Cringe! Alan Partridge Interviews His Boss - Knowing Me Knowing Yule - BBC 

I think we get the impression that Tony Hayers probably isn't that great at his job though. He does look like someone who works in a bank and he also sometimes behaves in an unprofessional manner.

David Schneider is more of a background actor. He’s appeared in movies like 28 Days Later, Mission Impossible and he’s also appeared in some adverts. He’s quite a busy actor, but a brilliant guy.

@@MoskHotel watch the title sequence of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes. A very young David Schneider is one of the grimacing street urchins dispatched by a bobby

Great acting!

@@MoskHotel Great on Twitter too!

I'm going to wait until the next millennium with crossed fingers for "Jet from gladiators" to host a millennium barn dance from Yeovil aerodrome

I thought Inner City Sumo was a great idea too. And it woulda been really cheap to make

They did end up doing cooking in prison.

Let's hope it's properly policed. It must not, repeat not, turn into an all-night rave.

Smell my cheesburgers, but don't feed them to swans.

'Fixing that aerial; whoops; sorry emu; done a rod hull; definitely no second series!' s

@@markbradley6602 I think Simon was being rhetorical!

Can I offer you my deep, deep despair on this very bad day?

Monkey tennis?

I've noticed loads of things like this after watching all the shows and reading both books. Some parts of the time line don't add up but I imagine it's very difficult to maintain consistency with so much funny and original material

Hang on, hang on. This is all sounding suspiciously inconsistent. I'm starting to doubt this is factual.

Continuity error.

@@BIGNOIDS When Alan is introducing Tony his hand is on his shoulder. When the shot cuts to a side angle, Alan's hand is now by his side. And he hasn't just moved it.

Also many of the characters have bird names... Partridge, peacock, feather...

Ironically this was the main cringe

BBC is just awful at trying to be “hip and cool”, but it’s just annoying. Just act like the 80s or 90s!

Why not? It was cringe-y.

@@davidjames579 it's very twee / a bit teenage to say "cringe!" Though, no? You might expect it with a youth programme but it doesn't fit with satire.

@@th8257 But it was cringe-y.

I know it's so embarrassing

@@MarvinSumpter I guess you could say the BBC is being cringe... 😀

Someone doesn't get parody!

@@MarvinSumpter it was approved by Tony Hayers himself

In a sense, it would be their 'new hip'. Which is fine!

​@@andymerrett and drove the TGV. Later he worked in a bio lab

lol@@visionist7

Grrrr

*peal

You ever shaved your crackling

Needles to say, I took drugs

@@fredwardofalconist3rd283 You really do have a lot of issues.

@@theovolz3073 Yeah, of What Car magazine

@@fredwardofalconist3rd283 Needless to say, I played Battletoads Double Dragon The Ultimate Team

Dean scag *Peal

Oh I always wondered why he said "peel", he's saying "peal". I get it now!

It's a shame they've changed the character completely in recent years.

@@nudisco300 what by having him fall off a roof and dying?

@@ma-moomoo They have?

@@ma-moomoo No Alan has changed. He's written differently now and speaks differently and looks differently. Coogan has got so caught up with creating a continuous story of Alan's life that he fails to realise why the character was funny. The character needs to be locked into this time zone not made 'modern' for the 2020s. The joke of the character was it was a bit of a mashup or parody of minor celeb arrogant/overbearing/awkward presenters like Richard Madeley, John Stapleton, Alan Titchmarsh, etc. What he's done is turn it into something that isn't anywhere near as funny now.

@@nudisco300 I agree, Alan has changed particularly since the Gibbons brothers took over from Armando Iaunnci as writers. Back when it was Coogan and Ianucci Partridge was more of wannabe celeb who could never quite make in the mainstream, and like you say was a parody of presenters like Richard Madeley and bad local radio. Since the Gibbons brother's they have matured him in a way that is not consistent with the original character. Alan is now less career orientated and it's more about details of his personal life.

I'm surprised Fanny/Peter didn't try and make something of that.

I heard they dropped a nuke on stoke once. 20 quid's worth'a damage

Really? I'd have thought you'd say cringe when something WASN'T MEANT to be cringeworthy

and Tony Hayers is still dead LOL LOL :D :D :D In your face Tony you mother!

fred west it has been. A few years ago now. Google will tell you. ;-)

I guess we already know :-)

Lovely stuff

Never a dull moment, sadly a lot of folks over here dont know a lot of these shows. Their loss I'd say :-)

Id have him down a some of those types that likes to be pegged. 😂 given his fascination with the ladyboys.

Naughty

LoL

Oy! vey

he's got one already

Quality action 😜

And not just a small one

Yessss!

Died falling off his roof trying to remove the tv Ariel.. so it was literally TV that killed him! Do you have a battery for an Erickson

_Quote from the show_

What was he doing on the bloody roof? He was fixing the Tv aerial Alan.. Rhetorical questions!

The Castrol GTX jacket was sublime.

Oh yeah… at 0:22, he looks like Patrick Baladi who plays Neil on the Office. But Patrick isn't listed as having appeared in this so I doubt it.

*Alan Partridge voice* _Ackchuallllly that was Frankenstein's monster, Frankenstein was the scientist_

terratec1001 . yeah ,so?

Check out the 'you're a mentalist' bit, you can see the camera crew clearly reflected in the car window as he speeds off

Kevin Elliott . what's a coathanger used for?

"KMKYWAP" is set in a TV studio, and I'm Alan Partridge is a mockumentary, so there are supposed to be camera crews in these shows.

Yes, Alan is like an Edmunds, Wogan, Whiteley, Madeley Medely!

See I took it more as with Partridge being a serial sycophant he was just a bit stumped when he said he was Jewish as he knew he couldn't pretend he was Jewish as a way of getting in his good books - the best he could do was 'Jew liker'. We all know Partridge was a bit of a bigot though so you're probably right too.

Great spot....

Here in the UK at least I think its quite common for jewish households to have a christmas tree (at least in my experience). After all its not actually a religious artifact despite the colloquial name

Luke KIley ha ha 👏

How did Steve Coogan miss that one?

Knowing you, knowing copy and paste. Aha!

"Taking advantage of me this way? It's not fair, you don't care..."

Should have retired him after series two, though.

Merry Easter 2018

Merry Covid 2020.

cx1735 Shalom.

Oh, he missed a trick there, that would have been a classic Partridge line!

cx1735 Face it. It's a funny comment you did.

Back of the net.

Knowing ME knowing you. We talk to ME sufferers about the condition., intersperse it with some music, got to keep the energy levels up

Yes! Same actor. Cirque des Clunes - Circus of Clowns! 🤣

Andy Nightingale kiss my face.

@Natty Bumppo goodness me, the joke has gone way over your head here...

It's not his real house, it's a mock-up (though his real house does look exactly like this)

Oy vey.

No. He is told in the I'm Alan partridge series

No. He didn't give him one, the swine.

What???

No one's forcing you to watch TV

Hm... I'd be more hard-pressed to name an economy without publicly-funded and regulated sectors, and media is rarely an exception. Would it feel any better if broadcast provision and administration was rolled into your taxes? At least this one's optional. Broadcast TV is pretty much being replaced by VOD and streaming-only networks anyway, for which I understand you don't currently need a licence. Skip it if you like, as you would any other subscription service. You ever turned on a TV set in countries without an ad-free competitor, btw? It's ALL commercials, literally every 3-5 minutes.

IT'S NOT REAL! it's a character.

Unfortunately for you I'm the head of the BBC entertainment department

Have you got a charger for an Ericsson?

Yes it was a wig, to make David Schneider look older than he was as he was playing Tony as older than him. David was 32 when he appeared in this 1995 Christmas special.

The shocking thing to me is that Patrick Marber was only 30 when he did Alan Partridge. All his characters look like they're in their 50s or 60s.

David Schneider. He was in Mission Impossible as the train driver and 28 Days Later as the lab worker. Plus he was in loads of Partridge skits and even a Mr Bean episode I think I remember.

@@visionist7ha yes was a judo instructor. Also played a martial artist on the day today sports section alan fronted.