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Quote Originally Posted by Fenster View Post
Come on guys, you think Karl is really a thicko?

The brilliance is - his "stupid" observations actually make perfect sense. I laughed out loud a few times. Thought it was excellent.
That's the thing. He doesn't seem stupid as such, I would class it more as warped. He will say the things that other people have been conditioned away from mentioning or saying. In a lot of the scenes he was just pointing out the obvious. Very much just making observations and riffing on the cultural differences. A lot of "what's the point in this?" or "why do they do that?". I agree, a lot of the time he is bang on the money. I agree with him about the great wall, about the pollution, about the hawking on buses, the squat toilets etc. He is right, but says things and acts in a way that just makes it funny.
Well yeah of course it's funny, he is a comedian, he clearly plays up the dry wit act.

In this episode he never once laughs/smiles during it, even though he is intentionally being funny, apart from when he accidentally threw the needle into the camera mans arm, which was obviously not scripted