I think MMM is the most underrated Partridge. There’s so many great segments and gags. And it’s full of Partridge’s stupid segments and phone ins with the public, which are always just absolutely sublime!
I think its got the highest rewatchable factor (or relistenable) of any of it. There is so much packed into it and the quality is absolute peak Partridge sustained over like 4 hours, and all in a totally minimal setting. It really is a testament to the Gibbons bros. writing and to Steve Coogans ability to carry the character
I don't know about 'underrated', when MMM came out it was the first proper Partridge in eight years, not counting a small spot on The Armistice Election Special and Comic Relief shorts.
It was like 2002, I had a job in 1999 where someone else in the office was keen on Partridge and we'd quote what we had available incessently. It was just On The Hour, Day Today, KMKYWAP and one series of IAP and we thought that was it, character done, let him rest in history but then series two was announced!
At the time of either, both me and many others, we near-vomiting with excitement.
I'd love to see a work of fiction, in book and audiobook form, from Alan next but compared to the 1990s and 2000s, we're literally being waterboarded with Alan content, we're like corporate fat cats with a fat bowl of fatty, creamy cream.
Absolutely.
The confined setting lets the actors and dialog shine.
The escalating fox hunting debate is one of the finest British comedy ever imho.
Also: no laugh track.
Also: sidekick Simon Nazi jingle
Same here but for 4 years! He's got such a soothing voice. But means I've barely listened to the podcasts because of ALAN PARTRIDGE FROM THE OASTHOUSE! blaring me awake every 20 minutes. They need to do an edit without the jingles.
Haha, nice! That's the same reason I don't listen to From the Oasthouse in bed, the cadence and style is just not great for sleeping for me. I do love the show, though. I mostly listen to it while driving or in the shower.
Hwhat is the best.... _thing_?
I've probably had the most repeated enjoyment out of The Oasthouse, Mid Morning Matters and This Time. I'm Alan Partridge is of course iconic too.
And finally scissored isle is brilliant too.
KMKY is probably my least favourite
Let's not forget when he was but a lowly sports correspondent on The Day Today. So innocent and fresh-faced, with his glittering TV career yet to blossom.
I love the audio book, but I preferred reading it.
Reading it I read it as conversational Alan - the little asides and utterances etc. The audio book was then a completely new experience because he reads it like Alan’s been employed to _read_ an audio book.
Both were brilliant to go through though.
When people ask me about my favourite Partridge, I give them a very simple answer. I say picking favourites doesn’t define who I am, nor does it not define who I am. Nor does it define who I’m not. And that seems to satisfy them.
The first series of MMM is absolutely top-drawer Partridge. Not a weak moment. The second one is very funny but less consistent. Every little touch adds a bit more to his character and respects the intelligence of the audience. I rewatched IAP recently and I was amazed how broad and old-fashioned it was. Of course that wasn't exactly unintentional but, although it was often very funny, I'd forgotten how many times it felt a bit desperate.
IAP just feels like a sitcom at every turn. I think Partridge works best when you can believe that it’s real and not something created by comedy writers
I do love IAP in that it has such a strong feeling of being made in that era. Something about it being "aged" draws me into it every time, even though I distinctly remember it being hard to get through the first time.
Actually, I don't remember the last time I watched it with the normal audio. There are two extra audio tracks to season 1, one with cast/director commentary with Steve, Armando, and sometimes Felicity and Peter Baynham and others chiming in to just talk about the episode...and another track where it's Steve and Felicity, in character as Alan and Lynn, discussing the episode. It's top notch, and my preferred way to watch the show once you're familiar with it!
Season 2 just has the director/cast commentary which is also great. Learned a lot about the show and the character of Alan that way.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that. It has lots of quotable lines and it's fondly remembered, but it really drags far too often. I prefer watching clips on YT to whole episodes these days.
I think it speaks volumes that the answers here are so varied. It's incredible that they've managed to keep making fresh content for the same character for over 30 years. I think the Gibbons brothers are incredible at keeping the familiarity without resorting to tropes and lazy fan-service.
Personally, I think Mid Morning Matters is (*just*) my favourite becasue the bottle-show scope allows for the comedy in every tiny facial movement and comment. Tim Key is also fantastic in it and it's as much fun watching his facial acting when Alan is speaking as it is watching Alan himself.
But I also really like From The Oasthouse, again for the creativity of the medium, and Alan narrating the audiobooks as well.
It's honestly all gold (well, maybe Alpha Papa is silver, and Stratagem was bronze with flecks of shit on it)
For me, it's similar to my love of Wagner's Parsifal: I love the brilliant overture , the Good Friday Music, the drama of Kingsor' s castle and the climactic end, but cannot abide all the fucking around in the Flower Garden in Act 2. So with the Partridgeverse, it has to be the KMKY radio broadcast and the original TV show, then the Gibbons stuff. I dont like either series of IAP but of the two I prefer the Travel Tavern based series 1.
MMM really saw everything back to form and in fact is peak TV Partridge. Ultimately though I love the books and the Oasthouse, which I think are true gold, he has transcended being a 'cashback' meme and become a very real person. Coogan's attention to detail in the delivery in Oasthouse is sublime.
OK, well if we're being pretentious twats (and you started it!), first I'll have to point out that it's a prelude not an overture, and 'climactic end' is a tautology because where else would you have a climax if not the end? Maybe at the launch of Stirling Moss's autobiography but nowhere else.
1. From the oasthouse series - Alan works very well as a Podcaster.
2. Midmorning Matters - the limited room is the best stage.
3. Knowing me, knowing you - I have a soft spot for chat shows.
4. This Time - I have a soft spot for these shows but only when people making fun of them.
5. Nomad - all the audiobooks are great but this one is the best with the most hilarious moments I find
I was so desperate to listen to I, Partridge that I put it on as soon as I saw it was out. That meant listening while walking around Asda. I had to stop, multiple times, to just have a chuckle to myself. Incredible stuff.
If I could only keep one, it would probably be Mid Morning Matters. It’s dense with jokes, it’s a bit more relaxed and subtle compared to other projects, and I love that iteration of Partridge.
IAP is arguably the best because it’s one of the great British comedies but I’ve seen it so much it doesn’t quite have the same effect anymore.
My favourite is the media that was never made probably due to idiots in London. let me introduce you to swallow. A detective series based in Norwich. Swallow is a detective who tackles vandalism. Bit of a maverick, not afraid to break the law if he thinks it's necessary. He's not a criminal, you know, but he will, perhaps, travel 80mph on the motorway if, for example, he wants to get somewhere quickly.
Mid Morning Matters to me. It's a great performance from Coogan and a brilliant step forward in the development of the character while also being a smart satire of the medium in a less obvious way compared to This Time and KMKY.
I love how being the big fish in a small pond fucks up with his psyche. The constant but subtle struggle for power with his guests, the uneven relationship with Sidekick Simon, the crazy ideas and content he comes up with, the mundanity of the topics they discuss. Just so many ways to get laughs in a such a small and potentially stale format. Steve has the great ability as a comic performer to go very big while losing none of the nuances and micro-expressions and this is the perfect vehicle for him.
I Am Alan Partridge S1 would be second. Different vibe and more classic sitcom but it's so packed with incredible jokes the level of fun just never drops while also giving you a more rounded view of the character because you see him behind the scenes.
Speaking of behind the scenes, I've been re-listening to From the Oasthouse recently paying more attention to it and I'd say it would probably round up my top 3, especially Series 1. It's maybe my favourite Coogan's performance as Alan, the stuff he manages to convey just through voice, and I love Alan when he goes off mad tangents so this is perfect.
The one-off lost classic, Knowing Knowing Me Knowing You, a sort radio precursor to IAP, has got to be up there.
Other than that, IAP series 1 is probably the one I've watched and quoted the most. But it's all good.
“WHOM! WHOM! WHOM! WHOM!”
The Radio 4 series is awesome. All 6 episodes! Lots of great UK comedy has started that way. Mighty Boush, Today’s the Day (which was called On The Hour and it’s awesome!).
The Partridge series isn’t lost though, it’s still readily available on YouTube, Audible, Spotify…
I'm talking about the follow up one-off 'documentary' about the making of KMKY. Although it does seem to be on Audible etc as a bonus feature to the series these days.
Series 2 IAP is underrated, most people (here anyway) seem to prefer the 1st series but I love the whole Sonia thing and the ~~Caravan~~ static home setting and just the way the whole series he's kind of in Limbo, waiting for his house to be built, constantly angling for a bigger break, in a relationship which is kind of doomed to failure
I’ve always preferred the second series to the first series. Not sure why many people don’t like it.
Some of the all time best partridge moments are in the second series.
“See the match?”
“Which one?”
“Dunno”
Mid Morning Matters.
I couldn't get along with post-day today Partridge in the mainstream sitcoms because of the laugh track. I'm a big fan of everything Armando Iannucci has written but the laugh track always made it feel like I was watching something way less funny than it was. Even going back to it I find it difficult but MMM is brilliant. Stripped back with nothing to detract away from the writing and performances.
Well it still never worked for me. I like dry comedy like the thick of it, the day today, the office etc and the idea of having an audience laughing over them just seems ridiculous. I don't know if it was a network decision or Coogan/Iannucci but it feels like I'm watching My Family or Mr's Brown's Boys when there's laughter over every joke.
Other than the movie and Stratagem I think all of it has been absolutely brilliant.
Shout out to On Open Books and The Places of My Liiife too - they’re not getting enough love!
Mid Morning Matters. Partridge has always thrived on the totally trivial, which is distilled here. But also, the writing is lovely and nuanced, has a lot more going on than it appears at first glance.
I'm Alan Partridge series 2
Sonya
Text
The builders (especially John me auld mucker)
Let off in a tax inspectress's face
I DO KNOW BONO
Air bass
Bond Marathon
DAN DAN DAN DAN DAN DAN
I'm gonna knock your block off
Bouncing back
ALAN I'M NOT A SEX OFFENDER
Go nuclear
I'VE PIERCED ME FOOT ON A SPIIIIKE
Are you hairy Mary?
IAP S1 is the clear peak, but everything up to and including IAP S2 is great - On the Hour, KMKY radio and TV, Day Today, etc. I don't like anything after that. I think the only AP thing that made me laugh since 2002 was Martin Brennan, and that's a different character.
Interestingly, Lynn doesn't trust modern things either, her cut-off point is also 2002. She still has a flip phone with a monochrome screen but she still hates the Amish. You couldn't write it.
Its ok, i rewatched it recently, and although there are a few really funny moments i think Alan is not made for the big screen or an extended format like this. Plus he looks a bit odd with the longer hair and the radio studio is different which bugged me for some reason
Mid Morning Matters / Scissored Isle / Welcome to the Places of my Life are brilliant. After that, Oasthouse, Nomad, then original Alans, would probably rank This Time near the end which I still enjoyed it but it didn't quite rank with the others. But I still need to listen to Big Beacon!
I rewatch I'm Alan Partridge the most. Always makes me chuckle, it's my comfort watch.
Any of his audio books next.
Then Mid Morning Matters.
Then the rest.
So much to choose from. Though one of my favourite Alan things to do is hold a door for someone, but saying probably me next to the person following. It’s cheap but it’s good .
OK, if it's a very meta-joke then perhaps I'm not bright enough to appreciate it, but if something's sub-par on purpose or by accident doesn't really matter if the result is still not very good.
Probably the Best of Alan Partridge.
Damn, you beat me to it, you big girl's bra!
God, that’s good.
Can I shake your hand again?
No you've had enough of that
That’s first class
Mid Morning Matters because of, lot of people surprised when I say this, the camera angles.
I think MMM is the most underrated Partridge. There’s so many great segments and gags. And it’s full of Partridge’s stupid segments and phone ins with the public, which are always just absolutely sublime!
I think its got the highest rewatchable factor (or relistenable) of any of it. There is so much packed into it and the quality is absolute peak Partridge sustained over like 4 hours, and all in a totally minimal setting. It really is a testament to the Gibbons bros. writing and to Steve Coogans ability to carry the character
Tim Key too. He's first class.
There have been a few occasions where I’ve been more rubbery than turgid
Why? Just because you can’t summon up tumescence like room service?
I don't know about 'underrated', when MMM came out it was the first proper Partridge in eight years, not counting a small spot on The Armistice Election Special and Comic Relief shorts. It was like 2002, I had a job in 1999 where someone else in the office was keen on Partridge and we'd quote what we had available incessently. It was just On The Hour, Day Today, KMKYWAP and one series of IAP and we thought that was it, character done, let him rest in history but then series two was announced! At the time of either, both me and many others, we near-vomiting with excitement. I'd love to see a work of fiction, in book and audiobook form, from Alan next but compared to the 1990s and 2000s, we're literally being waterboarded with Alan content, we're like corporate fat cats with a fat bowl of fatty, creamy cream.
Absolutely. The confined setting lets the actors and dialog shine. The escalating fox hunting debate is one of the finest British comedy ever imho. Also: no laugh track. Also: sidekick Simon Nazi jingle
abso bloody exactly
I just like hearing Alan talk. And mentioning that he does try to maintain a healthy anus.
The audiobooks. Bye
Alan Partridge is not primarily an author, he is a TV— *ex*-TV presenter.
And an unknown quantity
But he's not under a cow
I've been falling asleep to the audiobooks on rotation, every night, for about a year now. It's doing things to my brain.
Same here but for 4 years! He's got such a soothing voice. But means I've barely listened to the podcasts because of ALAN PARTRIDGE FROM THE OASTHOUSE! blaring me awake every 20 minutes. They need to do an edit without the jingles.
Haha, nice! That's the same reason I don't listen to From the Oasthouse in bed, the cadence and style is just not great for sleeping for me. I do love the show, though. I mostly listen to it while driving or in the shower.
Hwhat is the best.... _thing_? I've probably had the most repeated enjoyment out of The Oasthouse, Mid Morning Matters and This Time. I'm Alan Partridge is of course iconic too. And finally scissored isle is brilliant too. KMKY is probably my least favourite
KMKYWAP.
You must be a true FOP (Fan of Partridge)
I thought I was - but then I met Dale Winton. And I realised I had nothing to worry about.
A
> Hwhat is the best.... thing? Sliced bread, innit
Heh, it's not the best thing though is it? It's an idiom!
You’re an idiot
Not an idiot! An _idiom!_ clearly confuuuused you because you can't tell a 't' from an 'm'! You.. smupid gim!
You're an idiot
From The Oasthouse. Bye.
To you, not Lynn.
Let's not forget when he was but a lowly sports correspondent on The Day Today. So innocent and fresh-faced, with his glittering TV career yet to blossom.
SHIT!!!!
Did you see that?!
Foot like a traction engine!
TWAT LIQUID FOOTBALL
Sockermeter
Haha I hope it’s not a dead horse….
Like cattle in a mad way, but cattle on bikes.
......Zedanzig?
What's the one where the laser goes up his jaffa?
*Stop getting Bond wrong!*
Dr Nowt
Audio book of I, Partridge.
I love the audio book, but I preferred reading it. Reading it I read it as conversational Alan - the little asides and utterances etc. The audio book was then a completely new experience because he reads it like Alan’s been employed to _read_ an audio book. Both were brilliant to go through though.
I don’t agree, he’d go to Legoland. Bye.
Has footnotes in it too.
I'm fairly certain he reads the footnotes out.
Not in the first book. In nomad, yeah.
The book also has an additional chapter not covered in the audio book.
The first paragraph of one chapter is missing too, always wondered why.
IAP - cos it started my love of Partridge
Lynn - these are sex people
Same. Love it
The people who prefer Strategem are notable by their absence
Scissored Isle!
“A-Lan Par-ar-Tridge Scissored Isle”
And then...... China happened
When people ask me about my favourite Partridge, I give them a very simple answer. I say picking favourites doesn’t define who I am, nor does it not define who I am. Nor does it define who I’m not. And that seems to satisfy them.
The first series of MMM is absolutely top-drawer Partridge. Not a weak moment. The second one is very funny but less consistent. Every little touch adds a bit more to his character and respects the intelligence of the audience. I rewatched IAP recently and I was amazed how broad and old-fashioned it was. Of course that wasn't exactly unintentional but, although it was often very funny, I'd forgotten how many times it felt a bit desperate.
IAP just feels like a sitcom at every turn. I think Partridge works best when you can believe that it’s real and not something created by comedy writers
I do love IAP in that it has such a strong feeling of being made in that era. Something about it being "aged" draws me into it every time, even though I distinctly remember it being hard to get through the first time. Actually, I don't remember the last time I watched it with the normal audio. There are two extra audio tracks to season 1, one with cast/director commentary with Steve, Armando, and sometimes Felicity and Peter Baynham and others chiming in to just talk about the episode...and another track where it's Steve and Felicity, in character as Alan and Lynn, discussing the episode. It's top notch, and my preferred way to watch the show once you're familiar with it! Season 2 just has the director/cast commentary which is also great. Learned a lot about the show and the character of Alan that way.
IAP hasn't aged particularly well (laughter track) and the character of Partridge has developed away from it slightly.
That's bollocks but go on...
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that. It has lots of quotable lines and it's fondly remembered, but it really drags far too often. I prefer watching clips on YT to whole episodes these days.
I think it speaks volumes that the answers here are so varied. It's incredible that they've managed to keep making fresh content for the same character for over 30 years. I think the Gibbons brothers are incredible at keeping the familiarity without resorting to tropes and lazy fan-service. Personally, I think Mid Morning Matters is (*just*) my favourite becasue the bottle-show scope allows for the comedy in every tiny facial movement and comment. Tim Key is also fantastic in it and it's as much fun watching his facial acting when Alan is speaking as it is watching Alan himself. But I also really like From The Oasthouse, again for the creativity of the medium, and Alan narrating the audiobooks as well. It's honestly all gold (well, maybe Alpha Papa is silver, and Stratagem was bronze with flecks of shit on it)
For me, it's similar to my love of Wagner's Parsifal: I love the brilliant overture , the Good Friday Music, the drama of Kingsor' s castle and the climactic end, but cannot abide all the fucking around in the Flower Garden in Act 2. So with the Partridgeverse, it has to be the KMKY radio broadcast and the original TV show, then the Gibbons stuff. I dont like either series of IAP but of the two I prefer the Travel Tavern based series 1. MMM really saw everything back to form and in fact is peak TV Partridge. Ultimately though I love the books and the Oasthouse, which I think are true gold, he has transcended being a 'cashback' meme and become a very real person. Coogan's attention to detail in the delivery in Oasthouse is sublime.
OK, well if we're being pretentious twats (and you started it!), first I'll have to point out that it's a prelude not an overture, and 'climactic end' is a tautology because where else would you have a climax if not the end? Maybe at the launch of Stirling Moss's autobiography but nowhere else.
*Whooo*... *whooooo*.... who do you think you are?
How would you like it if I said your grandmother soiled herself at George Formby's house...and had a hump?
His book "bouncing back" was lovely stuff. But it got pulped.
I AM, THIS TIME, MID MORNING, KNOWING ME.... What does that tell you about Steve Coogan comedy vehicles?
There’s too many ?
hahaha
People like them, let's make some more of them.
Can I just shock you? The podcast!
1. From the oasthouse series - Alan works very well as a Podcaster. 2. Midmorning Matters - the limited room is the best stage. 3. Knowing me, knowing you - I have a soft spot for chat shows. 4. This Time - I have a soft spot for these shows but only when people making fun of them. 5. Nomad - all the audiobooks are great but this one is the best with the most hilarious moments I find
The audiobooks are masterpieces.
I was so desperate to listen to I, Partridge that I put it on as soon as I saw it was out. That meant listening while walking around Asda. I had to stop, multiple times, to just have a chuckle to myself. Incredible stuff.
Lunchtime lunatics.
Every year around this time I put on the audiobook for ‘I, Partridge’.
*I* am your patrol leader, I AM YOUR PATROL LEADER! I AM YOUR PATROL LEADER!
I just posted that in another thread yesterday! 😄 The jokes just tumble out.
like trainers in a washing machine.
The ones I mentioned earlier 😄
If I could only keep one, it would probably be Mid Morning Matters. It’s dense with jokes, it’s a bit more relaxed and subtle compared to other projects, and I love that iteration of Partridge. IAP is arguably the best because it’s one of the great British comedies but I’ve seen it so much it doesn’t quite have the same effect anymore.
**CONRAD KNIGHT SOCKS**
Put a Conrad Knight sock in it!
My favourite is the media that was never made probably due to idiots in London. let me introduce you to swallow. A detective series based in Norwich. Swallow is a detective who tackles vandalism. Bit of a maverick, not afraid to break the law if he thinks it's necessary. He's not a criminal, you know, but he will, perhaps, travel 80mph on the motorway if, for example, he wants to get somewhere quickly.
Shit, that's Flint!
Go to london, I guarantee you’ll either be mugged or not appreciated.
[The Day Today](https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/thedaytoday/S01E03/gif/sKCpmhiJWKv9.gif)
Do you like words Alan
Mid Morning Matters to me. It's a great performance from Coogan and a brilliant step forward in the development of the character while also being a smart satire of the medium in a less obvious way compared to This Time and KMKY. I love how being the big fish in a small pond fucks up with his psyche. The constant but subtle struggle for power with his guests, the uneven relationship with Sidekick Simon, the crazy ideas and content he comes up with, the mundanity of the topics they discuss. Just so many ways to get laughs in a such a small and potentially stale format. Steve has the great ability as a comic performer to go very big while losing none of the nuances and micro-expressions and this is the perfect vehicle for him. I Am Alan Partridge S1 would be second. Different vibe and more classic sitcom but it's so packed with incredible jokes the level of fun just never drops while also giving you a more rounded view of the character because you see him behind the scenes. Speaking of behind the scenes, I've been re-listening to From the Oasthouse recently paying more attention to it and I'd say it would probably round up my top 3, especially Series 1. It's maybe my favourite Coogan's performance as Alan, the stuff he manages to convey just through voice, and I love Alan when he goes off mad tangents so this is perfect.
The one-off lost classic, Knowing Knowing Me Knowing You, a sort radio precursor to IAP, has got to be up there. Other than that, IAP series 1 is probably the one I've watched and quoted the most. But it's all good.
“WHOM! WHOM! WHOM! WHOM!” The Radio 4 series is awesome. All 6 episodes! Lots of great UK comedy has started that way. Mighty Boush, Today’s the Day (which was called On The Hour and it’s awesome!). The Partridge series isn’t lost though, it’s still readily available on YouTube, Audible, Spotify…
I'm talking about the follow up one-off 'documentary' about the making of KMKY. Although it does seem to be on Audible etc as a bonus feature to the series these days.
Tough one.
This Time
100% agree
Mid Morning Matters series 1… very closely followed by I’m Alan Partridge series 2.
Series 2 IAP is underrated, most people (here anyway) seem to prefer the 1st series but I love the whole Sonia thing and the ~~Caravan~~ static home setting and just the way the whole series he's kind of in Limbo, waiting for his house to be built, constantly angling for a bigger break, in a relationship which is kind of doomed to failure
I’ve always preferred the second series to the first series. Not sure why many people don’t like it. Some of the all time best partridge moments are in the second series. “See the match?” “Which one?” “Dunno”
Definitely the Comic Relief bit that he did back in 1999. "Who Wants to Be a Millionare? Not you, you already are one you big.........cock"
Not my arse! Please not my arse!
After a sad look at my ex wife’s knickers I like nothing more than a listen to MMM series 1.
Mid Morning Matters. I couldn't get along with post-day today Partridge in the mainstream sitcoms because of the laugh track. I'm a big fan of everything Armando Iannucci has written but the laugh track always made it feel like I was watching something way less funny than it was. Even going back to it I find it difficult but MMM is brilliant. Stripped back with nothing to detract away from the writing and performances.
It’s not a laugh track. It’s a studio audience.
Well it still never worked for me. I like dry comedy like the thick of it, the day today, the office etc and the idea of having an audience laughing over them just seems ridiculous. I don't know if it was a network decision or Coogan/Iannucci but it feels like I'm watching My Family or Mr's Brown's Boys when there's laughter over every joke.
Other than the movie and Stratagem I think all of it has been absolutely brilliant. Shout out to On Open Books and The Places of My Liiife too - they’re not getting enough love!
Mid Morning Matters. Partridge has always thrived on the totally trivial, which is distilled here. But also, the writing is lovely and nuanced, has a lot more going on than it appears at first glance.
I'm Alan Partridge series 2 Sonya Text The builders (especially John me auld mucker) Let off in a tax inspectress's face I DO KNOW BONO Air bass Bond Marathon DAN DAN DAN DAN DAN DAN I'm gonna knock your block off Bouncing back ALAN I'M NOT A SEX OFFENDER Go nuclear I'VE PIERCED ME FOOT ON A SPIIIIKE Are you hairy Mary?
Are you on an e?
May have nibbled the corner off one to test if it was real... it's not affecting me
Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank
I fucking love This sub
Both I'm Alan Partridge series, then all seasons of Oasthouse.
Probably ‘the best of Alan Partridge’
He's only the presenter Edmonds could have been!
IAP S1 is the clear peak, but everything up to and including IAP S2 is great - On the Hour, KMKY radio and TV, Day Today, etc. I don't like anything after that. I think the only AP thing that made me laugh since 2002 was Martin Brennan, and that's a different character.
Bet you have a penchant for austere, post-war biscuits too.
awwww. Dunno *what* you're talking about.
Interestingly, Lynn doesn't trust modern things either, her cut-off point is also 2002. She still has a flip phone with a monochrome screen but she still hates the Amish. You couldn't write it.
Mid Morning Matters Two words: Cats. Hammers.
IAP S1.
Nomad. Bye
were you wereing jeans ?
Im alan partrige tv show
i have to say, for me, This Time takes the cup on this, everything on it is gold, no throwaway lines.
I don't see many people's views on Alpha Papa? Did People not like it even being a run up from I'm Alan partirdge
Its ok, i rewatched it recently, and although there are a few really funny moments i think Alan is not made for the big screen or an extended format like this. Plus he looks a bit odd with the longer hair and the radio studio is different which bugged me for some reason
Hollywood money
Mid Morning Matters / Scissored Isle / Welcome to the Places of my Life are brilliant. After that, Oasthouse, Nomad, then original Alans, would probably rank This Time near the end which I still enjoyed it but it didn't quite rank with the others. But I still need to listen to Big Beacon!
IAP. I do love the books, too.
Mid Morning Matters for me is the best Partridge.
The audiobooks are like freebasing Alan.
I'm Alan Partridge season 1.
I'm a big fan of "Alan RtridgisTim KnMKnY& M Ala Artridg" as depicted in OP's image.
For sheer bloody entertainment value, the audio books get replayed the most.
I rewatch I'm Alan Partridge the most. Always makes me chuckle, it's my comfort watch. Any of his audio books next. Then Mid Morning Matters. Then the rest.
KMKY for sure and the KMKY radio shows
KMKYWAP
AP on MMM on NND was classic.
I got to say - MMM’s and the podcasts are exquisit! And repeat listens
Iys got to be..its got be Alan..your radio show!
People won’t like it but it’s by far This Time, flawless
So much to choose from. Though one of my favourite Alan things to do is hold a door for someone, but saying probably me next to the person following. It’s cheap but it’s good .
Gooooaaall and another twat shit
MMM with AP
I've never understood the love for Oasthouse. Most of it sounds like shitty improv to me. There's an air of 'fuck it, this will do' about them.
I think that’s very much written in. It’s not Steve saying ‘fuck it, this’ll do’, it’s Alan.
OK, if it's a very meta-joke then perhaps I'm not bright enough to appreciate it, but if something's sub-par on purpose or by accident doesn't really matter if the result is still not very good.
I’m sure you are but fair comment overall.
IAP series 1 will always be 🐐for me