Alan Partridge comes to BBC America

(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.

Didn't think it was great apart from the condiment bit. Don't like the sidekick.

thanks for the upload, caek. 'it's like living with a bunch of banksys' haha.

so many quotable lines

"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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbiSJE6Dw_k

http://www.mediafire.com/?hv6swrnuoby2p13

^thanks CAEK :)

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.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ubao6r8sox79kf8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg9sYJaHQyc&feature=channel

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 :(

If I had a pound for every time I heard someone use an acronym that actually extended the syllable count...

kmkywap... sounds like a moist towelette...

to wipe your anal dirge prat...

inception......no.

inception......no.

inception.......no.

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

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/02/steve-coogan-new-alan-partridge-series

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5nyE7nvW2E&feature=player_embedded#!

anyone read/listened to the book?

yes listened it's great

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

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.

a friend of mine went to optimo espookio last night in full alan partridge peephole pringle and rubber thong get up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOQIMOcEVc4

oh man your friend ftw

i wish i could post his facebook pic but it wouldn't be right. it's pretty disturbing.

The description of his fellow DJs at the music shop was something else.

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

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

It's incredibly impressive really

what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNi0DljI-t0