Alan Partridge

[Rushies tash]

The character hit his high point with "I'm Alan Partridge" at the Linton Travel Tavern, and apart from a few sporadic laughs, went downhill from there.

[Red_or_Dead]

It was okay, would've liked more off-air stuff - interacting more with the co-presenters, producers etc.

 

I'll watch them all though.

 

 

[The Golden Eel]

2 hours ago, Rushies tash said:

The character hit his high point with "I'm Alan Partridge" at the Linton Travel Tavern, and apart from a few sporadic laughs, went downhill from there.

Agree with the first part - I'm Alan Partridge series 1 was definitely the pinnacle, but Mid Morning Matters is more than "a few sporadic laughs" in my opinion - it's absolutely class. 

[Rrg]

On 2/26/2019 at 9:29 AM, Barry Wom said:

maybe it is my humour, but for me it was worth watching just for when he got that womans name wrong. it had me pissing myself for about 2 mins. 

Agree, funny as

[Rushies tash]

9 hours ago, DimReaper said:

Agree with the first part - I'm Alan Partridge series 1 was definitely the pinnacle, but Mid Morning Matters is more than "a few sporadic laughs" in my opinion - it's absolutely class. 

Yep, agree with that too - forgot about Mid Morning Matters tbh. What's tainting it for me is that I went to see him on his 'Alan Partridge and other less successful characters' tour and it was disappointing to say the least.

[razor]

Obviously the best Alan Partridge was the original Radio 4 series.

 

I cadged a lift home from a rave where Orbital played - Christmas 1992.  The driver put a tape on of Knowing Me Knowing You, the one where he snorted cocaine with the French Formula One driver and was threatened by a cockney gangster.

 

I obviously thought it was real and spent the rest of the night going on about how the BBC needed to do something about it.

 

A couple of years later somebody told me about Alan Partridge and I tracked down the CDs.  "I'm sure I've heard this bef- .... oh, right...."

 

Anyway, they're brilliant, and his high point.

[Mook]

Alan Partridge at his worst is 100 times better than 99% of the stuff that's on the telly.

[Scott_M]

It was Ok.

[Dougie Do'ins]

Watched this last night. There were a few laughs but as someone else mentioned, it was a bit forced. Just to many of those trademark gaffes. 

 

This one was classic Partridge.

 

Quote

I once stood up in front of a digger. Like the students who stood in front of the tanks in Chinaman square except instead of the Chinese communist party it was the local council wanting to build some sort of leisure centre. Well not on my watch.

 

[magicrat]

I think what's posted here kinda mirrors the general reaction. Coogan will not be bringing Partridge back again imo.  Harry Enfield had the same thing with his characters. Brilliant to begin with , then went stale and the new ones weren't anywhere near as funny. In the old days without mass media unfunny cunts could make a career out of characters pulling parrot faces.

Partridge has had a fucking good run for his money. 

[Elite]

1 hour ago, magicrat said:

I think what's posted here kinda mirrors the general reaction. Coogan will not be bringing Partridge back again imo.  Harry Enfield had the same thing with his characters. Brilliant to begin with , then went stale and the new ones weren't anywhere near as funny. In the old days without mass media unfunny cunts could make a career out of characters pulling parrot faces.

Partridge has had a fucking good run for his money. 

Same with David Brent. Coogan has has a good run with Partridge.

[The Golden Eel]

5 hours ago, Rushies tash said:

Yep, agree with that too - forgot about Mid Morning Matters tbh. What's tainting it for me is that I went to see him on his 'Alan Partridge and other less successful characters' tour and it was disappointing to say the least.

I think MMM is really under-appreciated. It's better than IAP series 2 and I would put it close to if not on a par with KMKY. The one-off specials over the past few years weren't great though, albeit they weren't awful either. This latest show is in that kind of territory for me after one episode. 

[an tha]

Brilliant tonight....big step up from last week.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Just now, an tha said:

Brilliant tonight....big step up from last week.

Definitely. But, again, started a bit slowly. 

 

The bit where the nature/history/ex-presenter bloke got up to talk to the audience and AP ran over to geg in just as the bloke turned to head back to his seat was boss. 

[an tha]

4 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

Definitely. But, again, started a bit slowly. 

 

The bit where the nature/history/ex-presenter bloke got up to talk to the audience and AP ran over to geg in just as the bloke turned to head back to his seat was boss. 

Start was a bit slow but once hit its stride was boss.

 

The 'son of the head of factual programming' repeatedly as that other fella spoke was classic Partridge at his untactful best.

 

I think the beginnings are awkward because it's a strange concept for a show and it takes a while for him/them to settle into it from the off and us as an audience to do same..

[Dougie Do'ins]

I was going to turn it off after 10 minutes but stuck with it because of the above comments. Didn't get any better.

[Dr Nowt]

Steered clear of the film and Mid-Morning Matters but gave these a go despite myself. This week’s in particular was painful to watch. 

 

First two series and Knowing Me Knowing Yule can take their place amongst the greatest comedies of all time, as can the original radio series.

 

Just doesn’t need to still be milking this, for me.

[Strontium]

#johngone

[Bjornebye]

Haven't seen it yet. I'll watch it tomorrow but parts were uncomfortable last week. The end scene in the lift was awkward. 

[Stickman]

On ‎02‎/‎03‎/‎2019 at 09:49, Mook said:

Alan Partridge at his worst is 100 times better than 99% of the stuff that's on the telly.

This.....

 

 

But this is when he was at his best.....

 

 

[Josef Svejk]

Last night was really very good, I thought. Better than the second episode. Which is quite a bit better than the first.

[Special K]

Alan's face superimposed onto the schoolboy will haunt me for the rest of my days

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The stuff with the reporter who keeps disagreeing with him is very well done.

[Strontium]

You just know Partridge thinks she got the job because she's a black woman.

[Mook]

The corporal punishment scene was classic Partridge, I was pishing myself at that.

 

I've also developed a fixation on the co-presenter, I can barely concentrate on what they're saying when she's on-screen.