steve coogan/alan partridge

crazygeryy

can someone who has seen a lot of his stuff or is a fan please recommend which of his tv shows should i watch first?
i havent seen any of his stuff at all.just a suggestion as to where i should start.
thanks.

Compak

~The day Today if you have access to it, then move onto Knowing me Knowing you with Alan Partridge.

That is where I'd start - to get hooked.

But e did the separate Coogans run in between those two, but I'd stick with Alan PArtridge to start

Robert2012

You have a treat in store for you, OP

ben.schlomo

As above from The Day Today onwards will give the full story but you could just from Im Alan Partridge and enjoy it.

Robert2012

Id also recommend the autobiography "I, Partridge: We need to talk about Alan."

Hilarious stuff.

Sir Oxman

Robert2012 wrote: »

Id also recommend the autobiography "I, Partridge: We need to talk about Alan."

Hilarious stuff.

The audiobook is even funnier!

goose2005

The "Knowing me Knowing you with Alan Partridge" radio series was in some ways better than the TV show.

HansHolzel

HansHolzel wrote: »

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/who-said-it-morrissey-or-alan-partridge

take the test first

I_smell_fear

I'm Alan Partridge is probably the most direct and easily accessible introduction to Alan Partidge.

As people have mentioned, there's quite a back catalogue to the character, so you're potentially in for a treat. Just thought I'd add my recommendation for the radio series version of Knowing Me, Knowing You, which preceded and in my opinion out-funnied the TV version.

There's also the radio version of The Day Today called On The Hour, the one off, hour long mockumentary Welcome To The Places Of My Life and the TV show Mid Morning Matters.

The audiobook, despite not winning the Booker prize for books, might be my favourite piece of Partridge output, but to enjoy it fully you'd ideally need to be familiar with the ouevre of Alan in it's entirety.

crazygeryy

Thanks for all the replies guys.I've gotten hold of kmkyou for starters anyway so ill go with that.

Dozen Wicked Words

For later, the Trip with Rob Brydon is also very funny, but Partridge first!

Alan Partridge forms part of the Norwich Christmas lights this year too.

Birneybau

Wish I could watch "Watership Alan" for the first time again!

ronnie3585

Birneybau wrote: »

Wish I could watch "Watership Alan" for the first time again!

You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth, and the plums have mutated and they have got beaks. You make pigs smoke. You feed beef burgers to swans. You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds you have 20 foot high chickens, and these chickens are scared because they don't know why they're so big, and they're going "Oh, why am I so massive?" and they're looking down on at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small.

Do you deny that?

No, I think his silence speaks volumes.

recipio

Can anyone point me to a stand up show I saw about two years ago. He used a running powerpoint show on a screen behind him which got more and more out of sync. Absolutely hilarious.

take everything

ronnie3585 wrote: »

You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth, and the plums have mutated and they have got beaks. You make pigs smoke. You feed beef burgers to swans. You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds you have 20 foot high chickens, and these chickens are scared because they don't know why they're so big, and they're going "Oh, why am I so massive?" and they're looking down on at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small.

Do you deny that?

No, I think his silence speaks volumes.

For once Morris plays the straight man in that.
Some of his stuff in TDT is inspired.
His swimming pool attendant where "only" one person died on his watch.
His proto-serial killer office worker who quits after the work seminar (with the equally wonderful Patrick Marber as the guru) to work as a butcher (working with "meat..." rather than people).
His gormless, overexcitable sportscaster
His bomb-dogs eyewitness.
And reporting on the horseracing from Marple.Interviewing the jockey and mistaking him for a twelve year old.
Etc.

take everything

recipio wrote: »

Can anyone point me to a stand up show I saw about two years ago. He used a running powerpoint show on a screen behind him which got more and more out of sync. Absolutely hilarious.

Haven't seen but laughed out loud reading that.
(I've probably done too many not to find it funny :P ).
I would like to see this also.