Alan Partrdige New Series: Kiss my face

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I've heard that he gets married, still works as a local dj and lives in a caravan. Will it be crud or will it surpass the first 2 classic offerings?

I think it starts in about a month.

― kinski (kinski), Friday, 20 September 2002 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Partrdige eh? Hmm, how mentalist of me.

― kinski (kinski), Friday, 20 September 2002 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

also a new series of league of gentleman, again I hope they come up with the laughs of the first two series.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 20 September 2002 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Excellent, I wasn't aware of a LoG MACH III.

― kinski (kinski), Friday, 20 September 2002 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

He apparently hosts a military-themed cable TV quiz show called Skirmish. Though this could be Coogan and Iannucci throwing around misinformation. As could the 'mail-order bride' thing; at the time of the (great) Comic Relief interview with Bryan Ferry ('98? Secreted away on BBC2 while the news was on BBC1; then BBC1 gets the now-traditional awful Partridge medley) wasn't he supposedly getting married to some Canadian woman ("it's not a visa thing")?

I think I'm Still Alan Partridge starts as soon as the current AP marathon ends - which would mean Oct 21. When I'm out of the country. The comedy dweebs on [site not worth mentioning] will pronounce it 'total shit' and the rest of us will be mildly disappointed, I expect.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 20 September 2002 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

also a new series of league of gentleman, again I hope they come up with the laughs of the first two series.

I hope they don't come up with the laughter track of the first two series. Am I alone in this?

― chris j (chris j), Friday, 20 September 2002 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

no, I dislike both Partridge and League of Gentlemen.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 20 September 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

you're not alone. the laughter track also tarnishes 'i'm alan partridge'. why the fuck do they do this?

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 20 September 2002 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

can i just echo michael ?
that bryan ferry thing was *ace* !

even the geordie bloke was in it.
it was hilarious !

― piscesboy, Friday, 20 September 2002 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

why the fuck do they do this?

because we're too thick to know when to laugh. obv

― chris j (chris j), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

what's the earliest sitcom without a laugh track? i can only think of spaced (but that's generally true and nothing to do with the question)

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 20 September 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

No laugh-track for new League of Gentlemen according to HEAT!!! (which also features a Christopher Eccleston cameo, mmm).

― Ellie (Ellie), Friday, 20 September 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd be very worried about new Alan Partridge - the two series so far are perfect and quite different. From the sound of it they don't have any major new ideas so it'll be diminishing returns.

― tigerclawskank, Friday, 20 September 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

what's the earliest sitcom without a laugh track?

Oh god, now I'll be remembering old sitcoms all weekend. Certainly the beeb showed MASH without its laugh track. The present reruns on cable with the track reinstated have thoroughly destroyed what affection I retained for the series. I now see it for the pile of sentimental crap it really was.

― chris j (chris j), Friday, 20 September 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

''I'd be very worried about new Alan Partridge - the two series so far are perfect and quite different. From the sound of it they don't have any major new ideas so it'll be diminishing returns.''

yeah, I completely agree. I'm also worried abt League of gentleman, one episode of that has more laughs than 50 Friends episodes but I don't know how they will keep it up.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 20 September 2002 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i played a bunch of KMKY episodes for my roommate and he didn't laugh once, not even when partridge smacked that child prodigy character. grr.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

why can't people just oblige me and pretend to go along what i think is hilarious? selfish twunt.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Larry Sanders show was without laughing track.

― kinski (kinski), Friday, 20 September 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

''I'd be very worried about new Alan Partridge - the two series so far are perfect and quite different. From the sound of it they don't have any major new ideas so it'll be diminishing returns.''

What, aside from giving him a girlfriend and moving him into a caravan? I think the idea of putting Alan into an on-screen relationship could be a masterstroke. Alternatively, it could be a disaster, but it will certainly not mean the whole thing will just chug on as before.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 20 September 2002 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a bit negative to say it'll be shit before it even starts, no?

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

No, like, the laugh track on "I'm Alan Partridge" is a wry comment on the sitcom format, playing the obviously location-shot verite-style images against a completely and blatantly phony comedy device in an attempt to...

...oh wait, you're right. It's just annoying. But thoughts like those above did seem more appealing to me while watching it than thinking that they just stuck it on there for the usual reason.

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Sunday, 22 September 2002 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The interiors in IAP weren't actually shot on location - it was a four-sided set in a studio with a live audience, watching on monitors. Can't vouch for whether the laughter was entirely genuine, mind.

Even TV's Naughtiest Blunders with Steve Penk (Dennis Norden with a dose of DANGER) has an actual studio audience - who somehow manage the same level of uproariousness for each clip.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 22 September 2002 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i was just launching into a rant abt TV's Naughtiest Blunders to my friend P. when she said "I fancy Steve Penk": mark s lost for words may be a tricky concept to get yr head around but that was def the product on offer

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 22 September 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

My license is clean, yours is dirrty.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 22 September 2002 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

You've got four points, I've got two...points.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 22 September 2002 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark S: yr rant hopefully about what a refreshing gigglefest it is even if it does get a little saucy at times!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 22 September 2002 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Hard to believe that Partridge first screened this long ago. Time really is passing at a rate.

I have just seen 2 or 3 episodes again. New view: without all the pressure of hope that I brought to the first viewing, I found it quite tremendously funny. I guess it is best seen in its own right rather than compared to series 1 - the tone is different, much more old-fashioned in a curious way. (eg: the frequency of physical gags, capers, disastrous climaxes - which I seem to feel was a staple of Terry & June era sit-com / etc.)

― the timefox, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Why was everyone being so gay about the laughter track?

Smell my cheese you mothers.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I fancy Steve Penk.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the laughter track was overdone i thought. there were some funny moments in the last series but it seemed much more cynical and warped, less charm than before (less charming surrounding characters this time perhaps), was nastier than before (cf most anti or alt sitcoms the further they go on).

did Operation Good Guys always have a laugh track? it's quite tough thinking of the first sitcom format show that didn't have one, surely it can't be Spaced.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, this was *not* the thread where we all expressed week-by-week opinions - perhaps that needs its own revival.

― the coxfox, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

"Pawns in a game of... cruel chess... WHO WERE THE BISHOPS?"

Radio series ruled so much. Patrick Marber never has and never will do anything better.

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:13 (seventeen years ago)

Movie coming out next year

― kingfish, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:15 (seventeen years ago)

Did he have another show where he was an aging overweight roadie or something, or am I thinking of something else? I saw one episode of it when I was vacationing in the UK and I kinda liked it.

― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:26 (seventeen years ago)

Saxondale

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:27 (seventeen years ago)

Ah, thanks.

― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:39 (seventeen years ago)

LENGTHY UNRELATED RANT REMOVED

― chaki, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:46 (seventeen years ago)

The man's an arse.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:54 (seventeen years ago)

"Have you got a battery for an Ericsson?"

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:57 (seventeen years ago)

Steady: meaning SC is a tosser? Or AHEM someone else?

― suzy, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:18 (seventeen years ago)

chaki has entertained me a lot more than Coogan over the past decade

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:20 (seventeen years ago)

"Smell my chaki, you mother"

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:22 (seventeen years ago)

I'm touched that Suzy called me Steady. I meant AHEM someone else.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:27 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.alan-partridge.co.uk/multimedia/videoclips/imalans01/thumbs/s1e2Alan%20talks%20to%20Michael%20about%20the%20chocolate%20mousse%20on%20his%20face.jpg

"I have a hot chick waiting for me in my bed"

― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:44 (seventeen years ago)

Visions of chaki trying to explain the meaning of a valance...

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:45 (seventeen years ago)

Sad to have to say so but the only fat bitch posting on ILX today apparently has hot chick waiting in bed.

― suzy, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:51 (seventeen years ago)

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