Karl Pilkington’s Followers (563)

Add New
Videos

Add a comment

Karl Pilkington

Born

in Sale, Greater Manchester, England, The United Kingdom

September 23, 1972

Website

http://karlpilkington.com/

Genre

Humor, Biographies & Memoirs, Travel

edit data

Karl Pilkington is a Sony Award-winning English radio producer, poet, podcaster, raconteur and author, best known for producing and co-presenting The Ricky Gervais Show on London radio station Xfm from 2001 to 2005 and later in the form of podcasts and a television show on HBO. In October 2006, Pilkington's first book The World of Karl Pilkington was published, featuring original ideas and drawings by Pilkington, based upon the subject matter discussed in the podcasts. His second book, Happyslapped by a Jellyfish, was published in October 2007, and he was the subject of the Comedy Lab episode "Karl Pilkington - Satisfied Fool", which aired in October 2007. His third book, Karlology, a musing on his views on his own intelligence, and attitud ...more

Combine Editions
Karl Pilkington’s books

Average rating: 3.95 · 28,090 ratings · 1,869 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant 3.85 avg rating — 9,858 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The Words of Karl Pilkington 3.93 avg rating — 4,146 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad 4.01 avg rating — 3,184 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington 4.03 avg rating — 2,996 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ricky Gervais Presents: The World of Karl Pilkington 3.95 avg rating — 2,756 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Karlology 3.92 avg rating — 2,427 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Moaning: The Return of the Enlightened One 4.11 avg rating — 776 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington 4.05 avg rating — 114 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Idiot Abroad & The Further Adventures of An Idi 3.78 avg rating — 79 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington (5-Jun-2014) Paperback 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Karl Pilkington…

Quotes by Karl Pilkington (?)

“[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.”
― Karl Pilkington

tags: environment, jellyfish, ocean, water

134 likes

“I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.”
― Karl Pilkington

tags: age, ageing, death, discrimination, humour, life, living-life-to-the-fullest, society, stereotypes

101 likes

“They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.”
― Karl Pilkington, The Ricky Gervais Show - First, Second and Third Seasons

tags: climate-change, environmentalism, fish, humour, ocean, science

62 likes

See all Karl Pilkington's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Seasonal Read...: Fall Challenge 2011: Reading Plans	52	323	Oct 25, 2011 08:07PM
The Seasonal Read...: Summer Challenge 2012: Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC	2637	935	Aug 31, 2012 09:02PM
The History Book ...: MICHAEL'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2012	163	267	Dec 23, 2012 03:12AM
The Book Vipers: World Book Night 2015	19	46	Feb 24, 2015 01:57PM
Book Riot's Read ...: Task #8: Read a travel memoir	143	1732	Jan 22, 2018 01:40PM
Nothing But Readi...: Ashley's Reading Challenges	165	213	Jan 07, 2019 05:11PM

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Karl to Goodreads.

Karl Pilkington’s Followers (563)

Add NewVideos

Karl Pilkington

Combine EditionsKarl Pilkington’s books

Topics Mentioning This Author

Add New
Videos

Combine Editions
Karl Pilkington’s books