Karl Pilkington Biography

Karl Pilkington is an English television and radio personality travel show presenter author actor and former radio producer. He 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 series An Idiot Abroad and made his full acting debut (following a cameo appearance in the final episode of Extras) on Gervais' 2012 comedy-drama series Derek. Pilkington is a co-founder along with Gervais and Merchant of RiSK Productions a television production company. Pilkington moved to London to work with XFM as a producer at one point unintentionally causing Gail Porter to leave the station in tears after only one show by criticizing her performance which Pilkington maintains was an attempt to encourage her to improve. After several years he began work on The Ricky Gervais Show broadcast on Saturday afternoons. Initially Pilkington was solely the programme's producer. As Gervais and Merchant began to invite him to make the odd comment Pilkington's persona came to light and his popularity increased. Pilkington was eventually included as a main element of the broadcasts with large amounts of airtime often given over to his thoughts on various subjects or various childhood stories. In December 2005 Pilkington stood in for two BBC 6 Music shows for Nemone and co-presented the shows with Russell Brand.

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