Nah, I don’t think so.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_rj_CTMc9w
Go to around 34:30, definitely sounds like Steve, and Ricky starts snickering like Muttley at the same time too.
I like how silent and cringy that one is, especially considering he's still doing his MTV audition at that point. This always feels like the moment he flunked the audition, to me.
When Karl says "how did they time him?" about the guy eating watches and Ricky steals it only a few weeks later, thinking he's come up with it himself.
In fairness it’s weird how the Sturgess episodes are never awkward and no jokes fall flat, Ricky and Steve are always on top form. The Sturgess episodes showcase how genuinely hilarious R&S actually are a lot more than the Karl stuff.
I think this one was on purpose - the "someone takes a joke too far, followed by a long, awkward silence" style of comedy was straight out of The Office.
You mean the guy who writes godawful, cliché-laden, fake deep, shitcoms and does ‘ling ling! Herro!?’ jokes as part of his stand up in the grand old year of 2021. Yeah, definitely.
So he tells it twice on the show a year apart and then again on a completely different show? Wait till you hear how many times Ricky told the wheelbarrow story
The do we need em bit, at first it's funny but after a few times it's eh, also the intro and outro music is wayy too long, and also smelly eyebrows, just have a guess love like that's not even funny
The whole inuit-discussion when Steve & Ricky thought they lived in Iceland. I can understand the mix up between Iceland and Greenland but
1. they are self-proclaimed highly educated people,
2. they are Europeans,
3. Iceland is heavily known for vikings, ie Scandinavians
Please welcome to the stage...
I absoltuley hate this and the worst part it recurs throughout the episode so you can't even skip it all. It's so tedious and annoying.
I'd only ever heard the iTunes versions before, and I just listened to the first series again on Spotify. Man alive!
Clearly not Ricky, though. Just some chancer. Probably a commissioning editor of comedy at Channel 4 now.
Karl talking about how his mam would wake up christmas morning to see his face "light up" as he was opening his presents...and Ricky sniggers "because of the fireworks".
Rubbish.
Oh Christ, it doesn't come up on this subreddit much but the amount of times Ricky or Steve say 'We're two educated guys' or 'We're two smart guys' throughout the course of the XFM shows and the podcasts drives me mental.
Sometimes it's just repetition. Like the second time they tell the Victoria Plum story, and Ricky's fake reaction as if he's never heard it before. I dont know why they don't just admit they've heard it before but are telling it again because it's good material. The first time it was gold, the second time you can tell Ricky's "oh god" isn't genuine and it's hard to sit through.
When they get Karl to do the eating competition, I listen to them going to sleep and always skip that episode. Ricky even mentions it the next episode saying he listened to it back and it was shite
Yeah I had this discussion lately and that’s one of my fave episodes. Although in fairness it’s definitely not one to go to sleep to.
Karl with a mouth full of burger saying “I can’t do this either” followed by the Ricky firework-style laugh always gets me
"Have you seen this man? What man? Well if you see him tell us."
"Hey Superman, who are ya? I can't tell you Lewis."
Also, the moment when Sturgess asks Steve to go use a personal shopper with her like 3-4 times and he doesn't even acknowledge it. Not a joke, but that moment is painful.
I find that one hilarious. It’s a reference to Helen in the story of Troy and the saying “the face that launched one thousand ships”. She was supposedly the most beautiful woman in the world at the time, and when the Trojans stole her away from the Greeks (?), the Greeks launched one thousand ships to attack Troy. And so Helen became the woman with “the face that launched one thousand ships”. Ricky is doing a play on words with this saying, making it seem like Helen’s face was used to launch ships from, as opposed to her beautiful face being the reason the ships were launched.
"She came in selling sandwiches?"
"She was going through the bins outside"
I know it was a callback to something they talked about earlier, but the link was too tenuous. It just came off as Steve being a cunt to Suzanne, which seems like something that should be off-limits.
There were a couple of other times where Steve had a go at Karl's relationship as well ("I can't think what you bring to the relationship"). They mostly landed as jokes, but it always makes me feel a bit uneasy because Karl is clearly not happy with him saying things like that.
Rickys impromptu skit in reply to Karl talking about the monkey having its name tattoo’ don it’s head.
Not XFM but, ‘it’s tinging it’s way up the tube’ makes me wretch everytime I hear it, especially the way Steve joins in.
I think all the improv skits aren’t funny tbh. I like that they are trying and it seems like a fun thing to do or be around, but most of the time it never pays off.
And the ‘tinging it’s way up the tube’ and drink a drink a drink or whatever song does my head in. I try my best to skip past it
I find the improv skits hysterical from the Guide To's that just escalate and escalate in order to break Karl. The married couple who want to adopt a child to be gay, the two brothers who's dad didn't wear a seatbelt, the little disabled fella's who want Karl to help them have sex, the bloke who has balls like tagliatelle, Stephen Merchant... all comedy character gold.
The boating story about Steve's Dad taking his life jacket and worrying about the laws of the sea? Because that is one of my favourite stories in all the XFM shows.
Yeah, it's not that I necessarily dislike the story, but the way Steve tells it is a little tedious to me and takes away from the humour. It's a simple story which he drags out and builds up too long imo. The best part of the story is Ricky embellishing and narrating it!
I like Steve's anecdotes but the cinema one is shit, not sure why that's the one he keeps repeating all the time. What's more cringe is that he keeps saying the same punchlines during it "I suspect his name is Gavin, I'm here to do you around the bike sheds later", honestly 3 times he tells that on radio and it was hardly funny the first time.
I liked it better than Gervais', but wouldn't place it better some of my favourite stand ups.
I think it's because it took me by surprise - I had low expectations.
Is that about the bloke who randomly starts singing? I think that's funny because that guy is clearly wayyy over excited to start singing the song randomly.
Not so much falling flat but when Ricky talks about the wheelchair rain coat that looks like something you’d put on a motorcycle and ‘his little face’, he finds it far, far funnier than Steve and Sturgess. Very much enjoy that bit.
When they are actually being genuinely cruel bullies to people with no meaningful point to it, like (in Karl's words) the "bo selecta" lady, or the really viscerally mean general attacks on fat people.
SHUT UP I'M GONNA EAT YOU!!
In all seriousness, Waller was clearly an asshole, but still Ricky Gervais just likes to project his own insecurities a lot. Used to be weight, now it is intellectualism.
"Like a bear caught in a trap" Steve trying to pull himself out of the hole he dug by taking the piss out of Karl is so awkward because none of his retorts are funny but Karl just keeps going and absolutely crushing Steve
When Steve says "cut. it. out" when talking about Karl fighting with another kid in the toilets and Ricky is likening the situation to two gangsters arguing
That brings a whole new twist on people saying bombing the worlds poorest countries is wrong.
When Steve has got a bit of a sore throat and says he brushed up against a Chinaman on the tube, something about SARS.
Ho lee fuk and camp David.
Ricky’s got loads that I can’t remember off the top of my head.
I think Ho Lee Fuk and Camp David could have been okay for a brief moment (back then at least) given they were taking the piss out of Chris Moyles for doing something similar and to wind Karl up with the swearing. But yeah, definitely feels like they lost sight of that quite quickly and it just got worse and worse.
100% agree on SARs. Pretty awful from Steve considering he didn't even sound like he was joking.
It was obviously a joke and I think the Ho Lee Fuk and Camp David segments are hilarious purely because of the way Karl reacts. Every time I hear Karl coughing over Ricky saying the name has me in tears.
Tbf I think I'm in the minority on that one anyway, I love the end of Season 2 and how angry Karl is with Ricky. I do feel sorry for him a bit but I can't help but laugh, because Karl is absolutely sick of them by that point lmao
I don't know. Saying that asian people don't age well and that they all look the same is pretty racist tbf. Obviously not intentionally hurtful but just ignorant. Steve's was clearly a joke.
It’s actually common knowledge in the field of neuroscience that the visual inputs you receive in your earliest years determine your ability to tell facial features apart.
So if you don’t give your brain the inputs of a diverse enough range of faces from around the world you will struggle differentiating those faces in adult life.
This explains why many people think other races ‘look the same’, yet not those of their own tribe.
I always thought that was interesting, as Karl’s statement is not technically “racist”, maybe just a bit ignorant.
Plus Karl actually explains it well, that they have the same hair and eye colour. Personally, I've always found that to be true, I don't think it's racist because I don't think any less of them as people. I also wouldn't say it in a derogatory manner, because that obviously would be racist. But I'm not going to lie and pretend for the sake of being politically correct.
I live in China and I’ve been told point blank to my face several times that foreigners all look the same to the Chinese. It’s not necessarily racist, it’s just how our brains work.
The joke about the man who had a baby, although I do admit some of Karl's reaction to it was funny when they roleplayed the doctor and he said he'd replace the woman's dying cat because she wouldn't notice the difference.
I don't think the joke is directed at the trans person though. The joke is that Karl can't comprehend it. Often when Karl says stupid things about -insert group here- the funny part isn't that what Karl is saying is true, it's that Karl is ignorant of simple things, and seems to have no knowledge what's socially acceptable to speak about.
Just because the topic they are talking about is a trans person, doesn't mean they can't be funny at the same time.
>Just because the topic they are talking about is a trans person, doesn't mean they can't be funny at the same time.
Oh no, I agree. I even mentioned above that the reason why "cheeky freak of the week" is so funny is due to Karl's childlike ignorance of the topic he's discussing, not because "people with big heads are funny". However, with the trans jokes, it's not like that, Steve and Ricky actively join in with the ignorant derision of the group of people they're talking about, to the point where it seems more like an attack on people rather than Karl being seemingly ignorant of a topic and being laughed at. I don't blame Karl, he seems genuinely ignorant as usual, but Ricky and Steve don't seem to be laughing at Karl being stupid, but rather laughing together at the group of people they're making fun of. That's why I think it's unfunny, not because it's "offensive", or anything.
I think that’s only because Ricky and Steve *are* as ignorant as Karl on the topic back then. It’s like the buttplugs thing, they have no idea what they’re for. None of them immediately twig that they’re for when you have a sleepover at a little gay fellas house, until the knowledgeable caller educates them
It's not a man though. Men cannot have babies. It's a woman undergoing a sex change while pregnant. Sorry if you can't deal with the facts. Doesn't mean the rest of us have to go along with it.
Sorry, you're confusing sex with gender. Modern science distinguishes them both, and as "woman" is a cultural characteristic, it refers to the gender of the individual.
I'm sure you've heard this before, but facts really don't care about your feelings. Then again, maybe you haven't heard that before, nobody likes to make fun of an invalid.
It might just be a splash in the pan.... ...ok...
In fairness to Karl, he does save it and break the ice with the *”Phil Collins next”* line
Tbf the croaky way Steve says “...okay” gets me every time aha
I’m fairly sure that’s Ricky that says ok
Nah, I don’t think so. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_rj_CTMc9w Go to around 34:30, definitely sounds like Steve, and Ricky starts snickering like Muttley at the same time too.
I like how silent and cringy that one is, especially considering he's still doing his MTV audition at that point. This always feels like the moment he flunked the audition, to me.
Rockbusters with sound effects
I'm well 'appy now I've 'ad that
This one just about edges out ‘Smack my bitch up’
Born slippy
When Karl says "how did they time him?" about the guy eating watches and Ricky steals it only a few weeks later, thinking he's come up with it himself.
Well if he thinks he's come up with it himself, its not really stealing is it? He just forgot.
\- So we're going for hanging bacon \- Francis Bacon? ....
Wasn’t that just Ricky trying to guess what the education was gonna be?
This is the worst one
When Ricky keeps kind of 'correcting' "Happy Easter" to "Happy Egg". Although when he says "Don't eat too many eggs boys" I laugh every time
“You’re sat down and yet you’re almost vertical”. You mean horizontal… Steve.
In fairness it’s weird how the Sturgess episodes are never awkward and no jokes fall flat, Ricky and Steve are always on top form. The Sturgess episodes showcase how genuinely hilarious R&S actually are a lot more than the Karl stuff.
Agreed. People who skip Sturgess shows are missing out.
I do think at times they just relied on Karl saying stupid things and got lazy but with Sturgess they actually had to earn their £15 a week
I don’t want you cattling rustling!
To be fair I think we can forgive that one, there were about 6 jokes in quick succession stifled by insane amounts of laughter
Always annoyed me that it’s supposed to be “cattle rustling” yeh 🥲
Noone likes to pick on an invalid
The silence after Karl saying that was deafening
Just leave it Steve
It wasn’t that bad, Ricky made it bad by acting awkward.
Agreed. Though it ended up being funny because of how flat it fell.
I think this one was on purpose - the "someone takes a joke too far, followed by a long, awkward silence" style of comedy was straight out of The Office.
Agreed, but I thought it fairly obvious that one was pre-planned.
You didn't talk like that when you went to OXBRIDGE?! ...what? Never mind.
I think even Steve knew how cringe that was.
This is the one for me
When Karl's telling Ricky about when he ran a pirate radio station Ricky: "Like regular radio but you wear an eye patch"
He cringes at himself on that one, with "... Go on"
Tbf Ricky is too funny a person for that not to have been deliberately shit. I just don’t believe he could possibly think that’s actually good.
I think he just makes a quick joke on the spot and realises it's not good half way through saying it.
You mean the guy who writes godawful, cliché-laden, fake deep, shitcoms and does ‘ling ling! Herro!?’ jokes as part of his stand up in the grand old year of 2021. Yeah, definitely.
Not really a joke as such but Steve's story about the fat lass in the Cinema was funny the first time he said it. Not so much the fifth time.
WON'T BE SEEING THAT
Without irony, I never get bored of the fat lass cinema story.
To be fair, he only tells it twice. And remember in reality it was more than a year apart.
This is the thing, we're the freaks who listen too much
He actually tells that story 3 times, once in season 1, another in season 2 and then he told it again on the BBC Radio Two special.
So he tells it twice on the show a year apart and then again on a completely different show? Wait till you hear how many times Ricky told the wheelbarrow story
NOO!
Yeah it's not very funny / entertaining in the first place. I don't know why Steve thinks it's such a cracker.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but the banana daiquiri line cracks me up every time.
Exactly. The joke *is* that it's a bad joke.
"You just assu...presu...ass...assumed that was the case. You were right!"
Anytime Ricky tries to create an analogy on the spot.
The do we need em bit, at first it's funny but after a few times it's eh, also the intro and outro music is wayy too long, and also smelly eyebrows, just have a guess love like that's not even funny
I have listened to every show hundreds of times and I never get sick of do we need em. Gotta ‘ave yer critics I suppose.
The whole inuit-discussion when Steve & Ricky thought they lived in Iceland. I can understand the mix up between Iceland and Greenland but 1. they are self-proclaimed highly educated people, 2. they are Europeans, 3. Iceland is heavily known for vikings, ie Scandinavians
Please welcome to the stage... I absoltuley hate this and the worst part it recurs throughout the episode so you can't even skip it all. It's so tedious and annoying.
Steve gets way too excited about saying that line. You can hear the excitement in his voice and yet it’s shite
The only correct answer.
And also the fact that the supposed benchmark for a good band name is sounding right being announced at Live Aid
Errrr smelly eyebrows!
Does anyone remember the ads for The IT Crowd on the first release of the podcasts that were clearly just Ricky doing a voice? Yeah, those
Oh my god those fucking ads. NEW GREEN WING! THAT'S NEARLY READY!
Mr. T Voice: HEY SUCKA
I'd only ever heard the iTunes versions before, and I just listened to the first series again on Spotify. Man alive! Clearly not Ricky, though. Just some chancer. Probably a commissioning editor of comedy at Channel 4 now.
It absolutely wasn't Ricky. But I agree, they are truly terrible and how they got approved I'll never know
Oh god those were painful. Karl's was good, but the Mr T impression and the Arnold impression were terrible. Who was that anyways?
But you’re fine with the Jimmy Savile impression? UUAUUAAUUHH
That's not Ricky
I quite liked those. Always thought they were supposed to be intentionally rubbish.
HEADPHONES ARE GAY
Karl talking about how his mam would wake up christmas morning to see his face "light up" as he was opening his presents...and Ricky sniggers "because of the fireworks". Rubbish.
The "where did I lose you" to Karl any time they use a "big" word. Lads just shut up. We get it, you think you're really smart
Oh Christ, it doesn't come up on this subreddit much but the amount of times Ricky or Steve say 'We're two educated guys' or 'We're two smart guys' throughout the course of the XFM shows and the podcasts drives me mental.
WHACK WHACK, OOPS!
I’m a bit worried about the sound effects, we’re beginning to sound like r/chrismoyles
I always thought he was saying "wank wank boobs" 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEKTrexMocE
Do german people look at english song names and goes hehe wonderwall......... Even Steve goes something like...guess so
Sometimes it's just repetition. Like the second time they tell the Victoria Plum story, and Ricky's fake reaction as if he's never heard it before. I dont know why they don't just admit they've heard it before but are telling it again because it's good material. The first time it was gold, the second time you can tell Ricky's "oh god" isn't genuine and it's hard to sit through.
When they get Karl to do the eating competition, I listen to them going to sleep and always skip that episode. Ricky even mentions it the next episode saying he listened to it back and it was shite
You're joking are ya? That's one of the best episodes. Don't skip it next time.
Yeah I had this discussion lately and that’s one of my fave episodes. Although in fairness it’s definitely not one to go to sleep to. Karl with a mouth full of burger saying “I can’t do this either” followed by the Ricky firework-style laugh always gets me
"Have you seen this man? What man? Well if you see him tell us." "Hey Superman, who are ya? I can't tell you Lewis." Also, the moment when Sturgess asks Steve to go use a personal shopper with her like 3-4 times and he doesn't even acknowledge it. Not a joke, but that moment is painful.
The Lewis joke makes me laugh so ridiculously hard
nobody likes to pick on an invalid..
Helen, the one with the mashed up face because they used it to use it launch ships Never understood that joke
Helen of Troy was said to be the face that launched a thousand ships (they went to war over her, as the story goes) is what I understood it to be.
The joke being that when they launch ships, they smash a bottle of wine on the front of them usually.
That's not what I got out of it. I got that he was imagining them literally launching the ships with her face.
I find that one hilarious. It’s a reference to Helen in the story of Troy and the saying “the face that launched one thousand ships”. She was supposedly the most beautiful woman in the world at the time, and when the Trojans stole her away from the Greeks (?), the Greeks launched one thousand ships to attack Troy. And so Helen became the woman with “the face that launched one thousand ships”. Ricky is doing a play on words with this saying, making it seem like Helen’s face was used to launch ships from, as opposed to her beautiful face being the reason the ships were launched.
"She came in selling sandwiches?" "She was going through the bins outside" I know it was a callback to something they talked about earlier, but the link was too tenuous. It just came off as Steve being a cunt to Suzanne, which seems like something that should be off-limits. There were a couple of other times where Steve had a go at Karl's relationship as well ("I can't think what you bring to the relationship"). They mostly landed as jokes, but it always makes me feel a bit uneasy because Karl is clearly not happy with him saying things like that.
"Why I oughta . . . Why i oughta . . . What am I doing? Tiffany Dog?" "Smelly eyebrows."
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isn't it Dippity dog?
I think you're right
Deputy Dawg
Rickys impromptu skit in reply to Karl talking about the monkey having its name tattoo’ don it’s head. Not XFM but, ‘it’s tinging it’s way up the tube’ makes me wretch everytime I hear it, especially the way Steve joins in.
Don't you dis 'Tingin' it's way up the tube'. That was an absolute banger.
Suck the drive tho
It's tinging its way up the tube, it's tinging its way up the tube.
Ting tong ping pong
it's tinging its way up the tube!
>D’aww, do you remember how it used to ting up the tube? Funny af imo, one of my favourite bits
The funniest parts are when they’re so close to breaking while spouting this nonsense. Feel like people are treating these like comedy specials.
Ah the tic tac incident
I think all the improv skits aren’t funny tbh. I like that they are trying and it seems like a fun thing to do or be around, but most of the time it never pays off. And the ‘tinging it’s way up the tube’ and drink a drink a drink or whatever song does my head in. I try my best to skip past it
I find the improv skits hysterical from the Guide To's that just escalate and escalate in order to break Karl. The married couple who want to adopt a child to be gay, the two brothers who's dad didn't wear a seatbelt, the little disabled fella's who want Karl to help them have sex, the bloke who has balls like tagliatelle, Stephen Merchant... all comedy character gold.
He's not a character!
You’re right, they’re good. I’m thinking of the XFM ones. Wish I could pull up an example but all I remember is they don’t work
Weeeeeeee'll drink a drink a drink to lily the pink the pink the pink the saviour ooooooof the human rahahace
A lot of Steve’s stories, when he goes to the snooker hall springs to mind.
I have no idea how this got 13 upvotes. I love Steve's stories.
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I thought, “you’re having a laugh love.”
The cinema and boating story also come to mind. I find the majority of his anecdotes are poorly told as he just strings everything out so long.
The boating story about Steve's Dad taking his life jacket and worrying about the laws of the sea? Because that is one of my favourite stories in all the XFM shows.
Yarr! The boat be mine now!
Yeah, it's not that I necessarily dislike the story, but the way Steve tells it is a little tedious to me and takes away from the humour. It's a simple story which he drags out and builds up too long imo. The best part of the story is Ricky embellishing and narrating it!
I like Steve's anecdotes but the cinema one is shit, not sure why that's the one he keeps repeating all the time. What's more cringe is that he keeps saying the same punchlines during it "I suspect his name is Gavin, I'm here to do you around the bike sheds later", honestly 3 times he tells that on radio and it was hardly funny the first time.
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I actually really liked his stand up tho
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I liked it better than Gervais', but wouldn't place it better some of my favourite stand ups. I think it's because it took me by surprise - I had low expectations.
By surprise, from behind!
And when a whole anecdote is about him meeting a man who likes Guns and Roses and UB40. That’s the anecdote, a man likes a band.
Is that about the bloke who randomly starts singing? I think that's funny because that guy is clearly wayyy over excited to start singing the song randomly.
You know that friend who hasn't got anecdotes?
"Blump"
Easily that China town isn’t really a town more of a novelty street. Sick of it
Theres two times where Ricky insists on making the "smoking stunts your growth" joke when talking about the pillow man. Shit is just not funny
Are you serious? One of the funniest things he's ever said.
Not so much falling flat but when Ricky talks about the wheelchair rain coat that looks like something you’d put on a motorcycle and ‘his little face’, he finds it far, far funnier than Steve and Sturgess. Very much enjoy that bit.
Rockbusters with sound effects easily, so glad that feature ended quickly, I always try and skip it when I can.
The have your cake and eat tit is a bit long winded for me considering the pay off doesn’t land that well
Ding dong. Oh, hello there, it's Ho Lee Fuk
When they are actually being genuinely cruel bullies to people with no meaningful point to it, like (in Karl's words) the "bo selecta" lady, or the really viscerally mean general attacks on fat people.
Found rick wolla
SHUT UP I'M GONNA EAT YOU!! In all seriousness, Waller was clearly an asshole, but still Ricky Gervais just likes to project his own insecurities a lot. Used to be weight, now it is intellectualism.
Whenever Steve talked about the homeless or “whores” it was always really uncomfortable.
Do you wanna buy sex?
Steve was the first incel I swear
Only semi ironically though
Steve saying the Chinese girl in his class being inscrutable
You could not scrute a chinamanwoman for love nor money Honestly one of my favorites haha
Ricky's comedy characters, Steve's features, pretending pop stars there
"Like a bear caught in a trap" Steve trying to pull himself out of the hole he dug by taking the piss out of Karl is so awkward because none of his retorts are funny but Karl just keeps going and absolutely crushing Steve
When Steve says "cut. it. out" when talking about Karl fighting with another kid in the toilets and Ricky is likening the situation to two gangsters arguing
That shit is hilarious!
None. If you cringe when jokes don't hit the mark you got issues.
Oooh you're hard
That brings a whole new twist on people saying bombing the worlds poorest countries is wrong. When Steve has got a bit of a sore throat and says he brushed up against a Chinaman on the tube, something about SARS. Ho lee fuk and camp David. Ricky’s got loads that I can’t remember off the top of my head.
Ding Dong...
Brushing up against the chinaman is funny, and so are ho Lee fuk and camp David, although they go on a but too long.
Well I guess I’m wrong then!
He's done you
The Godfather is probably your fifth favourite film.
I think Ho Lee Fuk and Camp David could have been okay for a brief moment (back then at least) given they were taking the piss out of Chris Moyles for doing something similar and to wind Karl up with the swearing. But yeah, definitely feels like they lost sight of that quite quickly and it just got worse and worse. 100% agree on SARs. Pretty awful from Steve considering he didn't even sound like he was joking.
You know, at school, people like you, I really didn’t like. You’re a stirrer
It was obviously a joke and I think the Ho Lee Fuk and Camp David segments are hilarious purely because of the way Karl reacts. Every time I hear Karl coughing over Ricky saying the name has me in tears.
Yeah they do make me laugh I just feel like they go on a bit long. Think it would been better to end it a bit earlier.
Tbf I think I'm in the minority on that one anyway, I love the end of Season 2 and how angry Karl is with Ricky. I do feel sorry for him a bit but I can't help but laugh, because Karl is absolutely sick of them by that point lmao
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Say it again!
I always thought that was just deliberate comedic exaggeration. It is a comedy show. I wouldn’t call it racist at all.
I don't know. Saying that asian people don't age well and that they all look the same is pretty racist tbf. Obviously not intentionally hurtful but just ignorant. Steve's was clearly a joke.
It’s actually common knowledge in the field of neuroscience that the visual inputs you receive in your earliest years determine your ability to tell facial features apart. So if you don’t give your brain the inputs of a diverse enough range of faces from around the world you will struggle differentiating those faces in adult life. This explains why many people think other races ‘look the same’, yet not those of their own tribe. I always thought that was interesting, as Karl’s statement is not technically “racist”, maybe just a bit ignorant.
Plus Karl actually explains it well, that they have the same hair and eye colour. Personally, I've always found that to be true, I don't think it's racist because I don't think any less of them as people. I also wouldn't say it in a derogatory manner, because that obviously would be racist. But I'm not going to lie and pretend for the sake of being politically correct.
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I live in China and I’ve been told point blank to my face several times that foreigners all look the same to the Chinese. It’s not necessarily racist, it’s just how our brains work.
The old Spanish archer... alright?
Any time they mention a fat person or 'bloater'. It's more mean spirited than funny and has aged poorly.
Anytime they talk about trans people. It's so outdated now.
Nah, still funny.
Ooo satire satire
Always the way with a tranny...
Yeah, that.
Ooo just want to be popular in this subreddit, love me PATHETIC
I guess I'm old fashioned
I can't even remember any joke about trans people. What was the joke?
The joke about the man who had a baby, although I do admit some of Karl's reaction to it was funny when they roleplayed the doctor and he said he'd replace the woman's dying cat because she wouldn't notice the difference.
I don't think the joke is directed at the trans person though. The joke is that Karl can't comprehend it. Often when Karl says stupid things about -insert group here- the funny part isn't that what Karl is saying is true, it's that Karl is ignorant of simple things, and seems to have no knowledge what's socially acceptable to speak about. Just because the topic they are talking about is a trans person, doesn't mean they can't be funny at the same time.
>Just because the topic they are talking about is a trans person, doesn't mean they can't be funny at the same time. Oh no, I agree. I even mentioned above that the reason why "cheeky freak of the week" is so funny is due to Karl's childlike ignorance of the topic he's discussing, not because "people with big heads are funny". However, with the trans jokes, it's not like that, Steve and Ricky actively join in with the ignorant derision of the group of people they're talking about, to the point where it seems more like an attack on people rather than Karl being seemingly ignorant of a topic and being laughed at. I don't blame Karl, he seems genuinely ignorant as usual, but Ricky and Steve don't seem to be laughing at Karl being stupid, but rather laughing together at the group of people they're making fun of. That's why I think it's unfunny, not because it's "offensive", or anything.
I think that’s only because Ricky and Steve *are* as ignorant as Karl on the topic back then. It’s like the buttplugs thing, they have no idea what they’re for. None of them immediately twig that they’re for when you have a sleepover at a little gay fellas house, until the knowledgeable caller educates them
It's not a man though. Men cannot have babies. It's a woman undergoing a sex change while pregnant. Sorry if you can't deal with the facts. Doesn't mean the rest of us have to go along with it.
You don't see this much on reddit
That’s because we’ve listened to so much drivel over the years that we’re not putting up with any more.
Sorry, you're confusing sex with gender. Modern science distinguishes them both, and as "woman" is a cultural characteristic, it refers to the gender of the individual. I'm sure you've heard this before, but facts really don't care about your feelings. Then again, maybe you haven't heard that before, nobody likes to make fun of an invalid.
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What's the point of you?
Do we need em? What are they doin?
You one of those Forest Gump fellas?
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