Category: Alan Partridge
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Alan Coming Soon
Here’s a really nice trailer for what was then the brand new series of I’m Alan Partridge. This was run a few times on the build up to the show. Here’s the same one, sitting amongst the more late night fare, after the end of Pulp Fiction, which was shown the night before (Sunday 2nd…
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Steve Coogan – The Inside Story
In Christmas of 2009, BBC Two aired a mockumentary charting the life and career of Steve Coogan. With classic archive moments and some rarely seen early appearances, this one-hour special includes interviews with well-known faces who have collaborated with Steve, and others who are simply fans of Alan Partridge, Paul and Pauline Calf, Tony Ferrino…
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Mission Impossible: Partridge
I like a bit of unplanned symmetry. I’ve been wondering about Alan Partridge, and whether he represents something unique in British comedy: a character that has spanned many formats, and has aged with time, where we have followed his career in real time. Dame Edna is sort of the same thing, but not really. Anyway,…
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Steve Coogan On The Krypton Factor
This is one of those things that slips the memory, but the moment you’re reminded of it, it comes flooding back. During the 1989 series of The Krypton Factor, Steve Coogan appeared in a series of sketches as part of the observation round. Here are the first three.
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Wogan Says ‘Allo ‘Allo
I could have sworn we’d looked at this before, but it turns out we haven’t. It’s labelled as 1985 but that would have made it a Sunday, so this must be from 1986, which also tallies with the dates of the ‘Allo ‘Allo live show. With his customary savoirfaire the chat-show host par excellence introduces…
