S03 E05 - Busy Countin'
The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington
4.7 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The time has come for Karl as his first book, 'The World of Karl Pilkington', is officially published. Karl explains how Shakespeare invented a lot of swear words, Steve explains the difference between Karl's diary and that of Samuel Pepys, Karl describes the man who's skull has fell off. The boys also chat twaddle about toenails, scrotum relocation, Steve's nightclub experience, a bridge toll monkey, and a depressive slug.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, here we are number five in a series of six of the Ricky Javee Show with me, Ricky Javee, Stephen Merchant. |
| 0:15.5 | Hello there. |
| 0:16.1 | And Carl Pilkington. |
| 0:17.4 | All right. |
| 0:18.3 | Well, Carl, you are officially a published author. Your book came out, The World of Carl Pilkington. All right. Well, Carl, you are officially a published author. |
| 0:22.6 | Your book came out, The World of Carl Pilkington, and a copy will go in the British Library. |
| 0:29.3 | Well, they have to take every rubbish. |
| 0:31.2 | I think it will go in the British Library lavatory. |
| 0:33.4 | From what I understand, it'll be in there. |
| 0:36.1 | With, like like a collection of |
| 0:37.5 | novelty postcards |
| 0:38.8 | and maybe a Viz compendium. |
| 0:41.9 | Yeah, so they have to |
| 0:43.1 | they take everything. Just think of that. |
| 0:46.1 | But is that a rule they set up |
| 0:47.7 | when books were more important |
| 0:49.7 | to people? And now it's kind of like, |
| 0:52.0 | I wish we never said we'd do that. |
| 0:53.9 | Well, they have to add two miles of shelves every year apparently. That's what I mean. Now, surely, you know, they change a lot of other rules, don't they? They used to allow people having their head cut off. And now they've gone, we shouldn't do that anymore. So we'll sort that. Why don't they just say, only so many books a year make it in there, ones that are important to the |
| 1:11.4 | future? But who knows what's important to the future? Well, you know, normally, when I say something that I think's a good point, uh, yeah, but you're always wrong. No, no, no, but what I mean is when I say something that I think I have got a point there. Yeah, but you're always wrong. but why do they do this? Why do they think they've got to keep everything? Because we're living in a world now where everything is, sort of binnable. And, you know, we use stuff for what it is. No, I think you could say that. That's fine. That's fine. There was a sort of poetry to it, but I think he stumbled across that. |
| 1:44.2 | I don't think it was intentional. |
| 1:45.2 | Yeah, I mean, I still haven't got over last week. He was saying foodage. Do you know what I mean, though? The world's changed, so why is that rule still hanging around when... Well, it's not a rule... I mean, it's not a rule that, you know, the country's going to, you know, live and die by by it's just that it is seen as a |
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