Steve Coogan is consistently hilarious, but the real praise should go to Richard Bacon for not only keeping up with him, but staying true to the tone of Partridge. This is canon.
Partridge is quite simply the funniest comedy character there has ever been. He is the most well observed, well drawn and well portrayed of them all... 'Rudimentary forensics'... Now there's a show for Alan... Get it made.. I can't wait for..This Time With Alan Partridge....
"Anything that can prevent a dalek can prevent a wheelchair. That's the easiest way to think about it. That's the thing about wheelchair access, it doesn't distinguish between Davros or Stephen Hawking. Mind you from 400 yards I don't think I could."
classic partridge. really great interview with fantastic British wit. I'm not sure what the slating of Bacon is about in the comments he's simply a prop who plays it pretty well imo.
+noveltybobel Read Partridge's actual autobiography here.www.amazon.co.uk/Partridge-Need-Talk-About-Alan/dp/0007449186 The funniest book I've ever read by far
Bouncing Back was pulped, so the book doesn't exist anymore. I was one of the one hundred and eleven people who bought a copy. I never read it and destroyed mine in solidarity when the rest were sent to slaughter. I always regret not reading it. There was talk of an e-book edition but apparently the word files, all backups and notes and even Alan's used electric typewriter ribbons have vanished. I fear it'll go down as one of the most important lost documents of our age. Maybe one day in the far future, beings evolved from humanity will uncover a copy and treat Alan with the messianic reverence he so obviously deserves.
I am not from the UK and have no idea who Eamon Holmes is, or half the people Alan refers to are, but it still makes me laugh because it’s not difficult to imagine the type of public people they must be. This same thing happened with The Simpsons a lot when I was growing up.
Is this true? I thought he was just going along with Coogan's shtick, and doing it very well compared to other interviewers but I suppose this explains it haha
Coogans just improvising like he does in the jonathon ross tv initerviews etc, its richard bacons radio show and i dont think hes reading from a script, you can hear steve struggle at times for something funny to say and it mostly isnt, if it was scripted it would be a lot funnier. Bacon has a list of questions about the tv series in front of him though.
2 of my favourite quotes, 2 of many. 0.56 if you've pulp a packet of biscuits, you have'nt lost some biscuits, you've gained the base of a cheesecake. 13.41 along with the pungent odour of Walker's smokey bacon.
Rumour has it that Alan attended the interview in sports casual attire with newly-washed ice white socks. He presented Richard with an Alan Partridge blazer and tie combination pack at the end.
Most people don't know that the biggest inspiration for the Partridge character was Richard Madeley. It's all in the tangents and the attention to detail.
Richard Bacon knew how to play this interview game with Alan - so please, don't think Richard's attitude here was anything real, it was part of the act. Same way Clive Anderson, Jonathan Ross have interviewed Alan. Steve Coogan tells them in advance to be more confrontational with Alan.
Bacon is painful to listen to at the best of times but Coogan really shows him for what he is in this interview. It's like barcelona playing a Sunday league pub team
