I don't find him in the slightest bit amusing, never have...
Totally agree, I've never seen him as original nor funny, Stephen Merchant was the brains behind The Office.
I watched him die live on stage at Wembly arena's Concert for Diana were he had fifteen minutes of unanticipated time to fill whilst waiting for Elton to take the stage. He was unable to conjure up a single joke and the audience-wide cringe factor was palatable, any other comic would have had a hard on at the prospect of fifteen minutes in front of an international audience televised live around the planet. He tanked and resorted to that puerile 'Office dance' - moronic. One trick pony and the barn door closed.
As for the Golden Globes he was the equivalent of why I read so few blog responses these days - people feel free to say (and write) what a few years go would have been deemed uncivil - he's mean and mean spirited.