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Read, Edmonds and (very much the Hammond of the three) Ross sat there and laughed at me every time I looked stern in a closeup or attempted an expansive gesture or shouted, “Think!”Benedictus, Leo (21 June 2012). "Comedy gold: Steve Coogan's The Man Who Thinks He's It". theguardian.com . Retrieved 8 October 2017. Alan Partridge was created for the 1991 BBC Radio 4 comedy programme On the Hour, a spoof of British current affairs broadcasting, as the show's hapless sports presenter. [1] He is portrayed by Steve Coogan, who had performed a similar character for a BBC college radio station at university. [1] This being Partridge, the endeavour doesn’t quite go to plan, and he takes a massive ill-advised detour, despite a self-inflicted wound getting rather grisly, described in grusomely funny passages.

I just watched them. It was an open secret that Read was a bit of a wally (this was before he outed himself as one by writing reggae songs for far-right political parties) and, of course, Edmonds was Edmonds. I felt fury building in me and eventually bolted from the room just as the closing recap song started. (All the videos ended on a song, another idea of mine, which in hindsight was a stupid and actually quite childish thing to do.) a b "Watch Alan Partridge announce new book Nomad and mercilessly diss Game of Thrones". Independent.co.uk. 20 July 2016. Archived from the original on 22 July 2016 . Retrieved 24 July 2016.a b Coyle, Jake (4 May 2014). "Steve Coogan on 23 Years of Alan Partridge". The Huffington Post . Retrieved 14 September 2015. Partridge holds right-wing views. He is a reader of the right-wing newspaper the Daily Mail, and supported Brexit in line with the Daily Mail position. [53] Coogan, who is left-wing, [42] described Partridge as a Little Englander, with a "myopic, slightly philistine mentality". [52] Coogan felt the humour came from Partridge's misjudgement, rather than in a celebration of bigotry: "I don't want to add to the sum total of human misery. I want to point out things where we can improve our behaviour, myself included." [2] He aimed to use humour to hold privileged and powerful people accountable. [2]