Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge

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Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge (also known as Knowing Me, Knowing You or abbreviated to KMKY...WAP) is a British

United Kingdom

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comedy

Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
show first broadcast on BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
as a six-episode series, which subsequently transferred to BBC Television

BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC which began in 1932. The British Broadcasting Corporation has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927....
with a series of six episodes (beginning 16 September 1994), and a Christmas special (Knowing Me, Knowing Yule) in 1995. It is named after the song "Knowing Me, Knowing You

Knowing Me, Knowing You

"Knowing Me, Knowing You" is a hit single recorded by Sweden pop group ABBA. The song was written by Stig Anderson, Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus, with the lead vocal sung by Anni-Frid Lyngstad....
" by ABBA

ABBA

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Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge (also known as Knowing Me, Knowing You or abbreviated to KMKY...WAP) is a British

United Kingdom

Comedy

BBC Radio 4

BBC Television

Knowing Me, Knowing You

ABBA

ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
(Alan Partridge's favourite band), which was used as the show's title music.

The show was a parody of a chat show, and both the radio and television versions were so embarrassingly accurate that listeners and viewers often thought they were the real thing. Many wrote in to complain, for example, at Partridge slapping a child prodigy in an episode of the radio series. The series did feature an audience who clearly knew the show was a parody, but apparently this wasn't enough to persuade some listeners that it wasn't real.

Steve Coogan

Steve Coogan

'Stephen John "Steve" Coogan' is an English comedian, actor, writer, and Television producer. His best known character in the United Kingdom is Alan Partridge, the grotesque sports reporter-turned-television chat show host-turned-regional radio presenter who featured in several television series, such as The Day Today, Knowing Me, Knowin...
played the incompetent and annoying but self-satisfied Norwich-based host, Alan Partridge

Alan Partridge

CharacterWhereas many of his personality defects are apparent in his appearances in shows such as The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, it is largely from I'm Alan Partridge onwards that his creators began to explore his personality in depth, and most of the observations that follow originated in that show....
. Alan was a spin-off character from the spoof radio show On The Hour
On the Hour

On the Hour was a United Kingdom radio programme that parody current affairs broadcasting, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1991 and 1992....
(which later transferred to TV as The Day Today
The Day Today

The Day Today is a Surrealism British parody of television news programmes. It is an adaptation of the radio programme On The Hour. The series is composed of six half-hour episodes and a selection of shorter, five-minute slots recorded as promotion trailers for the longer segments....
).

Knowing Me, Knowing You was written by Coogan, Armando Iannucci

Armando Iannucci

Armando Iannucci is a Scotland comedian, writer, director, performer and radio producer....
(who produced the radio version) and Patrick Marber

Patrick Marber

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an England comedian, playwright, director, actor and screenwriter....
(who also starred), with contributions from the regular supporting cast of Doon Mackichan

Doon Mackichan

'Doon Mackichan' is an England comedian. Aged 9, she moved with her family to Upper Largo, Fife. She is probably best known as one of the writers and stars of the Channel 4 comedy series Smack the Pony; prior to this she appeared in Chris Morris 's BBC news spoof series The Day Today ; in Morris's controversial Channel 4 series Brass...
, Rebecca Front

Rebecca Front

Rebecca Front is an England comedienne and actor, perhaps best known for her roles in On The Hour, The Day Today, Fist of Fun, Knowing Me, Knowing You...with Alan Partridge, Monkey Dust and Time Gentlemen Please....
and David Schneider

David Schneider (actor)

David Schneider is an England actor and comedian....
, who made up Alan's weekly onslaught of annoying and inane guests. Steve Brown

Steve Brown (composer)

Steve Brown is a United Kingdom composer.Brown wrote the book and lyrics and composed the score for Spend Spend Spend, which chronicled Viv Nicholson's rise and fall after winning a fortune in the football pools in the early 1960s....
also appeared as the man in charge of the house band, Glenn Ponder.

Some of the more notable ‘guests’ parodied real life appearances by guests on chat shows. For example, the medical fashion parade by ‘Mrs Whippy Head’ is clearly a reference to Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood

Dame Vivienne Westwood, Order of the British Empire, Royal Designers for Industry is a British fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern Punk fashion and New Wave music fashions into the mainstream....
's infamous appearance on Wogan

Wogan

Wogan was a chat show on United Kingdom television, hosted by Terry Wogan. It followed the format of a series broadcast in 1980 entitled What's On Wogan?, which failed to gather viewers....
, and the child prodigy Simon Fisher's appearance in the radio series was seemingly inspired by James Harries'

Lauren Harries

Lauren Charlotte Harries , is a Great Britain Celebrity#Celebrity_as_a_mass_media_phenomenon....
(now Lauren Harries) appearance on the same show. There is also a curious homage paid to the BBC in the form of Adam Wells' fictional pop single "The Smiling Bicycle Of Amsterdam": it is based on a loop of John Baker

John Baker (Radiophonic musician)

John Baker was a musician and composer who worked in jazz and electronic music. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied piano and composition....
's (BBC Radiophonic Workshop

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the sound effects units of the BBC, was created in 1958 to produce effects and new music for radio, and was closed in March 1998, although much of its traditional work had already been outsourced by 1995....
) BBC station ID "Radio Nottingham" (1968).

Alan went on to appear in two series of the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge
I'm Alan Partridge

I'm Alan Partridge is a BBC situation comedy starring Steve Coogan; two series of six episodes were produced, the first in 1997 and the second in 2002....
, following Alan's life after his sacking from TV after punching the commissioning editor of BBC2 (David Schneider) on his Christmas special, shortly after his wife left him.

Radio Episodes

	Transmission date	Rebecca Front Rebecca Front Rebecca Front is an England comedienne and actor, perhaps best known for her roles in On The Hour, The Day Today, Fist of Fun, Knowing Me, Knowing You...with Alan Partridge, Monkey Dust and Time Gentlemen Please....	Patrick Marber Patrick Marber Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an England comedian, playwright, director, actor and screenwriter....	David Schneider David Schneider (actor) David Schneider is an England actor and comedian....	Notes
1	1 December 1992	Ally Tennant	Peter and Adam Wells	Lawrence Camley
2	8 December 1992	Janey Katz	Simon Fisher and his father	Nick Ford
3	15 December 1992	Shirley Dee	Chris Lester	Michel Lambert
4	22 December 1992	The Duchess of Stranraer and Sandra Peaks	Matt Bradley	Steve Thompson and Craig Bradley
5	29 December 1992	Sally Hoff	Bernie Rosen	Conrad Knight Jack 'the Black Cat' Calson
6	5 January 1993	Trudy Sky and Yvonne Boyd	Tony Hayers	Lord Morgan of Glossop
7	3 July 1993				Documentary-style programme called Knowing Knowing Me, Knowing You

Television Episodes

	Subject	Rebecca Front Rebecca Front Rebecca Front is an England comedienne and actor, perhaps best known for her roles in On The Hour, The Day Today, Fist of Fun, Knowing Me, Knowing You...with Alan Partridge, Monkey Dust and Time Gentlemen Please....	Patrick Marber Patrick Marber Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an England comedian, playwright, director, actor and screenwriter....	David Schneider David Schneider (actor) David Schneider is an England actor and comedian....	Doon Mackichan Doon Mackichan 'Doon Mackichan' is an England comedian. Aged 9, she moved with her family to Upper Largo, Fife. She is probably best known as one of the writers and stars of the Channel 4 comedy series Smack the Pony; prior to this she appeared in Chris Morris 's BBC news spoof series The Day Today ; in Morris's controversial Channel 4 series Brass...	Other guests
1	‘Roger Moore’	Sue Lewis, a dull showjumper	Keith Hunt, new host of This Is Your Life This Is Your Life *This Is Your Life* was a Documentary film series hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards. It originally aired in the United States from 1952 to 1961, and again in 1972 on NBC....	Big Red Book on This Is Your Life This Is Your Life *This Is Your Life* was a Documentary film series hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards. It originally aired in the United States from 1952 to 1961, and again in 1972 on NBC....	Shona McGough, an abrasive punk Punk rock Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock.... singer	Shona's band, Roger Moore Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore Order of the British Empire is an English actor. He is perhaps best known for portraying two British action heroes, Simon Templar in the television series The Saint from 1962 to 1969, and James Bond in James Bond .... (voice; performed by Steve Coogan Steve Coogan 'Stephen John "Steve" Coogan' is an English comedian, actor, writer, and Television producer. His best known character in the United Kingdom is Alan Partridge, the grotesque sports reporter-turned-television chat show host-turned-regional radio presenter who featured in several television series, such as The Day Today, Knowing Me, Knowin... )
2	‘Moribund’	Tania Beaumont, actress	Gary Barker, washed-up actor and Tania's husband	Tony LeMesmer, magician
Daniella Forrest, transsexual Playboy Playboy *Playboy* is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, with a presence in nearly every medium.... columnist (Minnie Driver Minnie Driver Minnie Driver is an Emmy-, BAFTA- and Academy Award-nominated England Actor and singer-songwriter. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting.... )	A sailor with a facial tic Tic A tic is a sudden, repetitive, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization involving discrete muscle groups. Tics can be invisible to the observer, such as abdominal tensing or toe crunching.... (John Thomson)
3	‘Hot’	Gina Langland, singer	Lawrence Knowles, sleazy promoter	Clive Sealy, Lawrence's dermatologist
The Olympic Golden Girls of 1936; Hot Pants, an all-male strip troupe
4	‘A Partridge In Paris’	Yvonne Boyd, fashion designer with odd ideas	Phillippe Lambert, famous chef	Head of Cirque des Clowns
Nina Vanier, Alan's French co-host (Melanie Hudson Melanie Hudson Melanie Hudson is an English actress and comedian, one half of the double act Hudson and Pepperdine along with Vicki Pepperdine. The pair wrote and star in BBC Radio 4's The Hudson and Pepperdine Show.... )	Alain Perdrix, who couldn't speak English
5	‘Partridge Over Britain’	Charlotte Fraser (Lab Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again.... )	Martin Dwyer, alias Lt. Col. Kojak Slaphead the Third (Bald Brummies Against The Big-Footed Conspiracy Party)	Adrian Finch (Con Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom.... )
Terry Norton, dodgy boxing promoter (Alan Ford Alan Ford (actor) Alan Ford is an England actor.Ford was trained at East 15 Acting School. He is perhaps best known today for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime capers Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch , and guest starring in The Bill.... ); Five Miss Norwich contestants (Barbara Durkin Barbara Durkin Barbara Durkin is a UK actress best known for her work on television.Though she made her debut in the 1987 British movie Wish You Were Here she is better known for her televion appearances.... , plus four uncredited); Ronald Biggs (Lib Dem Liberal Democrats The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP.... ) (Felix Dexter Felix Dexter Felix Dexter is an England actor, comedian, and writer.... )	Dead, but appeared anyway
6	‘It Is A Live Show’	Bridie McMahon, lesbian host of the show to take Alan's place	Forbes McAllister, cynical restaurant critic for The Spectator The Spectator *The Spectator* is a weekly United Kingdommagazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by the Barclay brothers, who also own The Daily Telegraph....
Wanda Harvey, Bridie's lesbian co-host	The Alan Partridge Playmates; the Maclean brothers, irritating child film-makers; Joe Beasley, awful stand-up comic (John Thomson)
7	‘Knowing Me, Knowing Yule’	Mary, a bellringer and devout Christian	Gordon Heron, a paralysed former golfer	Tony Hayers, Chief Commissioning Editor of BBC Television	Liz Heron, Gordon's wife and also a golfer	Fanny Thomas, innuendo-using transvestite (Kevin Eldon Kevin Eldon Kevin Eldon is English people actor and comedian. He has appeared prominently in several of the most critically-acclaimed United Kingdom comedy television shows of the 1990s, notably Fist of Fun, I'm Alan Partridge, Big Train, Brass Eye and Jam .... ), Mick Hucknall Mick Hucknall Michael Hucknall is a United Kingdom singer and songwriter. He is the vocalist of the British band Simply Red....

External links

at the British Sitcom Guide
at Phill.co.uk Comedy Guide