Alan's Graffiti Problem - I'm Alan Partridge - BBC 

I really think this and the second season was the best Alan Partridge vehicle. On the hour and Day Today are a close second but he only appeared briefly in each episode (obviously).

​​@@misteral1083 The north norfolk web serios was good as well. Check that out

Understated.

I suspect it possobly was real and kept in.... The delivery is prefect on both sides....

'backing cast ' .. do you mean 'the cast'?

Perfectly cast and performed by all

I went backstage in the free and easy days of security at The BBC when my m8 who worked there simply vouched for me. I saw The Kelly Monteith Show with Lisa Goddard being rehearsed as we had a private room to the studio. It was AMAZING. He cracked a "joke" she laughed like a train. CUT!! and her face instantly froze. Then same again. Joke. She was in hysterics. CUT ! IMMEDIATELY went stoney-faced. That is when I knew in 1981.

The first clip I saw from this series was this and I literally thought they actually had filmed Steve Acting out Alan with real people until I realized who Sally Phillips was. She absolutely kills in this role.

I went backstage in the free and easy days of security at The BBC when my m8 who worked there simply vouched for me. I saw The Kelly Monteith Show with Lisa Goddard being rehearsed as we had a private room to the studio. It was AMAZING. He cracked a "joke" she laughed like a train. CUT!! and her face instantly froze. Then same again. Joke. She was in hysterics. CUT ! IMMEDIATELY went stoney-faced. That is when I knew in 1981.

@@Isleofskye copy and paste from your last comment?...

If a comment is still equally relevant and apt then, of course,I c and p rather than try to memorize the whole anecdote chapter and verse...

Well like Alan I have been known to do 80 on the motorway but only if I have to get somewhere in a hurry , admittedly.......

Travel Tavern, come on!

3 STAR

If you're paid up for a year, they probably will😂 In real life, a lot of single, uber wealthy men, live in hotels for years, because the hotel will just give them a personal concierge service, and do everything for them, because of the length of their tenancy - do their dry cleaning, take their car to the garage, pick up their kids from school etc etc. Guys like Mick Jagger lived in the Plaza in NY, for years because of those perks. I think Elton John lived in one of New York's top hotels for decades, even.

tut 1:42 camera two comes into shot on the left. This country.

@@TonyEnglandUK The 1,000+ history of the British Isles is null and void as soon as the camera entered the shot. They should find that camera operator and crucify him for his sins.

you're clever enough to spell out the joke that we all got

"I am the Jibby!"

The "Tosser" reply was improvised by Sophie in rehearsal, it wasnt in the original script

He's my number one God

He was but jokes over now.I stopped watching the last thing he did quite early on.

The apache helicopter story 😆 🤣 😂

"You threw a monkey in the sea?" "Ay, but it'd stolen all me fags, like."

He is also the voice of Alexander Meerkat.

Sleep well, @@Frank75288

Most people in TV come from middle class backgrounds playing working class people all been to drama school, it's a club and we ain't in it

There's a behind the scenes clip of him doing the transition from himself to Michael while putting his costumejumper on. He starts in his own accent, very RP sounding, and as he pulls a jumper over his head his accent instantly flips to Michael. It's wonderful.

@@robertnuttall384 have you got a link?

@@michaelgriffiths7937 sorry, it took a while to find... it's at around 2:10... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_uJNpc6wVvc.html

Wonder if anyone noticed the camera sneaking into shot at 1:39

a 'Work Geordie'

Sally Phillips number one

I hope so. "minor repairs and killing" lovely set up.

NorthWriter I live in Germany and I encounter so many people whose voices I can barely understand, next time I'm going to say that to them in German.

"Sorry, that was just a noise" is one of my favourite lines in comedy.

A broken home is not an excuse for evil.

He flips him over and f..... funny enough it lands on its wheels, and it starts on first time and they just drive away.

That was like me going into a burger place in London - and the two girls behind the counter turned around when I came in and one of them said; "iuehfowbæwleiougawguf" - Excuse me I replied that was just rubbish to me.

I also think he took over the Churchill dog voice from Vic Reeves.

Everton fan...Good lad.

Yes and he's got a posh southern accent in real life too

Octonauts

BigDogsDangler Tell is something we didn’t already know

One of my favourite lines ever

Mark Anthony Wyatt Oh wow! I remember Hippies!!!!

And Brilliant in Trollied and Smack the Pony.

Seems what we're all saying is that she's really good at her job. I agree.

Remove "always", "in" and "these" for economy, and still valid.

Is Sally Phillips the assistant behind the counter? She is so good. And the guy who plays Michael. Well, the whole cast.

Not my words, Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine!

They divven't have jobs to gan tae, broken homes nd that like!

Stephen Dines oh about! sometimes it's difficult to understand the Geordie .. Geordie people

It was a mistake to make him say "aboat" the first time, just to have Alan say "a boat?"... ah divvent nah what he was sayin either like.

Wrz2e A broken home is not an excuse for evil.

Stephen Dines aye

How is your Auntie?

@@Isleofskyestop trying to pick up his pensioner auntie.

@@itsMrNoble She might be a peng ting,man...

Yes, brilliant last line to end it.

You're my hero

me too, not even british

She's also the hottest on the show. With the exception of Steve dancing with those traffic cones.

@@HankBukowski a lot of red blooded males imagined sharing her & Barbara Durkins when seeing them together here. In those uniforms

well, it has a little. Look at the reception area, carpet etc very 1992

Same here.

Which one?

@@TallSilentGuy The one at 0:49. SMOKING hot.

The light blonde hair....the attractive one. The boss!

She played Mr Bean's girlfriend

For me this is only second to the scene in his room when Alan is exercising and Michael is fixing something, and Lynn walks in during the Bangkok story

Stephen Dines the guy obviously had talent

They both are

@@jacksdjfam Both? xP

there is so much to be taken from alan, well worth watching everything with him in. it shows his progression and downfall of his career.ten on ten

WELCOME

With a sausage, like a savoury 99?

Needles reference haha

Apparently it's completely acting and she was annoyed that people thought it was corpsing!

​@@saccerzdyep

Ya dida canny job there pet!....haha

Geordie doesn't replace the 'th' sound with 'd'.

*work Geordie

A cup of beans? Yeah I can give you a little sausage as a spoon

A savoury 99

You haven't got a spoon?

Which Guy?