Alan Partridge OPEN BOOKS Reaction!
Added 2024-10-12 16:00:06 +0000 UTCAnother Alan installment for the ages!
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My favourite thing about Alan Partridge as a creation, which this special really shows more than any other, is the narrative thread of Alan's career... he started with the BBC, got 'sacked' and ended up on YouTube with Mid Morning Matters, did these specials for Sky, and then 'returned' to the BBC for This Time. And when the BBC did their press statement for This Time, they wrote it from the angle of Alan's actual career and his 'return' to the BBC. Everything is done for a reason, and is a very realistic version of a TV presenters up and down career.
Ben “Bentendo” Dawson
2025-07-09 13:13:24 +0000 UTCFunny you mention 8:40 that’s something a psychopath would write. I’ve always imagined patrick bateman as the American version of Alan Partridge. Christian Bale is almost certainly familiar with alan partridge and i wonder if he took some of alan partridge and made it his own. Especially he chat about huey lewis and the news is very partridge like. The first series of im alan partridge released in 1997 is enough time to have influenced bale too before he started filming American psycho. Christian bales up and coming madden movie ppl say he looks and acts like alan partridge while portraying Al Davis.
Golgotha
2025-05-27 21:42:16 +0000 UTCI have a tough time reading on my phone. My adhd means I can get distracted and having a phone full of apps just encourages me to be distracted. Gives me way too many options so an actual book is way better for me
Spoingus
2025-01-26 00:40:04 +0000 UTCKB. Listen to the Audiobook of I, Partridge. It’s read by Coogan, as Alan. It’s pure genius.
Paul Cole
2024-10-25 19:44:49 +0000 UTCI've just seen a reaction to Ella Enchanted and Steve Coogan is the bloody snake!
Joe Thornhill
2024-10-17 11:19:33 +0000 UTCNoddy's slightly like Bob the Builder. Entirely different character and plot, but a character every child in Britain knows. Maybe similar Barney and Friends in the US? But he's animated. And aimed at a similar age group.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2024-10-15 18:34:23 +0000 UTCI used to read a lot, but for about a decade now I have primarily "read" my books through Audible. I go through a couple of books a week. And have almost a thousand in my library. About 60% are fictional, but I started at the beginning reading non-fiction (history, science, psychology themed) books. Then around 2017 I was dealing with a lot of mental health issues (depression) and looked for some books to pick me up and take me to other worlds, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, etc, and I have just read one after another, since. I work alone a lot, so manage to spend a lot of my time listening to them.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2024-10-15 18:23:59 +0000 UTCNo he definitely was escorted out, she had a headset on like she was part of production staff, told to sit in his place to fill out seats most likely
Matt
2024-10-14 21:21:38 +0000 UTCI can't believe it: that means Americans don't have Noddy (and Big Ears).
R Lawrence
2024-10-14 05:55:55 +0000 UTCIt's the weakest of the specials but still funny. 😀 There's a few little hidden bits in there. The glasses from the old lady he borrowed.
Tim Phillipson
2024-10-13 16:30:28 +0000 UTCWhen you've watched everything Partridge you'll really enjoy 'The Trip' too, which is just Coogan and Rob Brydon playing fictional versions of their real selves doing a series of trips where they review fine dining restaurants, it's absolute gold!
Mark Jones
2024-10-13 11:53:51 +0000 UTCYou hear him getting escorted out - not sure where you're getting that?
Ash Allen
2024-10-13 11:19:04 +0000 UTCI remember meeting Alan at a signing of this book at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, brilliant book, the audio book is a must! Don't know how you would react to it with it not being visual, but in your own time since you love the character.
Gary Evans
2024-10-13 10:20:54 +0000 UTCTalking hurricanes. I hope you're not moving far across or along Florida because you've seemed to be damn lucky in the area you're in now. Either stay close or go way out to a state that gets much less storms and twisters.
Joe Thornhill
2024-10-13 07:46:04 +0000 UTCHow did you get that? Was he actually talking to that woman or were those to comments just in his head.
Joe Thornhill
2024-10-13 07:27:04 +0000 UTCI can't really remember Noddy either. Just that he was another kids T.V. character. I just keep thinking of Noddy Holder from Slade (British glam rock who did Merry Christmas everybody, Come on feel the noise, Far far away, 'Cuz I love you, Mama we're all crazy now).
Joe Thornhill
2024-10-13 07:11:30 +0000 UTCThe big guy in the audience from Plebs was a hallucination of his school bully, that's why he randomly disappeared real quick and was replaced by the actual audience member. He didn't get "escorted out" like you said ahah.
Darnell Jenkins
2024-10-12 23:52:07 +0000 UTCHighly recommend reading I Partridge. It's hilarious. Robert Popper who played the interviewer was the writer of Friday Night Dinner and also did a great show with Peter Serafinowitz and Olivia Colman called Look around you.
Neal Murdoch
2024-10-12 19:29:17 +0000 UTCDid you recognise that the altercation with the fan is the one from I’m Alan Partridge where he’s trying to impress then Irish TV producers
Kieran B
2024-10-12 19:27:07 +0000 UTCThe thing is, he's actually marketing a real book. I, Patridge is a real book, and he's quoting from it.
Dave Roberts
2024-10-12 19:23:00 +0000 UTCThe premise is they’re bleeping legally libellous stuff rather than swearing, although just not doing it well, that’s why they didn’t bleep shit
Kieran B
2024-10-12 18:35:23 +0000 UTCThis is great, not top tier Partridge but still very funny and always good to see him struggling in a different setting. As others have said those were genuine extracts from his book which I highly recommend, and Steve Coogan's in-character narration of the audiobook is amazing. Love the BTAS shirt! 🦇
Dextrous (Lewis)
2024-10-12 18:34:44 +0000 UTCThe audiobooks of Alan are brilliant
Nathan
2024-10-12 18:16:52 +0000 UTCBLASTS! quietly from the radio
Nathan
2024-10-12 18:12:52 +0000 UTCYes the big fella is comedian Tom Davis, who was in Plebs aswell :)
K Bruun Kristensen
2024-10-12 18:11:35 +0000 UTCYou need to get the audiobook, Steve reads it in character. There’s others and the podcasts two but you need to listen to them in order as they reference stuff you haven’t seen yet
Kieran B
2024-10-12 18:10:32 +0000 UTCScissored Isle comes at the end of series 2 of MMM as a special like Places of my Life
Kieran B
2024-10-12 18:09:27 +0000 UTCIt's easily the best one and is proper canonical
Jamie
2024-10-12 17:57:22 +0000 UTCThe host guy in this is the guy who wrote Friday night dinner. Robert popper
lee cooper
2024-10-12 17:50:58 +0000 UTCYou missed the James Corden reference in the intro! Basically listing some of the UK's greatest authors, with the last one being James Corden. I've never read Corden's autobiography, but I'm willing to bet that it's not at the levels of Orwell or Dickens!
AdamMcAdamface
2024-10-12 17:35:24 +0000 UTC'This Time with AP' is similar to KMKY as its Alan hosting his own tv/chat show.. but a more modern version. That will come after the specials and MMM.
Jon
2024-10-12 17:11:09 +0000 UTCAlan’s books I, Partridge, Nomad, and Big Beacon are hilarious, as is his podcast From the Oasthouse.
Wilx
2024-10-12 16:57:00 +0000 UTCIt is an actual book I listened to it on audible it’s very funny
Erica
2024-10-12 16:40:28 +0000 UTCScissored Isle is also worth a reaction. It's one of my favourite AP things in recent years.
Joe Blakeley
2024-10-12 16:04:51 +0000 UTC
