Alan Partridge........

[ska invita]

Never understood why anyone finds him entertaining - same as Ricky Gervais.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That gif is just some random weirdo who thinks he's funny. He's mistaken.

 

[ska invita]

That gif is just some random weirdo who thinks he's funny. He's mistaken.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Yes, he not funny he's subhuman scum.

 

[ska invita]

Yes, he not funny he's subhuman scum.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Genuine mystery why people think he's funny. It's bizarre.

Having ebola is more entertaining than watching him.

 

[ska invita]

Genuine mystery why people think he's funny. It's bizarre.

Having ebola is more entertaining than watching him.

 

[purves grundy]

Twas lovely stuff, with a few quality seeds sown for some running drama across the series.

Failure to look at your potential employer can project qualities including shyness, dishonesty, gypsy and boredom

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Never understood why anyone finds him entertaining - same as Ricky Gervais.

You seen Afterlife? I feel its one of the best things I have ever watched.





Coogan made a bit of a cunt of himself with Covid, furloughed his gardener and housekeeper; rich people shouldn't furlough, his gardener and housekeeper could continue their roles regardless of Covid. His answer; Furlough is lawful. Scummy.

 

[ska invita]

Coogan made a bit of a cunt of himself with Covid, furloughed his gardener and housekeeper; rich people shouldn't furlough, his gardener and housekeeper could continue their roles regardless of Covid. His answer; Furlough is lawful. Scummy.

I think theres no doubt that there is a lot of Steve Coogan in Alan. I think one of the things that makes it as funny as it is is how natural the role comes to him, how easy it is for him to write endless material for Alan, and how much of his worst character aspects he can channel into it. The furlough thing is very Partridge.

I don't think Im particularly anything like Alan, but at the same time I do relate to him, and even see myself in him in some ways. Its not just laughing at him - there's definitely a lot of that - but theres also a lot empathy and laughing at myself that goes on. I wonder if others people have that too.

 

[Calamity1971]

You seen Afterlife? I feel its one of the best things I have ever watched.

That was an excellent series.

 

[kabbes]

I think theres no doubt that there is a lot of Steve Coogan in Alan. I think one of the things that makes it as funny as it is is how natural the role comes to him, how easy it is for him to write endless material for Alan, and how much of his worst character aspects he can channel into it. The furlough thing is very Partridge.

I don't think Im particularly anything like Alan, but at the same time I do relate to him, and even see myself in him in some ways. Its not just laughing at him - there's definitely a lot of that - but theres also a lot empathy and laughing at myself that goes on. I wonder if others people have that too.

The genius of Partridge is that there is some small part of Partridge in all of us. When he whines at a funeral that, "I don't want to talk to you, I want to talk to him," we laugh because it is an unpleasant and inappropriate thing to say but we also laugh because we recognise that impulse of sometimes wanting to say that kind of thing. Partridge is pure id, but it is not the id of the swaggering primitive man, it is the id of the child we all were and, to some extent, still are.

 

[Calamity1971]

and even see myself in him in some ways.

I've been shouting for years at people with their fog lights on when it's not foggy. So the beginning of alpha papa had me in tears when he did it. I suspect there's a bit Alan in all of us.

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[ska invita]

I've been shouting for years at people with their fog lights on when it's not foggy. So the beginning of alpha papa had me in tears when he did it.

Hah yeah that was a great insight
A friend of mine bit of a boy racer got pulled over for having his fog lights on
He said he hadnt noticed
Turns out he had them on on purpose because in his mind they made the car look cooler
Alan being a policeman about fog lights is brilliant characterisation

 

[Calamity1971]

Hah yeah that was a great insight
A friend of mine bit of a boy racer got pulled voter for having his fog lights on
He said he hadnt noticed
Turns out he had them on on purpose because in his mind they made the car look cooler
Alan being a policeman about fog lights is brilliant characterisation

That's usually my shout, ' think they make you're car look pretty eh'

 

[kabbes]

"Who's upset you this time?"
"Just... people. I just... hate the general public."

Who has never experienced this particular epiphany at particular moments in their week?

 

[kabbes]

[Alan turns round to walk towards Tony Hayers’ widow, Jane, revealing on the back of the black bomber jacket he’s wearing is written ‘Castrol GTX’.]
Alan: How’re you doing?
Jane: Thank you for coming.
Alan: Can I offer you my deep, deep… despair, on this very bad day.
Jane: Thank you.
Alan: I mean, how are you coping?
Jane: Well, terrible, really. We’d booked to go on holiday next week.
Alan: [A little too enthusiastically sympathetic] Oh, bugger!
Jane: He’d have been forty-one next month.
Alan: All those people who go around saying ‘Life begins at forty’. They’re notable by their absence. The nerve. Were you close?
Jane: He was my husband.
Alan: Yes, yes, of course. What was he doing on the bloody roof?
Jane: He was getting the aerial down because we were moving.
Alan: Yeah, I know. I was being rhetorical. I mean, did he actually bring the aerial down with him?
Jane: Yes, he did.
Alan: Comforting to know that the last thing he did was an act of kindness.

 

[ska invita]

"Who's upset you this time?"
"Just... people. I just... hate the general public."

Who has never experienced this particular epiphany at particular moments in their week?

Alan doesn't seem to have a friend in the world and even his family dont like him
Its why him alone in the DJ booth is perfection
Other than Lynn of course.
And Maybe Bill Oddie

 

[Athos]

Alan doesn't seem to have a friend in the world and even his family dont like him
Its why him alone in the DJ booth is perfection
Other than Lynn of course.
And Maybe Bill Oddie

He's got 104 friends!

 

[Athos]

 

[weltweit]

I find the cringe factor with Partridge and Gervais a little on the high side, it stops me laughing as much as I might had it not been so cringy. Still all to those who like it, great that there is such a variety of comedy about.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is all coming across like I've stumbled into a thread for cult members.

 

[Argonia]

My favourite bit was SImon Denton's inability to use the screen

 

[UrbaneFox]

'I began walking like a monk, [with hood pulled up, hands behind back] nodding at people.'

I liked his inability to sit in silence, without twitching, for a whole minute, and feeling that the monks were picking on him.

Nice bit of Stan Laurel slapstick in the greenhouse.

Body language expert: Uncrossing your legs isn't always an invitation, like Sharon Stone in that film
Jenny: Basic Instinct
Alan: Fanny

 

[steveo87]

This is all coming across like I've stumbled into a thread for cult members.

That basically sums it up, yes.

There are those who like AP.
And there are those who are wrong.

 

[Orang Utan]

I basically had a whole fling with someone just cos we had a mutual appreciation of Alan Partridge

 

[steveo87]

I basically had a whole fling with someone just cos we had a mutual appreciation of Alan Partridge

CASHBACK!

 

[fishfinger]

I basically had a whole fling with someone just cos we had a mutual appreciation of Alan Partridge

Swipes left.

 

[Santino]

I basically had a whole fling with someone just cos we had a mutual appreciation of Alan Partridge

Miss you babes

 

[Athos]

I basically had a whole fling with someone just cos we had a mutual appreciation of Alan Partridge

Was she 14 years younger than you, though?