Press clippings Page 38
The 30 best living comedians
In the run-up to the Edinburgh Festival our comedy critic Dominic Maxwell ranks the funniest comics working now.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 21st July 2018My comedy hero: Matt Forde on Steve Coogan
Matt Forde picks the man behind Alan Partridge, Paul Calf and Tony Ferrino as his comic idol.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 13th March 2018Why Alan Partridge is returning to the BBC
The Brexit-loving spoof presenter has a new BBC TV series. What changed his mind?
Emine Saner, The Guardian, 23rd February 2018Coogan's Run: the Inside No 9 forerunner
Steve Coogan may be best known for his hapless comic creation Alan Partridge. But Partridge is far from the only character in Coogan's canon, and before there was I'm Alan Partridge, there was Coogan's Run.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 22nd February 2018Lynn re-joins Alan Partridge for his new BBC sitcom
The BBC has revealed that Felicity Montagu will reprise her role as Alan Partridge's assistant Lynn in the forthcoming new sitcom This Time With Alan Partridge.
British Comedy Guide, 20th February 2018Partridge & Farage would 'get on like a house on fire'
Fictional Tory-voting broadcaster would have been tempted to vote Ukip, says his creator Steve Coogan.
The Guardian, 20th February 2018In many ways, we are all Alan Partridge
We shudder as we see ourselves in the paradoxically self-loathing character.
Eleanor Margolis, The New Statesman, 14th February 2018Alan Partridge returns to BBC with One Show spoof
Filming begins today on a new BBC One series, This Time With Alan Partridge.
British Comedy Guide, 12th February 2018What happens when TV characters get political?
Loadsamoney was co-opted by Thatcher, Roseanne is a Trump fan and Partridge could be the new face of Brexit. But do fictional allegiances make any difference?
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 15th January 2018There were many frissons of delight in this documentary looking back at Partridge's legacy, not least the realisation that the humour has aged not one bit. It is the humour of desperation, awkwardness and of a sublime lack of self-knowledge: and Coogan does it even better than Cleese, and has done ever since (as we find out here, with so many sharp talking heads) he paused an early radio recording to nip off to Lilywhites and re-emerged in the studio emblazoned with Pringle's finest sports-casual. In that moment Partridge was born.
I suspect we need him now even more than then, as a Greek chorus to our desperately febrile times, and a reminder that we will not - do not deserve to - survive without the ability to laugh at and with ourselves.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 2nd January 2018