I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan by Alan Partridge & Rob Gibbons & Neil Gibbons & Armando Iannucci & Steve Coogan

Author:Alan Partridge & Rob Gibbons & Neil Gibbons & Armando Iannucci & Steve Coogan [Partridge, Alan & Gibbons, Rob & Gibbons, Neil & Iannucci, Armando & Coogan, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, Non-Fiction, Humour
ISBN: 9780007449170
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

152 Press play on Track 29.

153 As I say, he’s a good guy. He’d become chummy with me after a falling out with Des Lynam several years before at a Grandstand bonding retreat. Des couldn’t help but correct what he saw as speech defects in fellow sports presenters – he’d picked up on my Norfolk nasality in the early 90s, for example. Unlike me, Steve had reacted badly to being told he had a tendency to pronounce ‘this afternoon’ as ‘the zarfternoon’ – but the fact is, he does and Des was bang right to point it out. Steve’s not spoken to him since – and I’m the beneficiary. I am, Steve admits, his fall-back friend and I am happy with that.

154 Antagonistic talkshow host Trisha now lives there.

155 Thanks again, Steve.

156 His loss. Monkey Tennis was later snapped up by TV stations in Laos and Taiwan and ran for two successful years – after which the format reached the end of its natural life and the monkeys were quickly and humanely destroyed.