Am I in a minority of one for finding Mr Pilkington unlikable?

What is the mans appeal?

Does he have an appeal?

He is a radio producer that Gervais and Merchant took a shine to.

They just put him in situations and he acts normal.

Don’t think he cares if he is likeable or not.

They just put him in situations and he acts normal.

In the XFM days perhaps. His character has become increasingly contrived.

He cracks me up 😀 (albeit I agree with XFM..he plays up to it somewhat these days)

Remember him on the gervais ‘Politics’ DVD extra and it was superb

barely aware of him but for the adverts on the tv. No idea of his body of work but I judge him by the company he keeps.

Junkyard – Member

barely aware of him but for the adverts on the tv. No idea of his body of work but I judge him by the company he keeps.

check him out. you might like him, nothing like gervais.

Yeah i agree with the xfm point.

Idiot abroad 2 was funny but felt forced.

Personally I like him and the pod casts have got me through many a long journey.

But ….but I want to keep my prejudices 😕

I will give it a try if the opportunity arises

Hes got a head like an orange.

I’ve not seen much of what he’s done apart from that very odd little collaboration with Gervais called Derek – which was idiotic and embarrassing in the extreme.

I don’t buy the central conceit that he is totally natural and the humour is unintentional, despite interviewers perpetuating it. I thought some of Life’s Too Short (Johnny Depp’s and Liam Neeson’s chats with Gervais and Merchant) were brilliant, but I gave up on Gervais when he tried to justify using the term “mong”. He wasn’t being post-modern, ironic, challenging or taboo-breaking, just depressingly thoughtless and ignorant.