"Funniest Comedian KARL PILKINGTON vs JOE PISCOPO"

Karl Pilkington (born 23 September 1972) is an English television presenter, author, comedian, radio producer, actor and voice actor. Pilkington gained prominence as the producer of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's radio programme on Xfm. He appeared on The Ricky Gervais Show, presented the Sky travel comedy series An Idiot Abroad and made his full acting debut (following a cameo appearance in the final episode of Extras) on Gervais's 2012 comedy–drama series Derek. Pilkington is a co-founder, along with Gervais and Merchant, of RiSK Productions, a television production company. Pilkington also starred in the Sky 1 travel documentary comedy series The Moaning of Life (2013–2015). In 2018, Pilkington starred in a new scripted comedy series, Sick of It. Pilkington was born in the town of Sale, Trafford, located in the south of Greater Manchester. He grew up on the Racecourse Estate neighborhood and lived with his father, mother, an older sister and an older brother. Very little is known about his family, but Pilkington has expressed having a close relationship with his parents, whom he has shared more stories about, the mother being mostly stay-at–home and his father having multiple jobs mainly as a driver; however, he has had an estranged relationship with his siblings, whom he had said it had been years since he even talked with and was never that close to, given a ten-year age gap between him and the older pair. He made it to secondary school attending Ashton-on-Mersey School on Cecil Avenue, Sale. He said that he never liked school and struggled with the system, at some point losing all interest in it. Pilkington claimed he was only attending school to sell video games that he would purchase and make copies of, among other things he started selling to his schoolmates. He said, "I wasn't going to school to learn, I was going to earn." At age 15, he dropped out of school to work as a cassette and disk printer through a YTS program.

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Joseph Charles John Piscopo (/ˈpiskəpoʊ/ PIS-kə-poh; born June 17, 1951) is an American comedian and a radio talk show host. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984, where he played a variety of recurring characters. His film roles include Danny Vermin in Johnny Dangerously (1984), Moe Dickstein in Wise Guys (1986), Doug Bigelow in Dead Heat (1988) and Kelly Stone in Sidekicks (1992). Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Piscopo grew up in North Caldwell and attended West Essex High School and was a member of the drama club "The Masquers". He developed a reputation for never playing a part the way it was written. After graduating from high school in 1969, Piscopo attended Jones College in Jacksonville, Florida, where he received a degree in broadcast management. In the summer of 1980, Piscopo was hired as a contract player for Saturday Night Live. The show had gone through a major upheaval when all the writers, major producers, and cast members left that spring. The all-new cast bombed with critics and fans, with the exception of Piscopo and Eddie Murphy; thus they were the only two cast members to be kept when Dick Ebersol took over the show the following spring. With the success of SNL, Piscopo moved to the wealthy borough of Alpine, New Jersey.

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