Steve Coogan
- 59 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, producer and executive producer
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Steve Coogan to star in Channel 4 #MeToo comedy drama
Steve Coogan is to star as a film producer in a new Channel 4 comedy drama based around the #MeToo movement. Sarah Solemani will co-star in Chivalry.
British Comedy Guide, 13th January 2020Alan Partridge is at his best when he's in the doldrums - living in a Travel Tavern, binging on Toblerone, networking at a funeral. For almost three decades, we had watched Britain's least in-demand broadcaster fall further and further from grace - until, that is, he landed an unexpected guest-hosting gig on This Time. Since when did glossy BBC magazine shows start recruiting from North Norfolk Digital? Not only did Alan's appointment make frustratingly little sense, his freedom to interrupt the studied blandness of teatime TV with bombastic VTs failed to ring true. Nerdy rationality aside, something else was awry with Partridge 9.0 - namely, the fact that he was flying high. Despite his endless gaffes, he suddenly had status, and the hubris-fuelled nightmare that had hitherto been his career was abruptly ended. Of course, you cringed for him, but it turns out it's hard to feel affection for a Partridge on the up. Thankfully, judging by the closing episode's cliffhanger, Norwich's finest seems to have blown his chance at the big time once again.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 23rd December 2019The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 8 - This Time
The king of bad chat and awkward mansplaining was back on a BBC sofa in one of Coogan and co's most nuanced creations.
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 10th December 2019Comedies shortlisted for Broadcast Awards 2020
Derry Girls, Fleabag, Inside No. 9, Mum, Stath Lets Flats, This Time With Alan Partridge, Taskmaster, Horrible Histories and There She Goes are nominated in the Broadcast Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 21st November 2019British comedies nominated for 2019 Rose d'Or Awards
Famalam, This Time With Alan Partridge, After Life, Derry Girls, Plebs, Sex Education, The Bisexual, Michael McIntyre's Big Show and The Last Leg are amongst the 2019 Rose d'Or Awards nominees.
British Comedy Guide, 6th November 2019Greg James snubs One Show because of Alan Partridge
The BBC Radio 1 DJ admitted Steve Coogan's iconic comedy character - a hapless TV presenter totally lacking in self awareness - was such a "p**s take" of the Beeb's tea time magazine show during his most recent series that he still can't bring himself to even accept a guest spot on the programme because now the lines are so blurred.
Female First, 28th October 2019Greed review
Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan reteam for an enjoyable but insufficiently scathing satire.
Katherine McLaughlin, The List, 11th October 2019Greed, review
Steve Coogan's satire of the filthy rich is torn between lecturing and sniggering.
Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 9th October 2019The 50 best comedians of the 21st century
Steve Coogan is the funniest Brit, coming second on the list, with American Tina Fey coming first. Once again, in a mirroring of a Channel 4 poll in 2007, Stewart Lee came 41st.
Hannah J Davies, Paul Fleckney, Harriet Gibsone, Brian Logan and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 18th September 2019Greed review - Steve Coogan gleams in knockabout satire
Michael Winterbottom's entertaining mockumentary about a high-street fashion tycoon presents a hideous carnival of obscene wealth, vanity and moral squalor.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 12th September 2019