Alan Partridge
{{Short description|British comedy character}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
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| name = Alan Partridge
| full_name = Alan Gordon Partridge
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| image = Alan Partridge booksigning.png
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| caption = Coogan in character as Alan Partridge at a 2011 book signing
| first = On the Hour (1991)
| portrayer = Steve Coogan
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| occupation = Broadcaster
| spouse = Carol (divorced)
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- Fernando Partridge
- Denise Partridge
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Alan Gordon Partridge is an English comedy character portrayed by Steve Coogan. A parody of British television personalities, Partridge is a tactless and inept broadcaster with an inflated sense of celebrity. Since his debut in 1991, he has appeared in radio and television series, books, podcasts and film.
Partridge was created by Coogan and Armando Iannucci for the 1991 BBC Radio 4 comedy programme On the Hour, a spoof of British current affairs broadcasting. In 1992, Partridge hosted a spin-off spoof chat show, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge. On the Hour transferred to television as The Day Today in 1994, followed by Knowing Me, Knowing You later that year. In 1997, the BBC broadcast I'm Alan Partridge, a sitcom written by Coogan, Iannucci and Peter Baynham about Partridge's life in a roadside hotel working for a Norwich radio station. It earned two BAFTAs and was followed by a second series in 2002.
After a hiatus, Partridge returned in 2010 with a series of shorts, Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, written with Rob and Neil Gibbons, who have cowritten every Partridge project since. Over the following years, Partridge expanded into other media, including the spoof memoir I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan (2011) and the feature film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013). In 2019, Partridge returned to the BBC with This Time with Alan Partridge, a spoof of magazine shows such as The One Show, followed by an Audible podcast in 2020 and a touring show in 2022.
Coogan said Partridge began as a "one-note" character, but slowly became more complex and empathetic. While the writers use Partridge to satirise bigotry and privilege, they also aim to create empathy. Critics have praised Partridge's complexity, realism and pathos. Vanity Fair called him a British national treasure and The Guardian described him as "one of the greatest and most beloved comic creations of the last few decades". Partridge is credited with influencing cringe comedies such as The Inbetweeners, Nighty Night and Peep Show. In a 2001 poll by Channel 4, Partridge was voted seventh in their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.
History
= 1991: ''On The Hour'' =
File:Armando Iannucci at Cheltenham Literary Festival 2010 (tighter crop).jpg in 2010]]Alan Partridge was created for the 1991 BBC Radio 4 comedy programme On the Hour, a spoof of British current affairs broadcasting, as the show's hapless sports presenter.{{Cite web |last=Husband |first=Stuart |date=5 August 2013 |title=Alan Partridge: the 'A-ha!' moments |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10208780/Alan-Partridge-the-A-ha-moments.html |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Daily Telegraph}} Developing On the Hour, the producer, Armando Iannucci, asked Steve Coogan to voice a generic sports reporter, with elements of Elton Welsby, Jim Rosenthal and John Motson.{{Cite web|last=Wray|first=Daniel Dylan|date=9 October 2020|title=Aha! – The Oral History of Alan Partridge|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/oral-history-of-alan-partridge/|access-date=2020-10-09|website=Vice|language=en}} Coogan had performed a similar character for a BBC college radio station while at university. Iannucci said they developed a backstory for the character "within minutes".{{cite magazine |last=Huddleston |first=Tom |date=2013-08-01 |title=Armando Iannucci interview - Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa - Time Out Film |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/armando-iannucci-interview-i-do-like-alan-i-want-him-to-succeed |access-date=2014-02-17 |magazine=Time Out}} The name was inspired by the former Newsbeat presenter Frank Partridge.{{cite news |title=The Day Today: the show that changed British comedy forever |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1ZDXDd7ZwhQWqjc6vqyf8kX/the-day-today-the-show-that-changed-british-comedy-forever |access-date=20 August 2021 |publisher=BBC}} Iannucci, Patrick Marber, Richard Herring and Stewart Lee wrote much of the early Partridge material; Herring credits the creation to Coogan and Iannucci.{{cite web |last=Connelly |first=Brendon |date=4 January 2013 |title=Richard Herring on co-creating Alan Partridge, his Rasputin TV show and Dave's new comedy competition |url=http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/01/04/richard-herring/ |access-date=14 September 2015 |website=Bleeding Cool |publisher=}}
= 1992–1995: ''Knowing Me, Knowing You'' and ''The Day Today'' =
Marber felt Partridge had potential for other projects, and encouraged Coogan to develop his character. Coogan performed as Partridge and other characters at the 1992 Edinburgh Fringe.{{Cite web |last=Curtis |first=Nick |date=1992-08-18 |title=Edinburgh Festival Day 2 / Reviews: Steve Coogan in character with John Thomson |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/edinburgh-festival-day-2-reviews-steve-coogan-in-character-with-john-thomson-1541047.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005184355/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/edinburgh-festival-day-2-reviews-steve-coogan-in-character-with-john-thomson-1541047.html |archive-date=2015-10-05 |access-date=2019-05-14 |website=The Independent |language=en}} In December 1992, BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting a six-episode spoof chat show, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge. The series saw Partridge irritate and offend his guests, and coined his catchphrase, "Aha!".{{Cite web |title=BBC - Alan Partridge - Anglian Lives |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/partridge/life/anglian.shtml |access-date=14 September 2015 |website= |publisher=BBC}}
In 1994, On the Hour transferred to television on BBC Two as The Day Today, in which Partridge reprised his role as sports reporter. Later that year, Knowing Me, Knowing You transferred to television.{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Ben |date=4 September 1994 |title=Comedy / Knowing him, knowing us, ah-haah: Alan Partridge, smarmy master of the crass interview, is bringing his chat show to television. Ben Thompson meets the gauche celeb's comic creator, Steve Coogan |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy--knowing-him-knowing-us-ahhaah-alan-partridge-smarmy-master-of-the-crass-interview-is-bringing-his-chat-show-to-television-ben-thompson-meets-the-gauche-celebs-comic-creator-steve-coogan-1446647.html |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Independent}} The series ends with Partridge accidentally shooting a guest. It was nominated for the 1995 BAFTA for Light Entertainment Performance.{{Cite web |title=BAFTA Awards Search {{!}} BAFTA Awards |url=http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=Steve%2520Coogan |access-date=2015-11-11 |website=BAFTA}} A Christmas special, Knowing Me, Knowing Yule, followed in December 1995, in which Partridge attacks a BBC commissioning editor, ending his television career.{{Cite web |last=Rees |first=Jasper |date=30 December 1995 |title=Reviews: Television Knowing Me Knowing Yule... with Alan Partridge (BBC2) |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/reviews-television-knowing-me-knowing-yule-with-alan-partridge-bbc2-its-not-easy-being-incompetent--alan-partridge-is-to-chatshow-interviewing-what-rudolf-nureyev-was-to-spot-welding-but-maybe-its-time-to-get-real-1527757.html |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Independent}}
= 1997–2002: ''I'm Alan Partridge'' =
In 1997, BBC Two broadcast a sitcom, I'm Alan Partridge, written by Coogan, Iannucci and Peter Baynham. It follows Partridge after he has been left by his wife and dropped from the BBC. He lives in a roadside hotel outside Norwich, presents a graveyard slot on local radio, and desperately pitches ideas for new television shows. Iannucci said the writers aimed to create "a kind of social X-ray of male middle-aged Middle England". I'm Alan Partridge won the 1998 BAFTA awards for Comedy Performance and Comedy Programme or Series.
In 1999, Partridge appeared on the BBC telethon Comic Relief, performing a medley of Kate Bush songs.{{Cite web |title=Alan Partridge's 10 Most Alan Partridge-y Moments Ever |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/alan-partridges-10-most-alan-partridge-y-moments-ever |access-date=2015-12-03 |website=NME |language=en-GB}} BBC Two broadcast a second series of I'm Alan Partridge in 2002, following Partridge's life in a static caravan with his new Ukrainian girlfriend after recovering from a mental breakdown.{{Cite web |last=Keeling |first=Robert |date=7 August 2013 |title=Alan Partridge's top TV moments |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/alan-partridge/26772/alan-partridges-top-tv-moments |access-date=14 September 2015 |website=Den of Geek |publisher=}}{{Cite web |last=Heritage |first=Stuart |date=4 April 2014 |title=Alan Partridge: a guide for Americans, newcomers and American newcomers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/apr/04/alan-partridge-a-guide-for-americans-newcomers-and-american-newcomers |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Guardian}} The writers found the second series difficult to make, feeling it had been too long since the first and that expectations for sitcoms had changed.
= 2003–2009: Hiatus and smaller roles =
After I'm Alan Partridge, Coogan tired of Partridge and limited him to smaller roles, feeling he had become an "albatross". In March 2003, the BBC broadcast a mockumentary, Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge, about Partridge's life and career. Coogan performed as Partridge at the Royal Albert Hall in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust in 2004.{{Cite web |date=2016-09-20 |title=Teenage Cancer Trust gigs through the years, starring Oasis, the Who, Coldplay and more |url=https://www.nme.com/photos/teenage-cancer-trust-gigs-through-the-years-starring-oasis-the-who-coldplay-and-more-1404007 |access-date=2020-12-02 |website=NME |language=en-GB}} In 2008, he performed a tour, Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge and other Less Successful Characters, featuring Partridge as a life coach.{{Cite web |last=Masterton |first=Simon |date=6 October 2008 |title=Reviews roundup: Steve Coogan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/oct/06/steve.coogan.alan.partridge |access-date=19 December 2015 |work=The Guardian}}
Coogan returned to Partridge after pursuing other projects, such as his work with the director Michael Winterbottom on films such as 24 Hour Party People (2002).{{Cite news |last=Hoad |first=Phil |date=2023-02-06 |title='I did my climactic speech – then took half an E': Steve Coogan on making 24 Hour Party People |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/06/how-we-made-24-hour-party-people-steve-coogan-michael-winterbottom |access-date=2023-02-06 |issn=0261-3077}} He said he did not want to say goodbye to Partridge, and that "as long as I can do my other things, that, to me, is the perfect balance". In 2020, Coogan said that though he had once tired of Partridge, he had now become "a battered, comfortable old leather jacket".{{Cite web|last=Nicholson|first=Tom|date=2020-09-05|title=Steve Coogan: How we made Alan Partridge's 'Monkey Tennis' scene|url=https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a33922072/steve-coogan-how-we-made-alan-partridges-monkey-tennis-scene/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-02|website=Esquire|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913083028/https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a33922072/steve-coogan-how-we-made-alan-partridges-monkey-tennis-scene/ |archive-date=13 September 2020 }}
= 2010: ''Mid Morning Matters'' =
Partridge returned in 2010 in a series of YouTube shorts, Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, as the host of a digital radio show with a new character, Sidekick Simon (Tim Key).{{Cite news |last=Aroesti |first=Rachel |date=2014-03-15 |title=Tim Key: from living-room poetry jams to comedy ubiquity |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/mar/15/tim-key-sidekick-simon-single-white-slut |access-date=2016-02-18 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} The series was later broadcast by Sky Atlantic. Coogan wrote it with the brothers Neil and Rob Gibbons, who submitted scripts to his company Baby Cow Productions. The Gibbons brothers have co-written every Partridge project since. According to Neil, Coogan "invited us in, our sensibilities chimed ... I think we were like two pairs of fresh eyes, and Steve seemed to fall in love with the character all over again."
Coogan said they chose the web format because "it was a bit underground, a low-key environment in which to test the character out again. And the response was so good, we realised there was more fuel in the tank." In his 2015 autobiography, Coogan wrote that he felt Mid Morning Matters was "the purest, most mature and funniest incarnation of Partridge", which he credited to the Gibbons brothers.{{Cite book |last=Coogan |first=Steve |author-link=Steve Coogan |title=Easily Distracted |publisher=Century |year=2015 |isbn=978-1780891712 |language=English}}
= 2011–2012: ''I, Partridge'' and TV specials =
In 2011, a spoof autobiography, I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan, written by Coogan, Iannucci and the Gibbons brothers, was published by HarperCollins. Coogan also recorded an audiobook version as Partridge. In the book, Partridge recounts his childhood and career, attempts to settle scores with people he feels have wronged him, and dispenses wisdom such as his assertion that Wikipedia has made university education "all but pointless".{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/23/i-partridge-alan-partridge-review|title=I, Partridge by Alan Partridge - review|last=Gordon|first=Edmund|date=23 November 2011|work=The Guardian|access-date=18 December 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} Coogan appeared as Partridge to promote I, Partridge on The Jonathan Ross Show{{cite web|title = Steve Coogan appears as Alan Partridge on 'Jonathan Ross' - video|url = http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a343386/steve-coogan-appears-as-alan-partridge-on-jonathan-ross-video.html#~pg4J6qhizjDgvk|access-date = 14 September 2015|date = 2 October 2011|last = Millar|first = Paul|website = Digital Spy}} and BBC Radio 5 Live.{{Cite news|title = Alan Partridge on how he killed a restaurant critic - BBC News| work=BBC News |url = https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-15204877|access-date = 2015-12-03|language = en-GB}} It received positive reviews and became a bestseller.{{cite news |date=16 April 2015 |title=Alan Partridge 'writes' second autobiography |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32334299 |access-date=14 September 2015 |work= |publisher=BBC News}}
On 25 June 2012, Partridge presented a one-hour Sky Atlantic special, Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life, taking the viewer on a tour of Partridge's home county, Norfolk.{{cite magazine|title = Meet the men who made Alan Partridge funnier than ever|url = http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-06-25/meet-the-men-who-made-alan-partridge-funnier-than-ever|access-date = 14 September 2015|date = 25 June 2012|magazine = Radio Times|last = Seale|first = Jack}} The programme earned Coogan the 2013 BAFTA for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme. It was followed the next week by Open Books with Martin Bryce, a mock literary programme discussing Partridge's autobiography.
= 2013: ''Alpha Papa'' =
On 7 August 2013, a feature film, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, was released in the UK. It was directed by Declan Lowney{{cite magazine|url = https://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=33802|title = Armando Iannucci on Alan Partridge Movie|access-date = 14 September 2015|magazine = Empire|date = 30 April 2012|last = de Semlyen|first = Phil}} and co-produced by StudioCanal and Baby Cow Productions, with support from BBC Films and the BFI Film Fund.{{Cite web |last=Levine |first=Nick |date=2012-06-26 |title=The Alan Partridge Movie receives August 2013 release date |url=https://www.nme.com/news/film/the-alan-partridge-movie-receives-august-2013-rel-868044 |access-date=2024-12-07 |website=NME |language=en-GB}} The film sees Partridge enlisted as a crisis negotiator during a siege at his radio station.
Filming began with an incomplete script, and Coogan and the Gibbons brothers rewrote much of it on the set. The rushed production was difficult; Coogan and Iannucci disagreed on the script, morale was low, and there were problems with casting and funding. In his memoir, Coogan wrote that it was the hardest he had ever worked and the loneliest he had ever felt; however, he was proud of the finished film. Alpha Papa was acclaimed and opened at number one at the box office in the UK and Ireland.{{cite news |date=12 August 2013 |title=BBC News - Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa tops the UK box office |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23672740 |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=BBC News}}{{cite web |last=Patrick |first=Seb |date=13 August 2013 |title='Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa' is the 'Top Daddy' of the UK Box Office | Anglophenia |url=http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/08/alan-partridge-alpha-papa-is-the-top-daddy-of-the-uk-box-office/ |access-date=14 September 2014 |publisher=BBC America}}
= 2015–2019: ''Scissored Isle'' and ''This Time'' =
In 2015, Coogan co-presented a special Christmas episode of the Channel 4 chat show TFI Friday as Partridge.{{Cite web |title=Alan Partridge to host TFI Friday Christmas special with Chris Evans |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/tfi-friday-alan-partridge-set-to-cohost-christmas-special-with-chris-evans-a3127101.html |website=Standard.co.uk |access-date=1 December 2015 |language=en-GB}} In February 2016, Sky Atlantic broadcast a second series of Mid Morning Matters.{{Cite news|title = Tuesday's best TV: It's Not Rocket Science; Back in Time for the Weekend; Happy Valley; Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters|url = https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/16/tuesdays-best-tv-its-not-rocket-science-happy-valley-alan-partridges-mid-morning-matters |newspaper=The Guardian |date=16 February 2016 |access-date=18 February 2016 |issn=0261-3077 |language=en-GB |first1 = Mark |last1=Gibbings-Jones |first2=Ali |last2=Catterall |first3 = Phil|last3 = Harrison|first4 = Jonathan|last4 = Wright|first5 = Andrew|last5 = Mueller|first6 = Ben|last6 = Arnold|first7 = Graeme|last7 = Virtue|first8 = Paul|last8 = Howlett}} Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle, a mockumentary in which Partridge examines the British class divide, followed in May also starring Ben Rufus Green.{{Cite web |last=Delgado |first=Kasia |date=5 May 2016 |title=Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle is the broadcaster's very funny journey of (sort of) redemption |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-05-05/alan-partridges-scissored-isle-is-the-broadcasters-very-funny-journey-of-sort-of-redemption |access-date=19 May 2016 |website=Radio Times}} A second book, Alan Partridge: Nomad, a travelogue in which Partridge recounts a journey across the UK, was published on 20 October.{{Cite web |last=Denham |first=Jess |date=20 July 2016 |title=Watch Alan Partridge announce new book Nomad and mercilessly diss Game of Thrones |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/exclusive-watch-alan-partridge-mercilessly-diss-game-of-thrones-before-announcing-new-book-nomad-a7146646.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722160136/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/exclusive-watch-alan-partridge-mercilessly-diss-game-of-thrones-before-announcing-new-book-nomad-a7146646.html |archive-date=2016-07-22 |access-date=24 July 2016 |website=The Independent |language=en-GB}}
In July 2017, Partridge appeared in an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme Inheritance Tracks, in which guests choose music to pass to future generations; he selected "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" by Barry Mann and the theme from Grandstand.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/02/16/best-alan-partridge-moments/|title=Top Alan Partridge moments|last=Monohan|first=Marc|date=11 July 2017|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=11 July 2017|language=en-GB}} Iannucci guest-edited an October 2017 issue of The Big Issue, featuring a debate on Brexit between Partridge and Malcolm Tucker, a character from The Thick of It, another sitcom created by Iannucci.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bigissue.com/culture/alan-partridge-vs-malcolm-tucker-how-our-iannucci-exclusive-broke-internet/|title=Alan Partridge vs Malcolm Tucker: The Great Big Brexit Grudge Match |date=23 October 2017 |work=The Big Issue |access-date=4 November 2017 |language=en-GB}} On 27 December, BBC Two broadcast a documentary about the history of Partridge, Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How and Whom?
Partridge returned to the BBC in February 2019 with a six-part series, This Time with Alan Partridge, a spoof current affairs programme in the style of The One Show.{{Cite news |last=Abbott |first=Kate |date=2019-02-14 |title=Part David Cameron, part Piers Morgan – Alan Partridge returns in time for Brexit |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/feb/14/alan-partridge-bbc-brexit-steve-coogan |access-date=2019-02-15 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} In the series, Partridge stands in after the regular host falls ill. Coogan felt it was the right time for Partridge to return as he might represent the views of Brexit voters. Neil Gibbons said the world of live television had changed since Partridge's creation: "If someone fluffed a line or got someone's name wrong or said something stupid, it was mortifying. But nowadays, those are the sort of people who are given jobs on TV." A second series was broadcast in 2021.{{Cite web|last=Craig|first=David|date=22 December 2020|title=This Time with Alan Partridge to return with season 2 in 2021|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/comedy/2020-12-22/this-time-with-alan-partridge-season-2-2021/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Radio Times|language=en}}
In August 2019, after he was caught speeding, Coogan escaped a driving ban after arguing that a planned Alan Partridge series could not be filmed on public transport, as driving is part of Partridge's character. The magistrates determined that it would cause “exceptional hardship" on the production staff if the series were cancelled.{{cite news |last1=Waterson |first1=Jim |date=13 August 2019 |title=Alan Partridge saves Steve Coogan from lengthy driving ban |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/aug/13/alan-partridge-saves-steve-coogan-from-lengthy-driving-ban |work=The Guardian}}
= 2020–present: ''From the Oasthouse'' and ''Strategem'' =
File:Alan Partridge - Stratagem Brighton 2022.jpgIn September 2020, Audible launched an Alan Partridge podcast, From the Oasthouse.{{Cite web|last=Harp|first=Justin|date=2020-09-03|title=Exclusive: Steve Coogan discusses the 'absence' of cast on Alan Partridge podcast|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a33904842/steve-coogan-alan-partridge-podcast-twist-explained/|access-date=2020-09-04|website=Digital Spy|language=en-GB}} It has Partridge discussing topics such as relationships, family and the culture wars.{{Cite news |last=Richardson |first=Hollie |last2=Frizzell |first2=Nell |last3=Bharadia |first3=Priya |date=2023-08-24 |title=Best podcasts of the week: Alan Partridge solves the culture wars, grandparenting and more |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/24/hear-here-alan-partridge-oasthouse |access-date=2023-09-03 |issn=0261-3077}} Coogan said the podcast format was liberating, with more opportunity for nuance and less need to create punchlines to unite the audience. The podcast was carefully scripted rather than improvised. Further series were released in September 2022{{Cite web |last=Bennett |first=Steve |date=30 May 2022 |title=Alan Partridge goes back to the oasthouse |url=https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2022/05/30/50880/alan_partridge_goes_back_to_the_oasthouse |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=Chortle |language=en}} and October 2023.{{Cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |date=2023-04-26 |title=Audible orders new podcasts from Daisy May Cooper, Lolly Adefope, Mo Gilligan & Dara Ó Briain; Re-Ups Jack Whitehall, Kurupt FM, Alan Partridge, French & Saunders series |url=https://deadline.com/2023/04/daisy-may-cooper-jack-whitehall-new-podcasts-audible-mo-gilligan-dara-o-briain-1235337813/ |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}
In April 2022, Coogan began a UK Alan Partridge tour, Stratagem, in which Partridge gave a motivational talk and addressed topics such as identity politics and culture wars.{{Cite web |last=Christie |first=Janet |date=7 May 2022 |title=Steve Coogan brings Alan Partridge to Scotland with a Stratagem for living our lives |url=https://www.scotsman.com/must-read/steve-coogan-brings-alan-partridge-to-scotland-with-a-stratagem-for-living-our-lives-3677111 |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=The Scotsman |language=en}} The Guardian critic Brian Logan gave the show four out of five, praising its "rich comedy of physical awkwardness" and writing that Partridge was now "at the centre of his own thriving multi-platform metaverse". He noted that though Coogan had once tired of Partridge, he now "clearly takes pleasure in the performance".{{Cite web |last=Logan |first=Brian |date=2022-04-27 |title=Alan Partridge: Stratagem review – two hours of tremendous silliness |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/apr/27/alan-partridge-stratagem-review-steve-coogan-edinburgh-playhouse |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=The Guardian |language=en}} The Independent critic Louis Chilton gave it two out of five, finding its jokes obvious and dated and that Partridge did not work in a live format.{{Cite web |last=Chilton |first=Louis |date=2022-06-01 |title=Alan Partridge: Stratagem is excruciatingly bad at times – review |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/reviews/alan-partridge-review-stratagem-o2-arena-b2091801.html |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=The Independent |language=en}}
In August 2022, Partridge joined the rock band Coldplay to perform the 1985 Kate Bush song "Running Up That Hill" at Wembley Stadium, London.{{Cite web |last=Skinner |first=Tom |date=2022-08-22 |title=Coldplay cover 'Running Up That Hill' with Alan Partridge in London |url=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/news/coldplay-cover-running-up-that-hill-kate-bush-with-alan-partridge-in-london-watch-footage-21676/ |access-date=2024-09-01 |website=Rolling Stone UK |language=en-GB}} A third Partridge memoir, Big Beacon, covering his return to television and his experience restoring a lighthouse, was published on 12 October 2023. The Times gave it a positive review, praising its "skilfully terrible writing".{{Cite news |last=Rudd |first=Matt |date=2023-10-18 |title=Big Beacon by Alan Partridge review — cancelled over the c-word |language=en |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/big-beacon-a-lighthouse-rebuilt-a-broadcaster-reborn-by-alan-partridge-review-2kw6x89xq |access-date=2023-10-18 |issn=0140-0460}} In January 2025, Coogan confirmed that filming was complete for a new BBC television series, How Are You?, which has Partridge exploring mental health issues following a year in Saudi Arabia.{{Cite web |last=Craig |first=David |date=28 January 2025 |title=Steve Coogan confirms filming has wrapped on new Alan Partridge series – tackling 'serious' subject |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/steve-coogan-alan-partridge-2025-series-wrapped-newsupdate/ |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=Radio Times |language=en-GB}} A fourth series of From the Oasthouse is due in June.{{Cite web |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |last2=Goldbart |first2=Max |date=2025-05-12 |title=From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast returning for Season 4 |url=https://deadline.com/2025/05/from-the-oasthouse-alan-partridge-podcast-audible-season-4-1236391444/ |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}
Character
File:Alan Partridge at the Hollywood Cinema (geograph 6378088).jpg, where Alpha Papa premiered in 2013{{cite web |title=Alan Partridge premiere cinema closes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-47164454 |website=BBC News |access-date=8 July 2020 |date=7 February 2019}}]]
Alan Partridge is an incompetent and tactless television and radio presenter,{{Cite web|title = Characters We Love To Hate, ALAN PARTRIDGE|url = http://www.mandatory.com/2014/05/07/fictional-characters-we-love-to-hate/8|website = Mandatory|access-date = 14 September 2015|first = Tom|last = Currie|date = 7 May 2014|archive-date = 7 October 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151007025701/http://www.mandatory.com/2014/05/07/fictional-characters-we-love-to-hate/8|url-status = dead}} with an inflated sense of importance and celebrity. He is socially inept and often offends his guests.{{Cite web |date=27 July 2013 |title=Alan Partridge's top 10 hits - in video |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jul/27/alan-partridge-greatest-hits |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Guardian}} According to the Telegraph, Partridge is "utterly convinced of his own superiority, and bewildered by the world's inability to recognise it". His need for public attention drives him to deceit, treachery and shameless self-promotion. In the Knowing Me, Knowing Yule Christmas special, he assaults a BBC boss and a paralysed man. Marber said Partridge's fundamental characteristic is desperation, and described him as part of a British tradition of "sad little man" characters such as Captain Mainwaring, Basil Fawlty and David Brent.
Coogan said Partridge was originally a "one-note, sketchy character"{{cite magazine |last=de Semlyen |first=Nick |title=Steve Coogan Talks Alan Partridge {{!}} interviews {{!}} empireonline.com |url=https://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1757 |magazine=Empire |access-date=14 September 2015}} and "freak show", but slowly became refined as a dysfunctional alter ego.{{Cite web |last=Coyle |first=Jake |date=4 May 2014 |title=Steve Coogan on 23 Years of Alan Partridge |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/05/steve-coogan-alan-partridge_n_5097062.html |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Huffington Post}} Whereas Coogan has affection for Partridge, he said Iannucci sees him as "basically an idiot". As he aged, Coogan become comfortable revealing unattractive and dysfunctional parts of himself in Partridge. In his memoir, he wrote that he finds it irritating when people observe that he is sometimes similar, and wrote: "I reply, 'Well, yes. Of course I am.' They can't quite believe this admission. 'But he's an idiot! Are you saying he's part of you?' As patiently as possible, I'll say, '"Yes, because part of me is an idiot!'"
Coogan credited Neil and Rob Gibbons for giving Partridge a more rounded personality in later incarnations, and said: "The 21st-century Alan is a nicer man. He is more empathetic and less about mocking the fool. More Malvolio and less Frank Spencer." The Gibbons brothers felt that by the time of Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, when Partridge is working for an even smaller radio station, he is more at peace with himself and that his lack of self-awareness saves him from misery.{{Cite web |last=Virtue |first=Graeme |date=27 July 2013 |title=Alan Partridge: a look inside his mind |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/27/alan-partridge-a-look-inside-his-mind |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Guardian}} Iannucci said that Partridge stays optimistic because he never sees himself as others see him, and that despite his failings he was "the perfect broadcaster for these times, when there are 24 hours to fill and dead time is a crime—he has a unique capacity to fill any vacuum with his own verbal vacuum".
Baynham said that although Partridge is unpleasant, the writers of I'm Alan Partridge tried to build empathy: "You're watching a man suffer but also at some level identifying with his pain." For Alpha Papa, Coogan wanted Partridge to be heroic and for the audience to sympathise with him while laughing at him: "You know he's done the wrong thing, but at least he's got some humanity. It's impossible to sustain 90 minutes of good drama without investing in the character." Felicity Montagu, who plays Partridge's assistant, Lynn, felt he was vulnerable and loveable, and a good person "deep down".
= Politics =
Partridge holds right-wing views. He is a reader of the right-wing newspaper the Daily Mail, and supported Brexit in line with the Daily Mail position.{{Cite news |last=Harrison |first=Ellie |date=15 October 2017 |title=Alan Partridge will return to the BBC to become the 'voice of Brexit' |language=en |work=Radio Times |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-08-03/alan-partridge-will-return-to-the-bbc-to-become-the-voice-of-brexit/ |access-date=16 October 2017}} Coogan, who is left-wing, described Partridge as a Little Englander, with a "myopic, slightly philistine mentality".{{Cite web |last=Barkham |first=Patrick |date=1 August 2013 |title=Steve Coogan: 'There is an overlap between me and Alan Partridge' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/01/steve-coogan-alan-partridge-alpha-papa |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Guardian}} Coogan felt the humour came from Partridge's misjudgement, rather than in a celebration of bigotry: "I don't want to add to the sum total of human misery. I want to point out things where we can improve our behaviour, myself included." He aimed to use humour to hold privileged and powerful people accountable.
Earlier versions of Partridge were more bigoted, but the writers found there was more humour in having him attempt to be progressive. For example, in I, Partridge, he stresses his friendship with the gay television presenter Dale Winton. Coogan said Partridge was aware of political correctness: "In the same way that the Daily Mail is a bit PC—it wouldn't be openly homophobic now—Alan is the same. He tries to be modern."
= Lifestyle =
Partridge lives in Norwich in the East of England. Iannucci said the writers chose it as it is "geographically just that little bit annoyingly too far from London, and has this weird kind of isolated feel that seemed right for Alan". According to Forbes, Partridge has "parochial bad taste",{{cite magazine |last=Leaf |first=Jonathan |date=25 April 2014 |title=Review: Steve Coogan Takes Flight In 'Alan Partridge' |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanleaf/2014/04/25/review-steve-coogan-takes-flight-in-alan-partridge/ |magazine=Forbes |access-date=14 September 2015}} and Coogan described him as "on the wrong side of cool". He is a fan of James Bond films and Lexus cars.{{Cite web |title=Alan Partridge Quotes {{!}} I'm Alan Partridge {{!}} Gold |url=http://gold.uktv.co.uk/im-alan-partridge/gallery/alan-partridge-quotes/#0 |access-date=14 September 2015 |publisher=Gold UK}} His talk show catchphrase, "Aha!", comes from Abba, and he named his son Fernando and his talk show Knowing Me, Knowing You after Abba songs.
In earlier incarnations, Partridge's wardrobe included a blazer, badge and tie, driving gloves and "too-short" shorts, styles he describes as "sports casual" and "imperial leisure".{{cite magazine|last=Reynolds|first=Simon|date=24 June 2013|title=The Alan Partridge Style Guide {{!}} Driving gloves, tie and blazer badge combo|url=http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/film-tv/4165/The-Alan-Partridge-Style-Guide/|url-status=dead|magazine=Esquire|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626130801/http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/film-tv/4165/The-Alan-Partridge-Style-Guide/|archive-date=26 June 2014|access-date=14 September 2014}} According to Iannucci, by the time of Alpha Papa, Partridge had "evolved to the Top Gear presenter circa 2005 stage", with sports jackets and a foppish fringe. Coogan said that the rise of postmodernism made it difficult to find clothes for Partridge, as "everything we had once seen as square or distasteful was now being worn by hipsters ... The waters of what was uncool became so muddied that it was difficult to find anything [that] looked bad and not just ironic. It even made me question if Alan was still relevant." As Coogan aged, the makeup he wore in earlier performances became unnecessary.
Legacy
Vanity Fair described Alan Partridge as a national treasure and a cherished part of British comedy, alongside characters such as Basil Fawlty and Mr. Bean".{{cite magazine|title = Comedian Steve Coogan Goes from Cult to Classic|url = https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/03/steve-coogan-201203|access-date = 14 September 2015|date = March 2012|magazine = Vanity Fair|last = Kamp|first = David}} According to Variety, in Britain "Alan Partridge is a full-on phenomenon, a multiplatform fictional celebrity whose catchphrases, mangled metaphors and social ineptitude are the stuff of legend and good ratings".{{Cite web|title = Film Review: 'Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'|url = https://variety.com/2013/film/global/alan-partridge-alpha-papa-review-1200567523/|access-date = 14 September 2014|first = Leslie|last = Felperin|date = 24 July 2013}} Though Partridge is less known outside Britain, Adam McKay, the director of the 2004 comedy Anchorman, said he is well known among American comedians including Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell and Jack Black: "Everyone watching those [Partridge] DVDs had the same reaction. How did I not know about this guy?" IndieWire wrote that "before there was Ron Burgundy for the Yanks, there was Alan Partridge for the Brits".{{cite news|last=Drumm|first=Diana|date=28 March 2014|title=Review: Why Alan Partridge isn't just for Steve Coogan fans|work=IndieWire|url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/review-why-alan-partridge-isnt-just-for-steve-coogan-fans|access-date=14 September 2015}}
File:Partridge_sept_26th_2020.jpg, Norwich|267x267px]]Brian Logan wrote in the Guardian that though Partridge was created as a satire of the "asinine fluency of broadcaster-speak" of the time, his development as a character study gave him a timeless quality.{{Cite web|url = https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/oct/06/alan.partridge.steve.coogan|title = Has Alan Partridge passed his sell-by date?|date = 6 October 2008|access-date = 19 December 2015|work =The Guardian|last = Logan|first = Brian}} Another Guardian journalist, John Crace, wrote: "By rights, Alan Partridge should have been dead as a character years ago, the last drops of humour long since wrung out ... but Steve Coogan keeps finding ways to make him feel fresh."{{Cite web|title = TV review: Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life; Veep; Walking and Talking|url = https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/jun/25/alan-partridge-veep-tv-review|access-date = 14 September 2015|first = John|last = Crace|work =The Guardian|date = 28 March 2014}} The Independent wrote that Partridge was a "disarming creation" whom the audience root for despite his flaws.{{Cite web|title = Film review: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (15)|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-alan-partridge-alpha-papa-15-8752928.html|access-date = 14 September 2015|date = 8 August 2013|work =The Independent|last = Macnab|first = Geoffrey}}
In the Guardian, Alexis Petridis wrote that audiences find Partridge funny partly because they recognise themselves in him,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/aug/05/alan-partridge-music-taste-surprisingly-great|title=Alan Partridge's music taste: surprisingly great|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|date=5 August 2013|website=The Guardian|access-date=14 September 2015}} and Edmund Gordon called Partridge "a magnificent comic creation: a monster of egotism and tastelessness". According to Gordon, Partridge allows progressive audiences to laugh at politically incorrect humour as "every loathsome comment is sold to us not as a gag, but as a gaffe". Writing that Partridge "channels the worst excesses of the privileged white man who considers himself nonetheless a victim", the New Statesman journalist Daniel Curtis saw Partridge as a precursor to post-truth politicians such as Nigel Farage and Donald Trump.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv-radio/2017/08/we-laughed-alan-partridge-little-did-we-realise-he-heralded-age-donald|title=We laughed at Alan Partridge – little did we realise he heralded the age of Donald Trump|last=Curtis|first=Daniel|date=7 August 2017|website=New Statesman|language=en|access-date=2 August 2018}}
Mandatory wrote that Partridge was "a fascinatingly layered and fully realised creation of years of storytelling and a fundamentally contemptible prick—he feels like a living, breathing person, but a living, breathing person that you want to strangle". The Telegraph wrote: "Never has one actor so completely inhabited a sitcom character. We believe Partridge is real, from his side-parted hair down to his tasseled sports-casual loafers."{{Cite web|title = The 10 best TV sitcoms of all time|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10121664/The-10-best-TV-sitcoms-of-all-time.html|access-date = 14 September 2015|work =The Independent|date = 24 February 2015}}
In 2014, the Guardian writer Stuart Heritage described Partridge as "one of the greatest and most beloved comic creations of the last few decades". In a 2001 poll by Channel 4, Partridge was voted seventh in their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/tv_characters/results.html|title=100 Greatest TV Characters|publisher=Channel 4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531160558/http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/tv_characters/results.html|archive-date=31 May 2009|access-date=26 May 2019}} In a 2017 poll of over 100 comedians, Partridge was voted best TV comedy character and Coogan best male comedy actor, and a scene from I'm Alan Partridge in which Partridge goes to the home of an obsessive fan was voted best comedy scene.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38507022|title=Fawlty Towers named best British sitcom|date=4 January 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=17 January 2018|language=en-GB}} In 2021, Rolling Stone named I'm Alan Partridge the 52nd-greatest sitcom, writing that it had taken Partridge "from a parody of celebrity-presenter smarm to one of the greatest Britcom characters ever".{{Cite magazine|last1=Sheffield|first1=Rob|last2=Sepinwall|first2=Alan|last3=Fontoura|first3=Maria|last4=Fear|first4=David|date=2021-05-04|title=100 best sitcoms of all time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-lists/best-tv-sitcoms-1162237/|access-date=2021-05-08|magazine=Rolling Stone|publisher=Penske Media Corporation|language=en-US}} In 2022, the Guardian journalist Michael Hogan selected Partridge as Coogan's greatest TV role, writing that he had "painstakingly fleshed him out from a catchphrase-spouting caricature to a layered creation of subtle pathos [and] one of our most enduring and beloved comic characters".{{Cite web |last=Hogan |first=Michael |date=2022-04-21 |title=Jurassic Park! It's Steve Coogan's TV roles ranked … from worst to best |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/21/jurassic-park-its-steve-coogans-tv-roles-ranked-from-worst-to-best |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=The Guardian |language=en}} In 2024, the Guardian named Knowing Me, Knowing Yule one of the greatest Christmas TV specials.{{Cite news |last=Hogan |first=Michael |date=2024-12-18 |title=Alan Partridge to The X-Files: it's the greatest Christmas TV specials of all time! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/dec/18/alan-partridge-to-the-x-files-its-the-greatest-christmas-tv-specials-of-all-time |access-date=2024-12-18 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
= Influence =
The Telegraph credited Partridge with influencing cringe comedies such as The Inbetweeners, Nighty Night and Peep Show. According to Den of Geek in 2013, he so influenced British culture that "Partridgisms" became everyday vernacular. Monkey Tennis, one of Partridge's desperate television proposals, has become shorthand for absurd television concepts.{{Cite news|title = Quiz: Monkey Tennis, Britain's Hardest Grafters … which are real TV shows?|url = https://www.theguardian.com/global/quiz/2015/may/29/monkey-tennis-britains-hardest-grafters-real-tv-shows|newspaper =The Guardian|date = 29 May 2015|access-date = 14 September 2015|issn = 0261-3077|first = Paul|last = Fleckney}}{{Cite web|title = Is there a place for Monkey Tennis?|url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/mar/24/broadcasting.bbc5|access-date = 14 September 2015|first = John|last = Plunkett|work =The Guardian|date = 24 March 2005}}{{cite news|url = http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article7022167.ece|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100530063752/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article7022167.ece|url-status = dead|archive-date = 30 May 2010|title = Sir Christopher Meyer makes his move for more telly work|date = 14 February 2010|work = The Sunday Times|last = Gill|first = AA}} Another, Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank, was used by the hostel booking site Hostelworld as the basis of a 2015 television advert with the boxer Chris Eubank.{{Cite web |date=20 August 2015 |title=Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubank: Alan Partridge's TV dream comes true |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/aug/20/youth-hostelling-with-chris-eubank-alan-partridge |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Guardian}} In 2020, Coogan said that many of Partridge's inane ideas had since become real programmes, making satire more difficult.
Partridge has become associated with the city of Norwich.{{Cite news |date=2020-09-24 |title=Alan Partridge statue appears in Norwich |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-54277794 |access-date=2020-09-24 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}} An art exhibition inspired by Partridge opened in Norwich in July 2015.{{cite news|title = Alan Partridge inspires city art exhibition - BBC News|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-33740125|access-date = 14 September 2015|date = 31 July 2015|work = BBC News}} In September 2020, an unofficial statue of Partridge created by sculptors in the film industry was temporarily erected outside the Forum in Norwich; Partridge's official Twitter account released a statement endorsing the statue. In October 2021, a fan convention at the Mercure Norwich Hotel was attended by more than 250 people.{{Cite web |last=Baldwin |first=Louisa |date=2021-11-01 |title=All the pictures as the Alan Partridge Fan Festival comes to Norwich |url=https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/things-to-do/days-out/alan-partridge-fan-festival-mercure-hotel-norwich-8455574 |access-date=2022-02-06 |website=Norwich Evening News |language=en-UK}} Accidental Partridge, an unofficial Twitter account which collects quotes reminiscent of Partridge's speech from real media figures, had attracted 144,000 followers by May 2014.{{Cite web |last=Hooton |first=Christopher |date=29 May 2014 |title=Accidental Partridge: TalkSport's Sam Matterface drops textbook Alan-ism on-air |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/accidental-partridge-talksports-sam-matterface-drops-textbook-alanism-onair-9451166.html |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=The Independent}} In August 2024, Lynn Faces, a play inspired by Partridge's assistant, Lynn, opened at the New Diorama Theatre in London.{{Cite news |last=Healy |first=Rachael |date=2024-07-19 |title=Lynn Faces: the play confronting coercive control – with the help of Alan Partridge’s PA |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jul/19/laura-horton-lynn-faces-play-breathless-coercive-control |access-date=2024-07-19 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
Appearances
= Guest appearances =
| class="wikitable mw-collapsible"
!Year !Title !Format !Role |
| 1997
|Clive Anderson: All Talk |TV talk show |
| 1998
| rowspan="2" |TV awards show (ITV) |Presenter of "Best British Video" award{{Cite web|url=http://www.brits.co.uk/videos/video/1511|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912183605/http://www.brits.co.uk/videos/video/1511|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 September 2016|title=1998 - British Video - All Saints|website=BRIT Awards|access-date=2016-06-06}} |
| 2000 |
| rowspan="2" |2011
|TV talk show (ITV) |
| The Richard Bacon Show
|Radio talk show (BBC Radio 5 Live) |
| 2017
|Inheritance Tracks |Radio series (BBC Radio 4) |
| 2022
|Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway |TV variety show (ITV) |Guest announcer (series 18, episode 6) |
| 2022
|Music of the Spheres World Tour |Live music concert |Special guest segment at one of the London Wembley shows |
= Books =
| class="wikitable mw-collapsible"
!Year !Title !Format !Role |
| 2011
|I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan | rowspan="3" |Autobiography |
| 2016
|Alan Partridge: Nomad |
| 2023
|Big Beacon |Author{{Cite web |last=Richardson |first=Jay |date=2023-05-11 |title=Alan Partridge publishes memoir about his TV comeback, Big Beacon |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/shop/news/7328/alan-partridge-writes-3rd-book/ |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}} |
= Fundraising =
= DVDs =
| class="wikitable mw-collapsible"
!Year !Title !Format !Role |
| 1998
|Steve Coogan Live: The Man Who Thinks He's It | rowspan="2" |DVD special |
| 2009
|Steve Coogan Live: As Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters |
References
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External links
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