Do you have to be a Brit to find it funny?
You're a posh sod, with plums in your mouth.
Never got into Partridge, more of a Saxondale guy me self innit
>>220211305Not enough race-based or white guilt-based "comedy" in there for you, Gomez?
>>220211305I don't find the character particularly funny but he's always comfy. Maybe you do have to be British, I dunno.
maybe, that kind of naff (or ‘corny’ as I goes the Americans might say) light entertainment personality is uniquely British
>>220211305>Do you have to be a Brit to find it funny?probably
I thought I'd find this funny, but I really didn't. It wasn't clever or biting enough. Just a bit too cornball.
I was familiar with the phrase "Stop getting Bond wrong" for years before watching the actual clip.I always assumed it was Alan getting pissed that the new Bond movies sucked.Turns out it's just him getting mad at some other people for misremembering details from the old movies.
>>220211305>>220212635Watch Toast of London
CRASH
I think alan partridge stuff is just really hit or miss. like his original show from the 90s (early 2000s?) is pretty great. and his first appearances in blue jam or whatever that show was called.
>>220212911Don't watch Toast of Hollywood
>>220213032Yeah I watched one ep and it seemed as if they were rusty/holding backBut Toast has to make a comeback
>>220211305If you imagine he's on a tree that has apple-like fruits
Probably. Oxbridge nepobabies are their version of jews. Plebs are forced to pretend they're brilliant and funny. It's charming in a way that they maintain a caste system like that.
>>220211305You don't like baked beans and a sausage in a cup?
lot of big spastic mentalists in here
>>220211305
A lovely Irish gesture.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEjEGbAFzJU
>>220211305British "humor" is essentially 2011 reddit humor
>>220213839https://youtu.be/5EXsWz9p6bkNah
>>220213839I'm not familiar with Reddit humour like you. What does it entail and what makes it different to other country's humour like say, the US etc?
>>220211305I'd imagine being familiar with awful, middle of the road British TV presenters would help. He's an incredible parody of them.
>>220213549Steve Coogan is a working class Manc of Irish stock, which is why he's actually funny
>>220213800I said who the hell is dat.
>>220211305I thought it was interesting he comes off as less of an arsehole in his movie but upon reflection he's just as bad as his telly counterpart. I think it's how it's presented. Cause there were moments on the show I thought "Jesus what a prick" but never thought that during the movie.
>>220215977I'm Alan Partridge is kino.
>>220211305for some references you will have to be a British boomer to fully get, but things like turning up to a funeral in a sponsored motorbike jacket or yelling his new friend's name repeatedly to catch his attention is just universally funny
>>220212964Brass Eye? Was he in that or am I thinking of The Day Today (another very funny Chris Morris show)?
CRASH!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Av4xAV600
>>220211305You need to be a man with a past. A man with passion. And a man with impeccable banter.
>>220211305Have bongs seen a weird/hilarious (my wife thought it was weird, I thought it was hilarious) flick he made over here called Hamlet 2? That's where a lot of Americans first saw him.
>>220218206I'm British and have never heard of it.
>>220216771He started on On the Hour a spoof news radio show which was then turned into the tv show The Day Today.
>British tabloids are after you>Hacking your phone>Accuse you of getting Owen Wilson back on drugs and trying to kill himself>Go on radio show where they are explicitly told not to bring these tabloid stuff up>They dohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxPXB0ah2B8
>>220213549If you write out what they're saying and read it back without hearing the accent, you realize it's mostly bullshit.
>>220211305I think it's saaaad that you drive like a district nurse, and that you'd waste everyone's time by slagging off beloved presenters who have been called 'a safe pair of hands' by no less than two corporate newletters for industry leaders. maybe if you weren't sitting at home in your council house on your adidas sofa eating chips all day you could also find some purpose and then maybe you could have a big tv and hi-fi in your spare room like I do.
>>220218339That's right, I forgot about On the Hour. Brilliant show.
>>220212950BANG
IAP was the best series, I love how it's Alan at his absolute lowest point but it's still funny. My favourite episode is the one where he's so bored he ends up stealing the traffic cone.
Do they ever repeat knowing me knowing you on uk gold or anywhere ever? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_W6FwN_hY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxc2-y-VJlg
I find it funny and I’m not a Brit
>>220219518Wasn't this based on a real comedian?
>>220211305AHAAAAAAA
>>220220585Im not sure any one person afaik, but this guy who reviews lots of old british comedy https://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2022/07/28/vhswtf-gulf-aid/ swears that in some old 80's vhs doing a deep dive he found some weird belgian performance act that probaably influenced those french surrealists or something that ended up in knowing me/knowing you. A lot of these guys who wrote and performed in partridge were also doing fringe standup and comedy in this time when end of the pier comedy was dying but still around.
IAP was the absolute best, the Golden Period, but I think you need the Bong cultural context to appreciate it. In those days Alan was a parody of UK TV dinosaurs like Wogan, Edmonds, Kilroy, Grundy, Alan Titchmarsh, and various others whose parochial media never travelled outside our island.
>>220212480>you now remember that the BBC once made shows that were anything but this
