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Alan Partridge Superthread - Sponsored by Dettol

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    When they are watching the video feed from Downing St at the end of the episode, and the dog petitioners don't turn up, all they can see is Larry the Downing St. cat waiting at the front door, and Martin says "there's a cat!" in his bogger accent. That and "awful hot in here" cracks me up :pac:

    Also the guy who shouts "A-ha" when Alan is introducing the dog group at the beginning :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,013 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    Those last 10 minutes from the CPR sketch to 00 Bx is some of the funniest Partridge for years. Come on Simon!!

    https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ShockingNippyEasteuropeanshepherd-size_restricted.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,088 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling



    Those sideways glances crack me up. The office was another show that used to drop them in. It was always something weird/mad happening and it was like an extra looking at someone else and saying "are you seeing this as well?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,162 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    When they are watching the video feed from Downing St at the end of the episode, and the dog petitioners don't turn up, all they can see is Larry the Downing St. cat waiting at the front door, and Martin says "there's a cat!" in his bogger accent. That and "awful hot in here" cracks me up :pac:

    Also the guy who shouts "A-ha" when Alan is introducing the dog group at the beginning :)

    Reminds me of the randomness of some of the older rural generation picked for Winning Streak, probably been to Dublin once in their lives before and never in a TV studio. Having your party piece - breaking into a song at the drop of a hat, best Sunday Mass gear on etc. Accent was pretty spot on, hard for a non Irish person to do convincingly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭Ferajacka


    ...
    I think he looked up to Iannucci, who ran the show behind the scenes, but now Coogan pretty much owns Alan. It's interesting, I watched this chat between Coogan and Iannucci for the Guardian, and there is a bit where Steve is talking about working on new ideas for Alan with the Gibbons brothers, and Armando is like "oh, I dind't hear anything about that". :pac:



    That was a good interview, makes a good podcast. Alot of the techniques they talk about you can see in This Time.
    Like the this your life joke is one the audience can see coming before the punchline comes.
    The irony of a cat outside number 10 when they're expecting the dog protesters.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Autecher


    The picture on the left is from an episode of I'm Alan Partridge from 1997 when Alan used a dummy to pose as his wife, the picture on the right is from Mondays episode.

    qky8bmbu06n21.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Autecher


    I didn't know Monty Don was a real person! I thought he was an actor they hired!
    https://twitter.com/TheMontyDon/status/1107717582050729985

    https://twitter.com/TheMontyDon/status/1107942931963543552

    Q0Xw3do.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭gargargar


    Autecher wrote: »
    The picture on the left is from an episode of I'm Alan Partridge from 1997 when Alan used a dummy to pose as his wife, the picture on the right is from Mondays episode.

    qky8bmbu06n21.jpg


    Initial observation, you need to get out more.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Autecher


    gargargar wrote: »
    Initial observation, you need to get out more.
    Actually I just swiped that from reddit but thanks for the concern anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭ollkiller


    Just a fantastic episode. The battle re enactment from a previous episode was brilliant but this was even better. The accents and mannerisms are spot on. Really enjoying this reincarnation of Alan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    HAHA!!


  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,699 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Autecher wrote: »
    I didn't know Monty Don was a real person! I thought he was an actor they hired!

    Ah heyor!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Big Vern


    HAHA!!

    You put in a H


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭sirmanga


    Coogan's/Martin's mini version of Sweet Sixteen was actually quite beautiful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    Link?

    digital spy and other's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    just realised the bond guy was called trevor Mortimer
    rlol he is a famous mayo gaa player as well


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,893 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Where can I find the full version of this show?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,370 ✭✭✭TheAnalyst_


    Was Tommy Tiernan playing his cousin.

    Partridge is the go to reference when I explain to brits or Americans why their Irish jokes are ****. For a joke to be funny it has to be accurate in some way and Coogan gets it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    sirmanga wrote: »
    Coogan's/Martin's mini version of Sweet Sixteen was actually quite beautiful.

    I was expecting a Partridge aside to it when he got to the 'sweet sixteen' finish, along the lines of (in best Alan accent) : "Sixteen. Thats underage. Still, must point out its a different jurisdiction. Its the West of Ireland too. Dont judge".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    just realised the bond guy was called trevor Mortimer
    rlol he is a famous mayo gaa player as well

    maybe Steve slipped that in as an in joke ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    WHERE THE F**K IS MY WATAH


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    sirmanga wrote: »
    Coogan's/Martin's mini version of Sweet Sixteen was actually quite beautiful.

    If he sang that at party people would cry with happiness...

    Actually Coogan obviously knew that, see the way Alan recoiled in horror but Jennie looked like the emotion of the song had her hooked straight away


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,292 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Jennie is fecking stunning btw, how have we never seen that actress anywhere else?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭el Fenomeno


    Only after seeing Mondays episode now. That's the best episode of anything Partridge related since IAP. Absolutely brilliant. I was critical of the first 2 episodes (haven't watched episode 3 yet), but this week was side-splitting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Imagine Alan giving his name to a bouncer and getting nowhere and resorting to shouting "ahaaaa" to get into the Johnnie walker tent in Silverstone :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭el Fenomeno


    "You want any more of them, you come see me."

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,636 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Thargor wrote: »
    Jennie is fecking stunning btw, how have we never seen that actress anywhere else?


    Ooooh...I’d like to kiss her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    A Chris Morris cameo now will seal the deal


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭mugsymugsy


    As many people have mentioned the levels of that coogan and the detail he does shows his craft. This wasn't a slapatick Irish character this was a very accurate detailed character. The detail will have been lost on some people in the UK and many won't even know who the black and tans were or what they did.


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