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This Time With Alan Partridge

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covetingthepreciousthings · 26/02/2019 21:15

Sorry couldn't see a thread for this..

Did anyone watch it last night?

Just catching up with it now on iPlayer. I'm pleased to see Lynn is in it.

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headinhands · 19/03/2019 21:14

"Get out my fucking way"

cushioncovers · 19/03/2019 21:18
Grin
MorningsEleven · 19/03/2019 21:21

How has Richard Madely never sued?

cushioncovers · 20/03/2019 08:46

Has anyone seen 'Ideal Home' with Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd? It's a fab film.

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 20/03/2019 12:08

Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd you say? I need to watch that. Paul Rudd is hot.

Agree Monday's episode was bloody hilarious, it felt like it had a few moments of Partridge of Old happening. And maybe a nod to American Office CPR training session.

Just remembered that moment in the hotel room Monty Don bit when the briefcase cam fell over. Grin

Now that TWD has picked up a bit Monday night tv is ace!

headinhands · 20/03/2019 12:45

I am still chuckling about the way he said PLEASE when the hacker was reading out his emails, which was episode 1!

headinhands · 20/03/2019 12:46

Oh and the faces he was pulling during the meeting when he was tying vegetarianism.

fruitbastille · 20/03/2019 14:57

Loved "DON'T COVER YOUR BROOCH" and closeups of lynn nibbling nuts on her secret camera.

PerfumeandOranges · 20/03/2019 16:08

I thought the portrayal of an Irish man was a bit off-he was just missing a sprig of shamrock in his coat- as were the IRA songs.

Kaboodler · 20/03/2019 16:19

I thought his Irish character was so spot on. From the accent, to the clothes, you can tell Coogan has spent a lot of time in Ireland. I'm still a bit Shock that they played those songs on the BBC. But it made me howl.

PerfumeandOranges · 20/03/2019 16:42

Did you? You think most Irish people are swivel eyed loons wearing jumpers under suits then because that's how he portrayed them. You really think that is a 'spot on' portrayal?

I wonder if he'll black himself up next week and sing a few plantation songs in a comic way, while staring bug eyed around the studio.

Kaboodler · 20/03/2019 16:44

You think most Irish people are swivel eyed loons wearing jumpers under suits then because that's how he portrayed them

I never said most Irish people are like that character, but I do know Irish people like that character. And any other Irish person I've spoken to also thought it was hilarious.

Kaboodler · 20/03/2019 16:45

And the jumper under the suit look is still going strong with a certain age group!

PerfumeandOranges · 20/03/2019 16:47

Oh well, that's alright then! Not offensive, sterotyped or racist in the least then.

Do you think if he blacks up next week, he will wear a really loud shirt and a basket of fruit on his head? FFS!

PerfumeandOranges · 20/03/2019 16:49

PS. It doesn't matter a hoot if you've spoken to ten thousand Irish people and every one of them found it hilarious-which I doubt- it is still racist or you not aware that one doesn't have to be part of an ethnic group to find something racist.

Kaboodler · 20/03/2019 16:50

His parents are Irish so I think he's allowed play around with Irish stereotypes. Personally I think it was pretty subversive getting away with singing come Out Ye Black and Tans on the BBC. Nothing at all like blacking up.

Sweet that English people are getting offended on our behalves though.

Kaboodler · 20/03/2019 16:50

I get it. You're OUTRAGED.

Kaboodler · 20/03/2019 16:52

Channel that fury into writing to Points Of View.

InionEile · 20/03/2019 16:53

It was stereotyped and about 40 years out of date but... he got to sing The Men Behind the Wire on British TV so I can live with it Grin

I have to hand it to Steve Coogan too that he is the only non-Irish person I know of who can do a pitch perfect Irish accent. I first saw him do it in ‘Moone Boy’ and couldn’t believe it was him because his accent was perfect. Did some research and it turns out his mother is Irish so I assume that’s how he knows it so well.

Jinglejanglefish · 20/03/2019 16:55

I thought it was hilarious. As did (Irish) DP. I would suggest avoiding Alan partridge if you're easily offended. It's like watching south park then moaning about Cartman's anti semitism.

Kaboodler · 20/03/2019 16:55

Accent was flawless. That is so rare.

yiskasha · 20/03/2019 16:59

He does an impeccable accent. I wish I wasn't attracted to Steve Coogan 😭

Kaboodler · 20/03/2019 17:02

Oh I could never be attracted to him sexually! He seems to be quite the lothario though.

PerfumeandOranges · 20/03/2019 17:26

I hardly think that the singing of rebel songs was a great thing in this context.
They were there to encourage laughter at this Irish character: look at this loon with his bad teeth, bad hair and swivel eyes singing these silly songs. We were expected to laugh at him and his songs, not take them seriously.

Anyway, lots of people will take it at face value-laugh at this silly character with his fists up, singing his songs- and the racism, the shrinking of their songs into a comic moment, will entirely pass them by. Those songs have not been songs that people have generally laughed at and they certainly weren't written with that aim in mind.

I don't think The Dubliners, The Chieftains or, more recently The Irish Descendants, sing them in order to make an audience laugh but that is why Coogan used them

It was pretty savage-let's laugh at the daft Irish and their daft songs-disguised as humour and disguised well enough to make viewers think it was harmless.

I'm afraid the 'I'm Irish and I laughed' doesn't cut it; no more than when a black person says they're not bothered by The Black and White Minstrels.

Jinglejanglefish · 20/03/2019 17:29

As pp said, write to points of view then.