I've had a few American musician friends visit me over the years ~ they all ask for Partridge or The Office (before the US one aired) on the TV as soon as they get here ~ they get it, even now they always slip Partridge-isms into their messages to me.
"I haven't done anything!" I absolutely love these oddball, peripheral characters that exist in the Partridge universe. Jed the Superfan, regular callers to the show like Mary and Roy, the Geordie audience member from This Time (I'm convinced he's Michael's brother). Entire sitcoms have been based on lesser comic creations than these.
John Cooper - Art of Social erm, who is this 'patridge' person you speak of? Ah, one moment you mean Partridge. Use your fucking spell checker for fucks sakes!
The first time I'd seen this, I'd had a few beers I think. Could not stop laughing! The painfully awkward silence when letting the general public weigh in with an opinion! 😂
Fire! Sometimes terrifying, sometimes useful, sometimes a way of getting rid of an employee found guilty by a tribunal of gross insubordination. But what is fire? Yes, you at the front eating… grass i think. Is he eating grass? Should he be doing that? Well he might find it calming but I would rather he didn’t do it when I’ve come here to give an important talk
He's a top bloke, sent him an email years ago as I thought timewaster letters was a brilliant book and he posted me a drawn picture of Parmaynu the Ping Pong bat :)
Henry Horse You need to buy yourself an extending table. I did and am now delirious and wake up at least 5 times a night laughing. On the downside because of the lack of sleep this was causing I lost my job through bad performance and then my wife left me and I lost my house but I’ve still got the extender and I’m still laughing 😂
The 3 main anomalies in Alan's life: He got away with shooting Forbes McAllister live on his chat show. He signed his 2nd series contract with a dead man's hand but never got given it. And what happened to the Inland Revenue? He was guilty as hell! Can anyone help as this stuff has been hanging in the air for too long!
The funny thing is I would watch this in my 20s but now approaching 50 I too have a 5 bedroom detached house with an extending kitchen table and a rinser. Funny how life changes. Not boasting just giving you a factual thought.
Alan Partridge, Basil Fawlty, Lee Evans, Reginald Perrin, Ronnie Barker etc etc etc. You either get them & humour or you don't. I feel very fortunate that I do because I would have hated to miss out on all the laughter & slap stick enjoyment they have brought me.
This humor is so hard to pin down but I adore it. It’s kind of that feeling of being repulsed by your fans and just the banality of some povs not fitting or being interesting enough. Soooo many layers.
I actually hurt myself laughing at this. It just builds, I was laughing so hard at the questioning, but when you could hear them removing the guy off camera I lost it, laughing so hard, but then they cut back to the floor manager seating in his place I laughed so hard it was painful. I think this work is simply unmatched for comedy craft.
"I'm so happy I sometimes wake up laughing," puts about everything to shame, I think. O my God, Death, um, it's right outside the peek-door of the corridor, actually inside the door, creeping up your fallen asleep leg and still hoping, the pretender.
used to live in Manchester 20 oddd years ago, and yes, he swanned around exactly like someone revelling in their own success ( even before he became famous) , and that's a small place do a lot of swanning in.
@@kc3718 I unfortunately still live in Manchester and though I've never met Steve Coogan or Alan Partridge, a friend of mine has. And in her words "he was coked up and thought he was it". It was a sobering lesson in 'never meet your heroes'.
If you want to see more of him watch Murder in Successvile. Though you might not quite get the humour if you're not from UK as it's based on Z list celebrities!
The Partridge hasn't landed, the Partridge is still flying...I thought I'd caught all of Alan in all his glory then I found this.....almost like getting the scotch eggs squeezed out of you in a headlock.....thanks
There's a ton of stuff people don't seem to know about. They do quotes from Knowing me, knowing you or I'm Alan Partridge. But some of the all time great Partridge is in things like MMM, Places of my Life and Scissored Isle. And this. And the podcast is amazing too.
Is this why half the audience in 'the wright stuff' are producers and runners? Can't imagine the sort that turns up at that programme to watch Mathew Wright argue with Vanessa Feltz
This special is the pinnacle of Partridge in my opinion. A special shout out to ‘Scissored Isle’ which is a close second. The Gibbon brothers have fleshed the character out to new heights 👍🏻
sorry but that's actually a good question, the guy who bullied him at school (Steven Mccomb) WAS horrible to him, on at least two non consecutive occasions
Charlie A Yes me. I live in a 5 bedroom detached house with a buck rogers toilet and I’ve even got an extending table! But I’m not boasting, it’s just factual.
