The World of Karl Pilkington - E-book - ePub

Karl Pilkington is a radio producer previously best known for producing The Ricky Gervais Show on Xfm. After leaving Xfm, Pilkington has reached an international audience through his appearances with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on The Ricky Gervais Show podcast. He lives in London; this is his first book. Stephen Merchant is a British writer, director, radio presenter, stand-up comedian, and actor.
He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office, as the co-writer, co-director and a co-star of Extras, and as the co-host of The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook and television-show forms. Ricky Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator Stephen Merchant.
In addition to writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras.