Why do people hate karl pilkington

Would you describe yourself as an actor now? I think an actor is someone who can play totally different roles and change their accent. Though we might move away from that as time goes on. No one else can be me more than me. Why did you do that and why did you hate it so much? Maybe if I was a better actor I could have just pretended not to be happy and take the money. It just worried me. But, I'm a worrier - that's what I do. Even now, he's not sure he was right to take the lead role a middle-aged taxi driver, who's ended up living with his aunt following a break-up.

Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter. Enter email address This field is required Sign Up. I don't see how anyone can distance themselves from it, and watch it as a viewer. The inner self idea was partly inspired by the fact that Pilkington talks to himself a lot.

But also the notion that "life's complicated". One such storyline sees childless Karl being responsible for a lifelike baby doll. By the end, he's found it interesting to have this thing he's had to take care of. Pilkington has said in the past he definitely doesn't want to be a dad. The podcasts work, Gervais reckons, because "people identify with three mates having a go at each other for a laugh". We're both playing the media bullies and I'm playing a man who's easily frustrated and wants to show off my education.

Steve's more laidback, trying to be a mediator. This is what we're pretending to the world. You don't want to hear two people trying to be Stephen Fry. We're doing it to be the butt of the joke. We know he's going to beat us hands down because he hasn't got a pretentious bone in his body. Everything comes from the heart, from experience.

Pilkington looked as though he more or less agreed, but mainly he looked interested in the Munchies — the only thing that gives him instant pleasure, according to Gervais.

Karl's view? But you get confident with it, you learn from it, you do it for a bit, [and then] you get bored with it His first acting gig followed, with Gervais casting Pilkington as grouchy-but-good-hearted handyman Dougie in his Channel 4 series Derek.

He refused to return full-time for the show's second series and was written out in the first episode. That's the end of that'. So it was like, 'Right, I've finished.

I'll retire now'. But after "about seven months properly of doing nothing", Pilkington was "starting to get bored" — his girlfriend Suzanne urged him to return to work, but Karl was insistent that his time as a mopey, Manc version of Michael Palin was over.

The end result, Sick of It , is a sitcom in which he plays two characters, both based on aspects of his own personality — Karl, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver, and Inner Self, the grouchy voice inside Karl's mind.