What are Alan Partridge’s best quotes and sayings, when did Steve Coogan invent him and what gave him the idea?
FOR more than 25 years Steven Coogan's comic personality of Alan Partridge has graced our TV screens - and fans just can't get enough.
With the highly-anticipated return of This Time with Alan Partridge we take a look at some of the character's best sayings and how his invention came about.
What are Alan Partridge's best sayings and quotes?
When he described his appearance
“My face was designed as a leisure accessory.”
When he critiqued the art on display at his Travel Tavern
“There’s never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks a go I did see someone had drawn a lady’s part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.”
When he gave his opinion on the capital of the UK
“Go to London, I guarantee you’ll either be mugged or not appreciated. Catch the train to London, stopping at Rejection, Disappointment, Backstabbing Central and Shattered Dreams Parkway.”
When he spoke about class
“Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you’d find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course… they’re altogether a higher class of fat lady.”
When he spoke about wine
“All this wine nonsense! You get all these wine people, don’t you? Wine this, wine that. Let’s have a bit of red, let’s have a bit of white. Ooh, that’s a snazzy bouquet. Oh, this smells of, I don’t know, basil. Sometimes you just want to say, sod all this wine, just give me a pint of…mineral water.”
When he spoke about farmers
“If you see a lovely field with a family having a picnic, and a nice pond in it, you fill in the pond with concrete, you plow the family into the soil, you blow up the tree, and use the leaves to make a dress for your wife who is also your brother.”
Who is Alan Partridge and why did Steve Coogan invent the character?
Alan Partridge is a fictional character who is played by English comedian Steve Coogan.
Alan is a tactless TV and radio host who often says insulting remarks to his guests and is described by Steve as a “Little Englander, with right-wing values and poor taste.”
The character has been the focus of three TV series - Knowing Me, Knowing You, as well as I'm Alan Partridge and Mid Morning Matters.
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He also spawned a 2013 film, Alan Partridge, Alpha Papa, which showed the star caught up in a radio station siege.
The character was created by Steve Coogan and TV director Armando Iannucci in 1991 for a BBC Radio 4 programme called On the Hour.
The show was a spoof of current affairs broadcasting and introduced Alan as a sports presenter.
The character was reprised a number of times, and in 1997 the sitcom I’m Alan Patridge was launched on BBC, which documented Alan’s life working for a small radio station.
An autobiography called I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan was sold in 2011, followed by a feature film called Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa in 2013.
Some have hailed the character as being one of the most beloved comic creations of the last few decades.
