Karl Pilkington is a British

British people

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 podcast

Podcast

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er, author

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, television personality and former radio producer

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. He is best known for the Sky travel series, An Idiot Abroad

An Idiot Abroad

An Idiot Abroad is a travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1, as well as a spin-off book published by Canongate Books, created by and featuring Karl Pilkington and his former radio show colleagues Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant....

, which was also presented in the United States

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 on the Science Channel, in Canada

Canada

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 on Discovery Channel and in Australia

Australia

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 on One HD, and The Ricky Gervais Show

The Ricky Gervais Show

The Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy audio show in the UK starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington, later adapted into an animated televised version debuting for HBO and Channel 4 in 2010. The show started in November 2001 on Xfm, and aired in weekly periods for months at a time...

 with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
Karl Pilkington was born, brought up and educated in Manchester

Manchester

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, England at Ashton on Mersey High School.