Ohhh Richard Madeley - surely that's who Alan Partridge was based on? I love listening to him and cringing.
Here are some RM quotes...
'Maybe it was for the best.'
(To a woman who missed out on £928,000 on the lottery)
'I understand you have a little lad of 12. Is he a boy or a girl?'
'If I could throw a fishing rod into the corridors of time and reel you in, you'd throttle you, wouldn't you?'
(To John Lydon)
'Five stone? Wow, that's concentration camp thin that is.'
(To an anorexic teenager)
'What do you notice most that has changed during your 18 years in jail? Cars have five gears now, for example.'
(To one of the Birmingham Six)
'With a new baby, I bet you're glad you've lost some of your hearing.'
(To Dina Carrol)
'I've never met anyone who thought Sherlock Holmes invented the toilet. You're quite sharp. It's just that in the pure sense of the word, you're ignorant.'
(To Jade Goody)
You looked as if your head was going to come off!'
(To a guest struggling to control a stutter)
'So, Jane, when did you first realise that you were quite clearly mad?'
(To a psychiatric patient)
'I've never met a single woman who's happy with the way she looks, except Jordan, although I've never met her.'
'If you saw a mink with an electrode sticking out of its anus, would you wear it as a hat?'