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Steve Coogan has spoken about his desire to do a new another TV chat show as Alan Partridge, though this time with real guests.
His previous TV chat show Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge featured spoof guests played by performers including Rebecca Front, David Schneider, Doon Mackichan and Patrick Marber.
Alan Partridge is to make his debut on vinyl. He will be immortalised on a picture disc, released by Demon Records especially for Record Store Day 2016.
Radio 4 Extra is to broadcast a three-hour Steve Coogan special, entitled Knowing Steve, Knowing You.
Om Saturday 10th October, four days before his 50th birthday, Coogan is joined by novelist and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce for a look back at his life and career. There are exclusive new interviews and rare archive recordings.
Does comedy attract emotional fuck-ups or does a comedy career turn people into emotional fuck-ups? It’s a question that has been asked more and more in recent years. There were umpteen shows about mental health in Edinburgh this summer and I also tackled the subject in my book, plug plug, Beyond A Joke.
Steve Coogan has always had difficulty shaking off Alan Partridge. The Norfolk bore was there in his Tony Wilson in 24 Hour Party People, there in The Trip and there were even flashes of him in his serious role in Philomena. So with Happyish, about a middle-aged ad executive in crisis when a young team takes over the firm it is interesting to note that there is not a hint of Alan, even though the workplace side of the plot has an echo of the new broom in the Partridge movie Alpha Papa.
Richard Herring is back with an autumn run of podcasts recorded, as the title gives away, at the Leicester Square Theatre. So far he has interviewed Mark Gatiss, Brendon Burns and James Acaster, but the most noteworthy one of the current season is Steve Coogan, which came out this week on audio and on YouTube and is both funny and informative.
Need an extra helping of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's brilliantly tasty gastronomic tour of Italy? Then wait no longer. The DVD of their latest series, The Trip To Italy, is out next Monday, but just to whet your appetite here is one of the previously unseen extras from it in which affable but-not-quite-as-affable as his TV persona Rob Brydon persuades Steve Coogan to do an impression of former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock as they cruise through Tuscany.
Will Ferrell, Steve Coogan and Paul Whitehouse will be special recipients of the award for International Achievement, Outstanding Achievement and The Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Award respectively at Thursday night's British Comedy Awards.
Who invented character comedy? Was it Graham Fellows with John Shuttleworth? Steve Coogan with Alan Partridge, Paul Calf et al? A strong case can be made for Barry Humphries, whose show at the Palladium ends with a video cavalcade featuring all sorts of Humphries creations that I'd never even come across, from hairy hippies to socialist academic, Neil Singleton.
It has been a busy time for big comedians lately. Not just busy doing gigs and panel shows and plugging their plethora of product, but also busy being taken seriously. Following his guest editorship of the New Statesman and his appearance on Newsnight Russell Brand has now been taken to task by Robert Webb for being more style than content. Webb wrote a stinging response for the New Statesman saying that Brand's anti-voting stance has made him rejoin the Labour Party.
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