Alan Partridge comes to BBC America

i'll drink it. it's no worse than carling or whatever.

lols at 1:30

it is the worst beer made in the world

there are some comments on that youtube covering this important issue. maybe take it there.

Anyone know exactly what this is, e.g. 10 minute 'shorts' or an actual series? This Sun article says "Highlights of his gut-bustingly funny musings and outrageous anecdotes are being packaged together for a brand new web series on fostersfunny.co.uk" - highlights?
Needless to say, I'm looking forward to this esp since Fosters aren't having anything to do with it (unlike Will Arnett/Orbit (or Wrigleys?) "content")

new material but just shorts

series 1 still miles better than series 2 i'd say, even iannucci doesn't rate it much, but this is still the best Partridge moment ever i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ytDCZS9oM

just ahead i'd say of the appaling sex scene in the dark in series 1.

Series 2 def had to grow on me a lot but to me now they're both as great as each other. Some flashes of utter genius in there, Sonia and space/judge/Bono/alien thing had me cracking up, the whole bit where he goes to Bono's house (my friend got married there; she didn't understand why it was Bono's house), Michael and the Bond movie marathon... lovely stuff.

bond movie marathon was on tonight

love that fireplace scene

My favourite bit from season 2 is in that bond episode when he douses the caravan in Sunny Delight, pretends to light a match then runs away. I get giggles just thinking about it. I think Sunny Delight must be the funniest drink.

there actually is "north norfolk radio" and for awhile their tagline was a super-defensive "...because WE live here TOO!"

i can believe it... i lived in norfolk for five years..

there actually is "north norfolk radio" and for awhile their tagline was a super-defensive "...because WE live here TOO!"
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"here" being Linton

alan meeting "tex" was one of my fav

^this was the bond marathon too, tex had taped over spy who loved me with americas strongest man prog

you put two and two together and made five, or as the american says "fahhhhhhhve"

Wayne's my man.
Wayne sleep?
get off your horse and drink your milk.
yes, Wayne sleep.

most absurd moment i remember was alan turning up at geordie blokes house, but geordie bloke wouldn't let him in and gave him a cup of beans and sausage. Then he said he could leave the empty cup on the doorstep.

haha and the fact that his shadow was still right by the door standing sideways

"You don't have a spoon?"
"I might have one in the bathroom."

^ debate as to whether this was a callback to phoner-inner Mary on the radio talking about what will we look like in the future: "look in the back of a spoon. In the bathroom".

there's that amazing monologue by the geordie guy too about him having the dream about killing people in a helicopter.

That bit is bloody ruddy fantastic.
First trailer/clip here: http://www.fostersfunny.co.uk/2010/11/exclusive-first-clip-of-mid-morning-matters-with-alan-partridge/

thought that helicopter bit was mugging for the recorded audience applause personally. one of the stand out bad moments in s2.

really? it does have that setpiece applause feel but it is v funny imo...

Michael: Aye, I come back this morning on a National Express coach. It was sort of like a SAS operation, you know. Uh, your mission: gan till Cardiff, have full sex with a woman, come back on the coach. Sort of like, er, Operation Bravo Two Zero.
Alan: I think in your case, Michael, it was Bravo Six Zero.
Alan: By, er, Randy McNab.
Michael: Randy McKnob.

^^^ now that's writing

A bit apprehensive about this, is Iannucci involved?

If nothing else there's always this to fall back on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrp0wJsXNEA

Yes Iannucci is involved.

"Give him another series you swine"
"Yeah give me another series you shit"

Quite enjoying the Coogan/Brydon thing on the beeb right now.

Yeah, it's bringing the gentle roffles chez us.

It's pretty good.

Not too laugh out loud but I enjoyed it. The impression-off was the best bit.

(prob misquoted this but just remembered the lols from the Tex episode)

"He calls his truck Convoy? Michael you're best friends with a man who uses a collective term to describe his vehicle"

deserves a youtube link prolly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abmrAf0evgk

michael: pay attention bond, simply remove the top of this pen, and jab it in somebody's eye! smash it in with your hand like that uh uh uh
alan: that's not a gadget - that's just monstrous use of a biro

First trailer/clip here:

That's just the same trailer caek already posted two days ago. However! Iannucci just twooted:

Ok, here's the new Alan clip. Some wankaplegic in PR posted it on the Sun website, but here's You Tube link. http://youtu.be/JVWHaMbbzGs

nah there's a clip on the page NTRVP linked yesterday but you had to scroll down. same one as in that iannucci tweet.

bah, cut all this faffing and trailing imo. I lolled at his face in that loooooong pause in the clip tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucrpgmJxx0E

i started watching the first season again and i think the hotel employees are my favorite part.

That was hilarious!

Shoot, not available outside UK

^^^:(

doing them a favour, since they sell fosters everywhere.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ob9t2rsd0472f13

THANK YOU, CAEK

"do you ever have dark thoughts?"

There are so many quotable lines I'm not going to bother. I enjoyed the first episode of The Trip, but this unequivocally proves who's boss. Partridge 4EVA.

pleased it's fifteen mins too. thought it was going to be ~5. there's not going to be much plot to speak of if they're stuck in the studio, but still.

4th is probably the least interesting so far imo

I’ve watched all of these now. I think the funniest AP stuff has always tended to be him losing control of a situation, or of himself, and that works best in formats where we know he’s not controlling what we see, but breaks a bit in formats like this (or the podcast, or some of the earlier Alan-fronted things like Scissored Isle). If he’s controlling his own edit then we never really get to see him desperately flailing around.

So I don’t think it’s very funny, I maybe laughed twice across the six episodes. But I also don’t think that matters too much? It’s still really enjoyable, the whole project at this point works as an extended character study.

i was thinking exactly the same thing, that when partridge has ostensible control over the result there’s only so far they can go with naturalistic scenes, so the humour mostly - all? - comes from how crap he is at the format, or the ways in which his character obstinately bucks the format, which can be funny but idk less so, and with less potential to really go off the rails

like you don’t get his day to day in a travelodge or whatever which for me is the absolute peak stuff of the series. that said i loved the oasthouse podcast (still an amazon exclusive i think) but mainly because he did allow it to just become a day in the life type of thing

crinkle crankle walls

Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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