Hi If you know ricky gervais im sure you know of his mate karl pilkington, he is on the extras section of the Politics DVD and features in the record breaking podcast show with ricky and stephan. I am a firm believer that karl's personality is real and not an act and that he isnt dumd or slow...just a fact craving laterial thinker...what do you think?? if you havent heard any of the podcasts yet download them of limewire, rickygervais.com or the guardian website.
In response to the claim that Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant 'made up' the character of Karl Pilkington, they said:
"We spend 3 months on a half-hour script, how could we script a two-hour show every week...If we came up with a character as good as Karl, we would never use him on a poxy little radio station like this one" (Xfm London)