» Review: Steve Coogan is Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters
Mr Coogan seemed to be on autopilot for the first half of this show – the ‘Less Successful Characters’ – which, on this evidence, aren’t going to become any more successful. I’ve always had a soft spot for Paul and Pauline Calf but they were reduced to innuendo and gypsy jokes, although Pauline’s ‘Marriott Hotel’ was very funny. Partridge was altogether a different beast; reinventing himself as a motivational speaker, impressing on us his life-changing philosophy which came to him after soiling himself in PC World. Brilliant stuff, but you can’t erase the memory of a patchy first half.
Brighton Centre, 21 November
3/5
Simon Plotkin
