Alan Partridge: Nomad

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My bottom is itchy, so I stop in the middle of the landing and scratch it lightly. The fiddling merely tantalises the itch, and it becomes more aggressive. I respond in kind, dragging my fingernails across my fundament in a frenzied jerking motion. With one hand braced against the wall, I’m now grabbing and clawing the angry aperture, slashing and scraping………” ….and so on. A third Partridge memoir, Big Beacon, covering Partridge's return to television and his experience restoring a lighthouse, was published on 12 October 2023. The Times gave it a positive review, praising its "skilfully terrible writing". [45] Character [ edit ] A mural of Alan Partridge on the Hollywood Cinema in Norwich, where Alpha Papa premiered in 2013 [46] Plunkett, John (24 March 2005). "Is there a place for Monkey Tennis?". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 September 2015. Most irritating at all were the references to his missing pal Micheal. While it worked as a joke in the film, to go on and on about it throughout the book got really grating, as were the long discussions about minor characters from the somewhat sub-par film. The running joke of Alan running into celebrities was a bit irritating too, is it really likely to happen randomly so often, and what was the purpose of making minor celebrities most of us have forgotten into such grotesques? A merciless piss-take of every bullshit 'personal journey' every celeb ever undertook, as Alan undertakes the Footsteps Of My Father TM walk to come to terms with the memory of his late father, and definitely not because he's under the mistaken belief he might get a new TV series out of it (because he's perfectly happy working on North Norfolk Digital's mid-morning slot, OK? He even explains why it's really much better than certain other slots which people might mistakenly consider higher profile). I know some people say you need the audiobooks for these, but really, can't we all inwardly read them in the appropriate Partridge voice? I've somehow missed his previous book, but what really came through for me more here than on TV are the way the character's grounded in multiple layers of deceit - obviously there are the things he knows but refuses to admit to the reader, but then beneath those are the things he genuinely doesn't see, despite their being incredibly obvious to everyone else (though oddly, for me this was least successful in the chapter giving his version of events in the Alpha Papa film, where we've actually seen what went down - it felt like over-egging the pudding somehow, when the rest of the book is so good at making the actual events so clear just by implication). I'd almost say 'poor bastard' if only his ilk weren't running the world.

Penned with the help of Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Steve Coogan, the memoir will relate how Partridge "heroically rebuilt his TV career, rising like a phoenix from the desolate wasteland of local radio to climb to the summit of Mount Primetime and regain the nationwide prominence his talent merits.Needless to say, Alan digresses considerably throughout this book, touching on his career, his broken marriage, his habits, his purulent foot (which appears to have developed its own pulse), how good a kisser he is, his pearls of wisdom – the list seems endless. Oh dear, I was really looking forward to this, but it was underwhelming in the extreme. The first problem was that the fundamental concept made little sense. Alan may well traverse a path trod (or rather driven) by his father if he was being filmed doing it, but to walk so far for the purposes of a book seemed somewhat out of character. Another problem with the idea is that his father has gone from being a fairly average nonentity in the first book to being an unpleasant bully in the second, thus undermining the fiction. The first book worked well since it was a satire of the bitter memoirs of a washed up celebrity, but the central idea here is much to flimsy to base an entire book upon. a b Virtue, Graeme (27 July 2013). "Alan Partridge: a look inside his mind". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 September 2015.

Partridge was created by Coogan and Armando Iannucci for the 1991 BBC Radio 4 comedy programme On the Hour, a spoof of British current affairs broadcasting. In 1992, Partridge hosted a spin-off spoof chat show, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge. On the Hour transferred to television as The Day Today in 1994, followed by Knowing Me, Knowing You later that year. In 1997, Coogan starred as Partridge in a BBC sitcom, I'm Alan Partridge, written by Coogan, Iannucci and Peter Baynham, following Partridge's life in a roadside hotel working for a small radio station. It earned two BAFTAs and was followed by a second series in 2002. 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 Thompson, Ben (4 September 1994). "Comedy / Knowing him, knowing us, ah-haah: Alan Partridge, smarmy master of the crass interview, is bringing his chat show to television. Ben Thompson meets the gauche celeb's comic creator, Steve Coogan". The Independent . Retrieved 14 September 2015.a b c d Gordon, Edmund (23 November 2011). "I, Partridge by Alan Partridge - review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 18 December 2017. Hooton, Christopher (29 May 2014). "Accidental Partridge: TalkSport's Sam Matterface drops textbook Alan-ism on-air". The Independent . Retrieved 14 September 2015.