Steve Coogan extended interview: The future of Alan Partridge, Greed and the BBC

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[@notused.]

Great interview, and what a treasure Steve Coogan is

[@ianinkster2261]

I agree with Coogan when he says the license fee frees up the BBC to pursue excellence - so why doesn't it?

[@Globaldave1970]

VG point.

[@juliewake4585]

Steve Coogan is one of the greats, in so many ways. And he’s a very good man. Thank you Steve. And listening to him I’ve realised that there is not a single thing that he has said in this interview that I disagree with.

[@sarahholland2600]

What an intelligent & interesting interview. The cheap fashion thing is so true. Primark stuff falls apart quickly. If you find a charity shop in a wealthy area you get really good quality stuff that sometimes hasn't even been worn. I've got Jasper Conran & other designer stuff for under £10.

[@JehanineMelmoth]

My Primark handbag lasted 15 years. I have some Primark T-shirts that are still going strong after nine years despite frequent wearing. I don’t buy from them now, but the idea that it’s all rubbish isn’t true.

[@momsazombie1]

Steve and Alan now have pretty much the same voice and delivery.

[@MrRailjunkie]

Good interview I'm glad Steve Coogan is on the correct side of politics & I agree billionaires shouldn't exist in our society probably for the same reasons as Steve.

[@brendangribben8615]

What about luxury car collecting millionaires?

[@dominicaaaaa5547]

@@brendangribben8615 does Steve have a big luxury car collection? Either way after watching a documentary on billionaires who make tens of millions every month in interest whilst there are people who can't afford food / housing people who don't even have WATER in some places I think the world is pretty messed up. I hope that if I ever started to earn millions (which is v unlikely lol) id want to pay higher taxes to help other people out. Insane how in a lot of places very rich people get away with paying very little in tax. By storing their money in Switzerland apparently multi billionaires pay a 0.4% ..or maybe it was a 0.04% tax rate

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Steve shouldn’t exist? I know he’s a tremendous bore but that’s a bit harsh.

[@startmakingsense2071]

@@brendangribben8615 What about them?

[@juliewake4585]

He is very much on the right side of politics, and is using his brilliant humour to such a great effect.

[@dominicaaaaa5547]

Good interview and great points that he is raising 🤠

[@97SEMTEX]

Steve Coogan is based as fuck!

[@susandihle9752]

It seems to me that one way to tame fast fashion is to stress the environmental benefits of recycling clothing. When I shop for clothes (including shoes), I first visit the local thrift stores. In this part of the States, that means the Salvation Army, Goodwill, ARC, and the Veterans' of Foreign Wars Thrift stores. Their prices are much more reasonable, so you can very often find terrific buys - including on famous brands. Buying there is far better for your budget and the environment. Plus which, of course, you are not directly subsidizing sweat labour or the legal equivalents. You can also buy used clothing online for very reasonable prices. You can order used books online, as well, which means fewer trees being cut down for your enjoyment and much better prices.

[@faherty87]

Really good interview and interviewer

[@finbobwynne3086]

I'll never forget the Belfast Telegraph newspapers outrage reporting on his Irish character they thought he was real. The Black and Tan bit was hilarious.

[@Robbie_-en7gp]

Hello Nicholas how’s the hand ?

[@elliotthutton7175]

still a bit stiff

[@willspeth]

incredible answers from coogan, i really do appreciate when a comedian gets successful and then doesnt grift right-wing the first chance they get.

[@jodyguinness3864]

can't not love coogan.....⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@lawrencefinch-hatton6231]

The interviewer’s self-confidence is unusual for a man of his age and generation.

[@SethMcFartlane]

The old should fear the young.

[@killswitchlee123]

Tupac Shakur was an old head on a young body.

[@mikeshinoda703]

@@killswitchlee123 haha who said anything about tupac

[@sarahholland2600]

Hes older than you think. I'd say he's in his 30's.

[@MT-kx2uc]

​@@mikeshinoda703It's called a comparison. Are you a bit slow?

[@ycls2004]

"I'm Sure" golden

[@belindablunderbus1365]

Coogan is my hero ❤️

[@mistyblueeyes4024]

Steve brought up some important issues but one thing he wasn't entirely correct about: transgender people having money. Yes, there are trans people that are employed etc. but trans people are also facing the same issues a lot of gay people did a few decades ago: homelessness, family members cutting ties with them, having difficulty getting a job, and if they have trouble transitioning, depression is something that'll make it harder to find or keep a job or stay alive even. Also, transitioning is expensive if you go private (which some people do because the queues in public healthcare are too long for them to wait..).

[@stevejelly3161]

Alan inspired a nation !! Alan, Lynn and Michael were the true "PROFESSIONALS" . Did Ford sponsor him with Capri's, Granadas and RS 2000's ? NO !! And Alan didn't have to pretend he was never the butler off "Upstairs Downstairs" !!

[@annoyingbstard9407]

I agree with Steve - earning more than he does is immoral. Of course if he earns a bit more the immoral level should be raised accordingly.

[@mollers92]

lol imagine thinking what coogan earns is anywhere comparable to a billionaire. Do you know how much a billion even is?

[@annoyingbstard9407]

@@mollers92 Why not look it up rather than ask me?

[@mollers92]

@@annoyingbstard9407 rhetorical question. Are you thick? (also rhetorical)

[@annoyingbstard9407]

@@mollers92 Ungrammatical too. You’re on a roll son.

[@MarqueeDeSade]

@@annoyingbstard9407 He is right though chief, millionaires and billionaires aren't even the same stratosphere. I think most everyday folk with the right ideas, talent, ethic (and aye, a bit of luck) could make 9-10 million if the chips fell right. No one becomes a billionaire without major exploitation of systems and people.

[@meathead365]

Brilliant interview Steve Coogan is excellent.

[@AnP865]

1:22 that side eye he does reminds me of his demented impression of Wilfrid Brambell

[@csurname]

Sharp as anything; thanks for the listen

[@juliataylor2623]

I dont know why he trashes the country that made him so loved, we were defending Pauline Calf before this woke stuff even began, now we are the very people he sais he doesnt want.

[@80srenaissance67]

He's a twat who unfortunately has made me laugh with his characters over the decades

[@JackForsterMUSIC]

Great interviewer

[@Etcher]

Lovely stuff.

[@Etcher]

Seriously though this was a great interview. Steve rarely gets trapped down "thick alley".

[@DustyCustard]

This interview really highlights Steve Coogan's asymmetric mouth.

[@rainblaze.]

They all do ..... its a fckn disgrace

[@frannyp46]

He’s way off the mark about drug dealers.

[@goldenhair1981]

If anyone was a ringer for playing the part of Lord Sumption 👌

[@crazeeejoe]

with you all the way, apart from the bbc bullshit.

[@brianlopez8855]

Don't worry Steve, there won't be any high street chains soon. Geoff will deliver by drone instead: If you behave yourself, obvs.

[@JehanineMelmoth]

A lovely interview with one of my favourite performers, but the horrible comments about him and his politics are vile and depressing.

[@iandettmer]

Superb 👍🏼

[@Tconcept]

I'm not sure why Alan tolerates Coogan, he's just a hanger on and has impressions of Alan are nothing but embarrassing.

[@kobalt77]

I feel that Steve's heart is as big if not bigger than his intellect. If only we had "leaders" of this mettle.

[@simonrae3048]

Supremely confident young interviewer, as someone else states in this thread. But will he look at himself in later years and think, actually I was a clueless, arrogant tosspot with no idea of life or anything much at all? Or won't he? Honestly .....don't know

[@crazeeejoe]

HBO produce some of the best shit going. so yer bbc argument is pish

[@paulmetcalfe6855]

I wonder how much Steve got paid and how much of his wages did he give to the workers who were in these foreign factories. He is no better than the man he is portraying, making money off the back of their story.

[@MarqueeDeSade]

I agree that I hope Steve helped those who featured in some way, but let's not pretend a multi-millionaire and a multi-billionaire are comparable. The difference is frightening. Someone starting their first job tomorrow is closer to Coogan's money than Coogan would be to Green in another 10 lifetimes broski.

[@JehanineMelmoth]

I read that they were paid proper wages. For the first time in their lives.

[@bliss101]

Cook pass babtridge

[@gilwillia]

JOE have forgotten that most people enjoyed their work because it was funny. Personally fell out of love with them when they did the cost of American health care skit. Painfully transparent that it was a back door Corbyn puff piece but they didn’t even have the bollocks to say Vote Corbyn.

[@MCroppered]

Jesus. Who put 2p in you?

[@gilwillia]

@@MCroppered You should apply for a job, so as to make full use of your outstanding comedic talent.

[@Seeker12x12]

When the sound of thin ice creaking is louder than the dialogue.

[@AnP865]

Coogan often has a lot of nervous energy in interviews, his mind is going a mile a minute and he doesn't have a character to channel it into. He doesn't do interviews often for this reason.

[@trydowave]

Beware of the blob

[@cormacgrimes4998]

An English man presenting for JOE? Fuck sake, give me that mic, i'll do it.

[@paulmetcalfe6855]

Yet more bloody victims Steve 'Fashion Victims' indeed. Got to get in that the Sri Lankan workers are women too I notice. What about the victims of grooming gangs right here in Britain Steve? Why not make a film about that? Pretty quiet on that one aren't we. Trouble is you'd probably have to work up north and we all know it's grim up there innit, having to deal with the lower classes, ooh can't do that can we.

[@mollers92]

He's from Manchester...

[@paulmetcalfe6855]

@@mollers92 I know and how often does he film there?

[@Alfie-ft3bx]

@@paulmetcalfe6855 Quite a lot and there has been a drama on the Rochdale grooming gangs so they have

[@startmakingsense2071]

Why don't you then?

[@paulmetcalfe6855]

@@Alfie-ft3bx what he did something on Rochdale grooming gangs? Where show me?

[@Winchuff]

Coogan should stick to comedy. His politics is a joke.

[@arveyilleszender5809]

Brilliant comedian. Not very articulate when speaking though is he? Over 10000 'errr, errr's.

[@Chadhogan111]

Shame he's so "woke"

[@startmakingsense2071]

Is it/he?

[@oggabob]

How dare he be aware of social issues

[@Margatroid]

Just a typical case of an aging performer anxious to keep his status and keep the roles and money coming in. It's sad, really. One can remember an era when adult men didn't have to shame and emasculate themselves and become dittohead cult members in order to maintain their fame. Real comedians have spines.

[@MontyCantsin5]

@Chadhogan111: Woke is not a pejorative term.

[@TheJuanvegas]

​@Margatroid he's always been left wing. Outspoken left wing at that. Assuming someone is trying to stay relevant just because they highlight an injustice is a real jump in logic

[@Johnny5tele]

I like him, love his characters but he’s too left wing.