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Oft-forgotten gems from the Alan Partridge canon

Started by MoonDust, January 21, 2017, 08:57:22 AM

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St_Eddie

Quote from: græskar on January 03, 2019, 01:58:12 PM
It means of course "Knowing me, knowing you", but it's not grammatically correct.

(sorry, don't know if you're asking seriously or if I'm making a tit of myself :p)


The question was almost certainly rhetorical.

The Lion King

Quote from: Mobius on January 03, 2019, 05:31:54 AM
"Well it's bank holiday, which traditionally would have meant you'd be in a car on your way to the seaside with a Li-Lo, a dog full of sand, some hard-boiled Werther's Originals, or whatever. But these days, unfortunately, it's more likely to mean a child watching a violent computer game and pornography while shouting "I hate you!" to his parents who are downstairs having a cocaine and ecstasy-fuelled orgy. That's Britain 2011, you're welcome to it!"

This one has Edmonds written all over it, especially in the delivery of the last line

Kryton

S1-E2 of Mid Morning Matters. I love how Alan refers to BBC's Time Team as THE Time Team.

Something about it just really tickles me.

Also 'The time (team) is... Two, two, two, Two.. *snort*... I'm.err.. *inaudible*..  it really is two,two,two... I'm serious. I'm not even joking, it's actually two,two,two,two...
Right, that's enough T's, I'm going to do the rest of the show without any T's...

*pause*

..Er..  Nah that's too complicated. But we'll revisit that idea next week and see how far we get with that.


rm2kmaster

Quote from: Kryton on January 06, 2019, 07:34:36 PM
S1-E2 of Mid Morning Matters. I love how Alan refers to BBC's Time Team as THE Time Team.

Something about it just really tickles me.

Also 'The time (team) is... Two, two, two, Two.. *snort*... I'm.err.. *inaudible*..  it really is two,two,two... I'm serious. I'm not even joking, it's actually two,two,two,two...
Right, that's enough T's, I'm going to do the rest of the show without any T's...

*pause*

..Er..  Nah that's too complicated. But we'll revisit that idea next week and see how far we get with that.

Reminds of his exasperated "IT'S TIME...IS...." from MMM S1.

That or his confused "here is the news gifford, sorry the news with Chris Gifford" shortly after being led to believe the tax office was after him.

Chollis

The deadpan delivery of the caller describing Noel Edmonds as "still very much at large"

Cuellar

#875
Quote from: rm2kmaster on January 07, 2019, 08:19:28 AM
Reminds of his exasperated "IT'S TIME...IS...." from MMM S1.

That or his confused "here is the news gifford, sorry the news with Chris Gifford" shortly after being led to believe the tax office was after him.

Absolutely love his flustered getting names wrong in MMM:

"You've been listening to Alan Partridge with special guest Tory Bronwen...Matthews...Councillor"
"...Tory councillor Bronwen Mathews"
"Yup her and get well soon Eddie Shadow..."
"SHEPHERD"
"... who I'm sure will get well very soon

Utter Shit

Fingers crossed it's just a smudge on the x-ray.

Twed

That reminds me of a really good Alan moment that can't be summed up in a quote. I think it was Welcome To The Places Of My Life, after he gets the all-clear from the hospital. His general elation (I think expressed by the purchase of chocolate bars from the hospital canteen) was wonderful. Coogan is a treasure.

Something else from that special that can be summed up in a quote: "A real cunt". Easy to miss, and that's what makes it.

Utter Shit

Yeah I do like that the Gibbons' very occasionally give him the sort of wins that he never got before they joined the writing team. I mean I know 'not having an unspecified bad illness you thought you might have' and 'finally getting to tell off the teacher who used to hit you' aren't exactly heart-warming moments, but they do make you understand and sympathise with Alan a bit more.

Twed

It's feels little silly to say, but I think we're really lucky that The Gibbons came to Partridge and arguably made something many of us love dearly even better. That doesn't happen often.

St_Eddie

Quote from: Twed on January 07, 2019, 04:53:10 PM
It's feels little silly to say, but I think we're really lucky that The Gibbons came to Partridge and arguably made something many of us love dearly even better. That doesn't happen often.

Can an infinite number of monkeys type out the entire works of Shakespeare?  Possibly but it's all the more impressive that two gibbons were able to type out some cracking Partridge material.

Rizla

I've been quite enjoying the "Monkey Tennis" podcasts lately,but bejesus do the presenters not display a crazy amount of knowlege-lack at times, eg having to google Ursula Andress. I was a bit floored that they were completely unable to work out the significance of "Scissored Isle" as a title, for example. I suppose they're quite young but, still.

checkoutgirl

Quote from: Rizla on January 07, 2019, 05:26:10 PM
I've been quite enjoying the "Monkey Tennis" podcasts lately,but bejesus do the presenters not display a crazy amount of knowlege-lack at times, eg having to google Ursula Andress. I was a bit floored that they were completely unable to work out the significance of "Scissored Isle" as a title, for example. I suppose they're quite young but, still.

I never got scissored isle. I've pondered it many times.

Maurice Yeatman

The brothers' surname is Gibbons, not Gibbon. COME ON.

Quote from: checkoutgirl on January 07, 2019, 10:58:06 PM
I never got scissored isle. I've pondered it many times.

Just a pun on controversial radio presenter Jon Gaunt's "this sceptr'd isle", isn't it? Perhaps I'm missing something else.

St_Eddie

Quote from: Maurice Yeatman on January 07, 2019, 11:15:04 PM
The brothers' surname is Gibbons, not Gibbon. COME ON.

Just a pun on controversial radio presenter Jon Gaunt's "this sceptr'd isle", isn't it? Perhaps I'm missing something else.

A cultural divide across Britain?  Hence; a scissored isle, as though someone taken some scissors and cut it in two?

neveragain

Quote from: Maurice Yeatman on January 07, 2019, 11:15:04 PM
Just a pun on controversial radio presenter Jon Gaunt's "this sceptr'd isle", isn't it? Perhaps I'm missing something else.

Shakespeare's quote, more than Gaunty's, I think.

Maurice Yeatman

Quote from: St_Eddie on January 07, 2019, 11:52:32 PM
A cultural divide across Britain?  Hence; a scissored isle, as though someone taken some scissors and cut it in two?

I know. I thought that was the obvious bit. Surely the podcast presenters know what scissors are and have seen the opening sequence.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

Coogan is the guest on the latest episode of Marc Maron's WTF podcast. What the hell has happened to his voice?! He's developed a weird "splidding hairs" transatlantic accent. He doesn't spend that much time in Hollywood, surely?

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-983-steve-coogan

Also, I know Maron always admits that he knows absolutely fuck all about British comedy beyond Monty Python and that interview he once did with Stewart Lee, but this interview is particularly egregious. They talk about Alan Partridge for a bit, but it's glaringly obvious that Maron is totally unfamiliar with the character. There's a very awkward moment when Coogan quotes a few lines of dialogue from the new AP series, which is met with stony silence. Okay, it's not classic AP material, but it's the sort of thing that would at least get a chuckle of recognition from someone who knows what that character is all about.

Maron doesn't seem to know anything about Laurel & Hardy either, at one point describing their comedy as "quite one-dimensional". Fortunately, Coogan politely disagrees and explains why Maron is talking out of his arse. To add insult to injury, they go off on a brief tangent about the Monkees, during which Coogan quite rightly says that they made some great records. Maron, the tedious rockist bore that he is, grudgingly grunts, "Yeah, a couple." Fuck off.

Maron also wastes time by talking about Tropic Thunder, a film that Coogan is in for about 20 minutes. He's such an exasperating character. I've actually really enjoyed some of his interviews, he's good when he's talking to someone whose work he's familiar with, but he should never be allowed to interview another British comedian. Those episodes are always completely pointless.

Maurice Yeatman

Quote from: neveragain on January 08, 2019, 12:01:16 AM
Shakespeare's quote, more than Gaunty's, I think.

I was joking. It was John of Gaunt who said it in Richard II.

Mobius

I love all the jingles in MMM. The one he's recording in the previous scene, just going 'ba ba ba ba baaa' then uses it like 30 seconds later.

"it's me it's me on Alan on Alan on I on I on Partridge on Part *swallows* ridge"

"Sidekick Simon Sidekick Simon SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL!"

the food one "please.. i need some food. I'm famished!"

"Me love Alan Partridge, da man fresh!"

Mobius

"If a fox was a human being it'd be David Starkey - a real git of a guy!"

Bazooka

In Scissored Isle, when he confronts John Thompsons loan shark type character and he opens his car boot and the fuel cap. Followed by Alan completely backing down because the guy likes his show, with "Just go easier on your rates of interest, if you can". The whole intensive hard hitting journalist mocking is sublime.

Ferris

Quote from: Bazooka on January 08, 2019, 05:14:10 AM
In Scissored Isle, when he confronts John Thompsons loan shark type character and he opens his car boot and the fuel cap. Followed by Alan completely backing down because the guy likes his show, with "Just go easier on your rates of interest, if you can". The whole intensive hard hitting journalist mocking is sublime.

"Why do you look like a sad teddy bear?" is a great line.

SteveDave

I fucking hate Marc Maron. He's worse than Richard Herring for having interesting people on and then just asking shit questions.

His (Maron) Todd Rundgren podcast was painful. At the end he says "Todd Rundgren...quite a prickly guy" (or sutin like that) and I was almost screaming. Not doing any research and seemingly interviewing people you have no interest in isn't interesting.

EDIT- I've written INTERESTING three times here. 

Quote from: SteveDave on January 08, 2019, 03:45:39 PM
I fucking hate Marc Maron. He's worse than Richard Herring for having interesting people on and then just asking shit questions.

His (Maron) Todd Rundgren podcast was painful. At the end he says "Todd Rundgren...quite a prickly guy" (or sutin like that) and I was almost screaming. Not doing any research and seemingly interviewing people you have no interest in isn't interesting.

EDIT- I've written INTERESTING three times here.

Steve "Intresting" Dave

checkoutgirl

Quote from: Maurice Yeatman on January 07, 2019, 11:15:04 PM
The brothers' surname is Gibbons, not Gibbon. COME ON.

Just a pun on controversial radio presenter Jon Gaunt's "this sceptr'd isle", isn't it? Perhaps I'm missing something else.

Not particularly familiar with that quote so would be lost on me. Vaguely remember it.

Twed

I need him to stop doing that accent.

Maybe somebody can answer this for me: I have a theory that when a Brit actor is doing an American thing and they have to BE an American, it all works out a lot better if they maintain the accent the entire time they're filming. Is that how it works? Surely they can't all be just pretending to be transatlantic for four months of a year. I remember Peter Serafinowicz doing this, and he always seemed too rooted to just be really pretentious.

Rizla

Quote from: SteveDave on January 08, 2019, 03:45:39 PM
I fucking hate Marc Maron. He's worse than Richard Herring for having interesting people on and then just asking shit questions.



I gave up when he did Obama, that was so painful. Also I can't be arsed listening to him go on about his failed SNL audition, feel like I heard that story a dozen times. Very glad I  didn't hear the Todd interview.

Twed


Rizla

His fucking shit guitar playing. Jesus. Just remembered he did that. What a cunt.