Entertainment For Lively Minds
Smell my cheese!
Posted by Dave Amitri on 10 October 2011 - 8:20pm.
My wife has bought me "I, Partridge" the memoirs of Alan Gordon Partridge which I am really looking forward to reading. It sent me on a Youtube Partridge crawl and it's been a while since I've spent a funnier half hour. He truly is one of the great comedy creations, he takes you veering from laughing till it hurts to watching through your fingers screaming "NO" at the television. Groundbreaking comedy and an obvious inspiration to Gervais among others, let's lift the Monday gloom by sharing our favourite Partrdige. Ah ha!!
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Have
you heard the original Radio 4 shows, Dave? Absolute genius, and the funniest Partridge, IMO.
To this day
when admiring a comely visage or a well-turned ankle I turn to the FPO (another radio series veteran) and remark "I liked those whores!"
Arguments at home have often been finessed by one or other of us bawling "Do. You. Have any pubic hair!? Because I'm forty seven and I've got loads!!"
No I haven't Johan
but a trip to Amazon shows the whole series is availalble on CD for £13. Sounds like a deal, thanks for the tip.
'I love you, in a way'
Sonja (33 years old -
Sonja (33 years old - cash-back!): 'Alan, I love you'
Alan exiting static home: 'thankyou very much'
"Guess which...
...one of you two ladies I'm going to make love with now."
"You've got it on the valance"
The Chocolate Mousse
Eat my goal!
I always loved
"Twat! That was liquid football!"
and
"Shit! Did you see that?"
I've got my nephews to shout
"The goalie... has got football pie... all down his shirt." whenever they score.
I've got the audiobook...
... of the new one read by Partridge (obviously) - it's 7 hours (unabridged) - just over a tenner on Amazon - I don't think I'm ever going to get to the end because I keep rewinding it to laugh again. "It really is first-class entertainment".
Gareth Cheeseman was his best character
This is wonderfull:
A Wank I Think!
His Mid-Morning Matters
sponsored by Fosters were 5(6?) 10 minute pieces of joy.
They're not available at the moment.
Inception. Inception. Inception. No. No. Inception.
12 in fact! There's talk of a DVD release.
Mid-Morning Matters App
All of these are available via a smartphone App at the moment. As I missed a lot of them at the time, I've picked it up.
Also got the audiobook of 'I, Partridge' (free via a one month free trial with Audible) - lovely stuff.
Racing commentary on On The Hour/ The Day Today
Horses included:
Novelty Bobble
Alan Beith Tonsil Boy
Christ's Chin
Alf Ramsay's Porn Dungeon
and
I Am A Horse!
Keith's won! Great!
Our pub quiz team was called Alf Ramsay's Porn Dungeon for quite some time. I'd forgotten about Novelty Bobble. Brilliant!
Not forgetting...
Trust Me I'm A Stomach
Lovely stuff. Quite
Lovely stuff. Quite literally first class.
Mrs Boothroyd's Holiday Dancer...
Zeinab Badawi's Twenty Hotels, Two Headed Sex Beast etc
Knows his music, that Alan...
"What was your favourite Beatles album?"
"Tough one... The Best of The Beatles"
Wonderful! Yes, a huge AP fan here too.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Whats
de big oidea?
"Can I shock you?"
I have to agree, there are many great moments.
The lunch with Tony Hayers at the BBC is the height of desperation.
"I mean...you don't want someone like Chris Evans, do you?"
"actually, that's exactly what we want"
(immediately) "I'm your man!"
Monkey
tennis?
I throughly recommend....
Alan's autobiography for his version of events.
And
on THAT BOMBSHELL....
Needless to say
he had the last laugh
Classic Queen
I worked at a summer camp in the States a good few years ago and one of the other counsellors loved two things equally - Alan Partridge and 2Pac. He styled himself after the latter and extensively quoted the former. "Classic Queen" became the standard answer any counsellor gave when asked how they were getting on.
Anyway, here's a clip where Michael explains what he did to a fag-eating monkey:
Cattle on bikes
"Can we
gaffer tape some sponges to the horse's hooves?"
Who is the best Lord?
"Flatley my dear I don't Riverdance!"
"Who's this beautiful man with a lovely voice? I's Annie Lennox.
Hide the Steak
It's Chrissie Hynde!
Ladies and gentlemen.
Pray silence for the Electric Light Orchestra.
Ruddy hell
its Soft Cell!
The Queen is dead, long live the King Singers.......
Just to reiterate, the Queen is not dead, its was just a joke that seems to have been taken seriously by a few pwople and a national television channel.....
"Big Yellow Taxi there."
You can do the rest.
"I can imagine Buck Rogers taking a dump on that...
...in the twenty-first century."
Ahem....
"Shall I do the other one....?"
Joe Beasley and Cheeky Monkey
John Thomson steals the show, obviously, but Alan "L'homme du sport" Partridge's reactions are superb:
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet
Here are two clips from one of my favourite Partridge episodes:
Alan insults a representative of the Norfolk Farmer's Union (nicely played by Chris Morris):
Leading to airborne bovine retribution while attempting to film a narrowboat advert:
Air bass
some wonderful clips and some new Partrdige / Coogan for me to look out for. Can't believe no-ones posted this yet.
Anecdotes are not his forte
Dan!
There was a brilliant Monkey Tennis moment...
...today just after PM on Radio 4. Cerys Matthews presents an angling programme (yes, really) called "Hook, Line and Singer". Go on. Say all that to yourself in a Partridge voice.
"Youth hosteling with Chris Eubank?"
Cooking.... in Prison?
... frighteningly, this has actually happened. Too depressed about that to Google it.
Should be called
"Roach Rage"
Bond
Wonderful
Cock piss Partridge
"Scum, subhuman scum…"
the little-seen cable TV charity adverts
for the Teenage Cancer Trust are some of my fave Alan bits. not as laugh out loud hilarious as your Day Today stuff and whatnot but fantastic all the same. there's 5 of them on You Tube
Thank you
Much as I love all the clips above, this is the first one that I hadn't actually seen until now. And wonderful as always, of course.
Having an iPhone and a credit card is dangerous
The moment the alan interview ended on wossy I downloaded the kindle book and while brilliant, iknow I'd have enjoyed the Audio version so much more. Caveat emptor massive...