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Alan Partridge (I'm Alan Partridge) stimboard

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saved a few anons asking personal questions not all related to panel shows, spamming answers below the cut :)

she/her!

interesting question! first, i think it's very special that you had the opportunity to study at an international university and i am glad to hear you had so many amazing experiences!

i also feel like i need to preface anything i say with... holidays are obviously different from living, and i hope people can trust that i wouldn't base an entire lifestyle decision off, like, being a fan of taskmaster lmao the state of politics, brexit, housing, prejudice, and more make it difficult to say i'd want to commit to life there — plus i really love new york city, where i do feel at home

that said, i would be open to living in the uk for a period of time, yes. i am certainly very motivated to visit a lot of places, particularly in england, and decided last year to start spending a month or two over there every year (this year i think i will be in york! maybe i can post a little about that if people care). the history and motivations behind that decision are really personal to me, but it feels...right. i am really looking forward to my time there this year and treasure being someone who works remotely and can make that happen

living permanently, it's hard to say, but speaking for my interests in history, architecture, art, cinema — it would be wonderful to explore those things more in person, yes!

i really think in the 6+ years of this blog this is the first i've ever been asked about music! which makes sense ofc it just took me by surprise!

hmmm i think this playlist most accurately expresses what i'm listening to a lot of the time + a lot a lot a lot of classical music, some dad rock, and a few balladeers like judy garland and rufus wainwright

i don't claim to be the world's biggest comedy buff or keep up the best with all of the comedy coming out of the uk and american industries — even though i do enjoy it so much! — but growing up i was very interested in comedy writing. in high school, i worked at a dvd store where people could trade in their old dvds for store credit to buy new ones, so we had a HUGE selection of not only new releases but older, sometimes nicher stuff that you typically wouldn't see at a suburban american blockbuster-like shop. i can't stress how formative this was! i would always go through the store and "beautify" the shelves (pulling all the spines up neatly, keeping everything alphabetised, etc) just to constantly look through what we had in stock, grab the old black bar criterion films before some movie buff snatched them up, touch all the special editions (physical releases were more than just steelbooks back then, like stuff like this). each of the employees had a little shelf in the back room where you could store dvds you wanted to buy when you eventually had the money, keeping them off the floor so no customer would see and buy them. i was always reserving 30+ dvds at a time and spent my whole paychecks at work hahaha

anyways, that's how i found a lot of the random british films i ended up loving — by people trading them in or me just running across them at the store: a cock and bull story, death at a funeral, this is england, gosford park, monty python, (particularly holy grail and life of brian), confetti (didn't love this one but it had a lot of actors i really liked in it so i remember watching it quite a few times) and more — but especially withnail and i and in the loop. i was fucking obsessed with in the loop, which i watched on a loop (zing!) and was ultimately how i worked my way backwards to the thick of it as well as shows like the office uk, alan partridge, green wing, fry and laurie, peep show, and more. (the thick of it and peep show were particularly everything to me!) i still have all of the dvds from the dvd store i worked at! lol

in terms of american comedy, i was obsessed with the state and then their groups' projects like wet hot american summer and reno 911 (michael showalter is a great example of a writer/director i don't think is one of the greats but follows his heart & vision, and i really respect that; my fave of his, which is genuinely so good, is hello my name is doris! underrated lil treasure). i also really loved it's always sunny, flight of the conchords, party down, arrested development, jackass and wild boys, and house md, and some of the wild characters on bravo lmao. we had this channel called logo that was my lifeline to queer content before i really had full-time access to the internet outside of a shared family computer, so i was always watching reruns of jeffrey & cole casserole, the big gay sketch show, plus the l word and queer as folk, and they also did syndication of reno 911 (but i already had all the box sets of that 😭). i was never heavy into the judd apatow/bro comedy that was so big in the 2000s, and even the 80s–90s american comedy heavily influenced by the talent at snl wasn't particularly engaging to me; of that, my favourites were probably throw momma from the train and a couple of romcoms

+ every panel show i could get my hands on! and i think because i was really engaged with sketch comedy i was also reading a lot of playwrights, especially alan bennett, harold pinter, and edward albee, who i had (and have!) huge collections of

and, yes, so many of these are at the foundation of my very favourite formats and styles of comedy: mockumentaries , black comedy or dark comedy, existential comedy, stories rooted in reality or plausibility / domestic dramedy. i used to be very engaged by sketch comedy and wanted to crack the science behind writing funny sketches, but i do think i've moved away from that format and filled that void with the improv nature of panel shows (it works for me the way i think the format of podcasts work for so many other people... i wonder if anyone will relate to that comparison)

comedy evolves so much by the decade and i appreciate a lot of the ways in which it has grown, so i don't think of it as a then vs now, which is better, whatever. and like you i can't help but revisit my nostalgic faves often!

i do think eventually he will! but rn he's lapping up that tv money hahaha my very fave is firing cheeseballs at a dog, but they're all genuinely great!

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#I'm Alan partridge #lynn #alan partridge

#lynn I've pierced my foot on a SPIKE!

CURRENTLY EDITING BECAUSE I SPELLED LYNN WRONG!

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Introducing a New Series

Hi, i'm still alive. I'm gonna begin a new series to hopefully keep this tumblr alive, i call it "Lyrics to a Song you'll Never Hear". It's a rom-com/slice of life about kids growing up from yr 10 forwards, it's a pretty cool story.

Set in a fictional coastal English city based off a mix of Brighton and my native Cambridge, It stars Alan Baker, a kid who moves to the city of Havborough after a mysterious incident where he was chased out of his hometown, and Claire Partridge, the eldest of 2 looking after her sibling during her parents divorce. It's told from their point of view in the first person except for certain chapters which focus on multiple characters which are told in third person, the story wont just focus on these 2 but will explore an entire cast of kids in Havborough! Hope you enjoy, Chapter 1 is going up later today and i plan to upload once a week or at minimum once every 2 weeks. Have a good Easter break everybody!

Edit: Also, i wanted to delete the HWB Prologue i posted about a year ago. I revamped the story since then so it no longer fits current canon. i plan to upload the first volume along side Lyrics. Either uploading once a week aswell or alternating between the 2 (so Lyrics on week, HWB on the other). Also i want to change HWBs name so as you get more familiar with the story, i'd love suggestions.

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Yo! So I've been checking up on my guy Zach Woods to see if he's been brilliant in anything lately so that I could watch and admire him, and noticed he's in a show called Avenue 5. So I looked it up and found out it's a sci-fi comedy show written by Armando Iannucci and Hugh Laurie plays the lead, and thought 'hey, meerkats lady (idk if saying your name is alright) likes these guys'. I watched the trailer and didn't think much honestly but I'll put it here for you to see if you haven't. I bet Zach Woods is doing great work. Also Hugh Laurie with a beard.

https://youtu.be/w8Zr3f-_Ft8

That's great that you discovered that, because you're giving me an opportunity to share this show! I first watched it early last year I think, and since then it's become one of those shows where I'll re-watch bits of episodes somewhat often. At the moment they're working on season 2, which I'm looking forward to.

Avenue 5 is a good show, I definitely recommend it to someone who enjoys the work of the many famous people involved. Hugh Laurie, Zach Woods, Rebecca Front, Jessica St. Clair, Josh Gad, that guy who played David Wallace on The Office. Daisy May Cooper has a recurring role that's really entertaining. It's sort of what Armando Iannucci decided to do once he had the cred in America that he got from Veep, and could make a new thing with a bunch of money and famous people.

It's not as good as some of the other things Armando Iannucci has made, but only because pretty much nothing is as good as those things. I feel like it has a huge amount of potential, though. I can see where they're going with a few different threads and I think if they had time they could make it something really great. Unfortunately they're saying it'll likely end after season 2, so I don't know if that'll happen. But anyway, season 1 is still quite entertaining. There's a lot going on, and the more I watch it, the more I find new appreciation for how hilarious different bits of it are. Himesh Patel, a guy whom I think is well known for EastEnders but I know him for that Beatles movie I hated and for the fact that he was born on the exact same day of the same year as I was, plays a minor character who entertains me more every time I see it.

Sometimes, I think half the reason this show was created is to show off how perfectly Hugh Laurie can switch between English and American accents. And that can sort of work as a metaphor for the whole show, actually. It takes elements of Armando Iannucci's classic sharpness and bleakness, and put them in a show with a much brighter and more American feel. It's a weird contrast at times, but it's cool. And again, I feel like they could do more with that contrast if given more time.

All nine episodes of season 1 are on the big Google Drive that I set up a year and a half ago to store a bunch of my Britcom collection. Here are the Avenue 5 episodes, and in case anyone reading this hasn't seen me share that folder before, he's a link to the entire folder that contains my Britcom videos. I had to pay some money to store so much data in one account, but that one's paid up until February 2023 so feel free to stream/download if anyoneo wants those files.

(Edit: I just looked through that Google Drive for the first time in a while, and realized it’s a bit confusing that all Alan Partridge things, including the Alan Partridge shows that happened without Iannucci’s input, and On The Hour and The Day Today, which aren’t really thought of as Alan Partridge shows and are just shows in which he was a character, are in the Alan Partridge sub-folder of the larger Armando Iannucci folder. There’s probably a better way I could organize that whole collection, maybe I’ll try to figure that out. Anyway, there’s good stuff in there.)

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self-indulgent: autistic bi Alan Partridge, low empathy gay Christopher Morris and ADHD pansexual Michael Do not tag Christopher as kin/ID/me, and do not tag Christopher as his actor, this is for the character of the same name.

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self-indulgent: Alan x Michael moodboard

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Alan Partridge (I'm Alan Partridge + others) wallpapers

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