Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool

Karl Pilkington just happened to be assigned as producer for the Saturday radio show on London's XFM of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, soon he was the show. Hilariously funny without knowing why, this innocence and his often sideways look at the world led to him having his own Travel show on Sky TV (albeit called An Idiot Abroad).

In his own words Karl "Can't be doing with learning", Gervais calls him a "Round headed Manc twat" and he has worn the 'Stupid' tag all his life. In this documentary Karl wants to find out would he be happier if he was more intelligent ? He returns home to see why school didn't work out for him, he takes a Mensa IQ test and meets among others Germaine Greer and Will Self two People known for their intelligence to see if being smart is all that important anyway.