Alan Partridge's SCISSORED ISLE Special REACTION!
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This is definitely my favourite Partridge special this one!! Seeing John Thompson make a little cameo as the loan shark in this episode though, I've got to suggest (again) KB, that you try and find and react to full episodes of The Fast Show!! So many superb characters and sketches on that show, that were created by so many ultra talented comedians!! Special mention to John Thompson here though, as every time I see him or hear his voice. The little voice in my head immediately says...... "Hello, and welcome to Jazz Club." "Nice!!!" Hahaha 🤣 Sorry, so out of context when you haven't a clue what I'm talking about!! But please give The Fast Show a go!!! I think I remember you reacting to the little sketch with some guest star a while back tbh, some bloke by the name of Johnny Depp?!! I know, never heard of him either bud?!! Haha :) But yeah, JD loves The Fast Show and I'm pretty sure he's a patron of yours as well ya know. So don't do it for me, do it for Johnny D!! Haha :) Take care mate. Love to the Queen and best wishes to the family. Mx
Matthew Duffy
2025-01-27 18:01:33 +0000 UTCAre you alright packing?!!
Matthew Duffy
2025-01-27 17:17:00 +0000 UTCWhen this was made food was a lot cheaper but now for a number of reasons, not least Brexit, it is very expensive and if an item doesn't cost much more, then shrinkflation means that the size of items have reduced significantly in size
Yaapsdad
2025-01-25 22:07:36 +0000 UTCIt's funny that Alan Partridge is wary of going to Manchester when that's where Steve Coogan is from.
Yaapsdad
2025-01-25 22:01:10 +0000 UTCChavvy means a young child in old English.
Yaapsdad
2025-01-25 21:59:23 +0000 UTCChav dictionary definition:a young person of a type characterized by coarse and brash behaviour (with connotations of low social status).
Yaapsdad
2025-01-25 21:55:29 +0000 UTCI loved Nomad it was great to listen to while walking
Doug
2025-01-24 02:46:00 +0000 UTCNever new these existed, thanks, that my weekend sorted
Mark Jephson
2025-01-23 16:12:25 +0000 UTCHe’s not currently watching anything from the 90s 😎
Julian T
2025-01-22 20:51:05 +0000 UTCIn the North East there's a word "charver" which I reckon might have similar roots. Heard it more back in the 80s and 90s when I was at school. Meant exactly the same as what "chav" later went on to mean.
Nick
2025-01-22 17:53:07 +0000 UTCyou want to restomod a classic house, typical yank lol
Jed Baker
2025-01-22 16:55:04 +0000 UTCCoogan's Saxondale would be awesome. And only two series. One ep stars Kevin Eldon and it's a particularly funny one.
Jason Scade
2025-01-22 15:03:33 +0000 UTCI know you're not into Audiobooks (I'm not either as I struggle to focus) but Alan Partridge audiobooks are one of the few things I've listened to that continually make me laugh out loud and they're super easy to listen to. That and the 'podcast' series 'From the Oasthouse'. If you're ever looking for something fun to listen to while on a long drive or whatever, I can't recommend them enough. Hours of amazing content. Not suitable to react to really, but in your own time.
Michael Leighton's Karl Pilkington Animations
2025-01-22 09:49:51 +0000 UTCI didn't notice the views. I've got more views than that on one bad song cover.
Joe Thornhill
2025-01-22 09:02:16 +0000 UTCA-ha, Ryung. It's got to be Brass Eye.
Joe Thornhill
2025-01-22 08:20:00 +0000 UTCThat's it. I kept thinking of hillbillies.
Joe Thornhill
2025-01-22 08:14:28 +0000 UTCBrian May's the guitarist from Queen. Despite being grey, he still has a lot of very curly hair, so he himself basically looks like that portrait at 21:14.
Joe Thornhill
2025-01-22 08:11:12 +0000 UTCChav: Harry Enfield's 'The Benefits'.
Joe Thornhill
2025-01-22 07:49:47 +0000 UTCI'm discovering Alan with you, so I've no idea about the replacement show you're on about. To be honest, I'm not exactly stoked about any coming reactions, because most likely it'll be my first time too, or Queen Boomer needs to see it too. I know she's seen An Idiot Abroad, Inbetweeners, FND, most of Plebs, (Maybe she's mentioned Man Down (???)), but she's mostly only seen Graham Linehan's work.
Joe Thornhill
2025-01-22 07:45:51 +0000 UTCIt's a fallacy that chav came from an abbreviation for Council Housed and Violent. It's a 'backronym' - the word existed before someone decided what it could stand for. It is more likely to have been derived from the Romani 'chauv' (boy or friend) or chauvis (child). It's been around in one form or another for decades - Del-Boy used it on more than one occasion in the early days of OFAH to describe a child/children. It's more modern definition seemed to gain popularity at the end of the previous millenium and the beginning of this one.
James Mulligan
2025-01-22 00:13:09 +0000 UTCChav isn't that bad but you wouldn't identify as one and you wouldn't want to be called one. Chav originally came about as an abbreviation for Council Housed And Violent. It basically means you were raised in a council house so lower/working class and violent and antisocial. Often dressed head to toe in a tracksuit, fake Burberry cap and fake gold jewelry. At worst it is classism I suppose.
Matt
2025-01-21 22:00:57 +0000 UTCnever seen or heard of it to be honest, but it's channel 4 so, i bet it's probably decent at least. i know know qb would love skins lol. i watched it together once with a female american friend like a decade ago, through the web, and i was AFK for like half a day and she carried on watching some episodes without me haha, so as much as that shows she was a doofus, it shows how well the show was received by a US girl...lol
James West
2025-01-21 21:16:53 +0000 UTCIf you look at the part where he's talking about youtube coments, you can see Lynn (from the other Alan stuff) commenting a few times, brilliant details :D
LyingSecret
2025-01-21 21:07:46 +0000 UTCI always wondered why Welshmen had blue hands.
Pat Chapman
2025-01-21 18:58:53 +0000 UTCSaxondale?
David Mannion
2025-01-21 17:35:18 +0000 UTCOoooh new show, 1 season....is it 'The Gentlemen'?.....it can't be Greg Davis's Cuckoo as there's 5 seasons...
Jason Bonner
2025-01-21 17:28:52 +0000 UTCim from norfolk and im no funkin good
Chay Davenport
2025-01-21 15:50:31 +0000 UTCMaybe Chris Morris’s Jam 🤔 that was only one series. I doubt it though but he did react to a few sketches from it and found it very funny. I think it’s more likely to be Brass Eye over than Jam though, i hope so. I think Jam is an acquired taste, it’s got some good bits but on the whole it’s arguably a little too dark and strange for most people, as well as being made in a sort of dreamlike or hallucinatory style. It’s actually very well made but i personally didn’t really enjoy it as a comedy. It’s like a sketch show made by someone on drugs or who’s very depressed.
James Ellison
2025-01-21 08:43:46 +0000 UTCThe American equivalent for Chav would be Trailer Trash.
Bruce Bowden
2025-01-21 08:16:36 +0000 UTCExcited for the surprise 1 season show. :D Good reaction / special! ♥ 4:15 Partridge says his chav insult clip went viral.. it has 150 views on screen. 😅 34:28 Freegan guy "My wife's a lecturer." Alan "Aren't they all." 😂
Jason Scade
2025-01-21 04:47:19 +0000 UTCGoing to settle down and watch this later. I didn't actually know this particular Partridge show existed, but as a Manchester lad it should be fun.
Steve UK
2025-01-21 04:03:21 +0000 UTC23:40 rich people can buy big houses, but good fashion and style? Not often, in my experience. I have seen some awful looking mansions on TV and such.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-01-21 00:05:18 +0000 UTCChav = Council Housed and Violent
Mr Snrub
2025-01-20 23:45:41 +0000 UTCChav is kind of like a redneck that lives in the city. Stereotypes about them tend to be unsophisticated, uneducated, uncultured, in cheaply dressed sportswear, loud and rude, and they tend to listen to dance or hip hop (and make sure you know it, blasting it out of their cars or council flats). At least that's the stereotype I am familiar with. They live in what you would call "the projects". I'm not sure if they really exist as a subculture any more, or if roadmen have replaced them. That said, I think roadmen are mostly black, and chavs are/were mostly white. I live in a small village in the Scottish Highlands. Most of my experience with them is through the media. So my opinion isn't the best informed. Others may correct me.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-01-20 23:30:41 +0000 UTCAbsolutely, that too
Kieran B
2025-01-20 23:28:11 +0000 UTCA chav is a person who'd rip out all the wood panelled rooms and craftsman built furniture from a British stately home and fill it with mdf.
emu cat
2025-01-20 23:16:34 +0000 UTCYeah, no question it was Steve, reminded me of a pitched down Pauline Calf!
David Lyons
2025-01-20 23:16:28 +0000 UTCWe're not going to reveal her identity and yet you can see the road name on the wall and the house number on the door!
Gavin Doidge
2025-01-20 22:31:09 +0000 UTCAs a proud Welshman I feel obligated to describe why sheep have coloured markings on them, there are several reasons, some are given a unique mark to identify them to a flock or owner, lambs and their mothers are marked at birth in case they get separated, this mark is usually always on the side, and rams are fitted with a harness with a crayon on their chest so they know which ewes they've mated with, I of course have my own chest harness!😉
Mark Jones
2025-01-20 22:14:12 +0000 UTCOh, and btw if you are doing coogans run, you need to watch Paul calf’s video diary, and 3 fights, 2 weddings and a funeral!
Andi Main
2025-01-20 21:50:57 +0000 UTCHe talks about this on his own podcast https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B089M9XZW5?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp although you don’t do audio it’s worth a listen, it’s v funny and there are 3 seasons
Andi Main
2025-01-20 21:48:12 +0000 UTC“My wife’s a lecturer”. “Aren’t they all…”
Paul Cole
2025-01-20 21:34:28 +0000 UTCi heard it explained as council housed and violent on a British quiz show once so i apologize if its incorrect :/
K Bruun Kristensen
2025-01-20 21:08:15 +0000 UTCThey look old inside because they’re preserving the history that’s been handed down - every generation adds to it but it’s very different to the average Joe buying a house to live in. Usually they don’t live in the big houses but have much smaller houses in the grounds they live in - ‘Downton Abbey’ is like that, no one actually lives in Highclere Castle
Kieran B
2025-01-20 20:17:33 +0000 UTCBy jocks I meant the harder kids that wore the cooler clothes, the bullies, the popular kids that Kurt cobain in school, for example, hated....that's what a jock is (i know not in its most literal sense but generally) But Chav meant, originally, in the mid to late 90's the opposite of someone who would listen to nirvana. They listened to chart music dance music etc. But from their point of view "normal", not alterative.
R Lawrence
2025-01-20 20:12:23 +0000 UTCWe don’t have Property Taxes in quite the same way as the US here as I understand, we have Council Tax but it’s not quite the same thing
Kieran B
2025-01-20 20:11:44 +0000 UTCThe voice you thought was Matt Lucas was definitely Steve; he does a voice a bit like it in Saxondale which is definitely one to check out
Kieran B
2025-01-20 20:07:01 +0000 UTCMost stately homes like that will be what we call listed, which legally prevents any dramatic modernisation. That's my favourate part though, the Tory supporting Alan sucking up to the upper classes. 'Trouser it mate'. Coogan plays it perfectly.
Richie
2025-01-20 20:03:18 +0000 UTCThat sounds like a bit of an exception, I’m from an area where chav / chavvy was used well before it became a national term and it kind of meant mate or bloke - but in referring to a type of person it was always a very particular look, style of dress etc (like Bam in Scotland) and definitely not what Americans would call Jocks.
Kieran B
2025-01-20 20:01:57 +0000 UTCAnd of course Steve is from Manchester
Kieran B
2025-01-20 19:58:43 +0000 UTCIt’s definitely a backronym, it’s Romani for child - chav and chavvy were used in various areas where Romani is used or has heavily influenced the slang long before it become the national term it is now
Kieran B
2025-01-20 19:56:39 +0000 UTCIn the rest of the world it would mean Labour (or Left) too, but the US end up switching due to media coverage essentially (one broadcaster used those colours and it caught on as far as I can recall).
Kieran B
2025-01-20 19:52:33 +0000 UTCOne of my absolute favourite bits of Partridge
Kieran B
2025-01-20 19:51:56 +0000 UTC"Chav" is a derogatory term people use to describe youth of the lower income socio-economic classes. Stereotypically, they cause trouble in neighbourhoods, are involved in crime and dress in dark-coloured tracksuits.
Darnell Jenkins
2025-01-20 19:33:02 +0000 UTClol...whatever... just my view but there's a lot of early 90's kinda stuff and it never lands as well as the more mid to late 2000's kinda stuff...skins would be a greatttttt new energy here...i suppose though...the early 90's kinda stuff is what the boomers want...and the channel is called king boomer... tbh i dont expect skins to come anytime soon, there's not the demand, it's more a selfish ask i know you've got a channel for recommendations but who plays by rules loses to them
James West
2025-01-20 19:26:41 +0000 UTCBrass eye??
Ewan Dunn
2025-01-20 18:56:53 +0000 UTCBy the way I think "red team" in America would mean Republican but in England it would mean "labour" (ie not Conservative).
R Lawrence
2025-01-20 18:43:17 +0000 UTCAs far as I know that's the only one he's delayed the next Partridge for. He brought it up before I think.
R Lawrence
2025-01-20 18:39:24 +0000 UTCSounds like Brasseye to me, only others I can think of are rock & chips or Mr Bean but they don't fit the '6-8 weeks' description
ryung246
2025-01-20 18:29:59 +0000 UTCnot the only show just saying... no spoilers though...
Craig McCulloch
2025-01-20 18:14:59 +0000 UTCThanks King Boomer . Your coverage of Partridge is extensive and really amusing 👍👍👍
South Coast Rich
2025-01-20 18:11:22 +0000 UTCNo...its Gareth merengi's dark place. He's already started it.
R Lawrence
2025-01-20 18:10:04 +0000 UTC'This Time' is my favourite Partridge series so glad you're going to do it eventually.. curious to see what the next series will be.
Jon
2025-01-20 18:09:27 +0000 UTCJust so you know whenever he starts doing a job like that for a show all the little phrases he starts using like "mind how you go mylove" etc etc and the way he says them are typical working class chit chat between server and customer that are not how he talks so that's why it's funny but you'd have to be used to hearing it like we are in England to get the joke.
R Lawrence
2025-01-20 18:01:54 +0000 UTCWhen I was at school any lad wearing Burberry or girls with hoop earrings and hair in a tight bun was a chav. Now it basically means "poor British people".
Joe Blakeley
2025-01-20 17:58:13 +0000 UTCThat's probably a 'backronym'
Jamie
2025-01-20 17:56:32 +0000 UTCIt was about 35 dollars then but it may have just been made up for the show because its unlikely the actor would have been buying anything. It was only two bags of shopping though, and most of it seemed to be veg.
R Lawrence
2025-01-20 17:56:18 +0000 UTChope that show's gonna be skins!! the way you like thick of it versus other stuff will be the same way you and qb like skins versus other stuff esp qb lol do me proud :PP
James West
2025-01-20 17:54:38 +0000 UTCIt's not though - Alan actually covers this in one of his books (or might even be Oasthouse)
Kevin Liversage
2025-01-20 17:45:48 +0000 UTC“You alright packing???” Is something I say on a regular basis cos of this special. Scissored Isle in general is one of my fave Partridge things ever
Spoingus
2025-01-20 17:44:27 +0000 UTC"The 9/11 debacle" 😂😂
Joe Blakeley
2025-01-20 17:41:02 +0000 UTCOriginally chav in school just meant the opposite of a goth or hippy time, I suppose almost what you would call a jock but only goth kids would call them chavs or regard it as an insult. It was what uncool kids would call cool kids out of jealousy. It meant the lad about about the town in his smart shirt and hundred pound Nike trainers even though he lived in a council house. But now it means different things to different people. Everyone thinks Everyone else is a chav so its meaningless. To a posh person like Alan Partridge it pretty much means youths or adults from a council estate that dress well but only because they've nicked (stolen) it all. (Sorry, not an easy one to define and so many kids in my last school growing up were chav types I just thought it meant normal. Now it's an insult that doesn't really make sense)
R Lawrence
2025-01-20 17:31:51 +0000 UTCBrian May is the lead guitarist from Queen
James Ellison
2025-01-20 17:25:03 +0000 UTCBeen waiting for this 😁
Joe Blakeley
2025-01-20 17:24:52 +0000 UTCSo......Next time with Alan Partridge then?....HA HA, did you see what I did....did you see it 😂HELLO!!!!! (Nice hair cut by the way).
R Lawrence
2025-01-20 17:20:02 +0000 UTCDefinitely OK taking a Partridge break. We all had to go years between a fresh injection of Alan and we were all the happier to see him again when he came back
James Aston
2025-01-20 17:13:40 +0000 UTCKISS MY FACE 👆🏼been waiting for this can’t wait to watch it later
Rhys Jones
2025-01-20 17:10:39 +0000 UTCChav is an acronym of "council housed and violent"
K Bruun Kristensen
2025-01-20 17:10:04 +0000 UTCCoogan's Run?
Jamie
2025-01-20 17:05:30 +0000 UTCA condom full of grapes
James Ellison
2025-01-20 17:01:23 +0000 UTC
