Extract from Karl's Diary from The World of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington.
Published by Harper Collins in 2006.
When Karl Pilkington's perfectly spherical head first reared up on the Ricky Gervais Show podcasts, you'd have been forgiven for assuming that he was merely the daft mate from the pub who'd been brought along to make up the numbers. As it turned out, Pilkington became the main reason for tuning in each week, effortlessly outpacing Gervais and Stephen Merchant when it came to tickling the funnybone of the nation. A true idiot savant, Pilkington possessed a brain so strangely wired that no opinion was too bird brained for him to adopt as gospel truth. A typical observation would be, "If you saw an old fella eating a Twix, you would think, 'That's a bit weird, innit?'" On the strength of such inspired nonsense, he gathered a huge cult following. Gervais went so far as to describe him as the funniest man in Britain.
Selected by Alan Williams
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