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Aha! Alan Partridge - the top radio celebrity and chat show host in East Anglia - hits the television world with a resounding clang. In the first volume of comedy chat shows, Partridge (Steve Coogan), interviews a host of celebrities in his own aggressive, naive and inimitable style. The guests throughout the series are played by the same people (Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Doon MacKichan and David Schneider).
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The second three episodes of the classic comedy series starring Steve Coogan and his hugely talented team including co-writer Patrick Marber. Show 4 is set across the Channel where Partridge quickly puts paid to the entente cordiale with his anti-intellectualism and conceited bigotry. The funniest scene features the mime troupe 'cirques des clunes' which directly affronts the barely concealed conservatism of the host. In Show 5, Partridge takes on boxing promoter and gangster Terry Norton 'I imagine you know Spain quite well with your connections...just in case' to which Norton eventually responds 'Do you wanna get involved son...cos I'll get you involved'. A question time style debate where Coogan's alter-ego declares 'I will be impartial at all times...Pontius Partridge' is constantly interrupted by Marber's anarchic Lieutenant Colonel Kojak Slaphead III and his entourage. In the last episode Partridge is upstaged by two child Hollywood superstars, challenged by the presenters of a minority arts programme who are to replace his show and finally arrested by the police. Absolutely terrific entertainment which stands re-watching time and again.
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In short, Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge was to the 1990s what The Young Ones had been to the 80s and Fawlty Towers was to the 70s. Steve Coogan's character had originally begun life on BBC radio and Chris Morris' groundbreaking TV satire The Day Today. Partridge possesses every loathsome trait of the insufferable British chat show host rolled into one. The first video sees him outraged by a feminist punk band (in a scene reminiscent of The Sex Pistols appearance on Today); hypnotised into revealing embarrassing details concerning a motel in High Wycombe; challenging an ex office maintenance operative turned Hollywood superstar to repair a broken photocopier; and confronting the 'wacky' new host (recently divorced) of This Is Your Life by bribing his young son. Funniest moment of all - watch out for 'Montgomery'! A real classic and the next 3 episodes on Video 2 get even better.
"...something about the Titanic that people forget...there were over 1000 miles of uneventful, very pleasurable cruising before it hit the iceberg" (Alan Partridge)
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Along with The Day Today, this series is the funniest thing made in the last ten years. Steve Coogan is a massively underrated comic performer, and the way the script here mixes with his (and the other performers) talent for the ad-lib and amazing ability to deliver a line, is spellbinding, and incredibly funny. When Alan reveals by-the-by that he eats 'Kellogg's Common Sense' for breakfast, I nearly suffocated - it's just so perfect. And that describes the rest of this series. BY IT IF YOU LIKE TO LAUGH.
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superb
I became a fan of Steve Coogan's nightmare creation quite by chance, when I caught the bit where Alan models his own version of stylish menswear down the Champs Elysee. Read more
Published on 1 July 2004 by S. Hapgood
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A Partridge Over Britain
Probably quite boringly, my friends and I have lived on these jokes since it first arrived on our screens in our late teens. Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2002 by "brutalbridgey"
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A big Disappointment
I watched "Steve Coogan the Man Who Thinks He's It" and thought it was the funniest live show ever; which is why I went out and bought this video- "Knowing Me... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2000
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enter the stratosphere or should I say... the chatosphere!
Let me just say right now that I agree with a viewer from Somerset... brilliant. I would have rated it 6 stars, but Amazon will only allow 5.
Perfect comedy, perfect timing. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2000 by J. K. WARREN
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Coogan is phenomenal
Steve Coogan is brilliant as Alan Partridge. He amazes me how he can keep a straight face while having everyone in bulk of laughter. Read more
Published on 7 July 2000
5.0 out of 5 stars
Is This Moribund...? No!
Knowing Me, Knowing You With Alan Partridge (or KMKYWAP) is without doubt one of the funniest programmes every to be produced, it is...tsss...hot. Read more
Published on 6 July 2000
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