So lucky to have this standard of comedy in my formative years. It was the first comedy that I loved but my parents and the overwhelming majority of my friends at school hated but Alan is still going strong to this day so needless to say I had the last laugh
Sally Phillips' ability to just stand there and smirk is brilliant. She doesn't have a lot to say, but what she says is hilarious. Greenall's Geordie accent is classic (he isn't from Newcastle), Amelia Bullmore as Sonja is wonderfully done (Amelia is English). Just a great cast of characters. The best thing Coogan ever did, in my opinion.
It's like Hugh G.Rekshun ,Mike Oxlong,, Hugh Jampton and R swipe I keep meaning to go down my local benefit office and book an appointment just so they'll call these names on the tsnnoy
The hidden social commentary that a bloke who was trained and trusted to make split second tactical decisions, using equipment worth millions - and use deadly force where necessary - is now reduced to menial tasks at the whim of a shrill, officious jobsworth.
I love the way Michael gets really into it '..... And move and fire and move and fire'! In his mind he is reliving a past experience and is in a different world! He even said 'Reload'! hahaha.
I love Alan Partridge, but nowadays, what I find most funny is the blonde receptionist's hair - As if she has the time and skill to style it like that every morning, and maintain it through the day. It is just not humanly possible... trust me, I'VE BEEN TRYING FOR OVER 20 YEARS!!!!
how beautiful is the original receptionist in green ? if you're the actress who played this role, and you're scrolling back, you are beautiful. Lovely lovely lovely.
I never quite got Coogan/Ianucci mocking ELO. It could be I'm reading it slightly wrong, but they try to imply they were somehow uncool because Alan likes them - but ELO were in fact genuinely brilliant. I would understand it more if they went for a lesser, silly 70s band or something.
Alan on Bill Oddie --> "Lets paint a Scenario: The last osprey in Britain" I can explain it to you, but I cannot understand it for you: Google is your friend here:
So lucky to have this standard of comedy in my formative years.
It was the first comedy that I loved but my parents and the overwhelming majority of my friends at school hated but Alan is still going strong to this day so needless to say I had the last laugh
'needles to say, I took drugs'
Sally Phillips' ability to just stand there and smirk is brilliant. She doesn't have a lot to say, but what she says is hilarious.
Greenall's Geordie accent is classic (he isn't from Newcastle), Amelia Bullmore as Sonja is wonderfully done (Amelia is English).
Just a great cast of characters.
The best thing Coogan ever did, in my opinion.
i also thought Saxondale was pretty good ; unexpected for me tbh given he subject matter
Greenall also does the voice of the Russian meerkat in the Compare the Market ads. He’s a very versatile impressionist.
I still say ‘It’s cutting into my fingers’ whenever I carry something for anyone.
LOL
This is what I was looking for
It's just genius, the whole 4 minutes
Sally saying "tits" cracks me up every time.
It’s Sophie you big dosser
matt malone no I mean in anything, not just when she's playing Sophie.
I love the way she shouts "MICHAEL" like she's his mother.
And Alan scarpers and hides like a naughty boy.
@@boydegg was gonna say this lol like he's in trouble too
Come back on, ELO and carry on playing.
Just to have been there when they were shouting that...
The fact he thinks Michael is offering to kill sue cook for him always cracks me up. Classic partridge
Thank Christ he didn't say Jill Dando
oh God no!! He's something else.
Something else in Geordie
I was so in love with Sophie... those smiles at the camera
isn't her real name Sally O'Shaughnessy ?
@@staticstateuk Sally Phillips ♥️
@@nononsensereviews6349 She doesn't look so good now.
I preferred Susan 😀
@@joesmith289 she's not aged well. In 1997 (when this was made) she was actually 27 but passed off a lot younger while playing Sophie.
There's something about the way Sophie says "P. Nesshead" that absolutely cracks me up.
It's like Hugh G.Rekshun ,Mike Oxlong,, Hugh Jampton and R swipe I keep meaning to go down my local benefit office and book an appointment just so they'll call these names on the tsnnoy
GET BACK IN THE LIFT LYNN
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‘I got my head down alright….’ I bet he loved delivering that line. 1:41
The hidden social commentary that a bloke who was trained and trusted to make split second tactical decisions, using equipment worth millions - and use deadly force where necessary - is now reduced to menial tasks at the whim of a shrill, officious jobsworth.
There's not much call for it in civvy street unfortunately.
Drivel
@@monkeytennis8861 Is that you, Michael?
He's just the work-geordie.
@@veritas4364 lol
It's nee laughing' matter.
Went under the radar for quite a few, that one😂😂
Coogan was the lead, but Sally Phillips stole every scene she was in, absolute perfection
I fucking love sally Phillips man. I bet she’d be so fun to hang out with, just a natural comedian
She's just hot. That's all
I hardly noticed she was in the scene tbh. Lynn & Michael’s parts way more funny.
Disagree alan partridge was unimpeachable
@@michaelmcginley7930 100%.
If there is an afterlife and I'm around for all eternity, I will still be laughing at Alan Partridge a million years from now.
Thats for real
I don’t agree you’d go to Legoland
@@BossySwanbye
“Sue Cook’s pulled out”. Killer writing. 😂
I'd like to do a corporate for Allied Dunbar
Stephen Brady they haven’t existed since about 1993
I love the girl Sophy, the assistant. She is so subtle, oblique, sly - whatever the appropriate adjective is. 'What's rude about a body?' 'Tits?'
Twenty odd years on. It's still hilarious. Always will be.
20 years u mean
why'd you say that about your comments
Both of you can fuck off.
+mycomments arebeinghidden oi I was asking you why you're comments were being hidden
John Smith ah ok. Sorry. UA-cam are always hiding my comments.
It’s like Bart ringing Moe’s Bar 😂
The gorgeous Susan!
love alan hiding behind the board when susan tells em off
Sally Phillips is gorgeous....
‘Come back on ELO and carry on playing’
get back in the lift lynn !!!!
Susan! So beautiful.
God, Sophie's attractive.
One of my favourite scenes. Has just about everything in it.
… you threw a monkey into the sea? That’s just barbaric!?! 😅😅
How come this is so much better than the new stuff?
It was just great writing, it's hard to reproduce something as good as this.
Even funnier when you find out who it is making the crank calls.
Donald Dewar please tell
Alan's stalker
Bill Oddie?
Yes indeed.
@@Useaname yea the stalker jed maxwell. Later in the episode he says are you the crank caller? Yep thought so.
I love the way Michael gets really into it '..... And move and fire and move and fire'! In his mind he is reliving a past experience and is in a different world! He even said 'Reload'! hahaha.
Susan is a bit hysterical about Michael expressing himself
I love Alan Partridge, but nowadays, what I find most funny is the blonde receptionist's hair - As if she has the time and skill to style it like that every morning, and maintain it through the day. It is just not humanly possible... trust me, I'VE BEEN TRYING FOR OVER 20 YEARS!!!!
I liked the simple Geordie
Too funny....pure genius...
how beautiful is the original receptionist in green ? if you're the actress who played this role, and you're scrolling back, you are beautiful. Lovely lovely lovely.
It was 27 years ago, she’s probably not even in the county.
Sadly my hair has gone totally Alan Partridge during lockdown! Going to get a buzzcut when the barbers open again! LOl.
Who the Hell is Sue Cook, he mentions her often
A BBC presenter.
I never quite got Coogan/Ianucci mocking ELO. It could be I'm reading it slightly wrong, but they try to imply they were somehow uncool because Alan likes them - but ELO were in fact genuinely brilliant. I would understand it more if they went for a lesser, silly 70s band or something.
RE… O Speedwagon
He was comparing going down on a hot broad like Sophie all night to going to an ELO concert. That was the joke.
A corporate for Allied Dunbar - only Alan could turn this into a counterbalance for an army hostage-freeing scenario
Sue Cooke's pulled out😅😅😅
Barbara Durkin. I still would
Oh-----Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!
Absolute legend. 😂😂😂
Bill Oddie
Hilarious stuff. Classic comedy never ages.
Lovely stuff
"Mind you ~ Ive got a fat back" ~ A Partridge
It’s nae laughing matter.
Who else is here to see Sophie...she was too cute in this show
"Mr.T.Osser? It doesn't even work!"
Mr. A Conte? That's not a prank call, it's Antonio Conte.
@@jj9749 what's rude about a Conte
Its roy from bungy crank calling
0:20 Alan's "lap dance" persona broke out just a little lol.
Do you want me to take Sue Cook out for you?
Worked with someone called A.P.Ness!
l don't get it ... what's so funny about P.Neeshed ? it's a perfectly normal name.
I'm glad the hotel porter had a comfortable sleep. It can be hard work doing his job.
I'm sure Horlicks helped.
40 so young I'm nearly 48 wait till you get to 50
Alan’s shit movements drawing his weapon
Bill oddy reference never gets old
Would also work with. “Salman Rushdie’s pulled out”.
We're not on shortwave radio
This is Bill Oddie, LOL
miss Norwich
They've rebadged it you fool
Back in the lift Lynn !
Given how old this clip is now and how small wagon wheels are, they must be *actual sized* back then!
Susan actually says Ralph Lauren correctly!
Lynne it's cutting into my fingers 😂😂😂😂
I would've loved to have gone down to lazer quest with Alan and the staff from Allied Dunbar
So do want us to take out Sue Cook for yeh , God no ,,,, oh I see if you can that'll be great !
'I got my head down alright'
Worked for his brother who runs a charity in manchester top guy
Sue Cooks Pulled Out!!!
Its nee laughing matter
Mr. P. Nesshead
I love ❤micheal
'Prank calls'. Not 'crank calls'.
No, crank call is the right term.
So doya want us to take oot sue cook for ya? God no! lmao!
surely its PRANK calls
Jill Dando pulled out on Alan.... Michael took her out.
See not prank call it's crank call
In 1976….
Yeah...we're not on short wave radio
I like to think the prank calls are just Sophie getting her laughs
lol it's all the people he's pissed off getting their revenge on him.
But then we found out it was Jed the big spastic mentalist
Hot Susan
In 1976…😂
GOLD!😂I am crying
Allied Dunbar
Waste of time and data.. Crazy United passengers?!🙄
That's a crank call...
Do you want me to take out sue cook for you😂
Never thought I'd be watching these in between Covid 19 pandemic updates in 2020.....light relief.
Is that those scotch eggs?
B oddie
Alan on Bill Oddie --> "Lets paint a Scenario: The last osprey in Britain"
I can explain it to you, but I cannot understand it for you:
Google is your friend here:
*I’ve had some pretty **_late night sessions_** myself*
Lynne let me take that, then gives it back to her after it cuts into his fingers
"This is Bill Oddie. It's not a crank call."
Marvellous!
Ralph Lauren sound so posh bare bottom joke is so funny