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I have to watch Alan Partridge through my fingers to avoid over-cringe. I did laugh out loud though when he called the guest Clunt - no, its Fluck, Ah! I see what I've done there.
Jury out on Warren - Just didn't jell for me. Martin Clunes mild but frequent swearing didn't sound authentic.
Biscuits verdicts?
Haven't seen Warren. Watched Partridge last night and agree - just too cringey. He's an extraordinary actor and character - that second season, in the Travel Tavern, was wonderful. Last night's episode got the balance wrong for me - it was a cringe from start to finish.
I thought it got better as the first episode progressed. Didn’t think the format worked too well to begin with - the Larry Sanders style off camera conversations took a while to bed in - but it did get better. The interview with the hacktivist was the highlight and this was the bit I thought was closest to Knowing Me Knowing You.
Thought Warren started off OK but by midway through I'd had enough and can't see me recoding it or tuning in as it's broadcast.
Loved Partridge but as Chris said - I too found it a good ten minutes before the format bedded in for me. I think it may be a grower and have high hopes for the next 5.
Certainly Partridge got pretty good reviews in most press except for The Sun in particular although that's hardly surprising as I imagine they still hanker after good old 70s stuff.
I really like the Partridge / Office style of parody/near the knuckle material.
First time I saw the Office, I thought it was a documentary with awful people or going wrong for the first few minutes. Thats the line to walk, I think.
Partridge tips over, but nonetheless makes me laugh.
Partridge is his best when he's in control or on some obscure second-fiddle show where he drops his mask. A local TV show would have suited him better, The One Show isn't dated enough yet.
I remember first time i heard Knowing Me... on the radio. turned on randomly, didn't note that it was the 6.30 comedy slot on R4, and took me 10 mins or so to realise it was a spoof. At first just thinking 'blimey this guy's awful' then finally the penny dropped.
On The Hour is just fantastic still too.
Yeah I thought the same about the excellent and not-very-far-from-the-truth Down the Line, though the Fast Show performers' voices gave the game away. KMKY with Alan Partridge did have the studio laughter but one of its great achievements was not just the character but the performances sounded spontaneous where radio comedy has a tendency to sound like a lot of script-reading (he also apparently used to perform it in the jacket and hair).
I think for me there might be a problem with the 'youthing up' of Alan, particularly since the film, which was probably my least favourite outing. He's highly aware of political sensibilities these days and rarely let's the mask slip.
IP, respectfully disagree.
A bourbon or a custard cream (not both, obviously, we're not decadent) with a cup of tea is sufficient excitement for anybody. Modern biscuits with their external chocolate and their . . . well, I can only describe it as flavours . . . would be better suited to some devil-worshipping witches' coven. You're not one of them satanists are you?
Bollosck. Join CAMREB - the Campaign for Real Biscuits, i.e., milk chocolate wholemeal digestives, the people's biscuit.
"Chocolate digestives
The coated side of a milk chocolate digestive biscuit
Digestive biscuits are also available, coated on the underside with milk, dark or white chocolate. Originally produced by McVitie's in 1925 in the UK as the Chocolate Homewheat Digestive, other varieties include the basic biscuit with chocolate shavings throughout (chocolate "chips" in the biscuit mix), or a layer of caramel, mint chocolate, orange-flavoured chocolate,[17] or plain chocolate. American travel writer Bill Bryson described the chocolate digestive as "a British masterpiece".[18] The McVitie's chocolate digestive is the most popular biscuit in the UK to dunk into tea.[4]
In pop culture
McVitie's digestive biscuits have become known among fans of the rock group The Beatles because they were the cause of an argument between George Harrison and John Lennon during a recording session for the group's 1969 album Abbey Road. The incident was recounted by recording engineer Geoff Emerick in his book Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles.[19] According to Emerick, Lennon's wife Yoko Ono was in the recording studio and at one point helped herself to Harrison's box of McVitie's while the Beatles were in the control room listening to a playback of the song they'd just recorded. Harrison got angry at Ono, and his subsequent outburst caused Lennon to lose his temper in response.'
Logic says that 40% Sugar, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Natural Flavouring], Flour (29%) (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Wholemeal Wheat Flour (13%), Vegetable Oil (Palm), Sugar, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Raising Agents, Sodium Bicarbonate and Malic Acid can't all be wrong, and I freely admit to being a digestiphile.
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