More Karl Pilkington nuggets from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant – TCA Report
January 16th, 2010
Yesterday, Nick told you about Ricky Gervais’ plans for his Golden Globe hosting stint on Sunday, as well as some details about his new HBO show The Ricky Gervais Show. Just as a reminder, the HBO show is an animated version of his wildly popular podcast, staring Gervais, Merchant, and the dunderheaded Karl Pilkington.
Gervais’ answers about the show and the Globes during his TCA session on Thursday were largely similar to what he told Nick during the conference call earlier in the month. But I just loved his infectious laugh when he was talking about Karl. He wants to make Karl famous just to tick the shy guy off, and because the show is being taken from the existing podcast recordings, the version of Karl you hear is the unvarnished one.
So, at the end of the reporters’ scrum, I asked Gervais what Pilkinton-ism makes him laugh the hardest. He and Merchant had some pretty funny responses:
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