On 7 August 2013, a feature film, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, was released in the UK. It was directed by Declan Lowney [25] and co-produced by StudioCanal and Baby Cow Productions, with support from BBC Films and the BFI Film Fund. [26] The film sees Partridge enlisted as a crisis negotiator during a siege at his radio station. [24] Where Alan differs from Bill is in his insights into the areas of Britain that Bryson shies away from, the underbelly, and the working classes. Does he say the unsayable? You bet. He's like a travel writing Jeremy Clarkson, but one who actually believes the things he says.

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He decides to retrace steps his father took in his younger days in East Anglia, a place where Morris Dancing is fashionable, pedestrianisation of cities like Norwich is a passionate issue and one can walk for miles through verdant fields. Petridis, Alexis (5 August 2013). "Alan Partridge's music taste: surprisingly great". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 September 2015. In 2014, the Guardian writer Stuart Heritage described Partridge as "one of the greatest and most beloved comic creations of the last few decades". [13] In a 2001 poll by Channel 4, Partridge was voted seventh in their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. [68] In a 2017 poll of over 100 comedians, Partridge was voted best TV comedy character and Coogan best male comedy actor, and a scene from I'm Alan Partridge in which Partridge goes to the home of an obsessive fan was voted best comedy scene. [69] In 2021, Rolling Stone named I'm Alan Partridge the 52nd-greatest sitcom, writing that it had taken Partridge "from a parody of celebrity-presenter smarm to one of the greatest Britcom characters ever". [70]

a b Delgado, Kasia (5 May 2016). "Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle is the broadcaster's very funny journey of (sort of) redemption". RadioTimes.com . Retrieved 19 May 2016. Benedictus, Leo (21 June 2012). "Comedy gold: Steve Coogan's The Man Who Thinks He's It". theguardian.com . Retrieved 8 October 2017.Brian Logan wrote in the Guardian that though Partridge was created as a satire of the "asinine fluency of broadcaster-speak" of the time, his development as a character study gave him a timeless quality. [62] Another Guardian journalist, John Crace, wrote: "By rights, Alan Partridge should have been dead as a character years ago, the last drops of humour long since wrung out ... but Steve Coogan keeps finding ways to make him feel fresh." [63] The Independent wrote that Partridge was a "disarming creation" whom the audience root for despite his flaws. [64] In the Guardian, Alexis Petridis wrote that audiences find Partridge funny partly because they recognise themselves in him, [65] and Edmund Gordon called Partridge "a magnificent comic creation: a monster of egotism and tastelessness". [20] According to Gordon, Partridge allows progressive audiences to laugh at politically incorrect humour as "every loathsome comment is sold to us not as a gag, but as a gaffe". [20] Writing that Partridge "channels the worst excesses of the privileged white man who considers himself nonetheless a victim", the New Statesman journalist Daniel Curtis saw Partridge as a precursor to post-truth politicians such as Nigel Farage and Donald Trump. [66] Statue outside the Forum, Norwich Alan Partridge's 10 Most Alan Partridge-y Moments Ever | NME.COM". NME.COM . Retrieved 3 December 2015. Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubank: Alan Partridge's TV dream comes true". The Guardian. 20 August 2015 . Retrieved 14 September 2015. a b "Watch Alan Partridge announce new book Nomad and mercilessly diss Game of Thrones". Independent.co.uk. 20 July 2016. Archived from the original on 22 July 2016 . Retrieved 24 July 2016. a b c Currie, Tom (7 May 2014). "Characters We Love To Hate, ALAN PARTRIDGE". Mandatory. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015 . Retrieved 14 September 2015.

Baldwin, Louisa (1 November 2021). "All the pictures as the Alan Partridge Fan Festival comes to Norwich". Norwich Evening News . Retrieved 6 February 2022. Alan Partridge inspires city art exhibition - BBC News". BBC News. 31 July 2015 . Retrieved 14 September 2015. a b Kamp, David (March 2012). "Comedian Steve Coogan Goes from Cult to Classic". Vanity Fair . Retrieved 14 September 2015. There are some very funny sections and Alan’s self-aggrandisement, self-delusion, absurdity, pettiness and point-scoring are almost always amusing.a b "Teenage Cancer Trust Gigs Through The Years, Starring Oasis, The Who, Coldplay And More". NME. 20 September 2016 . Retrieved 2 December 2020. In 1997, Coogan starred in a sitcom, I'm Alan Partridge, written by Coogan, Iannucci and Peter Baynham. The series follows Partridge after he has been left by his wife and dropped from the BBC. He lives in a roadside hotel, presents a graveyard slot on local Norwich radio, and desperately pitches ideas for new television shows. Iannucci said the writers used the sitcom as "a kind of social X-ray of male middle-aged Middle England". [1] It won the 1998 BAFTA awards for Comedy Performance and Comedy Programme or Series. [9]