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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Me and the kids have been soaring through I'm Alan Partridge at a rate of knots. It's hysterical. Last night might have been the best episode; the one where he falls out with the geordie garage attendant and tries to watch all the Bond films over the space of a weekend, then shows he's memorized every frame of Spy Who Loved Me by acting them out in every detail when his PA spills Sunny D over them all. Not a single dull minute, and a danger to health from oxygen starvation to the brain if you watch more than two in a row. Surely a contender for best British sitcomedy. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I love the one where he impales his foot on a railing but still tries to give a corporate speech while going into severe shock through massive blood loss. Lead balloon is one of my favourite current shows which seems to mine a similar vein of humour. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Ha! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrp0wJsXNEA 'What was that? Too late!'  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
And the weird fan with the room full of pictures, and that dummy. It's sublime. 'You're a mentalist!' | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.244.229 |
Andy Partridge is producing my brother's ex-girlfriend's new album... er, over at Ape Records... Jen Olive?... hey, it's a Partridge!  I have no idea who Alan Partridge is. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.166.234 |
Ha! I remember that one, when he ended up trying to escape from that deranged fan. The Christmas special is really funny too, Tony. Poor Alan - I don't think he ever got that second series, did he? | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Coogan is one of the great comedy writers and performers in my opinion. (Shame he seems to appear exclusively in dreadful Holywood fodder). I adored his latest series, Saxondale. Just beautifully observed and it's so rare you get a comedy about someone who is essentially likable and loved by others. Some of the series I found genuinely moving, especially Ruth Jones performance as Mags. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Thing is, you begin to love Partridge. You see his flaws as the series unfolds, all his needs and stuff. It's quite sad but not cripplingly so. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Just a shame that his last live tour was so poor. I was so disappointed. The first half was just tedious, and that was with paul and Pauline calf and Saxondale - it should have been brilliant but it only really became funny in the second half when he did the whole thing as Partridge. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Craig - Alan Partridge is Steve Coogan in disguise as an obnoxious chat show host. I've not seen many of them, but they do seem quite good. Does anyone remember the name of that short-lived horror-spoof thing Coogan did - meant to be an Amicus film homage? I can't recall the name of it. Loved it. Lord P will know it if no-one else does. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Ah! It came to me as I was posting that last message. Dr Terrible's House of Horrible. Superb! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.78.148 |
Hey! I love Steve Coogan! He had one of the best part(s?) in TROPIC THUNDER. (TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY was a great little avante-garde flick, btw.) | ||
| Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 92.40.170.35 |
Ben: What’s your favourite Beatles album, then? Alan: Tough one. I think I’d have to say ‘The Best of the Beatles’. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.82.2 |
I love KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU and the first I'M ALAN PARTRIDGE (a study in mediocrity). I thought the second one was laugh-free, though. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
The second hadn't stuck well in my memory but has now improved a lot. It's like Alan is a bit happier and we're seeing another side to him. Not great but pretty good. 'How's the Edge?' 'The Edge is fine.' | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.114.254 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2D3-FkoXNU Genius. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.141 |
Oh, the KMKY radio show is fantastic too! | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.114 |
Yes. Loved the exchange on the radio show with Lord Morgan of Glossop. On the topic of pornography: Lord Morgan: 'What a man does in his own attic is his own private affair.' Partridge: 'But what about the feminist argument that pornography degrades women?' LM: 'But is it not the case that sex also degrades the woman... if it's any good?' Of course, it's even funnier with Patrick Marber's delivery of those lines... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.114.254 |
Marber went on to write the theme-heavy CLOSER, didn't he? | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.114 |
He did. It's a very fine play. Very powerful onstage, although you do feel like yelling at the characters to just keep their bloody pants on for five minutes... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Simon, as your quote illustrates, Marber is even better than Coogan at spiking the vermouth of caricature with the gin of the bleakly disturbing. Sometimes the cocktail is so dry you can't go on drinking it. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Gary - I find that 'Dan' scene quite heartbreaking. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.141 |
For me, both series of IAP were empty, but the first was about that emptiness, so worked wonderfully, while the second didn't. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
I agree, but still, some lovely, un-do-without-able moments. I too missed that motel enormously (speaking as someone who loves big anonymous motels.) (Hey - book back on track, Proto! At least at this minute... ) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
You think Partridge 2 might have worked if it saw him striving to combat his flaws? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
I loved that geordie in both. Such a tragic figure - Partridge must have seemed like his ideal. Starting to sound like Mulholland Drive, now... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.141 |
"You think Partridge 2 might have worked if it saw him striving to combat his flaws?" Yes, maybe that's why it felt so much more (unintentionally) dispiriting than the first IAP - he had a nervous breakdown but had learned nothing. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
His nervous breakdown - he drove to Norwich in his bare feet... He learned nothing because he hadn't had one. that was all part of the comedy for me. |