@TheJimmy hahah yeah it wasn't that great. Carvey's is better. And as a sort of aside, Pacino is a terrible actor these days. I mean really bad he just overacts everything. He's become a parody of himself.
Steve Coogan is one of the all time greatest impressionists. His performances of Stan Laurel was so accurate it was like he brought him to life for the modern age in colour. He is also a serious actor. In the UK he played Jimmy Saville in a great TV series called "The Reckoning". For those not familiar with Jimmy Saville he was a paedophile and depraved monster. He got away with his evil crimes for decades as he was a huge TV personality with great influence and power. He was even knighted by the Queen for charity work.
I thought he was great as Stan Laurel in Stan & Ollie. The mannerisms were spot on & it was a great movie. Alas, he didn't get an award for his portrayal. How good do u have to be to get one?
He's intelligent though, the only intelligent folk who back Brexit are the ones that are going to pocket millions from it like Farage and Rees-Mogg and the rest of the "offshore accounts brigade".
Not his best, his Jagger is brilliant, also John Hurt I saw that was a good one. Always something tragic about impressionists, simply nobody ever impersonates them..
Mmmm, I like Coogans characters but his real persona is a bit up his own backside it appears........also when telling the "true" story of him him hanging out in a "burger bar" and "banging some guys head" in Manchester why is he putting on an American accent for the alleged fighter???
This guy couldn't be funny to save his D_ _ K. I hope he isn't in the comedy biz. His impression is weak also. I'm happy for him that he's making money, but OMG. You can't learn funny, you either are, or you aren't, this guy isn't.
I don't think American audiences quite get Coogan. His humour is often so multi-layered. Often you can't tell if there will be a punchline. English humour doesn't always have a punchline.
"In 1975 no one died, in 1976 no one died, in 1977 no one died, in 1978 no one died, in 1979 no one died, in 1980 SOME ONE died, in 1981 no one died, in 1982 no one died"......the man is an all time great.
i just watched a series they did together called The Trip where they play themselves going around reviewing restaurants for The Guardian. It's hilarious because I would say the majority of it (99.99999%) is improvised.
@@billypilgrim1 i did, i was surprised the last one was a film. They're planning on doing The Trip to Greece next. Can't wait to find out what happened to Coogan at the end of Trip to Spain haha XD
@JackBauer137 yeah those blue eyes with extra smooth skin made him look like an alien. That CGI killed all of his facial expressions as a legendary actor, that cost him an oscar...
He's hilarious. Check out The Trip. And the movie he's promoting here (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman) is also pretty spectacular.
No laugh for the "are you Steve Coogan?" line, but a strong chuckle for the lame "perfect time to hit him again" line from O'Brien. American audiences are weird.
IMHO the best thing Steve has done was Saxondale where he plays an embittered ex-music roadie now working as a pest controller. Very funny , check it out
Yeah you’re right. In all of Britain’s history and America’s brief history and of course the long, very long history of comedy in the history of all humanity. Americans are unable to understand British humour.
@@ma5839 Guess it’s true Americans don’t understand sarcasm in the slightest. Did you think he was being serious when he was doing his impression of an actor with a bloated ego?
On conan's podcast he talked all about how he loves English humor and thought they were way ahead of the American tv comedy for decades. I think he even mentioned Steve coogan by name. Great he got this interview.
This interview is from 2006. Yeah, he was comparing it to Network TV comedies. Especially after the first golden age of TV and production moved to LA it all kinda went downhill and became watered down for a while. But now for the past couple of decades with cable and now even more so with streaming it's not the case anymore. I hope he interviews Coogan for his podcast.
