Phil Collins in an episode of the series "Miami Vice", entitled "Phil the Shill", in which he plays a cheating con-man. In the 1980s he appeared in several comedy sketches with "The Two Ronnies" on BBC One. In 2001, Collins was one of several celebrities who were tricked into appearing in a controversial British comedy series, "Brass Eye", shown on public service broadcaster Channel 4. In the episode, Collins endorsed a hoax anti-paedophile campaign wearing a T-shirt with the words "Nonce Sense" and warned children against speaking to suspicious people. Collins was reported by the BBC to have consulted lawyers regarding the
Phil Collins Aid, playing first at Wembley, then flying over to Philadelphia via Concorde, just to make sure no one in the U.S. got off lightly. By the early 1990s, Phil phatigue had really set in." Appraising Collins's legacy in a 2013 review of the "American Psycho" musical (adapted from a 2000 film incorporating his music), "The Guardian" critic Tom Service described Collins as "un-stomachable" and his music as "perfectly vacuous". He also compared him unfavourably with pop contemporaries such as the Pet Shop Boys and the Human League, whose music he said had endured far more successfully. Service described Collins's most