"It was just a Japanese saloon car, me, and The Very Best of Deacon Blue". Argh, must... resist... quoting..
Good stuff though. The business with Alan on the bike was the only part I wasn't so keen on.
― like an ant to a crumb (DavidM), Friday, 5 November 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
this was great, not perfect but plenty of good smart laughs. i thought the trip was bloody awful though. brydon and coogan just don't work well together. it always descends into a not particularly amusing set piece of coogan snapping at a faux-naif brydon hamming it up. after coogan's universally panned live show last year and his shitty appearance on CYE (interesting how there are very very few people who coogan can gel with in a comedic sense) i thought he'd completely lost it but i'm pleased how MMM has disproved that.
― NI, Saturday, 6 November 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbiSJE6Dw_k
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Friday, 12 November 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.mediafire.com/?hv6swrnuoby2p13
― caek, Friday, 12 November 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
^thanks CAEK :)
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 19 November 2010 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wo0klNPrDk&feature=player_embedded
say what you like about billie piper but she is the most popular prostitute on itv
really enjoying the trip by the way. the last one was quite moving.
― caek, Friday, 19 November 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.mediafire.com/?ubao6r8sox79kf8
― caek, Friday, 19 November 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg9sYJaHQyc&feature=channel
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Saturday, 27 November 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I've just started "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and it's brilliant in a kind of objective way but I'm not sure I can handle it if it's all like the first episode :(
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 December 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
If I had a pound for every time I heard someone use an acronym that actually extended the syllable count...
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 10 December 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
kmkywap... sounds like a moist towelette...
― Babylon and zing (stevie), Friday, 10 December 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
to wipe your anal dirge prat...
― Babylon and zing (stevie), Friday, 10 December 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
inception......no.
inception.......no.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
There have been three new episodes and I've only just noticed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_n70vknA0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHlvjAwM5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DO3cpw1dbo
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/02/steve-coogan-new-alan-partridge-series
― caek, Thursday, 2 June 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Following the above:
Foster’s is looking to capitalise on the success of its recent Alan Partridge internet series by reuniting comedy legends Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in a new online series to launch on 4 July this summer. Famous for their madcap comedy stylings, Reeves and Mortimer are set to hit computer screens with a new series of original sketches that will air on weekdays from 4-29 July exclusively on the Foster’s comedy website www.fostersfunny.co.uk.Each episode of the new series - entitled “Vic and Bob’s Afternoon Delights” – will see the comics introduce a group of never-seen-before characters to surprise their fans.
Famous for their madcap comedy stylings, Reeves and Mortimer are set to hit computer screens with a new series of original sketches that will air on weekdays from 4-29 July exclusively on the Foster’s comedy website www.fostersfunny.co.uk.
Each episode of the new series - entitled “Vic and Bob’s Afternoon Delights” – will see the comics introduce a group of never-seen-before characters to surprise their fans.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5nyE7nvW2E&feature=player_embedded#!
― caek, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone read/listened to the book?
― encarta it (Gukbe), Monday, 31 October 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
yes listened it's great
― conrad, Monday, 31 October 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
listened to the first hour or so and yeah, really really good. I can't imagine reading the text alone would be anywhere near as good
― Number None, Monday, 31 October 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
halfway through and starting to think the audiobook format suits him more than anything. it is hilarious, i keep bursting out laughing in public when listening to this.
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Monday, 31 October 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
a friend of mine went to optimo espookio last night in full alan partridge peephole pringle and rubber thong get up!
― jed_, Monday, 31 October 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOQIMOcEVc4
― jed_, Monday, 31 October 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
oh man your friend ftw
― encarta it (Gukbe), Monday, 31 October 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
i wish i could post his facebook pic but it wouldn't be right. it's pretty disturbing.
― jed_, Monday, 31 October 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
The description of his fellow DJs at the music shop was something else.
― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
I've listened to about half of the book (driving to the Grand Canyon from Vegas and back, was a good idea to bring it) and it's really great. It's like 7 hours of proper new material, really.Best thing ever: after listening to a few hours of this, I open 'Infinite Jest' and read "my chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it". XD
― kinder, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
7 hours of proper new material that recounts the whole of kmkywap everything before and since with added perspective honesty delusion grandiloquence and needless-to-say-I-had-the-last-laugh-esque revisionism
― conrad, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
It's incredibly impressive really
― Number None, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
what
― caek, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNi0DljI-t0
― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
does the book credit Ianucci, the new writers and Coogan equally (or at all, or whatever)? am itching for the audiobook to show up on CD-Wow so I can price compare with Book Depository
― the men who glare at stoats (sic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
audiobook credits "by alan partridge with mark gibbons, neil gibbons, armando ianucci and steve coogan"
― caek, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
but he says the last names very fast.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
cool, so must be mainly the new dudes - probably a v helpful factor in the apparent frequent focus on recasting old events in nu-Partridge's rosy spectacles
― the men who glare at stoats (sic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
― the men who glare at stoats (sic), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
Ha. Was trying to find this on Audible, turns out they actually list it by author with "Alan Partridge"
― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
iTunes doesn't have this yet, dammit. Seriously considerably signing up for Audible with one of them promo deals so's I can load the audiobook onto my phone.
― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
They had a free trial offer thing going in the UK with Audible (UK). It's impossible to get in the US unless you order it on CD for like $25 + shipping :(It's actually worth paying full price for but not when you want it IMMEDIATELY
― kinder, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
If you do the promo deal thru podcasts, they usually have a free book offer. I only need a copy that I can load onto my phone, anyway.
― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
fuck all geoblocking
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
new show http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/video/2012/jun/01/alan-partridge-norfolk-sky?newsfeed=true
― caek, Friday, 1 June 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
i am not totally following this but is it not a little weird that this show's on sky, what with coogan's apoplexy re: the murdoch empire
― blossom smulch (schlump), Friday, 1 June 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
incredibly weird, yep
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 June 2012 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
the little-seen UK cable TV charity adverts for the Teenage Cancer Trust (from 2000?) are some of my fave ever Alan bits. not as laugh out loud hilarious as your Day Today stuff and whatnot but fantastic all the same. they were writen by Baynham and Coogan and all 5 of them are on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkHY1bVciIE
― piscesx, Friday, 1 June 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
also harpercollins published that recent partridge autobiography, right around the time coogan was chucking it on newsnight xp
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 June 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
so it obviously isn't incredibly weird for steve coogan.
― caek, Friday, 1 June 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
haha that clip was great
― caek, Friday, 1 June 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
anyone know if they're releasing Mid-Morning Matters on dvd or anything?awesome clip, cheers!
― kinder, Friday, 1 June 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
Some talk of MMM being expanded into a proper TV series.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 1 June 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link