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

What is the mans appeal?


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 7:09 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 7:17 pm
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They just put him in situations and he acts normal.

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


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 7:19 pm
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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


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 7:20 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 7:25 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 7:34 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 7:42 pm
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But ....but I want to keep my prejudices 😕

I will give it a try if the opportunity arises


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 7:51 pm
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Hes got a head like an orange.


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 8:09 pm
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I’ve not seen much of what he’s done apart from that very odd little collaboration with Gervais called [i]Derek[/i] - which was idiotic and embarrassing in the extreme.


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 8:10 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 11/09/2012 8:20 pm