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Merchant and Gervais have repeatedly denied claims that Pilkington's persona is their creation. In an on-air response to similar claims made by Chris Campling during a broadcast on Xfm, Merchant stated that he would be "ashamed" if the radio show had been scripted, adding that "I would not have squandered a character that good on this poxy radio station."<ref>Pilkington, K. (Producer) & Merchant, S., Gervais, R. (Presenters). (June 2005)</ref> Gervais concurred, pointing out that writing a single series's worth of six half-hour episodes of shows such as ''[[The Office (UK TV series)|The Office]]'' and ''[[Extras (TV series)|Extras]]'' consumed as long as a full year of their time. An interviewer for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' concluded that Pilkington's behaviour is genuine.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3655386/The-idiot-philosopher.html |title=The idiot philosopher |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=28 May 2012 |date=17 September 2006 |archive-date=18 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518060808/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3655386/The-idiot-philosopher.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 2019, a species of insect from the [[Mutillidae]] family was named [[Traumatomutilla pilkingtoni]] after him.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bartholomay |first=Pedro R. |last2=Williams |first2=Kevin A. |last3=Luz |first3=David R. |last4=Cambra |first4=Roberto A. |last5=Oliveira |first5=Márcio Luiz de |date=2019-07-11 |title=Traumatomutilla André miscellanea: Revision of the bellica, bifurca, diabolica, and vitelligera species groups, and a new group for the new species T. pilkingtoni Bartholomay and Williams (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae: Sphaeropthalminae: Dasymutillini) |url=https://journals.flvc.org/mundi/article/view/115068 |journal=Insecta Mundi |language=en |pages=35 |issn=1942-1354 |quote=This remarkable species, is named in honor of the British philosopher, comedian, radio personality, presenter, author, and actor Karl Pilkington due to its rounded orange head.}}</ref>
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