My favourite bit is when the guy who supplies fitted kitchens for 15 years says he can't cook and then he points at the cookbook and says it wouldn't be much use to him
And then Michael says _"Mister Partridge! He says he sells kitchens right for fifteen year but he cannot cook! Then, right, he sees the cook book and he says that'd be nee good to me, would it!"_
Felicity Montagu. She has been on Alexei Sayle's "Stuff" & appears a lot on Andy Hamilton's "Old Harry's Game". Good actress and nothing like Lynn in reality
Billy Shannon yea right . ..... but yea know "the blacks" like ye know? ...... but eh ontither topic entirety.... eh how aboot that brexit. like???🤔🤔🤔🤔
@John Saunders erm that was a miscommunication, the bags were party bags. As every day he'd been at the travel tavern he was being given sanitary bags as standard. Obviously not necessary for him, but he had kept them so used them as party bags to give to people at the party. The big over riding joke being her then getting annoyed and it seeming like he was insensitive.
That wasn't cheap scrumpy, mate, nor was it in a plastic bottle. I love scrumpy and i bought that very stuff a few times a number of years ago. It was quality scrumpy, real scrumpy, or as close to as you'll get in a supermarket. It wasn't carbonated, it was flat, cloudy scrumpy in a glass bottle. I seem to remember back then (talking 14-15 years), it was around £10, which certainly wasn't cheap.
@@Boilingfrogg You're welcome to that opinion if that's what you believe but it's then your choice as to whether you take it in the humour in which it's so clearly intended, as everyone else on this thread clearly does, or not.
To be fair I'm not sure I'd call that a tantrum. Having to deal with Alan Partidge for months on end would drive most people to the edge of the reason!
That slap was pretty convincing, reminds me of when Prunella Scales belted the Irish builder (David Kelly) with the umbrella in Fawlty Towers!!! I believe they call it 'Suffering for ones art'
She hits Basil much harder. Outside when Manuel tells her "Meester Fawlty, he try to see girl in window" & also when she's fuming because he pretends to forget their anniversary and just after he says "Agincourt!?"
I remember having to stay at a backpackers hostel for 6 weeks because my flat was being renovated, and when it came to finally check out the reaction was similar to the manager's here. Only joking, it was quite muted and was told you can stay when you like. 😂
that's about the LAST time a gag like that has been allowed on TV. I was listening to the great STAN LAUREL 's last radio interview from 1957, when in all innocence he recalled his early stage act, dressed in a GOLLIWOG suit. what a perverted dull grey world we have entered.
@@MrDaiseymay Every year something is released which the very next year people claim "would never be allowed now". This gag would easily be allowed on TV now. You could even get away with a golliwog suit, if it's played off right. But yes, in a less racist society, racist jokes are no longer considered that funny outside of racist circles, so you have to think of something more than simply "blacking up" to get a laugh. The "nothing is allowed"-state of comedy is a thing made up by a handful of hyper-sensitive individuals from both sides of the debate. Genres develop; Laurel and Hardy were hilarious in their day, but would probably not get much response now. That's what entertainment and art is about. It certainly would've been a dull grey world if nothing ever changed, and Roland the Farter was still the peak of comedy.
@@stevenhulbert6973 yes Steve - we just want our country back ! the real trouble is idiots like you jumping on the "Political Correctness gone mad" bandwagon when there is no reason to. Everything now is not considered racist and people are not easily offended - you just like to think they are as it suits your silly narrative.
Nice to see Coogan's comedy still works. All of the commentators on here getting annoyed that Coogan had the nerve to make fun of racists. As Alan would say, bloody lovely.
It's kinda like pulp fiction with the briefcase or ' the special stuff ' in league of gentlemen No matter what theories or supposedly cryptic clues the writers or directors might say It's purely left down to your own imagination , personally I like to think it's Alans PVC underpants he wears in his lapdance daydreams
Lmao, watched an old episode of the young ones, were the copper appears wearing sunglasses and thinks a white bloke is black, jeez he uses the N word and the C word, my son could'nt believe the bbc put that out.
What was in the drawer? According to Alan’s co-creator Armando Iannucci, speaking at Nottingham’s ScreenLit Festival earlier this year, the writers knew specifically: copies of the fictional Dutch special-interest magazine, Dikke Vrouwen op de Toiletten. (Readers of an inquisitive disposition are invited to Google Translate the term. Readers of a sensitive disposition are warned not to. Readers of a particularly astute nature will notice that by asking you to work to fill the gap in your understanding, I am expertly manoeuvring you to engage more closely with the blog.)
As bad as it sounds, before we knew his name my dad and I referred to Kevin Eldon as the "few too many blacks" man anytime we recognised him in something.
Alot of us have been to parties we felt oblidged to attend and had false conversation about lawn mowers and how nice the house was etc.all the time wanting to go home and looking at your watch every 2 minutes.
Haha lawn mowers. I’ve got an electric one, then the neighbour got a new one and gave me his old one, the new one is fantastic, I’m unsure if I need to oil the blade though.
Its been shown this scene got out of hand but they carried it on because the acting was so improvised and funny they felt it was better than the script. Everyone behind and in the front of camera cracked up but carried on. Probably the best scene in comedy/satire ever
My favourite bit is when the guy who supplies fitted kitchens for 15 years says he can't cook and then he points at the cookbook and says it wouldn't be much use to him
And then Michael says _"Mister Partridge! He says he sells kitchens right for fifteen year but he cannot cook! Then, right, he sees the cook book and he says that'd be nee good to me, would it!"_
@@TonyEnglandUK Alan then responds back with “ i heard, i heard him”.
@@TonyEnglandUK There's a knock at the door, Alan answers and in comes the cavalry!
It would be nee good for me thaa**
@@jaycuthbert245 eee's crackers mon!
The actress who plays Lynn is amazing. Couldn't have asked for anyone better.
Felicity Montagu. She has been on Alexei Sayle's "Stuff" & appears a lot on Andy Hamilton's "Old Harry's Game". Good actress and nothing like Lynn in reality
Perfect casting!
Yes, also brilliant in Nighty Night playing the antithesis of Lynn.
Classic Lynn!
Nobody does it better
I love how Michael gets so worked up about the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre.
I love how quickly he gets wasted
@John Saunders Sadly true
Sounds like your typical cabbie always winging bout somert.
@@715michala Ha! Few too many blacks.
@@TonyEnglandUK *_yer daft racist_*
Michael really enjoyed that joke about the cooking book, that party was peaking at that point.
😂😂👍👍
What cook book?
Alan's relationship with the hotel management was never the same since the 'Corby trouser press' incident.
One of my favourites 😆
Never did find out if it appeared on his bill
@@adzy166 Yes, right next to Bangkok Chickboys.
Right then he spies this cook book and says it'll be nae good to me like.😂
Me too. Why the fucking echo?
Oh lighten up you stuffy get
That was Michael's best anecdote. Shame it had only just happened.
@@Bodragon well, you see like, he see's the cook book and says, it'll be nae good to me like, cause i canna cook-di ya not see it, you fookin idiot ?
Billy Shannon
yea right . ..... but yea know "the blacks" like ye know? ...... but eh ontither topic entirety.... eh how aboot that brexit. like???🤔🤔🤔🤔
A party less than four minutes long. Has to be a world record.
@Mrfairchapvideo?
That's my kind of party.
That is hilarious 😂
One of the greatest series of all time.
ABSOLUTELY. IN MY TOP THREE
i love how she knows exactly how many days hes been there as if its some kind of sentence
EXACTLY---HER RELEASE VALVE FINALLY BLEW. MANY IDIOTS HERE CLAIMING SHE TREATED THE 'CUSTOMER' BADLY.
IT WAS
@John Saunders erm that was a miscommunication, the bags were party bags. As every day he'd been at the travel tavern he was being given sanitary bags as standard. Obviously not necessary for him, but he had kept them so used them as party bags to give to people at the party. The big over riding joke being her then getting annoyed and it seeming like he was insensitive.
@John Saunders If you watched the whole episode, We say no.. is correct.
It was a sentence 😂
I love how, when Mike is escorted out and walks down the corridor, he walks into a locked door. So quick but brilliant.
...A locked door that happens to be clearly marked as a Fire Exit....worrying, if ever you plan on staying at a Linton Travel Tavern.
I swear every minute of Alan Partridge is just class 😂😂every scene is memorable
Michael's the most authentic squaddie on TV.
very true and i am an ex squaddie
@DR Evil On the radios it was always a challenge.
John Saunders what and you think all squaddies are like that? I take it you’ve never been in the Armed Forces? What a completely ignorant comment.
Completely agree. Someone must have done their research.
@@matty6848 They were in my unit. Were you in the RAF?
That’s probably one of the most concentrated brilliant bits of British comedy in history
Yep they were all brilliant, I'd have loved to see them rehearsing this.
In the history of the entire universe.
Michael getting drunk with that cheap scrumpy in a plastic container and getting aggressive with Partridge is brilliant
That wasn't cheap scrumpy, mate, nor was it in a plastic bottle.
I love scrumpy and i bought that very stuff a few times a number of years ago. It was quality scrumpy, real scrumpy, or as close to as you'll get in a supermarket. It wasn't carbonated, it was flat, cloudy scrumpy in a glass bottle. I seem to remember back then (talking 14-15 years), it was around £10, which certainly wasn't cheap.
Just so you know, that will preclude you from the drinks provided
@@scottw.3258You certainly must have been a person of means!
@@Amethyst_Friend Loaded, mate. Loaded.
@@scottw.3258 Michael! MICHAEL!
Lol, he walks straight in and opens Alan's forbidden draw and laughs. LOL.
To be fair it was already half open, meaning the contents caught his eye as he was passing.
The guy who plays Michael is highly underrated. He also voices the meerkat from compare the meerkat.
@Rob I liked him in this but those adverts are beyond irritating
This for me is probably the most awkward scene in any of Alan Partridge's series ever. When she bursts into that fit of anger, you really feel it.
Violence against men isn't funny
@Jamie Ravioli So let's say if "Alan" had slapped her back would you find it funny or a little over the top?, promoting violence against women..
@@Boilingfrogg I think you're watching the wrong comedy if you're worried about political and gender correctness.
@@dombrandon3018 Everythings political
@@Boilingfrogg You're welcome to that opinion if that's what you believe but it's then your choice as to whether you take it in the humour in which it's so clearly intended, as everyone else on this thread clearly does, or not.
That blonde lady is a great actress, that was a proper tantrum and she really hit him but didn't break character.
Can you blame her though? Imagine being trapped with Alan for 6 months, that's 182 days.
Actually felt bad for Steve Coogan. Looked and sounded really painful
To be fair I'm not sure I'd call that a tantrum. Having to deal with Alan Partidge for months on end would drive most people to the edge of the reason!
You actually get people like Mike Sampson, zero humour but they laugh after everything they say. Cringeworthy but brilliantly observed by Steve Coogan
You also get people like Michael who repeat things people say even if you were right there listening when they said it XD
@@T--xk3hf You also get people like Michael who repeat things people say even if you were right there listening when they said it XD
the best bit was when partridge said "watch the fire hose" and Mike laughed and still banged his head into the door 😂😂 around 2:03
Alan partridge to present top gear.
Steve's brother Brendan presented Top Gear in 1999 after Clarkson left, before coming back for the relaunch with Hammond and May.
ratcliffave “not my words - the words of Top Gear magazine”
He already presents Carwow.
in all honesty that would be meta amazing. but we are biased
Spiceworld.
I never get tired of watching this series.
"Give me a 2nd Season!"
That's a 9 incher in the drawer. And it's called Kenneth.
My associate, Kenneth.
As a matter of fact, I have a date this afternoon with my friend Steven.
Peep Show, another great British comedy.
@@leecroft1983 Partridge, Peep Show and Blackadder are my personal top 3
aspacepig Kenneth or Steven - Their participation is indispensable!!!
That slap was pretty convincing, reminds me of when Prunella Scales belted the Irish builder (David Kelly) with the umbrella in Fawlty Towers!!! I believe they call it 'Suffering for ones art'
I've seen wrestlers not sell slaps as well as that. lol
Maybe Barbara Durkin had been counting down the days of working with Steve?
She hits Basil much harder. Outside when Manuel tells her "Meester Fawlty, he try to see girl in window" & also when she's fuming because he pretends to forget their anniversary and just after he says "Agincourt!?"
Or when Stephen Fry actually kicked & hit Hugh Laurie on Blackadder.
Steve had asked her to slap him really, not fakely, because he wanted to tug over it later. It's in his diary.
The slap from the manager was awesome!
I had to stop watching this video as it was so, so awkward. Just stunning work from everyone involved
Lynn's song is brilliant/mental.
Sally Phillips was most subversively gorgeous member of staff since Connie Booth as Polly.
I think she apeared in the last series of friday night dinner, as a quite quite mad ex nanny.
She was on QI. Shes lovely
I had a real crush on her at the time.
That slap looked very real ! 😂
I think that went quite well.
I love the bit where the receptionist drops the smiley mask and calls him a little shit.
MILLIONS NODDED IN AGREEMENT
Full of wires
“If you don’t mind, it’s just that some people find found what you said a bit racist!”
- “mmhhm..*confused look*.. AHAHAHA!”
If only we had listened to Micheal!
The manger was in one of the early Partridge shows as a beauty pageant contestant that Alan takes quite a fancy to...until she mentions her boyfriend.
Cue Matt Berry from "Snuff Box".
Well clearly the cook book WOULD be of use to Michael, since it would bestow upon him the knowledge he currently lacks.
oh, hahaha...
Two years later and you're STILL right!
Can help him cook more than a cup of beans
@@bensmithkent22 Almost like a savoury 99
@@bensmithkent22with a sausage for a scoop
R2D2 finally blew a fuse.
Tea or Coffee, TEA OR COFFEE!
@@robertdavies7065 You Blonde bastard, from the future!
Nice chest, full of wires though
CLASSIC. Even affable Michael loses the rag with him
Like Susan, I think Michael was holding it under the surface
Is Michael affable? On the surface maybe, but just beneath is that rage he's got.
First time watching Alan Partridge & immediately got addicted to it 🤣❤️
" I think that went quite well !!" ……. priceless !
the contents of Alan's drawer is a brillian unseen elsment. Just like Marris Crane in 'Frasier'. .
It's actually "Maris," not "Marris."
I read somewhere that it was retconned as porn mags featuring fat women on the toilet.
And the briefcase in Pulp Fiction.
There's nae porn in there!
@@garynicholls1448 beat me to it.
I showed this comedy to a child once, and reminded him of it later as "the strange man who lives in a hotel".
Barbra Durkin is gorgeous.
It would be a privilege to be shouted at then slapped by Barbara Durkin.
@@terencekent615 Mistress Durkin, I'm afraid I've been a very naughty boy.........
See her in Knowing me, knowing you? wow.
Lynn, these are SEX PEOPLE.
Agreed
Its not a good thing when you identify with Alan Partridge, is it
This scene and the one where he takes Jill to his room are my favourite scones. Let battle comence
You've got it all over the vallance!
@@Climbatron the skirt thing at the side of the bed🤣
A dirty protest
would you like me to slow down, or shall i maintain the same speed?
@@kevone-eo6pq shall I move on to the other one?
3:28
I think that might be the first ever real TV slap
2:03 lol, he trys to open the locked fire escape!
Love it at 0:12 the guest opening draw to see AL's collection of 70's Jazz Mags
They all jump away from ’ The Drawer ‘ when he comes back in. Still a laugh outloud moment.
I remember having to stay at a backpackers hostel for 6 weeks because my flat was being renovated, and when it came to finally check out the reaction was similar to the manager's here. Only joking, it was quite muted and was told you can stay when you like. 😂
Love it when Michael gets pissed and nasty lol..
I'm from Acton as well and i can confirm.... it's a lovely place
Lovely stuff
Robin James not my words the words of Shaking Stevens
I heard theres a few to many blacks
@Jim Taylor well you can expect that in a white country
A few too many people
A few too many blacks😂😂😂
that's about the LAST time a gag like that has been allowed on TV. I was listening to the great STAN LAUREL 's last radio interview from 1957, when in all innocence he recalled his early stage act, dressed in a GOLLIWOG suit. what a perverted dull grey world we have entered.
@@MrDaiseymay Every year something is released which the very next year people claim "would never be allowed now". This gag would easily be allowed on TV now. You could even get away with a golliwog suit, if it's played off right. But yes, in a less racist society, racist jokes are no longer considered that funny outside of racist circles, so you have to think of something more than simply "blacking up" to get a laugh. The "nothing is allowed"-state of comedy is a thing made up by a handful of hyper-sensitive individuals from both sides of the debate. Genres develop; Laurel and Hardy were hilarious in their day, but would probably not get much response now. That's what entertainment and art is about. It certainly would've been a dull grey world if nothing ever changed, and Roland the Farter was still the peak of comedy.
Edward V the trouble is now everything's racist and everyone's easily offended
@@stevenhulbert6973 yes Steve - we just want our country back ! the real trouble is idiots like you jumping on the "Political Correctness gone mad" bandwagon when there is no reason to. Everything now is not considered racist and people are not easily offended - you just like to think they are as it suits your silly narrative.
Mickey Way in what way do you want our country back?
Alan offering a sanitary towel to that raging woman was priceless hahaha
@Abigail Harp Miss Harp are you under 44?
Except he didn't if you watch/listen/understand. It was a sanitary bag full of sweets which is even more disgusting.
Superb comedy and Coogan at his very best
I like how each sign has a company header on it lol.
Kevin Eldon is brilliant
gets better every time
I’m American. And I love this show
Michael was making a good point about the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre though.
You've got a lot to learn...
I cringe every time at 2:12
JPaul C same here
Lighten up ya stuffy get.
It was a great series.
Haha, that cook book would be good for you like!
Sophie laughing in the background as Susan screams at Alan is one of the funniest things about that scene
Nice to see Coogan's comedy still works. All of the commentators on here getting annoyed that Coogan had the nerve to make fun of racists. As Alan would say, bloody lovely.
Don't tell Mike the demographics of Acton 25 years later...
@@albertupardsnipec5988 Noticing is racist
@@mikw1809opposing colonisation is not a phobia.
That didn't LOOK (or feel) like a Stage Slap.
Ouch !
TOTALLY DISAGREE
@@MrDaiseymay lol!
"What does everyone think of the pedestrialisation of the Norwich City centre?" 😆😅😄🤣😂
Err YOU'RE wrong!
Im dead against it.
@@bensmithkent22 aw lighten up, ya stuffy get
People forget that traders need... access to DICKsons...
3:02 - WOW!!!!
Kevin Eldon makes everything better.
It's been playing on my mind for 20 years, but what's in the drawer?
It's kinda like pulp fiction with the briefcase or ' the special stuff ' in league of gentlemen
No matter what theories or supposedly cryptic clues the writers or directors might say
It's purely left down to your own imagination , personally I like to think it's Alans PVC underpants he wears in his lapdance daydreams
@@dorkbrandon4422 That's a great guess!
@@hihowareyouthen hiverywellthanks
It's a pornographic fetish magazine for extremely obese women left by an earlier guest.
@@dorkbrandon4422 Probably a boo on ladyboys (illustrated)
You just cannot beat Partridge. Hilarity unlimited.
the question nobody bothers to ask is... why does Alan have a cook book in a travel tavern?
So people can smell his cheese?
"Lighten up ye stuffy get !"
Don’t think they would get away with that Acton gag nowadays 😂
It's called Acton Veil these days.
WHY ?
@@MrDaiseymay Because there's a place in Acton called Acton Vale.
Nah it probably would
Lmao, watched an old episode of the young ones, were the copper appears wearing sunglasses and thinks a white bloke is black, jeez he uses the N word and the C word, my son could'nt believe the bbc put that out.
that slap was actually a real hard slap lol
What was in the drawer?
According to Alan’s co-creator Armando Iannucci, speaking at Nottingham’s ScreenLit Festival earlier this year, the writers knew specifically: copies of the fictional Dutch special-interest magazine, Dikke Vrouwen op de Toiletten.
(Readers of an inquisitive disposition are invited to Google Translate the term. Readers of a sensitive disposition are warned not to. Readers of a particularly astute nature will notice that by asking you to work to fill the gap in your understanding, I am expertly manoeuvring you to engage more closely with the blog.)
I can guess what the word Toiletten means and that's enough for me
fat women on the toilet! me thinks
Is it scatology?
Sad the way the party ended so abruptly...
Kevin Eldon is superb
He's a brilliant comedian and musician.
@@gordonm7038 macadamoo!
*The Actor Kevin Eldon
Feel so bad for him in Nighty night.
alan
partridge is real...coogan is fake
...extraordinary
Alan knows how to party.
"I thought that went quite well", reminds me of Ted when the Bishops leave in Father Ted, "went pretty well I thought" LOL.
That tirade was overdue 😂😂😂😂
This is kind of how my leaving parties went... Which scares the hell out of me.
As bad as it sounds, before we knew his name my dad and I referred to Kevin Eldon as the "few too many blacks" man anytime we recognised him in something.
I knew him as the Fat Handed Twat. Which is, I guess, slightly better.
I know him as ‘the actor Kevin Eldon’ from This Morning with Richard Not Judy! Classic 90s anarchy!
@@joshcomedy5119 I'M ROD HULL!
Alan has a guest who out Partridges him!
Think that went quite well. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Alot of us have been to parties we felt oblidged to attend and had false conversation about lawn mowers and how nice the house was etc.all the time wanting to go home and looking at your watch every 2 minutes.
Haha lawn mowers. I’ve got an electric one, then the neighbour got a new one and gave me his old one, the new one is fantastic, I’m unsure if I need to oil the blade though.
It actually makes me cry 😭!
What the hell is the song lynn sings to everyone????
Kinda felt sorry for Alan getting slapped and screamed at. Think she liked him at first but gradually starts to hate him
What about when she asked him if he went all the way? What on Earth was that about?
@@pigknickers2975 obviously making fun of him and validating herself
@@drunkenmaster6434 I wonder what would have happened if he'd agreed? Questions, questions.
Nearly 300k views and only a few hundred likes, strange.
It's the Beeb
Well that sketch went well ! 😂
extraordinary
god I fancy the blond girl like mad
Aaron Gorton - Join the queue!
I was thinking I can’t be the only one...
Simon Greenall isn't one of those lovely Geordie people just a great voice actor.
It was years before I realised he wasn't a Geordie really.
@@pigknickers2975 He speaks Mongoose too. (Alexi).
'Ah lighten up ya stuffy get..' 🤣🤣
Black Beauty is a great background tune for a party.
Great banter!
Nothing gets the party started like Black Beauty. Magnum P.I. theme rocks the Kasbah...
What is this? It's ruddy fantastic!
@@gordonm7038 Don't forget Theme To Return Of The Saint
@@davidjames579 Go give it to her Lynne!
"Think that went quite well."
Them all looking in the drawer is so good
Think that went quite well !
Every ''house party'' I've been to.
I'm not sure I can watch Lynn give her heart & soul to me again
Boom mic just popped in at 2:54 there 🙂
Apart from that though, I thought it went quite well.
Loved the hotel boss in this.
The sexy blonde.
Bit of a robot though.
She's a blonde bastard. From the future.
She's the winner of the beauty contest in one of the Knowing Me, Knowing You episodes.
2:54 I think the boom mike momentarily came into view.
Its been shown this scene got out of hand but they carried it on because the acting was so improvised and funny they felt it was better than the script. Everyone behind and in the front of camera cracked up but carried on. Probably the best scene in comedy/satire ever
Good spot!