Alan Partridge: Nomad

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The two strands will run in tandem, their narrative arcs mirroring each other to make the parallels between the two stories abundantly clear to the less able reader. Husband, Stuart (5 August 2013). "Alan Partridge: the 'A-ha!' moments". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 14 September 2015. a b de Semlyen, Phil (30 April 2012). "Armando Iannucci on Alan Partridge Movie". Empire . Retrieved 14 September 2015.

I enjoyed Alan Partridge's first book I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan and so was keen to make another foray into the wonderful world of Partridge. Leaf, Jonathan (25 April 2014). "Review: Steve Coogan Takes Flight In 'Alan Partridge' ". Forbes . Retrieved 14 September 2015.

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a b Coyle, Jake (4 May 2014). "Steve Coogan on 23 Years of Alan Partridge". The Huffington Post . Retrieved 14 September 2015.

Hoad, Phil (6 February 2023). " 'I did my climactic speech – then took half an E': Steve Coogan on making 24 Hour Party People". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 6 February 2023. PPcorn (11 December 2015). "Elton John: 15 Things You Didn't Know (Part 2)". PPcorn. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016 . Retrieved 6 June 2016. Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder – Alan Partridge – a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future. Gregarious and popular, yet Alan’s never happier than when relaxing in his own five-bedroom, south-built house with three acres of land and access to a private stream. But who is this mysterious enigma?Baldwin, Louisa (1 November 2021). "All the pictures as the Alan Partridge Fan Festival comes to Norwich". Norwich Evening News . Retrieved 6 February 2022. I have to confess however, that rather than reading the physical text in this case, I actually went with the audio-book, because it's narrated by Steve Coogan in character as Alan Partridge himself and all of the jokes, quips, whinges, tandems and silliness is always going to sound funnier coming from Alan in that weird combination of smugness and self-deprecation that makes up his classic delivery. a b Virtue, Graeme (27 July 2013). "Alan Partridge: a look inside his mind". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 September 2015.

After a hiatus, Partridge returned in 2010 with a series of shorts, Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, written with Rob and Neil Gibbons, who have cowritten every Partridge project since. Over the following years, Partridge expanded into other media, including the spoof memoir I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan (2011) and the feature film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013). In 2019, Partridge returned to the BBC with This Time with Alan Partridge, a spoof of magazine shows such as The One Show, followed by an Audible podcast in 2020 and a touring show in 2022. This is the second of his books, and where I, Partridge took on the celebrity autobiography generally, this one is much more focused on describing Alan's intense, personal journey of discovery as he retraces ‘The Footsteps of My Father’, in the futile hope of possibly getting a TV deal out of it. Walks, as he explains, make a good subject for a book, since they're so ruddy personal. a b "Alan Partridge statue appears in Norwich". BBC News. 24 September 2020 . Retrieved 24 September 2020. It's no surprise to find that one of the nation's most underrated broadcasters has managed to produce another literary classic.Our walks are as unique as we are—from the pert strut of a Strictly Come Dancer to the no-nonsense galumph of a Tory lady politician. If you’re childish, like me, that furnishes your first yelp of laughter. But it’s also a clue to how well tuned in the writers are to the echt voice of Partridge. It would be a subtler joke, and probably a funnier one, to have glossed definition 3 with “sane”. The readers would have had that beat to decode the gag themselves. That’s how they would have done it in the definitions round of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. But the way it’s done here feels in keeping with Partridge’s literal-mindedness, his instinct for over-elaboration. It feels in keeping with his perfect tin ear. Alan Partridge's 10 Most Alan Partridge-y Moments Ever | NME.COM". NME.COM . Retrieved 3 December 2015. Benedictus, Leo (21 June 2012). "Comedy gold: Steve Coogan's The Man Who Thinks He's It". theguardian.com . Retrieved 8 October 2017. Brian Logan wrote in the Guardian that though Partridge was created as a satire of the "asinine fluency of broadcaster-speak" of the time, his development as a character study gave him a timeless quality. [62] Another Guardian journalist, John Crace, wrote: "By rights, Alan Partridge should have been dead as a character years ago, the last drops of humour long since wrung out ... but Steve Coogan keeps finding ways to make him feel fresh." [63] The Independent wrote that Partridge was a "disarming creation" whom the audience root for despite his flaws. [64] In the Guardian, Alexis Petridis wrote that audiences find Partridge funny partly because they recognise themselves in him, [65] and Edmund Gordon called Partridge "a magnificent comic creation: a monster of egotism and tastelessness". [20] According to Gordon, Partridge allows progressive audiences to laugh at politically incorrect humour as "every loathsome comment is sold to us not as a gag, but as a gaffe". [20] Writing that Partridge "channels the worst excesses of the privileged white man who considers himself nonetheless a victim", the New Statesman journalist Daniel Curtis saw Partridge as a precursor to post-truth politicians such as Nigel Farage and Donald Trump. [66] Statue outside the Forum, Norwich