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Good news and bad news today, guys. The bad news is that this is my last day at Videogum. The good news is that I am moving to England! (For some of you, the words good and bad might have gotten reversed.) I just really want to see this new Karl Pilkington show, so the only reasonable solution is to quit my job, pack up all my belongings, put my puppy to sleep, and move to a foreign country for three months or however long I’m legally allowed to stay there. Must see telly!
Obviously, I wish I could stay. If only there was some sort of international networking system where computers could talk to each other, and you could turn television programs into computer data files and then, like, I mean, I’m just sort of making this up off the top of my head and I have no idea how this would even work, but like one computer could electronically send, or electronically mail, the files to another computer even if that other computer was in a different country entirely. Wouldn’t that be neat? Oh well. Maybe some day in the future! LUKE, I AM YOUR COMPUTER. Get it? Science. Anyway, goodbye! I hope this show* is worth it! (Via IWatchStuff.)
*Of course, in England, they call shows “lorries.”
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I Started Yelling NOOOOO Until I realized you were doing that comedy writing thing you do so well.
Hey don’t kill Birdie I’ll take her from you I’ll regularly feed and bathe her, they eat like a spoonful of kibbles once a week right? And the rest of the time they care for themselves?
That’s totally how dogs work
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Never heard of such a thing, but now that I look closely, you do look a bit half man/ half wolf. Might said farm be home?
Agreed, Stephen.
Thanks for the validation, Ron Jenkins. Glad I’m not the only one here weirded out by these trolls
Anyone that attempts to equalize or bring this vote to Zero for this horrific comment is equally as disturbed and demented as this soulless robot automaton.
Seriously
#NoEquilbrio
Yikes, DS3M. I think that’s taking it a bit far. Steve’s comment was just a gross extension of “If you love it so much, why don’t you marry it”.
YEAH no. Still NOT INTO beastiality jokes.
Oh, can we not? I don’t want Steve to get Lowest Rated this week since that’s so obviously just enabling him (sorry, Steve! Tough love!) and I don’t want someone to volunteer to be lowest rated and take one for the team (sorry, Soft Gabe! Soft love!) We’re all adults here.
I agree with the general premise of the ZSO (Zeroing Steve Out) initiative, but in this Instance I find Winwood’s comment particularly offensive, egregious, annoying and unnecessary trolling.
So while I may deserve some Yikes, I really don’t deserve all the Yikes, or even half the Yike. . .
If Steve Winwood is playing his part, he is a Soulless Robot Automaton capable of rendering opinions on who is pretty, thats it. If he doesn’t care about votes, let the votes stand, and if people actually AGREE with his comment and upvote, then Fuck them, because personally I find the phrase “Are you going to take it to a bestiality farm or something” to be fucked.
If we are playing our parts, as opposed to playing into someone else’s role, we would vote based on how we feel on each comment, not based on the agenda around it…
Steve has been forcing our hands into this role.
I’d like to know where the community actually stands on their opinion of the comment as opposed to some other influence pushing the vote one way or another. And my vote insistence in this instance isn’t self serving nor malignant just merely a reflection of my interest in the true feelings we have on this Dog Rape Bidness.
I know, TL;DR
DS3M, I get where you are coming from, but no offense at all, I think you’re making way too big of a deal about this. I’m in Steve’s camp when it comes to not giving a shit about vote tallies. Steve doesn’t care, so what’s the point of even voting on it?
Personally, I find Steve’s general dickishness far more annoying than some dumb beastiality joke. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous to draw some arbitrary line in the sand to distinguish who was deeply offended by a puppy rape joke. And yes, I don’t doubt I would laugh my ass off at a puppy rape joke if it was actually funny.
Also, to an extent I agree with the sentiment of Steve’s post. Not that the Birdie obsession is creepy or disturbing, I don’t think it is, I just think it’s a little weird. I’m a HUGE fan of dogs, and have an unhealthy attachment to my own (who is the cutest and the best and way more awesome than Birdie!!!), but I guess I think all the Birdie stuff is a bit weird. Yeah, Birdie’s cute. Okay. I guess I just don’t understand it.
Much love, sir.
I upvoted it so it wouldn’t be given attention on the Monster’s Ball, I don’t see the problem in that?
I suggest we send this issue to an independent arbitrator:
I THINK that’s FINE. I WAS assuming HE WAS talking to PEOPLE who actually FOUND THAT shit funny and felt it NEEDED an upvote?
Oh, that’s fine then, An American Patriot, but the way he said “Anyone attempts to equalize or bring this to zero is equally disturbed…” makes me think that he understand WHY people are upvoting Steve’s comment.
#ReadingTooMuchIntoInternetCommentsgum.
FYI – everybody, it’s still OK to upvote me though!
You people are ridiculous. Nobody cares about up-votes down-votes. Get a life. Look, I like dogs as much as the next guy, but it’s creepy and weird the way you guys sound like you want to marry this random blogger’s dog. I like the work Gabe does and everything, I enjoy visiting here as much as other blogs like Everything’s Terrible, Snacks and Shit, Conan Obrien’s twitter page and others, but come on. Give the anonymous blog comment section “scene making” nonsense you choose to engage in a rest. Yeesh. “Oh no I got down-voted and/or zero-voted. Noooo.” (I scream “No” in slow motion as I fall in to a pit of fire?) Yawn.
There’s a pit of fire at the bestiality farm? For all of my assumptions that the place would be nothing but bad ideas, that seems like pretty decent planning.
yeah I’m with you there. I’m alright with having a mascot and everything, but seriously, my dog is waaaay cuter anyway. Her name’s Francie!
All this fighting has my head in such toilet paper tube.
Since I cant reply to Steve Winwoods last comment I will just park this here- your constant ‘I dont care about up/down votes’ is tiring. The up/down vote system is obviously a part of the ‘videogum culture’ hence the discussions around it. I dont come into your house and ask you to stop yelling “shes pretty” at the TV, so why not just give it a rest?
Lizardo, the only reason why I mentioned the lameness of voting at all is because these other guys are all like “oooh we’re going to punish you with a down vote” or “we’re going to punish you with a coordinated zero vote” blah, yawn. It’s just stupid. If you don’t like anonymous commentary then cry for me, Argentina I guess? “Ooh I’m so punished.” Not.
I love Karl Pilkington. I mean, not in a hyperbolic “I think he’s very funny” kind of way. No. I genuinely think he is the greatest
persondeadpan comedic characterraving mad lunatic to ever live and want to wed him.ugh, that’s creepy an disturbing, why don’t you just take it to a Karl-Pilkington-raping farm or something?
What you don’t realize is that as soon as you tried to put birdie down, she’d transform into Taylor Lautner and then punch you right in the face.
I think the bird watching show is one step above that BBC show where they go to the flea market.
I have a friend who has been on that show.. leave it alone!
How much did he win? One time I saw someone win a single pound! It was very exciting.
(Seriously though, I totally love that show)
It was a girl. Her team lost £20. Tax payers money put to good use that show!
Gabe, use your powers for good, not evil! Remember how many hearts you can/will break.
Don’t go, we can work something out.
Maybe we can leverage the internet?
man, this post title was misleading. i was all super excited because i thought the video was going to be a full episode of the show, and now i’m just depressed because apparently i’m gonna have to pack up my lorries and move to england if i wanna see it.
AND pay a premium for the channel, apparently, because my friends who live there don’t even get Sky1!
British Todd Barry is even funnier than real Todd Barry.
First I was sad you were leaving. Then I was glad you were doing jokes.
But now, I am just angry you stole the “they call [noun] lorries” jokes from us all.
Gabe, everybody loves you, I tease you because I care. I love you almost as much as I love Karl Pilkington. Well of course i don’t really know you in real life, but you seem like a good dude over the internet… and everybody knows there a re no weirdos on the Internet. C’mon everybody let’s cheer up Gabe!
I made him a cake, I was gonna say you’re a cool dude but I was so used to writing happy birthday that it just kinda rolled out of my hands and onto the cake
Gabe, this is you every morning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR3rK0kZFkg
I don’t get this Karl Pilkington guy at all. After watching a few episodes of The Ricky Gervais Show I don’t think I get Ricky Gervais anymore either.
For what it’s worth, this new version of the Ricky Gervais Show seems to have sucked most of the genius and hilarity out of itself. It’s either the massive edits or the fact that it’s animated (as opposed to letting your imagination do the work?) but I am not Lots Of Loving this anywhere near as much as I did with the podcasts. I mean, it’s been almost the whole season and we still haven’t heard the techno remix of “I Could Eat A Knob At Night”.
I’m going to have to respectfully disagree. The animation adds a lot. I think that much of the backlash to this show is an extension of that kneejerk “I was here first and the new stuff isn’t as good!” sort of resentment.
The Xfm diehards resented the podcasts. The podcast diehards resented “The Ricky Gervais Guide To…” audiobooks. And now the scorn is directed at the animated series.
I’m with Khoff on this one. The animated show is still good because the base material is good, but it just felt uninspired. Gervais admitted he did’nt have anything to do with the animation, he just let them use the audio. It reminds me of Karl’s first book, which was basically a direct transcription from the podcast with a couple of pics thrown in. Life and times of Tim is clearly superior and they use even crappier animation. I would’ve liked to see Karl’s Ideas brought to life with the animation even if they’d have to chop and slow the audio.Monkey news is great but some of his other ideas should have been expanded upon by the animators.
Also, I implore anyone who disapproves of the HBO show to check out the sex machine clip (thank you, Paul The Party Animal Parker):
http://www.hbo.com/the-ricky-gervais-show/episodes/1/02-episode-2/video/ep-2-sex-machine.html
I understand what you mean; I hate the purist “I was there first” attitude. I was excited for this as anyone else. But I didn’t know there was a big backlash…I haven’t seen any criticism of the series (good or bad). I’m not sure why I’m not enjoying it as much, but I think it’s mostly just that it’s an edited down version of what we’ve already heard. (As opposed to the XFM, Podcasts, Guide Tos all being new material.) So I’ll be like, ‘Oh right, this is the bit when Karl says…” and then it doesn’t happen and they move onto a new topic. However, that sex machine clip never gets old. Nor does Paul “The Party Animal” Parker.
I completely understand where you’re coming from. I guess we just disagree as to how much the cartoons add. Ricky himself summed up the show rather well on his blog last month:
“It is the audio from the podcasts and audiobooks of the same name, but animated.
Do not download it if you don’t want to hear the same record-breaking audio but with retro animation.
If you’re asking me, I think the animation is great and makes the pointless conversations funnier, but this is just my opinion.
If you don’t want to experience the same audio but with funny animation over the top of it, do not watch The Ricky Gervais Show. That would be mental.
Just like you would never go to see a Shakespeare play if you’d read the script just to hear the same words but with something to watch too. Madness.”
IF YOU move to ENGLAND, GABE, THEN we become ENEMIES. JUST sayin’.
If I could understand one word anybody said in that…I probably would have laughed. I am cursed with an elderly racist’s ear for British accents. It’s pretty pathetic. I try to understand. I swear to god. But all I hear is “macguffin me muffin braffin me mum kippers”. I wonder if I could go to some sort of accent therapy to get better?
YouTube can help you with that! All sorts of British telly plus that excellent closed-captioning service–you’ll be able to distinguish between counties in the West Country in no time, my lover.
DONT. YOU. EVER. DO. THAT. AGAIN. YOU. UNDERSTAND. ME???
http://vimeo.com/11754548
Little two minute clip from the show, The password is Pilkipedia
THANK YOU SO MUCH! who would down vote this and why?
It honestly looks to be the best thing ever.
agreed, dunebug2.0. And you are honestly the second best thing ever for leading us to that clip. Long live Pilkipedia.
Dunebug2.0, thank you for posting that link. It gave me a much better feel for the show than the video above. I thought the show was about Karl traveling to the Seven Wonders, but the trailer Gabe posted only confused me a lot. Also, my name is Karl, so maybe I just didn’t get it because my brain works all weird and stuff and I missed something obvious.
But anyway, that password(case sensitive)-protected video really sold me on this show.
OK, yeah, so I just rewatched the clip Gabe posted, and I now realize that they have Karl commenting on the new shows on sky1HD while also advertising his Seven Wonders show, but I got confused because
1) they’re british so they mumble (yes, ALL of them), and
2) Ricky says he’s pulling the world’s biggest practical joke, and then the rest of the clip is Karl stuck critiquing the concepts of other shows. SO here I am, watching and thinking “Wow, Ricky made all these fake shows for Karl to watch and critique? That is one in-depth practical joke, with a cast of thousands. But I’d much rather watch Karl visit the Seven Wonders.”
Turns out what I’d much rather watch is what is really happening. Cool beans.
Would the BUZZMEDIA Illuminati have to shut down Videogum if Gabe ever really left? Videogum without Gabe is just not happening in Ron’s world or anybody’s world for that matter.
If only there were some sort of international computer network that would allow Gabe to post on Videogum from abroad…
I would watch anything Karl did, honestly. I would watch or listen to him read the telephone book, and I’m not even kidding. That would be amazing! “Oh, look at his name. What kind of name is that?” Can we get someone on this?
It’s been done: http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Karl_Reads_the_Edinburgh_Phonebook
Oh, and here’s the audio for you. The stuff of interest starts around the 1:20 mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JA4FTYMmA
Will Zed Zed Top be appearing in Heche-D?
Lorriegum featuring Karl Pilkington as Gabe ‘I hate everything’ Delahaye
i think the question we are all asking is why that bird watching show isnt here in america
just you wait, friend. just you wait.
For quite a while I was debating whether Karl was for real or playing a role.
Then I realized either way he’s an amazing, hilarious, odd little round-headed man and really that’s all that matters.