The World of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington; Ricky Gervais; Stephen Merchant

Author:Karl Pilkington; Ricky Gervais; Stephen Merchant
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Humour
ISBN: 9780007240272
Publisher: FOURTH ESTATE
Published: 2006-09-18T10:00:00+00:00

‘So the rocket goes

off, right ...’

Karl: What we’re doing here is, right, just giving you a bit of Monkey News that’s gone on, right. Where a monkey has been involved in it. Good little story and that. Are you familiar with the one that went into space? The first sort of thing they ever sent up there, before man did it and all that. You see this is what annoyed me with it really. Armstrong gets all the glory, but do you know who went up there before him?

Steve: A monkey?

Karl: Yeah.

Ricky: A dog went up first.

Steve: But what was the monkey called?

Karl: Err, I don’t know.

Steve: Right, okay. So it’s not the most informed news bulletin?

Ricky: The dog was called Laika.

Karl: Was it?

Ricky: Yeah. They couldn’t get it back though. They sent it up there, did a few tests and stuff, and they couldn’t get it back. They didn’t have the technology to bring the dog back because of course it couldn’t fly the capsule back. Brilliant. We could all do that.

Karl: Right, well this was the next one up then, right – so the dog must have gone first and they went, ‘Right we made an error there, right. Get the monkey in.’ And what happened is they taught it what buttons to hit at the time that it needed to hit ’em and the way they did it was, like, give it bananas. It was like, ‘Hit the red button’ and it hit the red button and they’d give it a banana. And they would go, ‘Right, reverse is the green one, hit the green one’ and then he would do that and they would go ‘There’s a banana.’ So it was taking commands on headphones.

Ricky: Right, but how were they giving it the banana?

Karl: No, this is before it went. You wouldn’t just put a monkey in it and go ‘There you go. Get on with it.’ They’d sort of put him in one of them training capsules that you get.

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