How he’s managed to keep the continuity evolving for twenty plus years, the whole back-story of the character, right through to the audiobooks, is probably unmatched by any other, ever. Genius
@@jakezywek6852 I remember reading or hearing an interview with Sidekick Simon (I should know his real name really but escapes me at the moment) fairly recently where he was explaining 1: just how scared he was at messing up a legends work, and 2: how tightly every little throwaway remark is scripted
@Prick, Scumbag College No, I still can’t. Not one that’s evolved so much, even to the point that going to Sky is exactly what AP would do. Even the way it sometimes haunts him when he’s playing ‘himself’ in The Trip.
Best interview Partridge has ever given...so natural...he lived as Partridge here....(Coogan is one of the greatest comedic talents of the last 20 years)
This might be the best he's ever done partridge. The voice, the attitude, the whole demeanour....he totally nails it here for me. I could listen to the way he pronounces Uganda on a loop lol
He didn’t write any of his good stuff. He’s a left wing cretin who just wants to shut down the press so he can keep living a lavish immoral lifestyle with no consequences. Hope he’s enjoying the huge tory majority today
1 Voodoo Gaming the same press who exposed thousands of episodes of corruption. Throwing away the unpleasant yet necessary evil of a free press, the most valuable guardian of justice....a non controlled press. Throwing that away, for a few hacked calls and to protect the lifestyles of (in the vast majority of cases) the rich, famous, powerful and enfranchised.
I think one of the greatest AP moments is when Alan and Lynn are in the elevator and Lynn says "I'll be your on screen wife." The look of embarrassment and regret on her face and the look of silent contempt on his face is pure comedy genius, and it's topped off by the quick look of disgust he gives her as he walks out of the door. There's another great scene in that elevator when the giggling idiot laughs all the way up and Alan starts laughing with him out of contempt, then as he walks out of the door behind him he says "unbelievable." Cracks me up every time, pure Partridge.
Clive's still around. He does a lot of radio stuff now (he always had the face for it!). As a lawyer and ex-President of Cambridge Footlights, I expect he works as much as he wants to. He also charges £10K+ for after-dinner speeches. If I were him I'd do ten of those a year and sod all else. But then, I'm a very lazy man.
How many other comic characters would real people be happy to indulge without feeling like a stooge? The genius of Alan Partridge is that he feels as real in unstaged situations as he does in a sitcom.
What an absolute legend! A true institution! Clive Anderson obviously really loves and appriciates alan partridge, you can tell with the way he keeps giggling!! Thanks for posting!!
Does Clive Anderson not realise the Linton Travel Tavern has Carte Noir coffee sachets and double lock Everest windows.in every room? Hardly a come down. Touch my face.
I feel similar about his enunciation of words as Coogan portrayed Alan Partridge. "lovely touch"..."airport rabble". So fluid and the character, the emotions, the reactions, the subtleties - so marvelous and talented and hilariously amusing to watch!
I love the subtleties of the character. He's talking about Nick Peacock's revamp at Radio Norwich (who is not a real person) but he asks Clive if he knows him due to Clive also being in showbusiness. It just adds to the believability of the character. Its genius really
A comedic masterclass.Never once do I see Steve Coogan when he's in character as Alan..best comedy character of all time.Everyone has a bit of Partridge in them.
Steve Coogan is like Chris Morris, as soon as he is in character he is there 99.9% of the time, and it is very rare for him to slip out of it. During the recording of I'm Alan Partridge he did on occasion, but on talk shows and other appearances he was Alan Partridge through and through.
Anderson's face at 8:07.. I see a lil bit of the green eyes monster. Coogan's wit is so quick and sharp as a machete- That comeback about backing into the TV career. Haha
I think Alan was having a dig at Clive about the Bee Gee interview where Barry Gibb threw a tantrum and walked off, then the others Gibbs followed like obedient band members... Alan is very subtle with his jokes and very intelligent..
I hate that these comments are full of bad language and people putting Clive Anderson down. Both Mr Anderson and Mr Coogan are classy, respectable family acts, beloved to many. Mr Anderson in particular is a very gentle and lovely man. Those kind of vicious, foul comments simply do not belong here. If you want crudity, nastiness and swearing go somewhere else, but don't tarnish these videos with it. These men don't deserve that. I cannot stand modern TV and all its foulness, and that is why you find me here watching clips like this--from a time when TV presenters still had a sense of decency, sobriety, and respect.
Lee Bee people obviously prefer when the interviewer is completely lacking in personality and is there strictly to salivate on the feet of the celebrities... like James Corden.
+Lemon Spade Didnt David Icke walk off also ......( I dont mean wogan ) but I think Icke was on and got humiliated by Anderson and was pissed off by it
"The Office" wasn't inspired by I'm Alan Partridge. If anything, it was inspired by "The Office" and "The Pool" mockumentaries from The Day Today in 1994. That was on TV 3 years before I'm Alan Partridge. As for Mr Gervais acknowledging the inspiration, there's no need - anyone who saw The Office had most likely seen I'm Alan Partridge, or was at least aware of it. There was no need for anyone to point out that this wasn't a new format.
The difference is that Brent was basically a version of Gervais himself. Coogan was heavily made up as Partridge and portrayed the character at a clownish remove. Also, Gervais had and has an unfortunate inclination to pathos, and that sort of thing is anathema to the Coogan/Iannucci collaboration.
From these early days, right through to the current "Oast House" audio stuff, it's a 3 decade masterpiece. It even gets quite emotional in Oast House, when his grandkids come to visit. I can't think of any other comedy character that evolved so naturally, for so long.
You can tell this was made after the infamous Bee Gees walk off... Partridge was having a bit of fun with that from about 4 minutes in, and Clive Anderson walked right into it lol
