects onto 3d space though too.

[@BrianBattles]

RoosterCogburnPhD That's just a trendy toy, no one resides in VR.

[@ValhallaBeckons]

"...scrimpton" fuckin' slays me every time. Karl's consciousness should be preserved and uploaded as the virtual guide to every museum/wonder on Earth.

[@neonsashimidream1075]

One of the reasons Karl is so amazing - it's not just that he says such off the wall things and while obviously smart in a lot of ways, doesn't seem to put certain things together normally, it's the fact that Ricky can sit there laughing at him and making fun of him and he is totally unphased by it. The dude has like no ego insecurity at all.

[@KairuHakubi]

it's that oldfashioned english attitude, stiff upper lip.

[@CallMeFreakFujiko]

"The future is scary... Trousers will stop being made." That really is scary.

[@BroskiRIP]

Not for us seeing your lovely legs 😍

[@itskeke-wk8ng]

@@BroskiRIP lmao what😞😂😂😂😂

[@gobsmackednumpty8927]

Well, ripped trousers are now fashionable, so who knows, maybe he'll be right if we give it a few years. The trousers are slowly deteriorating.

[@brokenwave6125]

Doesnt work like that

[@chesusjrist9733]

GobsmackedNumpty Eventually we will all be nude, caramel beanpoles with huge eyes living underground with artificial light.

[@niyo1803]

I don’t think so

[@GranolaMarsh]

2:00 - 2:30 That has to be within the top 5 of Ricky's greatest giggle fits!

[@porschiste911]

The way He's screaming "They used to SAAAAYYY" not being able to hold his laughter at 2:10 , and the ensuing laughing fit has me crying each time!

[@kaymuldoon3575]

When he falls down I nearly fall down myself. 😂🤣😂🤣

[@rocketraccoon77]

Whe karl said "i have always wanted to kick a duck uo the arse" That tops it for me...

[@lizziemetalgaming]

HAHA I love the way he goes "We'll blend all our food." PAUSE. BURST OF LAUGHTER!

[@leon46295]

4 is bollocks 5 years later and a pokemon augmented reality game is a number one best seller

[@jugaajugaa3447]

this is much older than that I think.

[@lostpilgrim_history]

These guys have helped me fight depression. Go sleep every night listening to them. It's not even about watching its all about Audio. It's like a radio 📻

[@sparrow-does-stuff]

I'm not sure if Karl is really just a bit dull or the greatest satirist that's ever lived.

[@brokenwave6125]

Gray Amposta He's an idiot.

[@mannmilk]

he's really not, he says this stuff on purpose

[@BoiledMilkSteak7]

Just acting dumb

[@SpaceDJ3]

Frogmin I swear I see you everywhere with that Scattle profile pic

[@mannmilk]

I'm the one following you

[@borednow5838]

One of my favourites from them! Love the bit about people's jeans falling down and the mention of Boxwelics!

[@toppatoppa5236]

A good listen for anyone who may be feeling low.. can cheer up most I'm loling rn

[@msthang5366]

Ricky has the most infectious laugh!!

[@elis__nbnb]

idk why but ricky and stephen's attentive "hhm"s while karl is talking already make me giggle

[@dodapictures2141]

Elis Regina It’s anticipation, those attentive sounds foreshadow the punchline (mocking and laughter)

[@TheaterRaven]

I love Ricky's laughter! It's absolutely contagious!

[@thecinematicmind]

Boswellox

[@jimmyb101]

Karl's a genius, and Ricky laugh's so hard, genius moment in time. Thanks for seeing things differently Karl, and Ricky you laugh so hard it almost makes me cry. Cheers Fellers

[@ValkyrieDaisy95]

7:07 - So accurate to Ricky and Steve's real reactions XD

[@antony9384]

+Daisy Chambers HaHa yeah

[@martinhami3]

Was listening to this at work... Laughing like Rick, tears of laughter is a professional look 😂😂

[@zakwindle8859]

Omg I love Ricky’s laugh hahah

[@michaelshannon6134]

Karl: "I think" Ricky: AAAA HAHAHAHAHAH!!

[@bourneunited1]

Pscrimpton. The P is silent.

[@calebmatthews2026]

bourneunited1 sounds more medical.... I support it

[@mandowarrior123]

Both the ps, actually.

[@haydngilchrist8619]

“It’s like glasses, but you can live wherever you wanna live” classic

[@trugangsta4real]

"They used to say an apple a day keeps the doctor away. NOW they say eat five fruits a day." Karl is a natural comedian. That could be a Seinfeld bit.

[@SteampunkResistance]

Karl's prediction about glasses isn't all that comical. About a year and a half ago I was walking around this site/field that had seen battle and such during WW2. I remember thinking "Wouldn't it be awesome to have glasses that could project 3 dimensional objects, buildings, etc. onto the lenses so that one could get a much better feel for how it looked back then as they walked around. There could also be earphones that tell you historic facts ABOUT the things you were seeing and such. Regarding bumping imto things? There'd be a sort of directional pathway laid out (kinda like following a highlighted pathway to a waypoint in a game.) I guess it's because I'm an artist and 3D model artist myself, have been for over 20 years, so I often come up with things like this in my mind when I'm in such a situation. I get lots of inventions and my brain somehow knows how it should work but I have no idea how to create it because I have no technological background. Yeh I can take computers apart and put them back together but the things I envision require a much more technologically minded person.

[@frankdukes3253]

+Captain Crazy Out of your fucking mind!

[@snowboredsnj]

+Captain Crazy Karl's prediction about glasses.. not too crazy. Sounds like Pete Townsend's original idea for the Lifehouse album. That became the Who's Next.

[@sovietcharity]

Captain Crazy We already got that lol. If you ever go to Waterloo, you can do exactly that.

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

Captain Crazy TL;DR

[@daz2.058]

2019 and i watched this in vr with no pants lol

[@allumcharles]

Watching Ricky Gervais laugh in animation is my favourite thing on KZbin

[@tridentremixes5449]

Karl: *Does anything* Ricky: *Dies*

[@potaterjim]

Ricky's reactions in this one are amazing, I love how you can hear his chair clatter over

[@MrJQCruz]

You could say that emojis are new letters... Karl's a genius

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

Jesse Cruz or hieroglyphics were the first emojis.....

[@99nattes03672]

Ants in my eyes Johnson bitch shut the fuck up

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

Nathan Tesfamicael okay,I'm scared of you....

[@vince8901]

not really they've been around ages

[@TheAnhedonicOne]

Emojis are not fucking letters.

[@swim_ad]

Karl never breaks. Class act

[@nilslundberg6930]

more and more obvious to me that karl is actually the genius the free thinker (altough not always very logical). ricky and stephen is basically riding the wave of someone who does´nt have all the programming and mental breaks of the ordinary /civil person!

[@willowbarrelmaker8269]

Nils Lundberg Really the idea is they are goading him on to get the best out of him. I think Ricky even said at one point he finds a lot of what Karl says really interesting and provocative

[@AD-df5tm]

Lmao, no he isn't. He is an idiot. Did you watch the video? He doesn't understand how the alphabet works. He thinks we are going to "run out of words".

[@declanlee2641]

The way they laughed at his predictions of weakness, and yet here we are 15 odd years later and he was right. Viruses are worse, we are building immunity to antibiotics partly due to overuse. I know somebody who got sick with one of those anribiotic resistant viruses, it was awful. Hospitalised and in the end they died. Choked to death.

[@laurenw4818]

Also, the apple headset

[@mightyone8313]

"so um trousers" fred flinstone: "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZEEEEEEE"

[@ladytron0591]

that's ricky

[@archierobinson8445]

Actually predicted virtual reality wtf

[@REAPER1818666]

Karl pilkington predicted augmented reality

[@cortster12]

I think this was one of the best ones.

[@ImahGoer]

'He's already gone off-road' - LMAO !

[@notactuallytesco]

Karl predicted both VR and AR all in one

[@Bingbongles9million]

Ricky never start investing. Give your money to carl he could've invested in VR technology

[@jasp0828]

these animators deserve a lot of credit

[@dalebrush5366]

Well he kind of predicted VR/AR and Soylent. And the alphabet thing blew my fuckin' melon open.

[@VictoriaSobocki]

Dale Brush Indeed!

[@zerb9461]

How did he predict Soylent?

[@godsBane266]

Zach Herbertson it’s not that new of an idea because Soylent has existed since the 1950’s. There is even a movie called “Soylent Green” that was popular in the 70-80’s

[@zerb9461]

godsBane266 exactly so he didn't predict something that has existed as an idea for decades... VR maybe but not Soylent

[@johmedis]

Oh. I haven't listened to these three in ages. I listen to their old XFM shows while I'm driving to Uni. I forgot about, "I think we'll blend... All our food."

[@EJS-7]

Augmented reality - spot on Karl

[@joedips]

Can’t stress enough how right he was with AR and VR. Obviously needed some working out but that concept was solid.

[@Kirsha-Ay]

Ricky was wrong, Karl was right!

[@henryaung7229]

I like Karl's way of thinking, we need more of that

[@fiyahspinnah]

It really should just be called The Karl Pilkington Show

[@kraken589]

Paul Dunkirk-Greenbaum well originally back when this was an actual radio show Karl was just the producer and didn’t talk much but then Ricky and Steve started hearing his weird ideas and they started having him talk more and more and create new features to the show. By the time it became a podcast Karl was the main focus of the show.

[@deini]

Then how would Ricky stroke his own ego?

[@ThisCharmingMan1984]

Paul Dunkirk-Greenbaum After Karl started getting more and more involved in their XFM Show, Ricky said many times, that it should be called “The Karl Pilkington Show”- because he knew pretty much everyone was tuning in to hear Karl’s bizarre thoughts. Ricky and Steve said they were just there to prod him, to get him to talk, because he didn’t really want to at first haha. He was a very reluctant major hit/celebrity, in the beginning haha. I think they only kept it as “The Ricky Gervais Show”, because Ricky was still most famous of the 3 of them, and to keep the continuity from the radio show, so the fans would know it was the same thing. I’m just glad there are so many hours of the 3 of them together, to enjoy; I’ve been listening to the show since it started, 17 or 18 years ago, and, even though I’ve heard each episode dozens of times, it still makes me laugh. And then the animation of the podcasts and audiobooks came along, and somehow managed to make an amazing thing even better; I didn’t think it was possible to improve the show, but those animators did something extraordinary. 😀 I’ll never get bored of listening to these 3 twonks bicker and argue about: hairy Chinese kids, “cheeky freaks of the week”, kids with big heads and webbed hands, and all the other nonsense that came up, during their many bizarre, rambling conversations haha. All the best.

[@Xitout]

I like how Karl unintentionally predicted both movie premises and actual things in reality. Pants get replaced with bodysuits in movies about the future, obesity and starvation are making people weaker, people are making a bunch of smoothies and protein shakes (also Wall-e, another movie about the future, had food in a cup), and the English alphabet with more letters is literally just the Spanish alphabet.

[@cortster12]

It's kind of funny that they think the glasses thing is mental, considering it is a troupe in many scifi stories and the basics are being developed today.

[@willowbarrelmaker8269]

Bose-Einstein really I think they don’t. They just want to prod him into saying more and more ridiculous and interesting things.

[@gazzatommo1677]

And now its here lol

[@Rojata19]

Karl predicted the watch that monitors your health 🤷‍♂️

[@TheStryper777]

So basically: - smoothies, protein shakes, blending food and stuff, thats already a thing. - we are weaker than thousands of years ago and that'll keep going - VR and augmented reality is already here - trousers are indeed disappearing, especially amongst females (they're turning into panties) - new words are being invented every day just to adapt to new things: youtuber, retweet, lolcat, trolling, etc Close enough. Karl is a genious!

[@armanhammer]

- Yoga Pants - Also, the rise of emojies

[@BarisPalabiyik]

Only VR is accurate other are shits that u made up. Also he said letters not words of course new words will be appear in time.

[@emilyb3176]

*genius...

[@David-ud9ju]

lolcat is not a word....

[@true-fiction]

Ya, but this is 7 years old.

[@astropictures4396]

Karl actually came up with VR before it existed....woah

[@whitecross_fc]

He's predicted this 8 years ago! And most of them are real now

[@LouSassol69er]

Especially the glasses. Microsoft with Hololense and Microsoft Mesh is pretty much an early form of that.

[@ewanvickers8079]

This is one of there best moments ever

[@jf-tp9lp]

He is absolutely right about us getting weaker. Physically & mentally it is already happened and it's just going to get worse.

[@mightymuppetz]

Ricky's laugh is legendary

[@bfkc111]

People seem to be underhandedly bashing Stephen Merchant sometimes, but he really seems to be an important glue and competent, and sometimes even puts himself out there for laughter about his stories. (I can see though that some people might think he's arrogant, e.g. if peddling his intellectualism or taste in art. Never mind that, it's fair enough too.)

[@xtSUN8IK4]

*insert comment saying he predicted VR here*

[@belterloda4256]

To be fair even Arthur C Clarke predicted that teeth will be a thing of the past- and he was a prolific sci-fi writer

[@guy5140]

I love how these cartoons depict Ricky’s smug facial expressions

[@Beaverbrooooo]

"he likes sodium, he dosnt like boswollwex"

[@Dottol-]

I think the letters thing will be true, even if not necessarily in Karl's theory of running out of words, but to accommodate for different languages

[@random-nk3ou]

"Sorbet" "Soups"

[@findpatienceinlife9485]

Amazing, absolutely amazing

[@Mechaghostman2]

God fucking damn, this had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe!!!!!

[@ronniebrown5769]

we've got/are getting augmented reality now, so well done karl

[@chocolate17805]

Bozwollocks !!!!hahahaha!!You guys kill me!!!😂😂😃😃

[@karlikm1119]

The way steve said to ricky that he already blends his food sounds like they should be on a drill video

[@josephine9975]

Vitamix, nutri and magic bullet, etc. Spot on

[@David-ud9ju]

"Magic bullet. Isn't that a vibrator?

[@jasewildheart]

They had blenders before this podcast.

[@pillarsofdoom4891]

Steve is great. He has no ego!

[@bonnie.duncan]

1:59 - swap that ‘round and give them the trousers second... still just as funny as the first day...

[@NoriMori1992]

Omfg I love Ricky's laugh. XD

[@nelotharen8599]

Karl's actually smart and has objective perceptions. he predicted these things and Ricky just laughed at him....Karl gets the last laugh 5 years later.

[@matthewharvey9829]

It's 10 years later and everyone blends their own shakes and juice their fruit... He's a prophet.

[@Atah714]

That Awkward Moment when Karl Pilkington created the movie Ready Player One @4:00

[@TheMummypie]

..He makes me proud to be British!....and Mancunian!...utter joy!

[@rasplez9889]

Karl is actually the most realistic person on earth. We really should take him more seriously 😂

[@DFerociousBeast]

3:59 wasn't there a Black mirror episode like this?

[@bobbin621]

Carl predicted google vision

[@uzimakiking]

Everytime I watch these clips I want a huge slice of lemon cake and coffee

[@CrownOfTheTown]

THEY USED TO SAAAAAYY!!!!

[@poetwarrior13]

sheer brilliance.

[@bill_y500]

1:02-2:00-2:15-2:47-7:27-7:28 See, this is why I should've had that sense of humor! 😭

[@NeroIML]

People talk a lot about Karl and/or Ricky, but can we appreciate the fact that Steve hears the word Boswellox for the first time in his life and 45 seconds later he's making a pun out of it.

[@farberam]

Hah all comments talking about VR. In 2017 it's called augmented reality. Get with it Rick. Really, Karl was a visionary.

[@EpicEIF]

4/5 Right, this man is psychic.