Comments on: Alan Partridge movie announced

By: Bethany

Bethany — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:42:00 +0000

True words, Blue.
The Partridge camp appear to have a sensible quality control department which has always been nothing less than brilliant.
Talk of a film has been subject of whispers for a long while and it’s actual delivery would be ‘lovely stuff’.

By: NickParton

NickParton — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:30:00 +0000

Nighty Night is definitely suicidally depressing, but this is about punctured hubris, which is more palatably comedic to me.

@bluest_one:disqus
Haha, fair point.

By: darrrrrrn

darrrrrrn — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:13:00 +0000

It’s less grim than Nighty Night. Moar laughs.

By: Nate Mannan

Nate Mannan — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:29:00 +0000

Aha! It’s about time the rest of the world learned about this bastard.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:00:00 +0000

Hell yes! Partridge has yet to disappoint in any of his incarnations.

By: SDurnin

SDurnin — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:18:00 +0000

“I’m basically driving around in an obscene publication.”

By: sysyphus_sister

sysyphus_sister — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:39:00 +0000

I truly wish Peter Kay would come back and do something on the order of Phoenix Nights…that puts anything Coogan ever did to shame.

By: garyg2

garyg2 — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:38:00 +0000

“Wings, the band The Beatles could’ve been”

I look forward to a movie though Coogan hasn’t exactly a stellar record on the big screen.

New fans should look for The Trip, sitcom-turned-movie he did with Rob Brydon, kind of an english Sideways.

By: Warren_Terra

Warren_Terra — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:24:00 +0000

The radio show and TV show of Knowing Me Knowing You were incredible. But I Netflixed the DVD of another Alan Partridge series and the only joke was an incredibly repetitive squirm-fest about Thai Ladyboys. Which is a fine topic for comedy, I suppose, but despite adoring Coogan and Iannucci I found the show unwatchable and returned the DVD unfinished.

By: VyperX

VyperX — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Steve Coogan! I’d do away with Fine and go with either Extra Fine or Super Wide Body (not sure which direction this goes, it’s like Defcon 1 or 5) to scream that’s who plays Alan. I’ve yet to be disappointed by anything involving Coogan.

By: funisforassholes

funisforassholes — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:04:00 +0000

Confirmed yes; announced, not really. Coogan and Ianucci have been talking seriously about the project for a couple of years.

By: Jonathan Key

Jonathan Key — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Great news!

It’s “like” David Brent in that Brent was inspired by Alan Partridge to an embarrassing degree.

Not to put too fine a point on it, Alan Partridge was the work of Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber. Brent is the work of Ricky Gervais and his tall lackey. No contest.

It helps to know that Partridge’s Norwich, though very nice, is the most notoriously beige & dull city in the UK.

By: bluest_one

bluest_one — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:44:00 +0000

Well, this might be good. Every iteration of Partridge has been pretty damn good.

On The Hour on radio, The Day Today on TV, Knowing Me Knowing You, I’m Alan Partridge (season 1 at least), Mid Morning Matters on the web (all the episodes of which have been stupidly pulled by Fosters now) and the recent biography was just as funny as anything else he’s done.

Not one duff thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gHorOt6KKw

By: royaltrux

royaltrux — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:41:00 +0000

I didn’t think too much of that on the whole. But I clicked on four or five clips youtube recommended afterwards and thought they were all funny. Here’s a few good ones. I’m a new fan, thanks Rob.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pLROuX-hw0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=VlXsCLWgFkw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tusm1jjtUu8&feature=related

By: royaltrux

royaltrux — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:33:00 +0000

Trailer Park Boys peaked somewhere between seasons two to four or so. Didn’t much like the movie.

By: bluest_one

bluest_one — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:31:00 +0000

Have you visited recently?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:24:00 +0000

“I’ve got a clean license, yours is diiiiirty!”

This could be good. I’m not expecting much, though. Although, I said the same thing about the Trailer Park Boys movies, and I was dead wrong.

By: Evan G.

Evan G. — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:18:00 +0000

DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN!

By: chellberty

chellberty — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:55:00 +0000

cringing pleasure? …oh the fence oh gawd.

By: Keith Tyler

Keith Tyler — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:52:00 +0000

More or less “pitch black” than Nighty Night?

I used to think I “got” British humour, but it seems to have veered away from my sensibilities these days.

Any idea why lately there seems to be a trend of British “comedy” that is so black it’s almost suicidally depressing?