Steve Coogan: I'll play Alan Partridge until I die

[@JOE_co_uk]

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[@kzneverlack]

First comment to Joe

[@trenttrevorrow5648]

Needless to say, Alan had the last laugh.

[@melgrant7404]

I will be watching partridge till I die xx

[@cantstopthemusic456]

mel grant ...i'll watch partridge but after this i wont watch coogan

[@terri6854]

because...

[@Mercyful_Fate.]

Love this guy. Great comedian and intelligent.

[@luckelly2378]

Nice to see an interviewer who knows his shizzle

[@niansenx]

Steve, please continue to do Alan until you die.

[@garbeal2397]

He has absolutely perfected the character so glad he will continue doing Partridge.

[@Etcher]

Needles to say he had the best of boast worlds in this interview. Not my words, Carol.

[@hastekulvaati9681]

I think the final Alan Partridge show will be the Blackstar of comedy.

[@markcarrington8380]

This is the comment I’ve been waiting for. I think Steve Coogan is a little bit less cryptic than David Bowie though. I love your analogy brings a smile to my face

[@bokehintheussr5033]

Coogan is a comic genius and Alan is one of the greatest comedy characters ever. He's a character who should be unlikeable, because he's so selfish, impatient, people-pleasing, insecure, insensitve etc., but you root for him and empathise with him because he so overtly struggles with the same negative personality traits that we all struggle with on some level, but is also completely socially inept and lacking in self awareness. I like to think that Alan is like Coogans psychological shadow, and it's said that one of the most important things you can do to work on your own growth is to make friends with your shadow.

[@cerambyx-8]

I think the character was originally meant to represent a specific type of person who worked in the media, a Richard Madeley type- egocentric, boastful, petty and talked about things he was clueless about. But as we saw more depth about the character, it was clear Alan was desperate for fame at any cost, to the extent he would become a complete fool. Also Alan had to get the last laugh on anyone who belittled his abilities. Alan always was upper middle class, a tory and proud of it. As he fails at his various endeavours or looks the fool, it is natural for the audience to feel sympathy for the character. A theme among some of the best British comedy acts is trying to do something, but failing, like Brian Fawlty, David Brent, Hyacinth Bucket, Brian Potter etc. I think Alan Partridge does that the best, and is easily one of Britain's best comic creations of all times.

[@joshthehooman7204]

It’s so tough to not see him as his character (of himself) from The Trip series

[@e2theoc]

LEGEND. Comedy genius.

[@BlueCrayon77]

When is this Partridge podcast being released!?!? I need it!

[@lucymooon]

It's on audible now

[@listerofsmeg884]

Best description of Alan I've heard. 'all the pomposity of the British, but none of the intelligence'

[@terri6854]

AP is pretty intelligent though. Quick comebacks.

[@RBTVN]

Criminally underviewed. Fantastic defence of the BBC, and what it represents, from someone who is as frustrated as anyone about how biased their coverage has been over the past few years. And being proud of the British spirit of dissent is an idea we very much need to revive.

[@hughoxford8735]

Except if you dissent from the idea that the BBC and the NHS are the fabulous, nation defining things that the establishment claims.

[@RBTVN]

@@hughoxford8735 So you want to take free healthcare away from people and you're calling Coogan "not nice". Zero self awareness hey.

[@hughoxford8735]

@@RBTVN There's no such thing as "free healthcare".

[@RBTVN]

@@hughoxford8735 You're right. It should be paid for by the rich. And before you say that's too radical, let me just inform you of Plan B: hang them from their boardroom windows til they aren't alive any more. 👌👌👌 Think of the NHS as defenestration insurance for the parasitic class.

[@NxDoyle]

He can't do it, can he? He can't get through an interview without dropping Philomena in.

[@davidb5173]

What's wrong with that? He's proud of it

[@vicesquadpunk]

We are open to hearing about something worthwhile and heartfelt that you have created... go for it! 😊

[@simonmcnamee619]

Good film

[@simonmcnamee619]

The interviewer asked him a question directly leading to him talking about it, ya gobshite

[@somechap1319]

Coogan looks more like Partridge by the day

[@melgrant7404]

He is partridge not a lot of difference

[@listerofsmeg884]

His accent is hardly any different now. Particularly compared to early Alan on The Day Today and On The Hour.

[@dr_jamie_ranger]

My man dropping Herbert Marcuse in an interview with Steve Coogan. Great stuff.

[@olidugmore8601]

👍

[@simonmcnamee619]

Looks like someone went to university

[@bearheart2009]

That's good news. We surely haven't reached peak Partridge yet. I've always wanted to see him go into investigative journalism, Roger Cook style.

[@tutin4090]

Definitely but not like Alpha Papa. Far from it, more like the Louis Theroux docs ahahaha

[@bearheart2009]

@@tutin4090 I was thinking more consumer related.

[@JackBealeGuitar]

Alan attack

[@jaysterling26]

The interviewer's clothes are camouflaged with the decor. & if he swapped chairs with Mr Coogan it'd be vice versa but with his face instead. No, I'm drug free, thank you.

[@TheReesi73]

This guy is the subtle king! Genius

[@XNTN808]

Coogan should be the next Bond - this case is closed....

[@nothke]

007: Until I Die

[@bradleyedison]

Stop getting Bond wrong!!!

[@lucymooon]

Hahaha

[@clayface563]

@Jack the Film Fanatic genuinely think Steve is very good looking. I don’t think he should be bond however, completely different style of acting.

[@Guvna07]

3:31 Alan Partridge arrived

[@mattgarbutt254]

9:14 Saxondale

[@monstermunch4956]

19:10 till I die...

[@ChorltonOutlaw]

Wish he'd backed up his BBC question with: Why is The Trip now on Sky not the BBC?

[@Jimmy1The1One]

hah yeah, the same thought occurred when I saw a clip of Louis Theroux defending the BBC, he's going to Netflix. I think in terms of nurturing new creative talent though the BBC is second to none. He probably owes a large part of his career to the BBC. I think that justifies what, in the grand scheme of things is not very much money for the TV license.

[@DM-kv9kj]

Yea, if it weren't for the BBC we would never have had The Trip at all. I imagine The Trip switched to Sky for the very simple reason that they offered more money for the contract. I still think the original The Trip was better on the BBC. I find it very easy for people to attack the BBC but for all the crappy programs which I never watch there are still a lot of really great ones that are often created through the BBC and it IS still nice to be able to watch something without it being constantly interrupted with vast quantities of adverts every 10 minutes. In the US watching tv is awful, the commercials are often longer than the bits of tv show between them and you even forget what the hell you were watching. Many of them are also ads for dodgy drugs, given their horrendous private healthcare system. It destroys the experience of trying to watch a film in particular. TV companies then wonder why everyone is now downloading or streaming instead of watching tv. I get annoyed sometimes with the way news if presented also, certainly, but that's ALL news media now, not just the BBC. Killing the BBC off or removing the licence fee and replacing it with adverts like every other broadcaster won't solve that at all, and in fact would only make things worse.

[@Zeekz123]

Lovely stuff. Not my words.....

[@keithminter]

Great interview

[@pajamas_the_emo]

love how he just rambles on and on and on and on

[@monstermunch4956]

Love how he says “till I die” So partridge

[@agr7879]

Go Alan!! Forever😀

[@lucymooon]

A new meaning to 'fashion victim'. Love you Steve/Alan X

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

Unsurprisingly very thought provoking from Steve Coogan.

[@SarahSmith-nr2wj]

It's so fucking cool that he made this film.

[@withknobson]

What the hell was that motion tracking?

[@version736ha2]

Love it when the rich and famous lecture the majority

[@listerofsmeg884]

🎶 Eighteen till i die, I'm gonna be eighteen till i die 🎶

[@James-ek9pz]

You sang a rebel song on the bbc, can I ask you... WATS DA BIG IDEUH?

[@NxDoyle]

I don't like that I'm about to write this but, Hahahaha!

[@Magicalfluidprocess]

"The potato famine , I'm sorry but if you can afford to emigrate the you can afford to eat at a modest restaurant "

[@kiryuchan860]

@@Magicalfluidprocess that's not even close to the line in the show lol

[@Magicalfluidprocess]

Joseph Johnson thanks for sharing!

[@Magicalfluidprocess]

Joseph Johnson , stop getting bond wrong !

[@monstermunch4956]

ALAN IS A HERO!

[@blundershock]

Even under a Range Rover 1000 (i dunno, w/e), that was not cool. Thank you, Alan. And I thoroughly agree with Coogan on the BBC but they have seemedly lost their way, or as I saw it a decade back, just not worth watching television for, thereby starving a once great institution, that starves itself, it seems. I diverge... my apologies.

[@maryannemakes]

When he said hippies or cranks he went a bit Partridge

[@mobyd7990]

Instead of buying 10 pairs of jeans for 10 quid each......just buy an expensive pair and make them last !!! What a world these people live in really !!! I buy a pair for 2 or 3 quid for the charity shop and make them last.... I know he is "trying" To mean well , but you live in a different world mate. ( and NOTHING to do with race or religion ).

[@notoriousdka]

The King!

[@hopethisworks1212]

Buy your clothes from a charity shop and wear them with pride.

[@blundershock]

or just wear them like normal clothes, but i get the feels

[@robertjsmith]

i get my underpants from OXFAM

[@19dazhogan82]

@@robertjsmith I get Oxo from my underpants

[@ctw00004]

100% agree with what he said about the BBC. As a country we kick it all the time. But we will miss it if/when it's gone.

[@Magicalfluidprocess]

The real issue here is that money is controlled so that it is kept scarce! This is by design, while we sing and dance about who pays tax and does not , it doesn't touch the real issue!

[@tomfewins5803]

What an odd interview, I was most confused by the interviewers confidence. The lack of lean in on that handshake at the end 😂 Steve Coogan nearly had to get up out of his chair to shake yours! How do you do that ??

[@florida10100]

On the subject of tax avoidance the problem is the system which greedy people will always exploit. A new system with new incentives needs to be designed and a radical overhaul of the current system has to happen. It’s all about the incentives of the system. The incentive at the moment is money so naturally people will gravitate towards a more insular self protection self sustaining attitude which you can’t blame. We have to look at changing peoples morals and ethics to incentivise these autoristic qualities I think we all have . So the shift in empathis and technology eventually I think will bring about the radical changes needed. Companies that have shareholders will always have to think about the shareholders only because the system incentivises this naturally. A more self sustaining and manageable and ethical system which benefits everyone should be the way forward.

[@tomflynn78]

LEGEND

[@pls.protect.free.speechuns5528]

And he will make a fortune from this film

[@leehargreaves7473]

But he won't do it by stealing a pension fund like Philip Green.

[@kelpkelp5252]

Oh, you rate this movie do you?

[@SandyYoung1]

Great interviewer.

[@retro-robbo]

True legend. But totally disagree with his BBC comments. I should not have to pay for a TV service that is so politically biased with their reporting and push all their political agendas into their dramas.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

RetroRobbo he's trying to get back on the train so he's hardly going to say that.

[@hughoxford8735]

I hate to say it as I'm a big fan of Partridge but Coogan doesn't come across as a particularly nice person. I also think he's got the wrong end of the stick politically. It's a shame when light entertainers go into political activism, it rarely helps anybody. There's kind of irony here that, perhaps unintentionally, Partridge seems to be a nicer person than Coogan.

[@RBTVN]

Nah, you're just a nasty, right-wing piece of work, that's what's got you mixed up!

[@rossgardner9412]

As talented as Coogan is, and he’s hilarious, he is an absolute arsehole.

[@hughoxford8735]

@@RBTVN Not sure what's "left wing" about Steve Coogan. He lives in a mansion, drives high performance cars in a manner which endangers the public, and campaigned for Remain in the referendum.

[@hughoxford8735]

@@rossgardner9412 In a way, he's a parady of Alan Partridge, in his contempt for others, his naked materialism and consumption, and his hypocrisy.

[@rossgardner9412]

Hugh Oxford I do find it difficult to get to the nub of Coogan “the man”, it does feel that Coogan is playing a character called “Steve Coogan”, who is basically a left-wing Alan Partridge. He’s basically, in my view, a classic Blair-ite, he’s rich enough to be sheltered from the consequences of the policies he supports.

[@alexstevensen4292]

Wages in those factories are low because wages in general in those countries are low. Wages are low because there's little capital per capita ie machines or factories per worker/citizen. Not buying their stuf is not going to do them any good, they have to find work somewhere else and wages in general will drop. The way to raise living standards/wages is for those countries to increase capital attract it from abroad or homegrown.

[@marknewbold2583]

Or revolution

[@robertjsmith]

Pauline Calf has let herself go.

[@redlady935]

He should definitely do an old Pauline

[@mr.a8315]

♥👍

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Why not milk it? Although he's a bit light on material now he had some good ideas fifteen years ago.

[@johng7423]

I like what he's saying accept for his tv licence ideas they should be able to have the option not to pay for it, forcing people too pay for a service they don't use, and then comparing it to the NHS is utterly ridiculous. So, I don't watch the BBC or listen to any radio by them or read there news, but I have to pay for that or they'll make me a criminal and prosecute me, its not like the NHS people wont die if the BBC doesn't exist they will if the NHS doesn't. So, I am happy to pay tax that goes towards the NHS which saves lives! But I am not happy to pay a licence forced onto me and to suggest television company is as good as the NHS is a slap in the face for or health workers and the great job they do, to be honest very poor content there's like 4 things a year that are any good on the BBC the rest is absolute shite.

[@kojombasi506]

I will squeeze every last penny out of playing Alan Partridge

[@professorpancakes6545]

Ah ha!

[@sionyevans]

Partrige till I die..!!!!

[@NoContextRDH]

Classic Coogan - grandstanding about tax avoidance yet takes money from Amazon for his new podcast 👍🏻 well done Steve

[@slipslider9048]

The interviewer is a bit aggressive and over confident.

[@alandodd3184]

.... From the oasthouse.

[@danielfisher1501]

Its only 49£ on a plane

[@petermcgowan79]

Love Steve but he has been co opted by the BBC, his paymaster! So contradicted himself. Also what was his view of BBC totally biased coverage of Jeremy Corbyn?

[@flavirostris1972]

Funny guy, but the woke shit is just cringe

[@marknewbold2583]

Uh

[@terri6854]

Prefer to remain asleep do you?

[@larsuhlin1879]

The greatest hypocrite

[@terri6854]

Meaningless unless you explain yourself.

[@barrelwolf]

Started off interested, got to BBC... Turned off. Have no interest in the BBC and although I think he has a great argument but one that is outdated and based on the way the majority of people intake media is just not good enough anymore

[@Robo94100]

I think his point about adverts needs greater recognition. Generally I don't watch that much BBC stuff anymore, but him drawing attention to the fact that their is a substantial subsection of our culture which is devoid of explicitly market driven forces is really something quite extraordinary... and will only become rarer over time.

[@leerobinson2210]

buy a pair of jeans for a tenner coogan u tight get!

[@scoppio07]

Who cares how long he'll play him.

[@clayface563]

Many people

[@adampuljic5682]

First

[@aidaspida70]

--+st (Negative to positive)