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I'm Alan Partridge finds Steve Coogan's media creation back in his native Norwich, having lost his beloved chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You, and now reduced to the pre-Breakfast slot playing old T'Pau and Soft Cell singles to an audience of farmers and all-night bakery workers. He's also lodged at the Linton Travel tavern, whose permanently smiling manageress, bland decor and themed buffets are redolent of what vast tracts of England have become. He's very much at home there. While there's much media satire in Partridge's pitiful pitches of programme ideas to the BBC ("Inner city sumo? Monkey tennis?"), I'm Alan Partridge is more a bleakly hilarious take on Modern Middle English Man, irascible and profoundly bored. Between innumerable moments of high, wild comedy, such as a disastrous video Partridge does for a boating agency and an encounter with his one (insane) fan, the most telling moments of the series come with his efforts to fill his dismally empty days, taking a trouser press to pieces, staring at the astro turf at an owl sanctuary or walking to a service station to buy windscreen cleaning fluid just for something to do. All this proved a little too darkly uncomfortable for mainstream audiences--yet Alan Partridge was probably the finest British comic creation of the 1990s. --David Stubbs
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
The character of Alan Partridge had always been a brilliant creation - in my opinion, he was the standout section of TV's The Day Today - but these six episodes of I'm Alan Partridge illustrate the brilliance of creator Steve Coogan's mind. Moving on from the brilliant yet farcical Knowing Me, Knowing You (or KMKYWAP!)the audience now sees the real Alan at 'home' in his room in the Linton Travel Tavern, with only a 12" plate and tales of Bangkok from geordie Michael for entertainment. This series arouses many emotions within the viewer - Alan had always been seen as a little tragic, a bit lonely, somewhat naive, but I'm Alan Partridge proves this point and emphasises it in style - how can anybody not feel sympathy for a man trapped underneath a cow on a narrowboat in the Norfolk broads?? However, the main reason to enjoy this brilliant series is for the pure laugh-out-loud moments it provides. There are too many to list, but standout scenes include Alan drunk on his home made cocktail "The LadyBoy" (Lager with a Gin and Tonic and Bailey's chaser), the chocolate mousse scene, "There's More To Ireland Dan Diss" scene and many, many more. Not since Only Fools and Horses has a British sitcom made so many people laugh or introduce so many new phrases into the vocabulary of fans. It has recently been announced that Alan series 2 is in the scripting stages and this series is receiving a long overdue DVD release in October. If the new material is anywhere near as good as series one (or indeed Coogan's recent film The Parole Officer - check it out) we will all be in for a treat. Until then, BUY THIS NOW!!!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
As good as it was popular, as it influenced the style of comedy for a generation. Armando Inanuci deserves maximum credit for utlilising Steve Coogan's character talents, and giving Partridge a sense of vulnerability, which in my eyes is key in order to gain laughs, rather than mere distain at his lengthy list of faults! This is top quality classic comedy up there with Fawlty Towers and The Office, too dark for BBC 1, and too good not to own
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Sentient beings everywhere will need no introduction to the moribund world of the anchor (rhyming slang) of Norwich FM's graveyard slot, "Up With the Partridge," or the reasons why he's tragicomic on a level never seen before on TV: "I don't want salvation ... I just want to be able to say - 'I'm Alan Partridge - join me tonight when my guests will be, I dunno, Chris Rea...'"
So you already know that "I'm Alan Partridge" is far superior to established classics like "Fawlty Towers" and "Blackadder," in that it shares with those programmes an absolutely fastidious attention to detail and density of jokes, but mixes in far more pathos and depth than they ever did. The only comparison has been, of course, David Brent in "The Office," which came later and also favours curling toes over laughing bellies, whereas Partridge blends the two to perfection.
The series was released on DVD before, but then withdrawn over the unauthorised inclusion of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi." That was a blessing in disguise, as the BBC has now taken the opportunity to give "I'm Alan Partridge" the deluxe DVD treatment, a la "The Office" or "League of Gentlemen:" two discs, amusing menus, authentically hideous cover - the lot. Best of the extras are the deleted scenes (already seen on the VHS and first DVD), all of which seem to have been cut for time reasons alone and not quality: a particular moment of genius is Alan's other programme idea pitched at Tony Hayers over that legendary uneaten lunch, a perfect insight into the man's impoverished, flailing imagination: "A costume chat show with me as Samuel Pepys ... you could have John Thaw as Robespierre ... and Stephen Hawkings [sic] behind a curtain whispering clues through his voicebox..."
Also recommended is the commentary by writers Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Peter Baynham, who have the humanity and humility to laugh at the jokes but not too much, and give plenty of glimpses into the creative process, not to mention the slightly alanly-retentive side of the trio which feeds so much authenticity into their just-about-larger-than-life grotesque creation. Less worthwhile is the commentary by Coogan in character as Alan Partridge, along with Lynn, which resembles a rather eventless and drawn out version of the improvised car scene (another DVD bonus) and compares poorly with the same technique used in the DVD of "This is Spinal Tap," where David St. Hubbins so memorably advised us that he had split up with Janine because "the millennium changed and so did she..."
Oh and don't forget the finest comic scene ever recorded in complete darkness - Alan's valance-("the skirt thing round the end of the bed")-darkening bedtime experience with lovely Jill, 50. So beg borrow or steal this DVD. Actually not the last one - I will not condone lawbreaking. Although I will do 80 on the motorway if I have to get somewhere quickly.
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This series kicks off with Alan now occupying the graveyard shift on Radio Norwich and living in a motorway travel tavern somewhere between Norwich and London. Read more
Published 1 month ago by meatshake
Lovely stuff
Inimitable and classic. Yes the laugh track does harm it ultimately but these 6 episodes chronicling the continued downfall of z-list celeb Alan Partridge (a macabre hybrid of Bing... Read more
Published 2 months ago by ratmonkey
Ripped Off big time !
When I finally got around to watching this DVD it was not the correct show as specified. Instead I got a screen with a hotel menu to watch in house movies, and I couldn't even... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Wayne A Rheinberger
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Of all the documentaries I've ever watched about flower arranging this one is easily the best. Horticulture?, more like HAUGHTY CULTURE!
Published 7 months ago by Mel Norman
Audience laughter really dates this
The Alan Partridge sitcom was quite innovative in a way. The faux-documentary look, hand-held cameras and real locations certainly inspired other TV shows such as Curb and The... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Inspector Gadget
Very good!
I was a fan when this first appeared on TV and it was a joy to re-visit some of my favourite scenes from the series and stand out lines ("Smell my cheese!"). Read more
Published 10 months ago by Timestar
Never Tire Of Watching This - Brilliant!
I have just watched this for the 8th or 9th time - and seems funnier every time I see it!
Steve Coogan plays the part perfectly. Read more
Steve Coogan plays the part perfectly. Read more
Published 11 months ago by S. Smith
Quality viewing
Steve Coogan is one of those comedy actors who can turn a fairly ordinary conversation into something hilarious simply by how he says it- I'd say he's similar to Ricky Gervais in... Read more
Published 18 months ago by M. Berry
classic
fantastic classic comedy up there with the very very best, never get fed up of watching
Published 22 months ago by philb
not for me
If i respect your views then please respect mine with regards to im alan partridge.
I really found this tedious, i accept that some of the show relates to how boring alans... Read more
I really found this tedious, i accept that some of the show relates to how boring alans... Read more
Published 24 months ago by sean paul mccann
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