Steve Coogan

The Foster's Comedy Award shortlist: From O2 to Fringe?

Interesting Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist just announced. Bridget Christie, Carl Donnelly, James Acaster, Max & Ivan, Mike Wozniak, Nick Helm and Seann Walsh are all in the running for the £10,000 prize to be handed out by Steve Coogan on Saturday. I love the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards and this year's panel decision looks like being an intriguing one.

Canned laughter doesn't exist, so why complain about it

Count Arthur Strong has been criticised for using so-called canned laughter, but what does that actually mean? Graham Linehan and Steve Coogan explain the 'studio sitcom'.

Steve Coogan interview

On the couch with Steve Coogan, who discusses press intrusion, playing the "fame game" and the liberal views of Alan Partridge.

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa - review

Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge remains his awful self in this hilarious, ramped-up, utterly English comedy thriller.

Steve Coogan: bewildered by his own success

As his Alpha Papa film opens to great reviews, the TV comedian is increasingly resembling his Alan Partridge creation.

Chapters of The Trip (BBC Two), starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, are still churning around on the repeat circuit. At a low moment during my viewing week I happened to switch on the show in which the boys unleash their Michael Caine impersonations, and in no time I was feeling better about life.

Steve Coogan: Alan Partridge is becoming more like me

"If Alan was a real person, I'd probably just hate him, but there's enough humanity in him for me to have empathy"

The gamble of bringing Alan Partridge to the big screen

As the much-loved comedy creation Alan Partridge finally makes it onto the big screen, Steve Coogan and the team behind it tell the BBC how it only happened after "many rows", "jumping through hoops" and almost another film's worth of material ending up on the cutting room floor.

Steve Coogan jokingly refers to these shows as a '90s revival tour'. But this 2009 trip to Australia is a little more than that. Weirdly, Coogan has never played in Oz before so the trip is something of a punt, taking in reasonably small venues and offering a surprising sense of lo-fi make do and mend.

Have catchphrase, will travel, though. It's not long before autograph hunters are exhorting him to 'enjoy Linton travel tavern' and asking for 'Cock Piss Partridge' to be written on their programmes. It's an intimate portrait, but Coogan still seems somewhat unknowable: simultaneously needy and oddly distant. The film concludes tomorrow night with hecklers and a spot of disillusion. Not essential but, with Alpha Papa fever rampant, perfectly timed.

Alan Partridge to appear on The One Show

Partridge creator Steve Coogan will be gracing the BBC1 show's sofa tonight to talk about his comedy alter ego's foray into cinema.