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Alan Gordon Partridge is a fictional character portrayed by English actor and comedian Steve Coogan. Partridge is a tactless and inept television and radio presenter who often insults his guests; he is arrogant, with an inflated sense of celebrity, and often resorts to treachery and shameless self-promotion. Coogan described Partridge as a Little Englander, with right-wing values and poor taste in music and clothes. 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, as the show's sports presenter. In 1992, Partridge hosted a spin-off Radio 4 spoof chat show, ''Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge'', which transferred to television in 1994''.'' Coogan starred as Partridge in a two-series BBC sitcom, ''I'm Alan Partridge'', in 1997 and 2003, which earned two BAFTA awards. The character returned in 2010 with a web series, ''Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge'', followed in 2011 by bestselling fictional autobiography, ''I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan,'' and in 2013 a successful feature-length film, ''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa''. Critics have praised Alan Partridge's complexity, realism and pathos. He has been described as a British "national treasure", and the ''Guardian'' described him as "one of the greatest and most beloved comic creations of the last few decades". According to Den of Geek'','' Partridge has so influenced British culture that "Partridgisms" have become part of everyday vernacular''.'' ==History== Alan Partridge was created for the 1991 BBC Radio 4 comedy programme ''On The Hour'', a spoof of British current affairs broadcasting, as the show's hapless sports presenter.〔 The character is portrayed by Steve Coogan; the show's writers Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber, Richard Herring and Stewart Lee wrote much of Partridge's original material, although Herring credits the creation mostly to Coogan and Iannucci. According to Iannucci, he asked Coogan to do a voice for a "generic sports reporter": "Someone said, 'He’s an Alan!' and someone else said, 'He’s a Partridge!' Within minutes we knew where he lived, we'd worked out his back story, what his aspirations were." Coogan said Partridge was originally a "one-note, sketchy character" and "freak show", but became "more and more refined as sort of a dysfunctional alter ego" over the years.〔 He had performed a similar character for a BBC college radio station at university.〔 Following ''On the Hour'', Partridge presented six episodes of a spoof Radio 4 chat show, ''Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge,'' first broadcast on 1 December 1992. The series saw Partridge repeatedly annoy and offend his guests, and coined the character's catchphrase, "Aha!" In 1993, ''On the Hour'' transferred to television as ''The Day Today,'' in which Partridge reprised his role as sports reporter''.''〔 In 1994, ''Knowing Me, Knowing You'' transferred to television and was followed by a Christmas special, ''Knowing Me, Knowing Yule'', in December 1995. The series culminates in Partridge accidentally shooting one of his guests and attacking a BBC commissioning editor, ending his television career. It was nominated for the 1995 BAFTA award for Light Entertainment Performance. In 1997, Coogan starred as Partridge in a sitcom, ''I'm Alan Partridge,'' written by Coogan, Iannucci and Peter Baynham. The sitcom 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 radio, and desperately pitches ideas for new television shows to the BBC. Iannucci said the writers used the sitcom as "a kind of social X-ray of male middle-aged Middle England."〔 The series won the 1998 BAFTA awards for Comedy Performance and Comedy Programme or Series.〔 A second series followed in 2002.〔 In March 2003, the BBC broadcast a mockumentary, ''Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge'', about Partridge's life and career. After ''I'm Alan Partridge,'' Iannucci said he had felt the character was "kind of dead".〔 However, in 2010, Partridge returned in a series of YouTube shorts, ''Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge'', with Partridge DJing on a digital radio station''.'' The shorts were written by brothers Neil and Rob Gibbons, who submitted scripts to Coogan's production company. According to Neil, Coogan "invited us in, our sensibilities chimed, and before we knew it, ''Mid Morning Matters'' was up and running. We wrote it as if it was our baby, and though there was a sense that we were standing on the shoulders of giants, I think we were like two pairs of fresh eyes, and Steve seemed to fall in love with the character all over again." Coogan said they chose the web format because "it was a bit underground, a low-key environment in which to test the character out again. And the response was so good, we realised there was more fuel in the tank."〔 The shorts were later broadcast by Sky Atlantic.〔 In 2011, a spoof autobiography, ''I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan,'' written by Coogan, Iannucci and the Gibbons brothers, was published in the UK. An audiobook version recorded by Coogan as Partridge was released on CD and downloadable audio formats. Coogan appeared as Partridge to promote the book on ''The Jonathan Ross Show'' on 1 October 2011. The book received positive reviews and became a bestseller.〔 A second autobiography is due in 2016.〔 On 25 June 2012, Partridge presented a one-hour Sky special, ''Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life'', taking the viewer on a tour of Norfolk, for which Coogan won the 2013 BAFTA award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme.〔 It was followed the next week by ''Open Books with Martin Bryce'', a mock literary programme discussing Partridge's autobiography.〔 On 7 August 2013, a feature film, ''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa,'' written by Coogan, Iannucci, Baynham and the Gibbons brothers, was released in the UK. The film sees Partridge enlisted as a crisis negotiator during a siege at his radio station.〔 It was directed by Declan Lowney and co-produced by StudioCanal and Coogan's production company Baby Cow, with support from BBC Films and the BFI Film Fund. It received positive reviews and opened at number one at the box office in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In December 2015, Coogan will co-present a special Christmas episode of the Channel 4 chat show show ''TFI Friday'' as Partridge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Partridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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