MY FAVOURITE KARL PILKINGTON FUNNY LINES IN THIS EPISODE.

1. “It’s her hair lets look after it. She’s walking around now bald cos of me”.

2. “Been a good day really.  Got hair and a bag of Haribos”.

3. “Basically it’s like a fart.  It don’t matter where you’re from in the world you couldn’t hear a fart and go he’s French….or he’s Russian”.

Karl Pilkington never fails to make me smile or laugh.  Above all else, I think it is his honesty that makes him so likable and funny. He does not try to be funny with forced humour, he just is.  Above are three lines that really made me chuckle during this latest episode of The Moaning of Life 2.  In this episode Karl looked at the issue of ‘Identity’.

The first two quotes were the result of Karl first examining what it would feel like to have a full head of hair once again.  He confidently stated beforehand how being bald does not bother him.  This soon changed however when the hairstylist glued hair on to his scalp and this amazing transformation took place.  It was really amusing to see him look completely different.  As a man who is losing his hair too, I had a keen interest here.  He did look and feel tonnes better for it until his girlfriend emailed him saying that she did not like it.  He questioned how his life could have been different if he had not been so bald since his early twenties.  I liked this wistful look at the past, it showed there is more to him than just his witty one liners.

Karl then visited Mexico where he first looked at fashion.  It never became abundantly clear why the natives walked around and danced in shoes that had these massive curly pointed toe bits at the ends.   I think was to make a ‘statement’ via making the wearers of them stand out.  Karl joined in of course which included a sort of very pointed shoe, ‘YMCA’ type dance. Karl was in his element and it was funny to watch.

His next journey into Mexico was too look at ‘communication’. He saw a man that communicated to others in his village primarily through whistling.   Karl was both bewildered and excited by this.  He thought learning the ‘language of whistling’ had to be easier than trying to learn a foreign language.  This is when he said my third quote above. Here, very amusingly he compared whistling to farting.  By the end of doing some corn picking though Karl started to lose his rag. An exasperated Karl Pilkington is always a funny sight to me.  He could not understand the rules of this whistling but he saved face at the end by correctly whistling for them to bring him a machete.

Karl then looked at lookalikes which had hilarious consequences.  Rather than being Bruce Willis who Karl thought he looked like, the lookalike agency thought he could look like a young Sir Elton John.  Karl looked such a funny sight dressed up as Elton, a red feather boa being the comedy highlight.  Karl was not impressed.  He also could not get any tourist to want a photo from him either. It was very funny stuff to watch.

Apart from a DNA test that despairingly for Karl only proved him to be 51% British, the last section of the programme looked at ‘gender identity’.  It sounds quite deep but in reality it was very funny.  We saw him in America meet a man who was in his seventies, and this gentleman liked dressing up as a woman.  The funny bit was the Mrs Doubtfire body rubber style outfits that he and Karl got dressed into. Karl suddenly had boobs to contend with. He started thinking like a ‘ladylike’ woman’ too(definitely wearing knickers he said), and stated how he was carrying off such clothes better than he imagined his girlfriend back home would.  I bet she was thrilled upon hearing that.  The sight of these two Mrs Doubtfire figures walking along the seafront was truly a magnificent sight to behold…..bravo Karl.

That pretty much then sums up episode two of The Moaning of Life 2. I think I enjoyed it more than the first installment last week that was on the topic of ‘ART’.  “She’s walking around bald cos of me”…..like I said, Karl Pilkington never fails to make to me smile or laugh! 4/5.