Place was always and still is a horrendous corrupt shithole... They went a bit far this time with schemes against Russia though, so they won't be making trouble for much longer 😆 even more of the ignorant scumbags will be spreading all over Europe though 🤦🏻♂️
Yes the biggest and most corrupt sh1thole in Europe by a long long way and just about to leave the map if it doesn’t wise up fast , there’s going to be a lot more Sonya’s flooding our shores for all the Alan’s to take advantage of 😉
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 According to "I, Partridge" she was working as his cleaner. That would have been 2011. The chapter with Sonia ends with the immortal line, following their divorce: "I wish things had gone differently but I'm glad they didn't."
@@ignoblesurfer6281, I don’t think he ever married Sonia. He fancied her physically and enjoyed the status symbol of a girlfriend who was thirteen years his junior but he was embarrassed by her personality and found her a boring conversationalist so he never wanted her to move into his new house. She was only ever his girlfriend and he broke off the relationship as soon as he could move in. He called his house ‘Denton Abbey’ in the end. Later he moved into The Oast House with his large and vicious dog, ‘Seldom’. As previously said, he retained Sonia as his cleaner at Denton Abbey for a while.
@@Pete-tq6in She was probably the best thing that ever happened to him (certainly the only one who could stand to be around him, save for Lynn) and he was too dumb to see it. Both as mad as each other lol. He should have held onto her like grim death.
Except it's not really is it. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I mean you would probably have to suffer a severe brain injury to make that sort of connection.
Ahhhh instantly recognised Sonia as Kay Hope, Head of Sustainability for London 2012 which covers the whole of the lower Lea valley in actual fact. I really think so, I really do 🤣 As an Aussie, I'm the biggest British comedy fan!!
My God, you're right. I've just rewatched 2012 and W1A. Brilliant. The writer also wrote "People Like Us" which is excellent too. ua-cam.com/video/iQRduF0JDWU/v-deo.html
@@jsmith498 Aussie rip off off The Games (well documented) and as this is my sense of humour I rewatch over and over 'The Games', 'Twenty Twelve', 'Frontline', 'W1A', and 'Utopia'.... The ultimate in dry classically Aussie humour.
@@djm7494 My older kid is 24 now and really keen on Frontline... but boy, does the context of some of the jokes and/or references sometimes need a lot of explaining! It's a testament to the quality of the show that they actually enjoy finding out - and still find it hilarious 🙂
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 omg you absolutely nailed my same frustrations!! I'm like Silverchair was HUGE as I was in yr 10 and they were also 15. It's still SO SOLID and luckily for me I have a 17 yr old Old Soul but my 13 yr old isn't instantly obsessed which is understandable. Rob and the Working Dog team are timeless and I especially appreciate their emphasis of strong intelligent female characters carried on to Utopia and their lack of Generational Gap!! Bless you Working Dog!!! I still get tremendous joy seeing such brilliant actors including "Emma" pop up in Real Stories & Fisk and "Kate" in The Games and "Dominica" in Real Stories and obviously more recently Rob in Fisk as well. I am desperately trying to keep you guys alive and current for the sake of my 13 & 17yr old kids I am a fan who will never cease to big you up! Much love!!
@@djm7494 You know if you send them those fine words of praise, they will ask "whaddya call this?" and then immediately engrave those words on a pulpit and it will go straight to the pool room? I'm dead serious. It's all in the vibe.
"There is new stock, I have the carrot cake." "And they say nurses have it tough." I don't know what Amelia Bullmore is doing these days, but I'd love to see her cross Alan's path again. I'd be happy if it were as Mary, Alan's phone-in freaker. On another note...meat paste...eugh.
"but then I don't want to live there" Hilarious. Coogan thinks he's parodying right wing reactionaries but all he's doing is creating a character more relatable than he is.
But then it is Steve isn't it? Never before have I seen a character (AP) so preeminent that "he" gets invited to interviews or are they staged for him? I only recently caught the AP fever after seeing Alpha Papa. My only fear is that one day AP might take over Steve like an alter personality. But there is no denying AP is incredibly funny - the genius of Steve Coogan! 🌷
This was a poor series, compared to the amazingly brilliant series before this. In fact, the series before this, for me, is still the high point of British sitcoms. It's like the sitcom equivalent of Jonathan Edwards' triple jump world record (unless that's been broken - has it?). I'd say The Young Ones comes next, and then The Office, in second and third place respectively.
"She's asking me words again".
That kind of language is why I love the writing in this show.
0:48 ‘What is backstabber?’ - while reading Alan’s autobiography
Attention to detail.
I love the idea of Lynn recommending the cartoon version of Crocodile Dundee
Sonia was such a great character she should have been in this more!
Give her a second series, ya shit...
@@5starcomment Underrated comment 😀
"Alan what is your favourite animal?"
"Beef, Bull"
Even the unused stuff is superb.
Theres so much thought gone in to every line in this sketch. Every line has an obvious or subtle joke in it. Quality.
Amelia Bullmore - fine actress.
Hello Lynne, I'm calling from the study port.
Sonia (or the actress) was completely fabulous. They should’ve made more of the character.
She’s not just sexy, she’s also a very good…. character
'it's backfired'
"It's a lot better than my Ukrainian, but then... I don't want to live there" - what a time for that to appear on my timeline...
Yeeess...
ouch?
Yes. Nobody wants to live there.
Place was always and still is a horrendous corrupt shithole... They went a bit far this time with schemes against Russia though, so they won't be making trouble for much longer 😆 even more of the ignorant scumbags will be spreading all over Europe though 🤦🏻♂️
Yes the biggest and most corrupt sh1thole in Europe by a long long way and just about to leave the map if it doesn’t wise up fast , there’s going to be a lot more Sonya’s flooding our shores for all the Alan’s to take advantage of 😉
Blackbelt Lynn. Perfect.
Amelia Bullmore is just sensational as Sonia. Deserved her own series.
she's textbook
Is she not actually Russian? I'm impressed by her accent!
@@WillowJordan1979 let’s call her a very nice chap and doesn’t matter what race she iz
@@NoContextRDHyou cant
@@WillowJordan1979 Not even Ukranian. She is a writer as well.
That's the best UA-cam clip I've watched for eight years.
What happened eight years ago?
I just watched a better one...
@@chuzzwozzer Hahahaha!
do you want a sandwich?
yes please - meat paste, double thick
'Please stop...stop it...STOP IT! Blackbelt Lyn!
"Black belt, Lynn"
Are you the real Jet From Gladiators
@@visionist7 probably not.
@Mc Carthy still waiting.
Did you host a millennium barn dance ?
Love Alan partridge so funny wish they would bring him back proper!👍
She played Des Barnes first wife in Coronation street.
Sonia made this series the best of all of them
It's not a patch on Series 1.
Absoruddylutely
Graphite Grey
I suspect this was a Rover colour back in the day 😆
"It's backfired."
Poor Sonia!
I love Amelia Bullmore. Great actor.
I think I read somewhere that she also played the voice of (are you hairy) Mary the creepy caller too!
I think you'll find that's acTRESS. Let's not open that can of linguistc worms.
@@matthewstone1362 PLEASE tell me this is an Alan quote. PLEASE.
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 yeah. 😅👍
@@matthewstone1362 Thanks. Makes me think much more of you... but it's definitely on brand for Partridge 😀
Back of the net!
Toe-curlingly brilliant....
The cartoon show Taz is brilliant
Two words that should never appear together: meat paste.
never had paté before?
@@themadplotter That's animal paste.
@@johnmc3862 but animals are made from meat? also fois gras... mmmmm....
the perfect couple.
Pure quality!
Their relationship was great.
Didn't it end with her being deported when they broke up? Or am I confusing reality with a random dream again?
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 According to "I, Partridge" she was working as his cleaner. That would have been 2011.
The chapter with Sonia ends with the immortal line, following their divorce: "I wish things had gone differently but I'm glad they didn't."
@@ignoblesurfer6281 THAT'S the story I misremembered. LOL. Classic Sonia ;-)
@@ignoblesurfer6281, I don’t think he ever married Sonia. He fancied her physically and enjoyed the status symbol of a girlfriend who was thirteen years his junior but he was embarrassed by her personality and found her a boring conversationalist so he never wanted her to move into his new house. She was only ever his girlfriend and he broke off the relationship as soon as he could move in. He called his house ‘Denton Abbey’ in the end. Later he moved into The Oast House with his large and vicious dog, ‘Seldom’.
As previously said, he retained Sonia as his cleaner at Denton Abbey for a while.
@@Pete-tq6in She was probably the best thing that ever happened to him (certainly the only one who could stand to be around him, save for Lynn) and he was too dumb to see it. Both as mad as each other lol. He should have held onto her like grim death.
She's brilliant.
it's donald and melania!!
Except it's not really is it. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I mean you would probably have to suffer a severe brain injury to make that sort of connection.
Except Sonia actually seems to love Alan...
Oh, how dare you.
Fucking idiots
henlow1 lol
Beef Bull
Whatever you are prepared to pay me but no less
I love him .
Ahhhh instantly recognised Sonia as Kay Hope, Head of Sustainability for London 2012 which covers the whole of the lower Lea valley in actual fact. I really think so, I really do 🤣 As an Aussie, I'm the biggest British comedy fan!!
My God, you're right. I've just rewatched 2012 and W1A. Brilliant.
The writer also wrote "People Like Us" which is excellent too.
ua-cam.com/video/iQRduF0JDWU/v-deo.html
@@jsmith498 Aussie rip off off The Games (well documented) and as this is my sense of humour I rewatch over and over 'The Games', 'Twenty Twelve', 'Frontline', 'W1A', and 'Utopia'.... The ultimate in dry classically Aussie humour.
@@djm7494 My older kid is 24 now and really keen on Frontline... but boy, does the context of some of the jokes and/or references sometimes need a lot of explaining! It's a testament to the quality of the show that they actually enjoy finding out - and still find it hilarious 🙂
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 omg you absolutely nailed my same frustrations!! I'm like Silverchair was HUGE as I was in yr 10 and they were also 15. It's still SO SOLID and luckily for me I have a 17 yr old Old Soul but my 13 yr old isn't instantly obsessed which is understandable. Rob and the Working Dog team are timeless and I especially appreciate their emphasis of strong intelligent female characters carried on to Utopia and their lack of Generational Gap!! Bless you Working Dog!!! I still get tremendous joy seeing such brilliant actors including "Emma" pop up in Real Stories & Fisk and "Kate" in The Games and "Dominica" in Real Stories and obviously more recently Rob in Fisk as well. I am desperately trying to keep you guys alive and current for the sake of my 13 & 17yr old kids
I am a fan who will never cease to big you up!
Much love!!
@@djm7494 You know if you send them those fine words of praise, they will ask "whaddya call this?" and then immediately engrave those words on a pulpit and it will go straight to the pool room?
I'm dead serious. It's all in the vibe.
Amelie Bullmore in Scot and Bailey.
Thanks for sharing these :D
Was sonia the first refugee
Ah, i love you.. In a way (:
"Meat paste. Double thick."
So funny. Great double act.
shes asking me words again.....
lol "black belt lynn "
My marriage fell apart soon after watching this!
Back of the net
Were the two events related then?
He is RUBBISH Bono!
Favourite animal.... beef lmao
"There is new stock, I have the carrot cake."
"And they say nurses have it tough."
I don't know what Amelia Bullmore is doing these days, but I'd love to see her cross Alan's path again. I'd be happy if it were as Mary, Alan's phone-in freaker.
On another note...meat paste...eugh.
Nx Doyle Last saw in Happy Valley, she gets murdered! In real life she’s married to Jamie from ‘The Thick of It.’
@@DavidWilliams-so6sc is he the dodgy one?
Isn’t it “I have to cut the carrot cake”?
I don't like big feet - reminds me of gammon
Claret and beef - sounds yummy to me!
pro rata to an extra day 😄😂😄😂 only AP 🤦🏻♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
MagicUK 0161 😏😳🤪😳😛😳🤧🤗🤧😑✌🏼😸✌🏼👍✌🏼👍🦊🦊🦊🦊🦊🐑🐿🐈🐿🐿
its backfired
It’s backfired 😂😂
We'll take our tops off and have a cuddle...followed by mince and onions
Ohh it’s an egg in a bap!
meat paste, double thick
its backfired HAHAHA
Those Amstrad E-mailers where a rip off!
Everything amstrad ever sold was a waste of energy & raw materials!
Stop it, sToP iT!
Apparently the actress playing Sonja travelled to Ukraine to get the accent correct.
...another one of these this time tomorrow.
sonjas dancing
I don’t think a cartoon version of Crocodile Dundee exists 😳
One can only hope it doesn't
claret
Graphite Grey
It looks like some sort of voodoo canapé
Black belt Lyn
Jack a nack a nory
Steph Barnes from coronation street
Meat paste! 😂
She’s not cooking for him if she’s only making a sandwich 👌🏼
That's the joke....................
Ha ha Meat paste double thick
That sketch totally backfired.
I been watching in Scott and bailey, didnt realise it was Amelia .sorry love , not aged well.
Egg in a bap
communicado is my new word
The phrase is IN COMMUNICADO. You have to say it that way for it to make sense.
@@MagicUK-wu2ov hahaaa cockwomble
That Ukrainian line was some foreshadowing
Love a Ukrainian!!!
Stop the war???
I don't like big feet, it reminds me of gammon
Funny, but man laugh tracks can be annoying. “Hahaha” see?
Not a laugh track though. Mostly performed to a studio audience. Any pre-recorded scenes were played to the same audience... so all laughs are real.
"but then I don't want to live there"
Hilarious. Coogan thinks he's parodying right wing reactionaries but all he's doing is creating a character more relatable than he is.
But then it is Steve isn't it? Never before have I seen a character (AP) so preeminent that "he" gets invited to interviews or are they staged for him?
I only recently caught the AP fever after seeing Alpha Papa. My only fear is that one day AP might take over Steve like an alter personality.
But there is no denying AP is incredibly funny - the genius of Steve Coogan! 🌷
I think the thing here is that Sonja wants to live in the UK, but Alan has no desire to live anywhere else because he doesn't have to.
yep you couldn't make it up
Slava Ukraine!
Too bad her accent fades in and out.
I think her accent is consistent
This was a poor series, compared to the amazingly brilliant series before this. In fact, the series before this, for me, is still the high point of British sitcoms. It's like the sitcom equivalent of Jonathan Edwards' triple jump world record (unless that's been broken - has it?). I'd say The Young Ones comes next, and then The Office, in second and third place respectively.
it had decent lines, like the annie lennox quote. but yeah its incomparable to season 1
Agreed, the first series is better. But this one has too many brilliant moments, too!
Was that written in the style of Alan Partridge? Classic banter.
Was this ever funny.???? Nope.
Aw
Sense of humour bypass.
So go back to On the Buses and Are You Being Served.
meat paste, double thick