Alan Partridge

[Bjornebye]

"Well now you've got Norfolk's maddest man"

[Mook]

"Stop getting Bond wrong."

[Joe Strummer]

"Idea for a programme entitled yachting mishaps - some funny, some tragic".

[razor]

"..he was openly homophobic to a young lawyer.  Sorry, I can't remember his name."

 

"Nick Ford."

[Strontium]

That was classic intercourse.

[Teflon Don]

"Come on Alan, what's the matter with you? Cone you take a joke?"

 

"Oh, fuck off"

[Bjornebye]

That was classic intercourse.

Wrong thread. You needed the Channel 4 thread.

[General Dryness]

"Come on Alan, what's the matter with you? Cone you take a joke?"

 

"Oh, fuck off"

I am technically a guest on your show and you have failed to control me. Read it in your conetract.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

'I've got access to the kids but they don' wanna see meeee'

[Total Longo]

Went to Silverstone. Shook Jackie Stewart's hand. Superb. My marriage fell apart soon after that. 

[Mook]

Is he gonna get petrol? No, he's just using the forecourt to turn around.

 

He thinks he's Rod Stewart.

[Stickman]

I like South Africa. And I hated those people who wouldn't trade with you in the 80’s. I carried on buying your tomatoes all through that period. You say tomato, I say tom-ay-to. You say to-mar-toe! I say potato, you say po-tay-toe! Let’s call the whole thing a thoroughly nice chap, and it doesn’t matter what race he is.

[thegreatelephant]

those orange fishnet stockings that onions wear

[Total Longo]

In all honesty Scissored Isle wasn't that great. 

[DPW]

I watched Scissored Isle last night. I thought it was awful. Yet most people I know and the reviews I read all raved about it. What am I missing?

 

Somethings changed about modern Partridge. Can't put my finger on what it is. But I wish he'd stopped bringing out new stuff. It's making me question if it was funny first time round. And I don't like thinking that.

[Dr Nowt]

Partridge has been done for some time mate, in my view. Not seen the film and shan't be watching this, the old material once in a while is sufficient for me.

 

I know most creative stuff just has it's day, but I can't help feeling this time much of that's rooted in no longer being able to see anything but Coogan when he's playing him, for me anyway. Partridge's hubris no longer seems separate enough from his own character to be fresh or funny, it's by-numbers and jaded.

 

He should have been one of the new Top Gear presenters.

[Mook]

Alpha Papa is fucking brilliant.

[stringvest]

I get where you're coming from Ben, but the film, although slightly different to the tv character, was pretty good. And some of the mid morning matters stuff was excellent as well

[stringvest]

In many ways, the fact that he, like gervais, invest so much of themselves in their best characters is actually quite brave. The Trip, for example, lays bare quite a few darker and more unfortunate corners of his own persona. And it's not by accident.

[Furmedge]

Alpha Papa is fucking brilliant.

Mook knows.

[thegreatelephant]

trees don't bring up falling ratings

[Dr Nowt]

In many ways, the fact that he, like gervais, invest so much of themselves in their best characters is actually quite brave. The Trip, for example, lays bare quite a few darker and more unfortunate corners of his own persona. And it's not by accident.

Oh no doubt mate. But then the characters he created, and Partridge in particular, were always knowingly based on facets of his own.

 

I'll freely admit I'm a right miserable cunt though, and almost always stop liking comedy/comedians after a few series/tours or the like.

 

I tend to just think the best lines have been used by then and the rest becomes repetitious and forced, but no doubt I miss some stuff I'd like through that attitude.

 

The Trip is a great example, so many people who's tastes I share have recommended me that programme, but I could only take about five minutes of him playing Steve Coogan and left it.

 

I feel sorry for my girlfriend.

[Guest LFD]

Alpha Papa is fucking brilliant.

 

Yep.  I also like his mid morning matters.

[Total Longo]

The lack of either Peter Baynham and Armando Ianucci on the writing team speaks volumes for me.  

[Bjornebye]

I only saw scissors Isle last night. It wasn't as laugh a minute as his older stuff but parts had me in stitches.