Didn’t actually know there was footage of him in his Bowie days! Bloody hell, he’s got hair like a chinaman

Fool !

I’ve been obsessed with the XFM shows for years, and I know a lot of people here probably relate. At this point I genuinely know almost every conversation word for word because I’ve listened to them so many times. Same with Cum Town back in the day — that style of casual, insanely funny conversation just hits different.

So now I’m trying to find other podcasts that scratch that same itch. Would love to hear some personal favourites you guys keep going back to or genuinely enjoy listening to.

Any chance of this bringing in few fans/ introducing more to KP, especially in the U.S. Or are we just mental

Even when I first listened to the RGS, I felt like they were being sometimes calling Karl's statements stupid just because it was him making them - but admittedly most of them seemed dumb to me. Later I realized Karl was just showing a fuckton of signs of autism, and you sort of have to search for the meaning behind his words. Then it becomes apparent how often he makes a good point, just weirdly worded. Then there are the cases, where he's just straight up being reasonable, however you put it. And gets essentially (playfully) bullied regardless.

My nomination is: They were asking him what he'd do with an identical copy of himself. Personality, memories, and all. He went "How do I know which one I am? How do I know I'm not the copy?" "Stupidest statement of the year.", Ricky said.

First 5 mins, How great Gervais is, isn't he GREAT?

Free speech strawmen, and then irks about people's social media bios FUCK ME THIS FRUIT IS TOO HIGH! And this is just the start!

Gammon is a racial slur horseshit, debunked to all fuck except for in the minds of chuntering gammon

Still drinking fucking Fosters, you're earning a few bob Rick! Drink a real beer!

Pop at Stewart Lee. Obviously a pop at Stewart Lee, stop punching walls Ricky. I'm not that keen on him, but he'd batter you!

"Props", hey Rick! 2009 called. Keep up old man!

Bit about 'dwarves' that's basically Brent without the pathos.

Someone criticised Rick, that's a bit. A whole bit.

"Everything annoys me at this age" - list of Rick's petty annoyances in which Rick imagines himself as some kind of vengeful God

If you annoy Rick, you get called a cunt. Honestly, that was the topper of a whole bit. Saves you time watching After Life I suppose.

Rick opines about no longer being sexy.... I mean Seona Dancing, MAYBE but, nahh. In his heydey he was called "roly-poly funnyman". Never was sexy, even joked about it when he was in that film about the dentist.

Harold Shipman. Hey! Ask me about how many open mic comedians I've seen that still lean on Shipman material!

This is a document of a man that's lost touch with his roots.

Edgy Rick vigilante.

Fairly funny joke about rape convictions, tbh. He's ticking off boxes to confound his critics again, wait for the next Netflix special when he'll talk about people's bad faith misunderstandings of his genius again!

Nicked Karl Pilko material, Jesus that was 20 years ago

Back to anecdotes of how Rick defeated his critics with facts and logic

Bit about The Exorcist, then Rick imagines himself in hell, DEAFEATING SATAN WITH FACTS AND LOGIC.

Rick is amazed by the freedom of performance.

Mental illness, through the lens of a 8 year old. "1000 new mentals". It wasn't like this in the old days!

Introspection bit about Rick's own mental illnesses. Writing it, he'd have been "Oh, this is the tender bit that'll confound the critics! I'm a genius!"

Final bit: Rick saying how great he was on the Golden Globes.

Keeps saying "This is all true, by the way" which just makes me think it isn't

Bit about the use of the word minge which seems true, but still presented like Rick had a sort of Tom Hanks Big situation where a young boy became a confident comedian

Elton John skit, Rick's angling for cancellation again. You're TECHNICALLY not worth cancelling, Rick! It'll never work!

A bit of fun with vintage homophobia. Cosplaying a 1970s comedian

Final bit, Golden Globes never stopped a joke (doubt) but HE once stopped one of his own jokes! BUT HE'S DOING IT TOINGHT! IT'S THE BIG FINALE! limp

Encore: some culture war stuff, middle class, privileged, buzzword, buzzword.

Rick's superpower would be to make people shit themselves. 8 year old boy. Tom Hanks Big. Srsly.

Final thoughts on how Rick is great, and a little boost for his vodka brand.

I watched it on 2x speed. Can we go back to a time when Gervais was funny and at least trying?

I guess dreams really do come true.

Just seen on Karl’s Wikipedia he’s set to star in an upcoming film. And LOOK who he’s starring alongside.

Proper weird, innit. It isn’t a typo either.

What's your favourite Karl moments when he's been right in his thinking and getting grief for this opinion.

It could be hindsight, or something you thought at the time

It is fucking unbearable and literally infuriates me the second it starts happening. It’s not funny at all, it sounds like complete shit. What a fucking idiot, imagine recording that and saying “yeah that sounds good” and putting it up for ad space. For gods sake it makes the podcast literally impossible to listen to

What about this for a feature? "That British Phrase Sounds Good."

These are some of my favorite words/phrases I've learned (or learnt) over the years of listening to RSK:

Adding "innit?" even when it's not grammatically correct. In America we'd use summat (also great) like, "know what I'm saying?" "know what I mean?" and now "Nomsane?"

"Can't be bothered, mate." Best when Karl says it.

Use of bloke, mate, chap, bird instead of guy, dude, chick etc.

Havin' it away, especially with a leaf.

When takin' the piss (another good one) out of a mate, say "ahhh, bless him," as the cherry on top at the end. Have I used that correctly?

Chuffed. Wish that'd catch on in America.

Fat, orange c*** for our president. Also wish it'd catch on here. Oooh, politcal.

Thanks for reading my butt-licky post. Cheers.

Don’t get me started! HATE that he vaguely mentions Karl and no mention of Merchant, it’s pure arrogance

Just a little test, you'll get a certificate for turning up.

I’ve been listening back to the original run of RSK podcasts on the Guardian and between the bits there’s these awful adverts with really bad impressions. I’ve just heard what I think might be the worlds worst Jimmy Saville and I’m not sure if either their intentionally bad or if they are genuinely that terrible!

Anybody else remember these ?

Yeah yeah we all know that the XFM era tops all their output - but what are your best/ funniest moments from the initial 3 series, the podfather, Fame, bonus hour, NME, 2 hour series 5, and the guide to’s?

• Ricky’s Karl’s Diary jingles

• S4E2 Thanksgiving The whole every sound has been used 5 times Ricky making the new train sound ‘manumanama manumanama manumanama’

Ricky: And the chicken? You’re ripping off the turkey the cunt!

• S3E6 Karl: The elephant man had to die Ricky: What was it, poachers?

...have to answer the door.

...don't walk around naked.

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I went on a date with a girl called Ann Alogy. It was a disaster. I don't know what I metaphor (met her for).

I drive for a living and register to these stupid XFM shows all the time, and would love some variety.

What other podcasts do you goggle eyed freak lizard boys enjoy?

Hearing him deliberately say the characters names wrong after seeing all 3 films has always seemed silly.

He loved those little midget fellas.