"It was good to know that if everything did go tits up, there's someone else in the world who would put up with me"
About Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington is an English presenter, actor and author. After working with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant as producer on their Xfm radio show, Pilkington became a co-host of The Ricky Gervais Show due to unique and unorthodox opinions and views he often expressed, and Gervais's and Merchant's fascination with them.
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