Why monks love silence so much | This Time with Alan Partridge - BBC

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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer... Alan Partridge takes a moment out of his noisy and very successful life to try to understand, “why monks love silence so much?
Alan Partridge co-hosts This Time, a weekday magazine show."
This Time with Alan Partridge | Series 2 Episode 1 | BBC
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[@TheWho53]

THERE'S THAT CATTINESS AGAIN! You're clearly a character! You definitely are.

[@WillowJordan1979]

The bit with the cross! Blasphemous and hilarious.

[@jordanlacey4505]

I cried at that 😂😂😂 it's genius!

[@QuadMochaMatti]

How is it blasphemy to emulate a myth?

[@Drive_Far_Away]

@@QuadMochaMatti how do you know it's a myth..dont be so small minded..just because we can't prove God to each other doesn't mean he doesn't exist..of course you can say the opposite is true..but in the end we all make a choice when we die..you either believe there is nothing or something after death..after all an atheist has more faith than most to actually believe there is nothing takes great faith..

[@bimfred]

@@Drive_Far_Away i think the issue is with Christianity’s, and all other religions’, arrogance in claiming they know how ‘it all works’. The questions of what happens after death or how did the universe appear need not be conflated with religion. Especially not one with such a ‘complicated’ histor (and present for that matter).

[@StallionFernando]

@@bimfred the truth is ever complicated, if there is God then what you perceive as arrogance is considered truth and you a fool.

[@Philosoph-ali]

You’re clearly a character, ya definitely are.

[@martinfoulkes7337]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nigelcarren]

Splendid and tremendous!

[@lfcwilli]

This episode had the greatest JUMP in tv history

[@StuSaville]

I was expecting the monastery to explode behind him...

[@brianinglis3805]

You're forgetting when Fonzie jumped the shark in Happy Days. Figuratively & literally.

[@reggiej6542]

amen to that lol

[@johnnydeath2]

Jesus would be proud. ;)

[@comanchio1976]

"They keep a lid on it because they think God likes it. Who am I to tell them any different?"...I was so hoping he'd reprise his famous "I'm Alan Partridge" line, after that... Fair play to Steve Coogan for keeping his material fresh, though 👍

[@richardh4297]

The monk that takes the plant from the door 🤣🤣

[@dhwanilvermaa]

The last 25 seconds 👍😂

[@HealthyKlingons]

He has rediscovered the original Partridge.

[@legobrickabrac]

The glass smashing got that classic Partridge feeling back. He obviously paid attention to some of the negitive reviews from the last season. I thought it was good.

[@andyd2033]

I was actually thinking the opposite. Think he’s gone downhill. That last series he did was utter cringe, very surprised they are doing a second series after the awful viewing ratings.

[@garymac5571]

@@andyd2033 I agree. I feel the stuff he has done with Sky is far superior to the new BBC show.

[@KRPTV]

The guy he's interviewing, is that 'sweaty' Raphael?! "😁😁😁

[@MrRorySteel]

Good spot lad.

[@Mankind081]

No, it isn't.

[@MrRorySteel]

@@Mankind081 are you sure?

[@Mankind081]

@@MrRorySteel I'm positive. Two different actors.

[@KRPTV]

Well if it isn't he looks very much like him!😁

[@potatomatop9326]

Why monks love silence so much. Oh man i'm a monk!

[@craigroaring]

I see Coogan is doing his own stunts. Nice.

[@MrTrueseventh]

brilliant writing

[@thenandnow111]

Lost in the confusion..🤣🤣🤣

[@HotTakeHQ]

Silence can be used as a weapon 😂😂😂😂

[@schmule460]

"Uh Ca-TTY"

[@tkx86]

How does this only have 79,421 views! LOL I am in tears. I love it haha!

[@brucedickinson12]

plants at homebase 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cartmanofsp]

“Right, Burger King.”

[@QueenMeowTigeress]

hahaha the pots part is funny..remind me of ether the three stooges style funny or something u find on cartoons 🤣

[@horaceb2614]

The beatific face in the hoodie is horrible and hilarious

[@Mikalwatchingyt]

I wasn’t expecting to laugh when I clicked 😂 the end scenes are a shit post and they’re hilarious😂 especially the last joke of would god approve of this?😂👍🏽 good video guys😂

[@gregf.4814]

As an ex-Catholic, of course I find this hilarious. So Alan, when are you test the nuns?!

[@Joeonline26]

As an ex Catholic? But only monks take vows of silence, not all Catholics in general right?

[@iMadrid11]

@@Joeonline26 You don’t get to choose the religion indoctrinated to you since birth. You only take vows based on the Religous Order you joined. After you graduate and study to be a Priest, Nun, Brother or Monk.

[@Joeonline26]

@@iMadrid11 That didn't answer my question. I'm asking if practicing Catholics in general take vows of silence, not just those who join an order. There is a big difference between being a general Catholic in society and joining a specific order to become a monk where you take vows like vows of silence.

[@lawrencefinch-hatton6231]

2:58 I thought the monks were about to get Scum circa 1979 on Alan... They weren't, so that was awkward/a relief tbh.

[@MrRizaozal]

Amazing😁

[@M1K3YC]

cut off at the best bit getting back in his car

[@arunjyotidutta4455]

Please maintain silence.

[@niallmaca5670]

Genius at work.

[@kellyo8324]

😅 very funny!

[@Rintin07]

Some might say that in breaking my vow of silence, I'd lost a competition with God

[@bartonseagrave9605]

Holly Willoughby with her false laughing and that odd little man with the grey hair.

[@senarainusantara4504]

tony wilson

[@alexgarnett5373]

I miss the old Alan

[@mrneutral8423]

CATTY!

[@chrish215]

500k or we take it to sky!

[@ashishgurung1417]

For some reason i presumed this to be a vintage footage of the bbc from 70s until he popped up his iphone 😂🤦🏻

[@wyverntheterrible]

Love partridge, as my channel will attest, but this is proper shit.

[@DamianBrown]

Would a monk wear a symbol of the murder weapon of his son if he were killed?

[@lukew7343]

They’re idolaters!

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

Bin men 😂

[@AutoHunter]

Congrats to anybody who is early and who finds this comment useful 🤝✍️💯

[@oobenoob]

Catty.

[@MrFiabio]

Because somebody showed them a broadcast of the BBC news channel and monks realised how useless taking can be?

[@seekpeaceread6798]

It is stupid because u can be silent and still help hold the door for the man with things in his hands . Prayers and obeying God’s laws is the only way to get closer to God.

[@elizabetholiviaclark]

I think maybe they were all involved in the humor of it. They wouldn't really ignore someone, especially when that person needs an extra hand to hold the door.

[@RD-jr8nv]

If ever my children ask me what happened to Jesus, I’ll say he got done for breaking the rules

[@Spillage66]

That spokesman is Alan's old teacher, sweaty.

[@bennym5244]

Oh but the silence of the BBC producers who thought this would be funny.

[@tesselaynes5428]

because when they talk bones fall out their mouth. from all the skeletons in their closet.

[@googleisgay3289]

"I'd lost a competition with God. But it felt good." Is well beyond its time and place. Running and jumping, too, is underrated. On the other hand, God still owes me an assload at the veriest least.

[@michaelmonkhouse3036]

Not his best.

[@hawsrulebegin7768]

Feel this series is quite weak. Nothings progressed and Lynn is so underused it is an insult.

[@Speakupok]

This is not Biblical.

[@andrewcurry4880]

The other bloke is a terrible actor.

[@michellebolen3892]

Is this guy for real or is this a total bs..

[@Spooky_32]

This is real, what makes you think it’s bs?

[@boweeks888]

It's real, Alans a real pro.

[@highdownmartin]

Norfolk’s finest interviewer Sheer brilliance.

[@matthewlewis8757]

It’s real. He’s big in the back time

[@garethdwright91]

Yeah it's real, he's the former host of Skirmish - a military based quiz show on digital cable channel UK Conquest, which had the largest audience share for a digital channel at that time of day in the Norfolk area. At its peak it would regularly pull in upwards of 8000 viewers, which to put in to perspective, is eleven times the population of Hemsby!

[@williamlarochelle6833]

A monastic vow of silence is a myth. Monks and cloistered nuns take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and sometimes other vows peculiar to a religious order. But none take a vow of silence. What they all do is observe a RULE of silence at certain times of day.

[@alvsnu]

Like God, the KZbin algorithm works in mysterious ways !

[@iamyouu]

Its alright Its alright she moves in mysterious ways.. ahh

[@PaulieD1984]

@@iamyouu bono has the biggest collection of hatchbacks in Britain

[@fhurley8447]

I’m not joining your baptist church Alvin

[@sarahspaceslippers]

It's so painful to watch but I just keep watching it freaking love alan partridge 😂😂

[@Kloppsserialbottlers]

he's the best, he's the best, he's the best. I've been watching the same bunch of episodes of I'm Alan Partridge for 20 years, never gets old

[@davepowell7168]

@@Kloppsserialbottlers Yes Billy.

[@ShahPhilLeotardo]

“But smiling constantly starts to make your face ache, I wonder if it felt the same for Holly Willoughby.”

[@b.visconti1765]

We Need More Monks in the World..

[@MrRorySteel]

Sweaty Raphael Monks.

[@sarahspaceslippers]

@KZbinrs fan And dj too why can't we have both?

[@MrRorySteel]

@KZbinrs fan And dj too Unfortunately environmentalists, are usually mentalists

[@QuadMochaMatti]

Wasn't one Tony Shalhoub enough?

[@danielkbarton]

"... angry wives in big brown dresses" 🤣

[@luminyam6145]

Omg I am pissing myself, that was so good!

[@tonybates7870]

Monks love silence because God loves silence. In fact, it seems to be His defining feature. Edgy or what?

[@MrJimboCross]

Comparing himself to Jesus at the end 😂

[@Spooky_32]

Pray silence please, for the electric light orchestra

[@s.velarde1811]

You don’t like ELO?!

[@highdownmartin]

ELO are second only to ABBA in my book. Which is out now, and Lyn has some signed copies LYN! LYN !

[@dom4034]

The answer is 'The Chinese Way' and Level 42.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Come back, ELO, and carry on playing.

[@fyodorseriencha6538]

3:14 is kinda profound: ''it amused me that I was in an institute full of angry wives in big brown dresses'', the rest's a bit silly in the modern way (okay except the bin man vow of silence joke)

[@iMurk]

"Yer clearly a character, yer definitely arrre" flol.

[@samuelwoods164]

Hahahaha..... you're clearly a character, you definitely are.

[@kevinforever6898]

New Alan Partridge content always brings me peace and joy.

[@mooseandspade6251]

I love that Warwick University jumper

[@deviation1000]

It's a nice touch. I always find it funny when I see types like Partridge flexing in public their redbrick and plate glass credentials

[@threethrushes]

Needless to say, I had the last laugh.

[@andyc6542]

Oh look - a Partridge clip and someone is throwing out old lines. How completely original and genius of you. How did you come up with that one?

[@HollowRick]

As I know somone who recently became a monk.. this was hilarious 🤣

[@Seventeen_Seconds]

That plant pot scene is amazing 😂

[@aspergianheteroclite3014]

"Can't you see that I needed help? What're we all doing here??! You can get plants at Homebase" XD

[@swjang3584]

I believe that your identity and dignity cannot be enough to understand what they are exactly doing!

[@henrythoreau645]

I wonder if he did stay there and enjoy the silence and allow himself time for contemplation. It's not everyone who feels the need for it, but for those who do, it's wonderful.

[@luminyam6145]

I feel so badly for that guy, you have no idea how badly he was treated on Tropic Thunder. His boss constantly shouted at him, had him punched and then he just ended up losing his head in Vietnam. A sad ending for a film director just trying to do his best.

[@dilibau]

Silence of the lambs of God...

[@davidh7126]

I like that he continuously attacks their masculinity and they in return attack him with passive aggression. He might have a point🤣

[@0wls2k]

2:45 Jesus H Christ 😆

[@galapagoensis]

Monks learned silence when they had to deal with their wives .. lol

[@cyberspace667]

Haha old guys doing parkour is cool

[@legobrickabrac]

The glass smashing got that classic Partridge feeling back. Great work Stephen.

[@christinajohnson6543]

I just love his dry wit!

[@kablechrist]

10/10 on that dismount 4:13

[@Ben-nr2rm]

Nice action

[@bwilson774]

Ive been wanting to try a year long vow of silence but as the monk says, silence is becoming increasingly hard to find in the modern world. Especially having to work. Maybe I should learn asl and pretend to be deaf. Not even joking.

[@teedinfinfin414]

😂

[@matthewheaton9700]

"...and in the confusion, you end up believing in God." Lol

[@citizenenak]

His satire of reality isn't not untrue at times...

[@HighlandMike325]

"Young Monk" as if he were a chav on a street corner

[@hakakarumadamu]

I ACCIDENTALLY KNEW THIS GUY BECAUSE OF AN OPEN BOOK MOVIE (WHICH BY THE WAY I DIDN’T FINISH ) BECAUSE HIS CHARACTER IN REAL LIFE IS DISGUSTING. HIS COMPLAINTS ABOUT HIS WATER HAVING AN ICE WAS SO CLEAR IN THE RECORDING. HE ALSO COMPLAINS ABOUT SO TINY THINGS LIKE AN OLD WOMAN. IT WAS AKWARD AND STOP PLAYING BUTTON CATCHY. I SAID, MAN THIS GUY HAS AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM. SO I TRIED TO SEARCH HIM OVER THE INTERNET AND FOUND OUT THAT HE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIS AUDIENCE IN HIS FORMER SHOW. I WOULD NOT WONDER IF SOMEONE SABOTAGED HIM TO END HIS CAREER BECAUSE OF HIS ATTITUDE AND BEING A BITCHY MAN.

[@thegrimyeaper]

The next video pop-ups at the end ruins every Alan clip on this channel.

[@sutats]

Neighbour's crying baby? How did you know.

[@tombartram7384]

If I was Coogan I'd stay in character all the time. In real life he's boring af.

[@QuadMochaMatti]

I can dig it. Whoops, wrong Coogan.

[@rdawg7982]

lost it at 2:28 HAHAHA

[@grantmalone]

The ritual... of the bullying ritual.

[@rjw593]

Trenter percenter

[@grantmalone]

DREISSIG PROZENT?!

[@eclecticsandman]

Excellent

[@alisonnorcross951]

Drivel

[@MrRamazanLale2]

So they can hear the boys better

[@threshingfloor8591]

Prestadetchwick

[@CleomarRibeiroXX]

....heheeheh... complex dinamic system question ( hard solution) , easy solution ( easy to ride), hard solution!...hehehehe... just share it to the population!... the population always ready to dance with the solutions ( speech of monks)!... in accord to hte real???.. who am I to hear it without a dance, a sacred dance?... hehehehe...

[@lukegibson6120]

Best scene in This Time with Alan Partridge. Hands down!

[@gerrydooley951]

not really

[@lukegibson6120]

@@gerrydooley951 I stand corrected

[@gerrydooley951]

@@lukegibson6120 you can sit, but be silent

[@Nopperabou]

So Alan's teacher became a monk.

[@Joecoleman84]

Tambourine. Just keep saying tambourine Alan. Tambourine.

[@bassbobrobert4946]

I have that very same wing back chair in green velour, very comfortable indeed.