The episode where he goes out of his way to antagonise the Norfolk Farmers Union is quite possibly the funniest 30 minutes of comedy ever. Sheer brilliance from first minute to last.
This show is fantastic but it's spoilt with the laughter track. We don't need to be guided as to the funny bits. I used to love the League of Gentlemen too but it had a totally unnecessary laughter track. In its final series, it went without the fake laughing and so many people said it was no longer funny. I thought it was the best series ever.
@GenaF I actually forgot that this show had a laugh track. Which is weird, because I've seen both seasons countless times over the years (literally, I couldn't possibly count the amount of rewatches) but in recent years there has been such a huge amount of Partridge content that my last rewatch was probably about a year ago and was followed by MMM, From the Oasthouse, This Time, two audiobooks, and some other stuff in between - none of which have canned laughter. So I kinda forgot it was a thing in IAP, and also as a result, I really noticed it in these clips - and not in a good way. I never really noticed it or thought about it before, but for the first time, I not only noticed it, but can't unhear it and actually found it quite distracting and thus a bit annoying. I'm sure on the next rewatch I'll be used to it by half way through season one though and not notice it so much, hopefully 😅
'to this day I don't know whether it was dead... or just badly concussed' don't know why... but this is the best thing I've heard all week by a long shot.
Having actually once had a knitting needle through my foot and out the top of it as a result of a moment of stupidity, I couldn't help exclaiming "Lyn I've pierced my foot on a spike!" while I waited for an ambulance and tried not to bleed out. Needless to say my wife who was trying not to faint at the time didn't get the joke.
It's funny how even in serious moments, Partridge quotes still make us chuckle on the inside. I seriously have never been to a funeral without asking someone if they've got a battery for an Ericsson
Lynn - I've pierced my foot on a spiiikeee - Theres someone coming, be normal - Some of these people have come from Stoke. Lynn - you couldnt present - A Cat..........
I really don't get the series 2 haters. "Lynn some of these people came from Stoke....You couldn't present a cat". Top quality lines that have sat in my head for a decade now. The fat Alan flashbacks? Sex festivals? classic radio banter. What more do you want?
@@RaferJeffersonIII 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' was its own separate mock chat show to 'I'm Alan Partridge' series 1 and 2, which was a mockumentary of Alan's personal life after the show. Alan actually asks for a "second series" of Knowing Me Knowing You during the very first episode of 'I'm Alan Partridge' and is NOT granted one by Tony Hayers. Definitive proof, I'm sure you'll agree, that I'm Alan Partridge does not follow in the same chronological pathway of Knowing Me, Knowing You.
My personal two favorites I've never been able to find again: - he's giving some sort of presentation to old people and he has one up on the stage in a headlock and he says something like "you now disarm the terrorist" - he's doing a radio phone in and someone writes in about something embarassing and he says "I'll just use your first name.... Diego from Sproston"
I actually like laugh tracks, and yes I'm English. I don't feel like they're telling me something's funny, so much as laughing at the jokes themselves, and yes I'm including fake audiences in this, as well. Basically, what I mean is; I don't feel like they're there to tell me when to laugh, I just feel like that's where "they" (regardless of whether they're real or not) are laughing, and if I agree, I'll laugh too. I find it no different to being in a room with other people (or even another person), when we're watching a comedy, and they laugh at something. I don't feel like I have to laugh when they do, but I will if I find it funny. Some programmes are genuinely recorded in front of a live audience, and I wouldn't be surprised if shows aren't given laugh tracks to recapture that affect, rather than to tell the audience when to laugh themselves.
Regardless of what you think/feel they are there for laugh tracks ARE there to prompt the viewing audience when something is funny - that is their only purpose. If you like them then that's fine but I do think/feel you are showing very poor taste - Alan Partridge with a laugh track ? No !
Twirlyhead Well, first of all, I just checked one of my TiVo recordings of I'm Alan Partridge, and there is a laugh track - I heard laughter around sixteen seconds into the show, so the UK Gold broadcasts at least had a laugh track. Secondly, if that's honestly what laugh tracks are for, then fine. I still don't feel like they're doing that, and therefore it doesn't annoy me, but that is my opinion, and I accept that you have a different one.
the laugh track is a trait of 90s comedy, see first two series of The League of Gentleman, they didn`t want the laugh track but BBC insisted. It`s only after The Office we were finally able to get rid of it
The feathers on birds are actually soft armour plates, my little brother hit one in the head it went crazy for a few seconds and stopped moving, so I waded into the pond and we then hid it under some leaves and bark bcz we were were about 12 and not supposed to hit living targets. We came back 1 hour later and were both relieved to see it was gone, we only gave the duck a concussion, 1 cm to the right and my brother would have killed it through the eye, he made a head shot on a duck was 10 out of 10 impossible. The family pet dog was following us had no training and would scare away our targets so my brother took care of businesse and shot the dog in the arse to make it run home, was only a pellet rifle but suitable for carrion.
There isn't a man alive, funnier than Steve Coogan. If you haven't seen the movie, do. Nothing is lost on the move to the big screen. Of course, this is the humble opinion of an American.
If you never watched Alan partridge...and were presented with a script you would think "wtf is this? It sounds awful" That's how genius Steve coogan is..
“Big Yellow Taxi there by Joni Mitchell, a song in which she complains that they ‘paved paradise to put up a parking lot’ - a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise. Something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn’t quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song.”
The episode where he goes out of his way to antagonise the Norfolk Farmers Union is quite possibly the funniest 30 minutes of comedy ever. Sheer brilliance from first minute to last.
J PR agreed 👍🏻
Absoblooodylutely
Oath I just watched that last night on ABC
He trod in a rather large farmer’s pat
@@duncanmunkan this fr?
My wife and I haven’t said “Spike” properly in 15 years.
NAAAAIL GUUUN
The intake of breath, and then the way he says "Lynn, I've pierced my foot on a spiiiiiiiiiiiiike" will never stop making me laugh.
I like reaction from the audience when the camera pans down to his foot
This show is fantastic but it's spoilt with the laughter track. We don't need to be guided as to the funny bits.
I used to love the League of Gentlemen too but it had a totally unnecessary laughter track. In its final series, it went without the fake laughing and so many people said it was no longer funny. I thought it was the best series ever.
@GenaF I actually forgot that this show had a laugh track. Which is weird, because I've seen both seasons countless times over the years (literally, I couldn't possibly count the amount of rewatches) but in recent years there has been such a huge amount of Partridge content that my last rewatch was probably about a year ago and was followed by MMM, From the Oasthouse, This Time, two audiobooks, and some other stuff in between - none of which have canned laughter.
So I kinda forgot it was a thing in IAP, and also as a result, I really noticed it in these clips - and not in a good way. I never really noticed it or thought about it before, but for the first time, I not only noticed it, but can't unhear it and actually found it quite distracting and thus a bit annoying.
I'm sure on the next rewatch I'll be used to it by half way through season one though and not notice it so much, hopefully 😅
Lynn I've pierced my foot on a spaaaaaiiikkk.
🤣🤣
I can hear the blood squelching in my shoe
Ooooooohhhhh youre going to have a good tiiimmmmme!
some of these people have come from Stoke
Then all the blood will pour out the hole, you old mess!
I love how he says "spike" lol
spaaaike
Chris Barnett yes, that's the bit I was waiting for. He sounds very northern when he says it.
Spyyyyyiiiike!
Chris Barnett borat😂
He says it like I imagine Liam Gallagher would say it
This is great banter, it really is
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Hmnnnnnnnmnnnnn viruses
And it’s fine to join in.
the laugh after Alan's funny stories always kills me
"The Queen is dead, long live... the King Singers"
I've always loved Alan's song introductions.
When I was playing in a cover band, I had to use his Thin Lizzy intro when we played Cold Sweat.
🤣
@@russfoulkes5490 “UB40” …..say no more
'to this day I don't know whether it was dead... or just badly concussed'
don't know why... but this is the best thing I've heard all week by a long shot.
'A bit small minded, a bit nasty' 😂
It never fails to make me laugh when Bill Oddie ends up on the crank caller list 😂
"Lyn, you couldn't present a......cat!" lol
'Someone should clean up these leaves'... funniest part IMO
Ollie Davies that happened as i read this
As it’s not funny, says everything
Didn't Trump recommend that as a solution to the California forest fires lol fucking madman 😂
@Maxbinned I'm no fan of journalists man if came from his own mouth . Trump isn't real opposition ,if he was he would of been JFK'd years ago.
@Maxbinned I'm not a democrat or a trump supporter both sides are against you.
Having actually once had a knitting needle through my foot and out the top of it as a result of a moment of stupidity, I couldn't help exclaiming "Lyn I've pierced my foot on a spike!" while I waited for an ambulance and tried not to bleed out. Needless to say my wife who was trying not to faint at the time didn't get the joke.
Or as Michael world say, "Needles To Say"
Needless to say, you had the last laugh.
Alan Governs "funny story"
It's funny how even in serious moments, Partridge quotes still make us chuckle on the inside. I seriously have never been to a funeral without asking someone if they've got a battery for an Ericsson
You called an ambulance for a knitting needle through the foot? That’s just saaaaad 😮
The best bits are every series, film and book of Alan Partridge.
"i gorged on toblerone and drove to dundee in my bare feet." True story
After buying the rights to K-9, the robot dog off casters from Doctor Who
Fucking incredible
Well you were having a breakdown. You threw a box-full of paperwork off a ferry, but there are lots of nasty people at the BBC.
"Your'e just quoting bits from casualty now".
No one does comedy as good as the English
I've never heard of Alan Partridge and I'm fucking dying watching this compilation 💀 Steve Coogan is amazing
“CRASH”, “BANG”, “WHOLLAP!!” What a video 😂😂😂
OOOOH you're gonna have a good tiiimmee!!!
just doing a bit of camp
"That was classic intercourse. So erm, thanks."
should get that on a shirt
"I had some personal issues I had to sort out."
"You drove to Dundee in your bare feet!"
"That's enough, Lynn!"
First time I've noticed that Alan actually has a bloody decent radio studio.
willzer808
James Wood
The foot on the spike makes my whole body hurt.
RIP Natalie.
You were my neighbour as a child and our families mixed socially. Im so pleased you're immortalised as the "Ive never heard of you" girl
Who is Natalie?
'Well smelt!, Voodoo.... Java!"
Classic Intercourse !
Mines unleaded. What does that mean? I don't know.
1:41 Coogan is a superb impressionist.
I wonder the camera man would a round him without making a sound
Also someone should clean up those leafs
@@christopherstein2024 leaves *
You can stop giggling or I'll take down your particulars
Some people actually thought this character was real at first...Steve Coogan is another great comedian...Hilarious as Alan Partridge.:))
He is real but he's actually called Richard Madeley
I used to think Alan Partridge was real
Alan is hilarious as Steve
I'd have to say......the best of Alan Partridge
‘You should be in hospital!’
‘Lynne, some of these people have come from Stoke!’
"On one occasion I hit a duck and it went below the water, to this day I don't know if it was dead or just badly concussed" utterly hilarious
"Ruddy hell, its soft cell" bloody love it!
Lynn - I've pierced my foot on a spiiikeee - Theres someone coming, be normal -
Some of these people have come from Stoke.
Lynn - you couldnt present - A Cat..........
a true master . i have tears watching this
Why has it taken 11 years for CZcams to recommend this to me
Me too, but I’m glad it did.
Now I remember. The best thing was when he was giving his speech after he got his foot pierced on that fence.
1:48 It's mid winter, Alan. No Cuckoos about lol. The Cuckoo is a migrant and only visits these shores in the Summer months.
I've been looking for this for aaaaages
i was so unprepared for the way he said spike
"Please guys remember, if you are gay....rubber up."
Such great banter
OOOOOO YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME!
just being a bit camp...
Lynn is the star of the entire series.
too bad the actress that plays her died
I didn't know that!! :( :(
BaileyRob
Actually no she didn't it was a minor character woman that died, I forget which one but it wasn't Lynn, sorry for the confusion!
Oh! lol At least Lynn woman's still alive.
+BaileyRob she is! I recently saw her in a coffee shop.
i wear tommy hilfinger lmao
I’m speaking to Domingo from little oakly
"I wear Tommy Hillfinger" haha fucking love the thick jordy
It’s geordie
@@pacco9532 Ok Jordy.
There are real Allen Partridges all over Britain.
Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan.
Great banter
Hahaha that’s so funny isn’t it
I wear Tommy Hill finger!
2:14 we need to clean up these leafs 😂
I need to say "That was classic intercourse, so thanks" more often!
Do you get laid much these days, George?
Ahuhh huh huh huhuh uhuh huhh uhuh uhuh huh huhh huhuh huhhhhh.......news
"Don't panic, stupid boy!" Classic 😀
Classic intercouse.
I really don't get the series 2 haters. "Lynn some of these people came from Stoke....You couldn't present a cat". Top quality lines that have sat in my head for a decade now. The fat Alan flashbacks? Sex festivals? classic radio banter. What more do you want?
I like series 2, it just doesn't have the utter genius of series 1
Series 2 is by far my favourite
Series one was knowing me
Knowing you with Alan partridge. What you think is series 1 is actually series 2. And series 2 is series 3. This country
@@RaferJeffersonIII 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' was its own separate mock chat show to 'I'm Alan Partridge' series 1 and 2, which was a mockumentary of Alan's personal life after the show. Alan actually asks for a "second series" of Knowing Me Knowing You during the very first episode of 'I'm Alan Partridge' and is NOT granted one by Tony Hayers. Definitive proof, I'm sure you'll agree, that I'm Alan Partridge does not follow in the same chronological pathway of Knowing Me, Knowing You.
Series 2 is the best of Alan, absolutely at his funniest
After death there is *N O T H I N G*
Great Banter!
It really is
I love Alan's Roger Moore style gun stance.
"Lyn, I've pierced me foot on a spike"
Will there ever be a better minute of television than
Crash
Bang
Wallop
What a video
My personal two favorites I've never been able to find again:
- he's giving some sort of presentation to old people and he has one up on the stage in a headlock and he says something like "you now disarm the terrorist"
- he's doing a radio phone in and someone writes in about something embarassing and he says "I'll just use your first name.... Diego from Sproston"
Lynn You couldn’t present a Cat! 😂
The UK broadcasts didn't have a laughter track - Brits don't need to be told when Alan is funny.
I actually like laugh tracks, and yes I'm English. I don't feel like they're telling me something's funny, so much as laughing at the jokes themselves, and yes I'm including fake audiences in this, as well.
Basically, what I mean is; I don't feel like they're there to tell me when to laugh, I just feel like that's where "they" (regardless of whether they're real or not) are laughing, and if I agree, I'll laugh too. I find it no different to being in a room with other people (or even another person), when we're watching a comedy, and they laugh at something. I don't feel like I have to laugh when they do, but I will if I find it funny. Some programmes are genuinely recorded in front of a live audience, and I wouldn't be surprised if shows aren't given laugh tracks to recapture that affect, rather than to tell the audience when to laugh themselves.
Regardless of what you think/feel they are there for laugh tracks ARE there to prompt the viewing audience when something is funny - that is their only purpose. If you like them then that's fine but I do think/feel you are showing very poor taste - Alan Partridge with a laugh track ? No !
Twirlyhead Well, first of all, I just checked one of my TiVo recordings of I'm Alan Partridge, and there is a laugh track - I heard laughter around sixteen seconds into the show, so the UK Gold broadcasts at least had a laugh track.
Secondly, if that's honestly what laugh tracks are for, then fine. I still don't feel like they're doing that, and therefore it doesn't annoy me, but that is my opinion, and I accept that you have a different one.
MJNSEIFER
Live long and prosper (I'm doing the Spock sign but you can't see it).
Twirlyhead this is bizarre, there's a version with and without.
On one occasion, I hit a duck...
I don't know if it was dead, or badly concussed
Had to finish it off with a jack. It's a dead duck and now I'm clinically fed-up; boo-hoo.
I watched I'm Alan Partridge full movie here twitter.com/f824ea0f11f6e64ba/status/824453758671167488
Lovely stuff.
Talk radio stations in the U.S. usually play paranormal and conspiracy theories around midnight.
‘Lynn, you couldn’t present a...cat’ 4:52
“Lovely stuff” - Shakin Stevens
'crash..bang..wallop..what a video' lmao
the laugh track is a trait of 90s comedy, see first two series of The League of Gentleman, they didn`t want the laugh track but BBC insisted. It`s only after The Office we were finally able to get rid of it
ha ha ha....ha ha ha....ha....ha.....NEWS
Immaculate timing.
Ducks (all creatures honestly) actually do mourn and grieve their dead. So she would watch a dead Duck.
Yeah I saw a fly at the cemetery the other day
What a funny story ahuhuhuh, ahuh ahuh
ahuh
ahuh
ahuh
NEWS
"I'm Alan Partridge - best bits"
First few clips are from Anglican Lives.
How would you like to be disposed of when you're dead? Classic!
3:15 to 3:37 is genius! 🤣🤣
6:07 best bit
AT 3.38.. PART OF ONE OF THE BEST COMEDIC SCENES EVER, AND BRILLIANTLY ACTED .
I’ve pierced my foot on a spikeeee
5:00 Holbeach and Pinchbeck are in Lincolnshire though 😂
Cool work. :D
Thank you for your kind words. I love Alan Partridge. I also like Peep Show
Oh... I'm on that part of CZcams again
the way he says spike is hilarious
The feathers on birds are actually soft armour plates, my little brother hit one in the head it went crazy for a few seconds and stopped moving, so I waded into the pond and we then hid it under some leaves and bark bcz we were were about 12 and not supposed to hit living targets. We came back 1 hour later and were both relieved to see it was gone, we only gave the duck a concussion, 1 cm to the right and my brother would have killed it through the eye, he made a head shot on a duck was 10 out of 10 impossible. The family pet dog was following us had no training and would scare away our targets so my brother took care of businesse and shot the dog in the arse to make it run home, was only a pellet rifle but suitable for carrion.
Partridge series 1 & 2 both had laughter tracks...
Lyn some of these people have come from Stoke...
WHAT A VIDEO!!
There isn't a man alive, funnier than Steve Coogan. If you haven't seen the movie, do. Nothing is lost on the move to the big screen. Of course, this is the humble opinion of an American.
Roscoe Davis And here is the nonhumble opinion of an American: HOLY SH*TBISCUITS that was an enjoyable f*cking film!
Roscoe Davis Text?
can just imagine you doing the wavey hands saying ' I'm an American'
Karl pilkinton ? im sorry but he is naturally funnier
Nick Oakley Look what this idiot did, IN AMERICA
The woman who plays lynn was in the thick of it. She always plays someone that is verbally abused for some reason.
“Someone should cleanup these leaves”
"That was classic intercourse.. so, uh, thanks".
It's the most quotable UK comedy ever. Surpassed Python in that respect. Coogan is simply brilliant.
You're not wrong😂🤣my mate and I always do the 'crash, bang, wallop, What A Video' at least once every six weeks.
Definitely not the most quotable, Fawlty Towers and only fools are better
@@donnnjavosss7294 depends on your age. I'm 48 and raised on FT but I quote AP more
If you never watched Alan partridge...and were presented with a script you would think "wtf is this? It sounds awful"
That's how genius Steve coogan is..
Gooooooooooaaaaaalllllll
haha this is great banta
it really is
Well I hate Mercs
People who drive them are SAA AA AAD
What a video!!!!
“Big Yellow Taxi there by Joni Mitchell, a song in which she complains that they ‘paved paradise to put up a parking lot’ - a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise. Something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn’t quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song.”
Fab.