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.
Phillips' job is great here. She's on a comedy show and she can corpse all she likes. Because that's what her character is about - always trying to stifle her laughter.
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
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.
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 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'm in love with Sally Phillips. Oh those eyes. And those high cheekbones. Oh shit. It's happened again. At this rate I'll be needing a second washing machine.
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.
I saw ELO on Hastings pier,it was hot and wet,because I had a piss on the balcony,ahh memories,those were the days,when you could drink nine pints and still drive.
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.
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.
Phillips' job is great here. She's on a comedy show and she can corpse all she likes. Because that's what her character is about - always trying to stifle her laughter.
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'
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
One of my favourite scenes. Has just about everything in it.
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
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 still say ‘It’s cutting into my fingers’ whenever I carry something for anyone.
LOL
This is what I was looking for
My friend said it once when we were carrying a heavy desk and I had to put it down for a moment to laugh.
‘I got my head down alright….’ I bet he loved delivering that line. 1:41
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%.
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.
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
“Sue Cook’s pulled out”. Killer writing. 😂
The gorgeous Susan!
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. TH-cam are always hiding my comments.
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
love alan hiding behind the board when susan tells em off
GET BACK IN THE LIFT LYNN
Clip reload
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.
It's just genius, the whole 4 minutes
Susan! So beautiful.
Hilarious stuff. Classic comedy never ages.
Lovely stuff
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?'
It’s like Bart ringing Moe’s Bar 😂
Sally Phillips is gorgeous....
Never thought I'd be watching these in between Covid 19 pandemic updates in 2020.....light relief.
Is that those scotch eggs?
I'd like to do a corporate for Allied Dunbar
Stephen Brady they haven’t existed since about 1993
Too funny....pure genius...
Come back on, ELO and carry on playing.
Just to have been there when they were shouting that...
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.
2:57 one of the great comedy scenes
Who else is here to see Sophie...she was too cute in this show
Absolute legend. 😂😂😂
God, Sophie's attractive.
Sadly my hair has gone totally Alan Partridge during lockdown! Going to get a buzzcut when the barbers open again! LOl.
Arn: "Get to the choppah"
Al: "Get back in the lift, Lynn"
I got my head down allright so funny and Alan even better about the e lo comment allways got a good memory about his wonderful life lol
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.
‘Come back on ELO and carry on playing’
"Mind you ~ Ive got a fat back" ~ A Partridge
A corporate for Allied Dunbar - only Alan could turn this into a counterbalance for an army hostage-freeing scenario
0:20 Alan's "lap dance" persona broke out just a little lol.
It's nee laughing' matter.
Went under the radar for quite a few, that one😂😂
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!!!!
Susan is a bit hysterical about Michael expressing himself
Sue Cooke's pulled out😅😅😅
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 ❤micheal
Given how old this clip is now and how small wagon wheels are, they must be *actual sized* back then!
get back in the lift lynn !!!!
Wagon Wheels!! 😂 Laser Quest. “Do ya wan uz to take out Sue Cook for ya?” 😂😂
Bill oddy reference never gets old
I liked the simple Geordie
Lynne it's cutting into my fingers 😂😂😂😂
I'm glad the hotel porter had a comfortable sleep. It can be hard work doing his job.
I'm sure Horlicks helped.
"This is Bill Oddie. It's not a crank call."
I would've loved to have gone down to lazer quest with Alan and the staff from Allied Dunbar
"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
GOLD!😂I am crying
'I got my head down alright'
Back in the lift Lynn !
Marvellous!
Worked with someone called A.P.Ness!
Barbara Durkin. I still would
Oh-----Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!
Its roy from bungy crank calling
We're not on shortwave radio
This is Bill Oddie, LOL
“Oh how very thoughtful”
Would also work with. “Salman Rushdie’s pulled out”.
Bill Oddie
GET BACK IN THE LIFT, LYNN!!!
*I’ve had some pretty **_late night sessions_** myself*
Worked for his brother who runs a charity in manchester top guy
Thank god he is returning on Monday Evenings
Lynne let me take that, then gives it back to her after it cuts into his fingers
40 so young I'm nearly 48 wait till you get to 50
I'd forgotten how funny this was. I've literally pissed myself
'passed' myself
Did you have Kenco coming out of your nostrils?
I'm not sure you have...
1:20 Perfect
miss Norwich
… you threw a monkey into the sea? That’s just barbaric!?! 😅😅
Ralph Lauren sound so posh bare bottom joke is so funny
That was Bill Oddy!
That's bang out of order!
I'm in love with Sally Phillips.
Oh those eyes.
And those high cheekbones.
Oh shit.
It's happened again.
At this rate I'll be needing a second washing machine.
Bodragon I prefer Susan!
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
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.
I saw ELO on Hastings pier,it was hot and wet,because I had a piss on the balcony,ahh memories,those were the days,when you could drink nine pints and still drive.
Susan actually says Ralph Lauren correctly!
Yeah...we're not on short wave radio
So thanks 😆
Absolute perfection!!
MOVE and FIRE and MOVE and FIRE
Mr. P. Nesshead
It’s nae laughing matter.
In 1976…😂
Who the Hell is Sue Cook, he mentions her often
A BBC presenter.
Sue Cooks Pulled Out!!!
Sue cooks pulled out!
In 1976….
'Do you want us to take out Sue Cook for ya'?
Do you want me to take out sue cook for you😂
'So, do you want us to take out Sue Cooke for you?'