Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant Send Useless Round-Headed Twerp Around the World 1.56K Anderson Evans 08/24/10 01:20PM Filed to: Idiot Abroad Idiot Abroad Karl Pilkington Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant TV Previews tweet Video Karl Pilkington has been the whipping boy of British comedy for many years, and his latest punishment is a trip around the world. Placed in exotic locales all over the planet, Pilkington proves his innate idiocy to a multi-cultural degree.