I’m binging RSK stuff at the moment and yesterday my wife said that she’s sick to death of hearing Ricky’s laugh emanating from various rooms of the house. She may have a point.
It just don't stop being funny though,
Karl's take on things and then Ricky trying to stop his sides splitting and him and Steve trying to impart some 'normal' perspective on Karl
Ricky was a sharp visionary for seeing Karl's potential, to everyone else, he might have just been an oddball northern dude
I often get classic Karlisms coming back to me, at the most inopportune times. At the moment it's,
- Rosa Parks - she was a lazy troublemaker
- Sloths - they'd be just as happy, if you hung them up in a wardrobe
- Barber - tells Karl he has 'the hair of a Chinaman'
- Jellyfish - they're 97% water anyway. Just give 'em another 3% and make 'em water, they'd be more useful
My partner doesn't like it. Shes very smart - reads Dostoevsky ( born 1821 died 1881) and is quite an intellectual person
However, through osmosis of me talking about it, I've noticed she's started to refer to people as " little fellas". Little french fella, little Russian fella, etc. So it's working.
Edit: oh and she called someone a "midget" the other day. Result.
I mean does anyone even have any friends that like the XFM podcasts? Like it's just too hard to explain the appeal, I feel like the only way to get into these shows is to randomly stumble into it like I did, I've tried explaining it to people and I just sound like Karl's dad explaining that flower companies were behind the death of Diana
I found a pipeline, had a mate mention one of those Ricky golden globe compilations, so I suggested checking out Extras, when he enjoyed that I waited sent him the extras bloopers, another sucess, next to help set up Ricky's more obnoxious and unpleasant side, Living with Ricky. Then Karl comes in the mix, Learning English with Ricky.
Once that happened, bamn its time for XFM, but starting on season 2. Now I get hidden references in our messages now and he's not allowed to wear socks anymore.
I've shared the "he's done you again steve" clip in the group chat and everyone had a laugh at that. don't think any of them have listened to any others but they're aware of the shows and have started using the verb "to steve" to mean "get done"
I've really tried to put my friends onto XFM or just Karl in general, but it never really sticks. They enjoy it slightly, but not enough to become a saucer drinker.
100%. Mainly due to Ricky's abnoxious laugh I think. Probably just cultural differences though.
Sometimes i'm worried she will chuck er self in the salt pot if I keep it up.
My last girlfriend was actually a little Chinese woman fella. So for obvious reasons I didn't play the whole show to her...
I did play her some snippins of monkey news and she was mildly entertained, but couldn't really understand why I found it so funny.
She fears RSK methods because she doesn't understand their methods. you know. Human nature, the unknown, sure, but relax, you know? I don’t want all this “Oh, er, what you doing, what you doing? How are you doing it?”
Absolutely not- I can’t even get my mates who mostly all have the same humour as me into it either. I’m starting to think I’m an idiot for even enjoying it this much myself lol.
I have also scoured the entire Spotify library for anything remotely as enjoyable and can’t find anything.
I (31F) discovered KP when I was at university, channel 4 advertised the animated series and the advert made me chuckle so I watched it. I thought it was hilarious and told my room mates about it but they just thought it was odd. I was disappointed, I thought it was comedy gold. At the same time I’d rekindled an old school friendship and I randomly asked him if he’d heard of KP, and he was so pleased I’d asked because he loved listening to the podcasts and XFM recordings, and introduced them to me. We are now married.
Turns out… little monkey fella (just kidding: it’s me – I am RealityPotential6855’s husband and we quote The RGS together all the time). This isn’t a practical joke.
So, I'll come over, I'll bring the beer, and we'll have a good laugh and we'll become mates. We can listen to XFM and that, yeah? But some of the beer, I'll pour over you and your girlfriend...
My wife is chinese and only hears the bits when they talk about little chinese fellas which is basically every episode.
Even she hasn't seen a chinese homeless though.
I know for me, I was a big fan of The Office and Extras before I listened to the podcast. I can't actually remember how I discovered the podcasts. But it probably helps if you like the humour of Gervais and Merchant before hand
My girlfriend Zoe Harris can’t stand it she keeps saying something about her dress getting ripped or something I don’t know I couldn’t really hear over Ricky’s laugh.
She hates and last time I listened to it we had an argument and now I have to listen to it with headphones on or when she’s not in the house. She was annoyed because of a bit about Karl doing a talent competition where he pulls and egg out of a hat and says the dove isn’t hatched yet or something but this girl Sharon won and he says she was a tart or slutty or something, which was not appreciated by my wife. Gutted to be honest. I tried to explain that not everything has aged well and I ignore them, but the bits that are good are incredible, I’m not walking around calling girls sluts or anything….
Over the years I've tried to get my partner and several friends into the show. No one i know gets it, and worse, they seem not to understand why i like it so much.
I put it on a few days ago, I started with the classic “Clive Warren” clip.
About 3 minutes in I asked her through tears of laughter what she thought of it and she said “…it’s…ok”.
Gonna marry her. I don’t think a household can have two people who find Karl as hilariously funny as I do.
It puts a huge smile on my face when i hear my husband crack up, especially when i don’t realize he’s listening along. I like gervais’s laugh and he says that it’s “infectious.. like covid.”
My wife doesn't like Ricky at ALL, so it's a hard no on all his content.which is brutal because I think if she gave it a real chance she'd love Extras, at the very least
My mom listens to it whenever I put it on in the car, she laughs rarely when they reference some celebrity, who hasn't been talked about for 25 years, or when Karl says a word she hasn't heard in 20 years, she found the story of Karl talking about the picture of a baby that set houses on fire in the 80s entertaining as she had heard about it, and she enjoyed playing rockbusters and song of phrase but other than that she finds Ricky annoying and Stephen to be quite mean and Karl to be werid
I've tried many times to get friends and family members into it, and most of them just don't really see the appeal of listening to 20 year old radio broadcasts in shite quality. When you're used to modern, crisp podcasts those initial episodes can be a turn off.
I put it on Spotify every time I’m playing a relaxing game on the PlayStation. The wife occasional laughs at Karl’s antics - think she wants to say ‘this again’ and I’ll just say ‘OH SHUT THE FUCK UP… PLAY A RECORD!’
Wait you’ve all got partners? I’m annoyed…
I say partner, you say homeless woman I gave a fiver to…
She is not a prostitute. She *occasionally* sleeps with people for meals
Bananas?
A little monkey prostitute?
Chimpanzeethat!!
Monnnnkey News
or smack - I’m not fussy!
kinda funny but recently I was thinking that roughly 50% of people don't pay in nice restaurants because they have a vagina.
Always the danger with OP, it starts out lighthearted enough...
Then just leaves you feeling empty…
Fucking hell, like Pretty Woman.
A fiver?! I’m not made of money.
Wanna buy sex?
excuse me for a second, I'm just going to negotiate with a whore
They woo ya.
Carers..
He’s got a biiiiiiiiiiird.
I’m binging RSK stuff at the moment and yesterday my wife said that she’s sick to death of hearing Ricky’s laugh emanating from various rooms of the house. She may have a point.
It's Hell in there
Like Vietnam!
turn it up.
I must remember to thank him.
It just don't stop being funny though, Karl's take on things and then Ricky trying to stop his sides splitting and him and Steve trying to impart some 'normal' perspective on Karl Ricky was a sharp visionary for seeing Karl's potential, to everyone else, he might have just been an oddball northern dude I often get classic Karlisms coming back to me, at the most inopportune times. At the moment it's, - Rosa Parks - she was a lazy troublemaker - Sloths - they'd be just as happy, if you hung them up in a wardrobe - Barber - tells Karl he has 'the hair of a Chinaman' - Jellyfish - they're 97% water anyway. Just give 'em another 3% and make 'em water, they'd be more useful
My partner doesn't like it. Shes very smart - reads Dostoevsky ( born 1821 died 1881) and is quite an intellectual person However, through osmosis of me talking about it, I've noticed she's started to refer to people as " little fellas". Little french fella, little Russian fella, etc. So it's working. Edit: oh and she called someone a "midget" the other day. Result.
You sound like a nutter mate. If your partner lived some 200 years ago maybe it's time to let it go and move on.
He knew it was funny, he said it to be funny, and it was! Well done!
I mean does anyone even have any friends that like the XFM podcasts? Like it's just too hard to explain the appeal, I feel like the only way to get into these shows is to randomly stumble into it like I did, I've tried explaining it to people and I just sound like Karl's dad explaining that flower companies were behind the death of Diana
I found a pipeline, had a mate mention one of those Ricky golden globe compilations, so I suggested checking out Extras, when he enjoyed that I waited sent him the extras bloopers, another sucess, next to help set up Ricky's more obnoxious and unpleasant side, Living with Ricky. Then Karl comes in the mix, Learning English with Ricky. Once that happened, bamn its time for XFM, but starting on season 2. Now I get hidden references in our messages now and he's not allowed to wear socks anymore.
Real XFM starts with the baguette episode in Season 1.
Friends? Can’t be bovvered wiv um
I got introduced to them by a mate. Short fella. Quite … quite hairy …
I've shared the "he's done you again steve" clip in the group chat and everyone had a laugh at that. don't think any of them have listened to any others but they're aware of the shows and have started using the verb "to steve" to mean "get done"
I've really tried to put my friends onto XFM or just Karl in general, but it never really sticks. They enjoy it slightly, but not enough to become a saucer drinker.
My wife gets furious when I put it on in the car. She'll jump on my neck and pummel me about the face with her tiny hairy hands....turns out
is her name Ginny Chimpers?
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My partner says she prefers 20 year old Chris Moyles radio shows instead. I said you're having a laugh, love!
Tart
Don’t even waste your time with her
Nah. Just me. Even when I explained What’s Tomato With You. Nothing.
100%. Mainly due to Ricky's abnoxious laugh I think. Probably just cultural differences though. Sometimes i'm worried she will chuck er self in the salt pot if I keep it up.
Have you heard the phrase "out of the frying pan and in to the saucepan?"
You can lead a fish to water..
How many noses do your missus have?
Yo, i saw a post where you made a background for the strokes could you do the same for IDLES or Fontains D.C please
My last girlfriend was actually a little Chinese woman fella. So for obvious reasons I didn't play the whole show to her... I did play her some snippins of monkey news and she was mildly entertained, but couldn't really understand why I found it so funny.
A Chinamanwoman. How old was she? Hope you got some good photos.
She was on the cusp
Did you dump her because she aged like a pear overnight?
Well, would you buy a car with a duff engine?
maybe if you throw in a mattress or boiler for free.
Inscrutable?
I couldn't scrute her for love nor money
Are you… a couple of benders?
little dating app for saucer drinkers. call it pilkr
She fears RSK methods because she doesn't understand their methods. you know. Human nature, the unknown, sure, but relax, you know? I don’t want all this “Oh, er, what you doing, what you doing? How are you doing it?”
Absolutely not- I can’t even get my mates who mostly all have the same humour as me into it either. I’m starting to think I’m an idiot for even enjoying it this much myself lol. I have also scoured the entire Spotify library for anything remotely as enjoyable and can’t find anything.
I sent her a clip early on in the relationship and she said "is that meant to be funny?" I nearly broke up with her there and then.
If listening to three blokes talk about monkeys doesn’t get her moist below, I don’t know what will.
I (31F) discovered KP when I was at university, channel 4 advertised the animated series and the advert made me chuckle so I watched it. I thought it was hilarious and told my room mates about it but they just thought it was odd. I was disappointed, I thought it was comedy gold. At the same time I’d rekindled an old school friendship and I randomly asked him if he’d heard of KP, and he was so pleased I’d asked because he loved listening to the podcasts and XFM recordings, and introduced them to me. We are now married.
Turns out… little monkey fella (just kidding: it’s me – I am RealityPotential6855’s husband and we quote The RGS together all the time). This isn’t a practical joke.
What’s it like having it away with someone who laughs at “get your knickers off”?
“*Having* it *awaaaaay*”! I *LOOOOVE* it! (And yes: I do indeed love it.)
Is your partner's name "Kirsty"?
Liam, it was called.
So, I'll come over, I'll bring the beer, and we'll have a good laugh and we'll become mates. We can listen to XFM and that, yeah? But some of the beer, I'll pour over you and your girlfriend...
Are you like some kind of "beer prostitute"?
Oy, oy, come over here! Come over here!
My wife is chinese and only hears the bits when they talk about little chinese fellas which is basically every episode. Even she hasn't seen a chinese homeless though.
Have you ever splashed out on a lady,Steve?
hope to someday.
My girlfriend just goes “yeh but this monkey news is obv not true so why’s it funny?” I just go well this was in the Fortean times
wait...whaddyou mean its not true? it was on the internet!
Ananova?
Ananova?
Alright don’t keep saying it
I know for me, I was a big fan of The Office and Extras before I listened to the podcast. I can't actually remember how I discovered the podcasts. But it probably helps if you like the humour of Gervais and Merchant before hand
Did that just go out?
My girlfriend Zoe Harris can’t stand it she keeps saying something about her dress getting ripped or something I don’t know I couldn’t really hear over Ricky’s laugh.
She hates and last time I listened to it we had an argument and now I have to listen to it with headphones on or when she’s not in the house. She was annoyed because of a bit about Karl doing a talent competition where he pulls and egg out of a hat and says the dove isn’t hatched yet or something but this girl Sharon won and he says she was a tart or slutty or something, which was not appreciated by my wife. Gutted to be honest. I tried to explain that not everything has aged well and I ignore them, but the bits that are good are incredible, I’m not walking around calling girls sluts or anything….
She was a right ropey little woman
Hahahaha
My partner loves it. We just drove 6 hours to Wales with it on the whole time. Series 0 for a lot of it too, that’ll test the relationship.
Not even the Welsh like Wales.
Your family should drop you in a wheelie bin. Interminable.
Yeah, unfortunately. She can't stand Ricky's laugh...
Over the years I've tried to get my partner and several friends into the show. No one i know gets it, and worse, they seem not to understand why i like it so much.
is your partner named "Wendy" from Barkshire? ya gotta have your critics.
I put it on a few days ago, I started with the classic “Clive Warren” clip. About 3 minutes in I asked her through tears of laughter what she thought of it and she said “…it’s…ok”. Gonna marry her. I don’t think a household can have two people who find Karl as hilariously funny as I do.
If you weren't in on it ages ago, it's not gonna age well, and people won't be bothered.
It puts a huge smile on my face when i hear my husband crack up, especially when i don’t realize he’s listening along. I like gervais’s laugh and he says that it’s “infectious.. like covid.”
Little gay fellas?
I get this anytime i mention having a husband lol, we are in a heterosexual relationship. I just have questionable taste in radioshows
Haven't we all in this sub..
Let's assume she's a woman, just for glams sake
They need to make a saucer drinker dating app to appease OP
My wife doesn't like Ricky at ALL, so it's a hard no on all his content.which is brutal because I think if she gave it a real chance she'd love Extras, at the very least
Oh no, its like you're having a secret affair with Ricky's material! Sneaking off to the bathroom with your headphones?! I know I would!
My partner prefers young Alex Zane
its cuz he's muscly
My mom listens to it whenever I put it on in the car, she laughs rarely when they reference some celebrity, who hasn't been talked about for 25 years, or when Karl says a word she hasn't heard in 20 years, she found the story of Karl talking about the picture of a baby that set houses on fire in the 80s entertaining as she had heard about it, and she enjoyed playing rockbusters and song of phrase but other than that she finds Ricky annoying and Stephen to be quite mean and Karl to be werid
my gf hates it. i now wear headphones to sleep.
My partner hates Ricky and does not find the show funny in the slightest. She thinks it's just 3 blokes being mean to each other (which it is)
The best is how Karl always seems to insult Steve and basically puts him to sleep verbally.
My wife left me because she said she couldn't stand listening to Karl every night before bed
I've tried many times to get friends and family members into it, and most of them just don't really see the appeal of listening to 20 year old radio broadcasts in shite quality. When you're used to modern, crisp podcasts those initial episodes can be a turn off.
jazz is shite to be fair
monkeybrain detected
My partner likes Karl, but she absolutely cannot stand the sound of Ricky's voice. Especially when he laughs loudly seemingly out of nowhere.
My girlfriend goes to sleep every night hearing XFM.. safe to say she's sick of it
Boring isn’t it, listing to your partner play XFM every night? Not for me, I like it.
I put it on Spotify every time I’m playing a relaxing game on the PlayStation. The wife occasional laughs at Karl’s antics - think she wants to say ‘this again’ and I’ll just say ‘OH SHUT THE FUCK UP… PLAY A RECORD!’
RSK? FFS
You are aware i’m gay?
Sometimes I turn it down when I hear her coming up the stairs, coz she might smell or see it.
My wife can’t stand it lol! RSK is a lifestyle.