Mid Morning Matters WIth Alan Partridge Comic Relief Special Part 1 and 2

This was exceptionally good quality for a Comic Relief bit.

Z is for Zed

I love that Alan turns an anti-poverty speech into a thinly-veiled attack on homeless people in his area. This was brilliant of course, all MMMs have been...but I really hope that the other specials make it on too. Scissored Isle is a run-on from this. Also I'd like to recommend to Josh the first Alan Partridge book: 'I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan'. I vividly remember picking up the book in WHSmiths(a zombie British highstreet chain, still just about surviving somehow, which sells newspapers, magazines, stationery, monocles, silent movies, dodos and more stuff that people stopped buying about a decade ago) and leafing through it, expecting it to be a lazy, embarrassing cash-in. I spent fifteen minutes stood rooted to the spot, giggling like a fool, then bought it. A week later I bought it for my dad as a Christmas present and sent it to him in the post. On Christmas day I opened the package he'd sent me for Christmas and it was 'I, Partridge'. We'd both had the same idea and sent the same book to one another after falling in love with it separately. Anyway, it's the funniest book I've ever read - and by far. Even the funniest books I've read are only intermittently funny, but I, Partridge is just funny all the way through. There's a follow-up, called 'Nomad', which is also funny but, possibly because it didn't have the same surprise factor, I didn't enjoy it as much. They're both available on audiobook apparently, and I've heard people say how good they are with Alan reading them, but I found them both truly hilarious just on the page. I think you hear Alan's voice as you read anyway, you don't really need to have Steve Coogan reading it in your ears.

Saul

I was hoping you'd do Scissored Isle and Welcome to the Places of my Life...still hoping, as there's so little chance of one off specials getting voted in and these specials are part of the Mid Morning Matters, ie. they follow on from it.

Saul

I will have to check that out.

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I will for sure bud =]

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I will check that out thanks bud.

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Oh wow lol. Its like going to a casino and spending $100 on a slot machine and winning $20 and being happy about it lol.

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I can add it to a poll again bud. Thanks bud take care.

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You were a boy in the 1980s? Me too! I'm a man now though.

hey man, i know you reacted to the movie "this is england" a while back.. but i was wondering if you can react to the series of it.. its proper good all of them.. some are proper heavy episodes but i think you'll love it overall. atleast put it in the polls when you get the chance. appreciate you man. keep doing your thing

chosen!

It's up on YouTube in 3 or 4 bits I think 👍

jim78

lol a true to life Alan story , I'm sure we all got one to tell :D i suppose its more the group aspect of it and "raising awareness" about said subject , even if its a net loss you get all them people knowing about it and then they might donate cause of it ect i completely agree with ya though lol , massive waste of food! they should do a mark and bungie , but don't xD

TheHigh

I was going to suggest Anglian Lives on the back of I, Alan Partridge

Kieran B

When I was a schoolboy in the 1980s, we were asked to do something to raise money for famine relief in Africa. My friend Robin decided to "sit in a bath of beans" which for some reason was, and is, a charity trope. I asked him where the beans were coming from. His parents had already bought them. £20 worth, and over 200 cans. I asked whether he thought it was appropriate to raise money for famine relief by ruining so much food. He had no idea what I was talking about. I turned to our friends for their opinion, teachers too, they simply couldn't see my point, no matter how many times I tried to restate it. So he chirpily went ahead with it, being sponsored 50p a pop, and raised £18... against a cost of £20... and had to throw away something like 40lbs of food. Again, I felt like a party pooper but had to point out that 200 cans of bans would be better in the mouths of starving children than the crack of his arse. Or just give them the £20. Again, I was looked at like I had two heads and no trace of a valid point. It was the first time in my life that I thought "Wow, either I'm crazy, or it's everyone else".

Tony Mingoia

I, Partridge: We need to talk about Alan - from Audible.

Steve Small

In the "clearing up poverty and moving it to waste ground in Southend" part, Alan is being very specific. He's obviously having a 'real life' issue with travellers (gypsies) using his land and segwayed into berating them because of the word poverty 🤣

Steve Small

Gotta check out alan partridge scissored isle. It’s brilliant.

Ferris Booyaa

Oh and from the oast house is another radio show he did recently for audible. That was pretty funny

jim78

There's so much more partridge out there. There's at least another 30 mins of comic relief material he's done over the years. There's the 1993 knowing me knowing you radio show that preceded the TV show. Anglian lives is an early special he did that not many people are aware of. This Time with Alan Partridge was his most recent series. The first series was great, the 2nd less so.

jim78

Ah I thought we’d be watching Welcome to the Places of My Life and Scissored Isle

Kieran B

No Josh, you were right. "Scissored Isle" follows on directly from the episode where he accused the kid of "shagging sheep". If anything should go to a poll, it's probably the open books episode. That one doesn't hold much weight on its own unless you've actually read the book itself.

Jack Morgan