Coogan's Run - TVerie TVerie Follow! Coogan's Run was a 1995 UK TV series featuring Steve Coogan as a series of odd characters living in the fictional town of Ottle. It was written by various people including Coogan, Patrick Marber, David Tyler, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Geoffrey Perkins and Henry Normal. The series consists of six self-contained stories, although Coogan's characters from the other episodes in the series make occasional cameo appearances. Rated with 7/10 by 3 users 1 Steve Coogan - The Inside Story An unconventional look at the best of Steve Coogan's television work and character comedy. With classic archive moments and some rarely seen early appearances, this one-hour special includes interviews with well-known faces who have collaborated with Steve, and others who are simply fans of Alan Partridge, Paul and Pauline Calf, Tony Ferrino and Tommy Saxondale - to name only a few of his great comic creations.

Along with Julia Davis, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer also appear in several guises to give the inside scoop on what it's like to work with Steve Coogan - while Steve himself appears as his Irish auntie Peggy and Mickey Gold - his first showbiz agent. Narrated by Mark Williams. Episode 1 Get Calf Paul Calf is a jobless Manchester City fan, whose main job in life is to get drunk, get off with as many girls as possible, and to fight the local "poncy students." 2 Dearth of a Salesman Gareth Cheeseman's mind is a bomb, nothing can stand in his way. In the coporate jungle he is - truly - a tiger. With only three days of the Microsell '95 conference to clinch the deal that will elevate him to the Diamond club of supersalesman, hard-selling Gareth will do anything - truly - to pull the big one.... Believe it. 3 Handyman for All Seasons It's the 1960s and whether it be a slow-running clock, a broken church-door, or even a steel-coated anchorpin, local Ottle handyman Ernest Moss can fix it and have it running "tickety-boo" in no time.

He and his faithful sidekick Robin run a simple handyman service for the people of Ottle. But Ernest is a tad concerned when slimy property developer Francis Burgoyne and his sultry partner Valerie come to town, offering to develop Ottle into a new, state-of-the-art housing community. Ernest is not afraid of the future, and is well aware that by 1980 everyone will have their own personal hovercraft, but he doesn't trust Burgoyne one bit. However Ernest is having his own problems, as everything he puts back together lately seems to be falling apart. Is Ernest really learning his marbles or is there more to Burgoyne's houses of the future than meets the eye? 4 Thursday Night Fever Mike Crystal is an all-round performer at a cabaret club. He wants his own night, but his boss won't give it to him. In order to get a better slot, he invents an alter-ego- tough Cockney agent Clint Stallone. He gets himself in a mes, however when the boss sends someone to get photographs of Clint doing something incriminating. He is photographed with his own girlfriend, but dressed as Clint.

Mike is informed off this and he stupidly arranges a fight to take place at the office of said boss. He shouts at himself and smashes a window, claiming that Clint ran off. Mike gets a job releasing a new record by the Wurzels, who are at a ceremony presented by Mike. He pre-recorded a tape of Clint, claiming that he was dying of cancer. 5 Natural Born Quizzers The mad trivia obsessed Crump brothers, Stuart and Guy went to a remand centre in 1975 after losing a childrens quiz show, which compelled them to burn the TV studio down, killing one of the twin siters who won the quiz show. Twenty years later, they kidnapped their therapist while he was suffering from piles and escaped from jail. They then got the surviving sister from the quiz show, Cathy Briggs who is a policewoman and threatened to detonate a bomb unless they could reconstruct the quiz show on live TV from a multi-storey car park which is where the studios once stood.

They drove to the house of the quiz show host, Jeremy Monkhead only to find out that he had undergone a sex change operation and was now Jenny Monkhead [so to speak.] The show was re-staged successfully and it ended with Guy contemplating a life with Cathy. 6 The Curator Tim Fleck is the proud owner of Little Ottle museum, a small establishment that holds pistols that may or may not have belong to dreading highwayman Dick Turpin and boasting not one, but three medieval wool groomers. But when his mother dies, Little Ottle museum is in danger of being turned into a steakhouse. That is, unless, Tim can somehow resurrect the long-dead Dick "Stand and Deliver" Turpin to save the day. > Steve Coogan - The Complete Coogan Box Set [DVD] | DVDs | 123PriceCheck.com Read Amazon's Reviews instead. Shops' Descriptions If available, descriptions of Steve Coogan - The Complete Coogan Box Set DVD from some of the shops we list are shown below: HIVE Comic actor Steve Coogan's various TV series are brought together in one standout collection.

Coogan's characters, including Alan Partridge, Paul Calf, & Tommy Saxondale, have been a regular feature on UK TV since the 1990s. This collection features alll the episodes from: 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', 'Knowing Me, Knowing Yule', 'I'm Alan Partridge Series 1 & 2', 'Saxondale Series 1 & 2', 'Dr Terrible's House of Horrible', 'Coogan's Run', 'Paul & Pauline Calf's Cheese & Ham Sandwich', 'Paul & Pauline Calf's Video Diaries', 'Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who & Why? A Quest' & 'The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon'. PLAY 'Steve Coogan is a man expert at creating magnetic tragicomic characters.' Guardian 'Comic genius.' Time Out At last - a collection celebrating the true comic craftsmanship of Steve Coogan! From Alan Partridge to Duncan Thicket & from Pauline Calf to Tommy Saxondale, the award-winning Coogan's outrageous, perfectly-observed, comic alter-egos have provided many of the funniest moments on British TV.

This fantastic collection has them alll - not just his iconic Partridge, Paul Calf & Tony Ferrino, but also cherished, one-off gems like Nathan Blaze, Gareth Cheeseman & Ernest Moss. Contains alll the episodes from: Knowing Me, Knowing You Knowing Me, Knowing Yule I'm Alan Partridge Series 1 & 2 Saxondale Series 1 & 2 Dr Terrible's House of Horrible Coogan's Run Paul & Pauline Calf's Cheese And Ham Sandwich Paul & Pauline Calf's Video Diaries Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who & Why? A Quest The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon GAMESEEK Comic actor Steve Coogan's various TV series are brought together in one standout collection. Coogan's characters including Alan Partridge Paul Calf & Tommy Saxondale have been a regular feature on UK TV since the 1990... XTRAVISION Comic actor Steve Coogan's various TV series are brought together in one standout collection. Coogan's characters, including Alan Partridge, Paul Calf, & Tommy Saxondale, have been a regular feature on UK TV since the 1990s.

This collection features alll the episodes from: 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', 'Knowing Me, Knowing Yule', 'I'm Alan Partridge Series 1 & 2', 'Saxondale Series 1 & 2', 'Dr Terrible's House of Horrible', 'Coogan's Run', 'Paul & Pauline Calf's Cheese & Ham Sandwich', 'Paul & Pauline Calf's Video Diaries', 'Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who & Why? A Quest' & 'The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon'. Related Titles If you like Steve Coogan - The Complete Coogan Box Set [DVD] then you may like to see price comparisons of these DVDs: The Trip and The Trip to Italy - Feature Film Box Set [DVD] About Steve Coogan - The Complete Coogan Box Set DVD Price Comparison We try to find you a cheap Steve Coogan - The Complete Coogan Box Set DVD price by comparing a huge number of online shops to find the cheapest price for DVDs.

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A character on the television show Coogan’s Run, pushes a fellow computer salesman to suicide through his Machiavellian speechifying. As “himself” in the movie Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story, Coogan hogs the spotlight and considers cheating on his wife. Overall Coogan’s soft pasty features, with an upper lip that easily rises to a sneer, give him the look of an arrogant low-level aristocrat in need of a good beating. This might give the impression that Coogan is most successful playing a type that is comfortable to him or that he is at least limited in his dramatic scope. One of the pleasures of The Steve Coogan Collection, a mammoth DVD compilation of much of his work for the BBC, is to showcase the depth and range of Coogan’s talent in acting, writing, and producing; his highly tuned wit; but most of all the sympathetic foundation and emotional resonances that he brings to his seediest of characters.

(And some of them are actually decent people.) The set was released in the United Kingdom last year and is now being released in the United States, much appreciated for American Coogan fans that had to take what they could get of his television work on BBC America or through YouTube posts. As a child, Coogan had a talent for impersonations. He later went to drama school in Manchester and it was this combined development as a comic – a sharp eye for impressions with the backing of solid dramatic skills – that seems to have provided the basis for his work. His first two notable comic creations were Paul and Pauline Calf. Paul, according to a short feature included in the set, was invented by Coogan at bars during his college years and later refined with the help of his frequent collaborator Henry Normal. Paul is an almost perpetually drunk jobless outer Mancunian who hates “stoodents” and is always pining after his ex-girlfriend Julie. (His rough North American sketch character equivalent would probably be the Canadian hoser.). His sister Pauline is snappier with big hair.

You can closely track the evolution of these characters over the course of several disks: through a background documentary, old stand-up club footage, a few television specials, and the complete run of Paul and Pauline’s stand-up appearances on the television show Saturday Zoo in 1993, where they first gained wide prominence. (It would be nice if the set was put together in chronological order to more easily observe how Coogan’s writing and performing has developed.) Through the stand-up appearances and then the later “video diary” television specials, one can see how Coogan initially leaned heavily on noticeable character tics like Paul’s smoker’s cough and catchphrases (“bag of shite”), familiar in sketch comedy acting, and then gradually began to deemphasize these tics to create subtler characterizations. Though Paul is a lout, he is revealed to be vulnerable, lonely, and fond of his friends and family. Coogan also experimented with presenting the Calfs in various formats through the faux documentary of the video diaries, the comic monologues of their stand-up appearances, and through the single-camera style of the show Coogan’s Run.

Playing with different modes of storytelling and their expanded possibilities in comedy and character presentation would continue to be a hallmark of Coogan’s television work. Around the same time that Coogan was playing the Calfs, he was developing Alan Partridge, his most well-known character and a brilliant conceptual gambit. Nobody who has caught any of the Partridge television shows—Knowing Me, Knowing You and the two seasons of I’m Alan Partridge—needs convincing as to its comic greatness. But seeing the Partridge work collected together, it is amazing to realize how thoroughly Coogan used his vain, petty entertainment “personality” to play with mass media and create a complex alternate fictional realm for his character. He first developed the character on a radio show, where Partridge was a sports announcer from Norwich. The character got his fictional big break with the BBC television talk show Knowing Me, Knowing You…with Alan Partridge, whose run of six episodes shows him gradually running the show into the ground and alienating everyone he works with. Over the course of a Christmas special, Knowing Me, Knowing Yule, he further inflames the BBC’s head of programming.

In his first appearances, we see Partridge working entirely within the talk shows and television specials that he is starring in. The series I’m Alan Partridge takes him outside his work with a single camera sitcom that picks up with Alan in 1997, back in Norwich, working the night shift at a radio station and living in a hotel. Over its two seasons he suffers a nervous breakdown and attempts to claw his way back to some sort of professional respectability. With I’m Alan Partridge Coogan mixed dry humor, tight sitcom plotting, and an improvised performance style that would later be taken up by Ricky Gervais for The Office. This set includes a bonus disk of behind-the-scenes footage and additional Partridge appearances and is most interesting for the inclusion of a full improvised scene—between Partridge and his assistant Lynn (Felicity Montagu) – and then it’s much shortened final edit, a fascinating glimpse into Coogan and his collaborator’s working methods. Subsequent to the Alan Partridge series, Coogan achieved a measure of international fame as film actor, appearing in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People and Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story and the Night at the Museum movies.

In 2006 he returned to British television with another character portrait series, Saxondale, about Tommy Saxondale, a libertarian former classic rock roadie who struggles to balance his nonconformist urges with the contentedness of suburban living. There is a little bit of bite, but more warmth and maturation in Coogan’s approach to Tommy and Tommy’s gradual acceptance of his foibles and life’s limitations seemingly mirrors Coogan’s gentler character treatment. Though the show gets thematically repetitive in the second season, Tommy is the character I most enjoy spending time with. It is less laugh-out-loud funny due to the more subtle approach, but this subtlety and the layerings brought to Tommy makes him Coogan’s most fully realized character and his most underappreciated work. Though none of his other characters or series approach the heights of the Calfs, Partridge, and Saxondale, the additional material included in this collection is of a consistently high quality with a variety of inventiveness. Of the six episodes that make up the horror anthology series Dr. Terrible’s House of Horrible, about half are duds.

But working more tightly within genre and familiar narrative constructions, Coogan reveals a lovable dorky side in this ode to supernatural storytellers ranging from Hammer studios to Tales From the Crypt and classic British mysteries. Coogan’s Run is a similarly uneven six-episode series chronicling the residents of the fictional town of Ottle. Each episode concentrates on one character (all played by Coogan) and loosely parodies a film referenced in the title. (Get Calf, featuring Paul Calf, apes Get Carter.) Over the course of the series, a complicated, tonally diverse, and sympathetic portrait of the characters emerges, primarily in the shallow, oblivious computer salesman Gareth Cheeseman and the town’s handyman Ernest Moss, a quietly canny preserver of the community’s “traditional” values. The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon is an utterly silly one-off, the fake British premiere of a cheesy Portuguese lounge singer, but even here Coogan impresses with his attention to detail, and the musical numbers are all carefully conceived. (I loved the Eurovision Contest flashback of “Papa Bendi”.) The Steve Coogan Collection reveals its eponymous hero to be one of the unquestionable greats of modern comedy.

Alan Partridge is the link between, and the equal of, Basil Fawlty and David Brent. Coogan’s flair for impersonations recalls Peter Sellers, but with a deeper emotional resonance that often eluded Sellers and without the whiff of egotistic indulgence that has struck multi-character forays by comics like Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers. His work is always grounded in a respect and allegiance to solid technical polish in writing and storytelling and it shows in the highly entertaining 25 hours of material included in this set. The Steve Coogan Collection Steve Coogan Net Worth 2017/2016 - Celebrity Net Worth Celebrity Net Worth Home / Comedians / Steve Coogan Net Worth Steve Coogan Net Worth How rich is Steve Coogan? Steve Coogan net worth: 5 ft 10 in (1.79 m) Profession: Caroline Hickman (m. 2002–2005) Children: Steve Coogan net worth & biography: Steve Coogan is an English actor, farceur, writer, impressionist and producer with a net worth of $12 million. Steve Coogan has earned his net worth through his writing, creating and playing in movie and TV.

Raised with a working class family, Coogan first began to flaunt his gift for humor in his teens, mostly in the standup scene. So, the working-class family got noticed by TV casting agents who shortly let him play various comedic bit parts in network shows. Steve Coogan Net Worth $12 Million Dollars His breakthrough came with all the voice work in the long-running puppet show, Spitting Image, that has been a weekly satirical review that took aim at Margaret Thatcher, Michael Jackson and Ronald Reagan, amongst others. Once his abilities were unveiled, he got a radio spot, where he made an even bigger splash in the humor show, On the Hour. There, he created his most popular & most developed character, Alan Partridge, who had been yet to be observed on numerous other funny shows. Throughout the 90’s, Steve Coogan had developed many other comic book characters, taking them all on the road to get a extremely successful standup tour in the close of the decade. Ever since, his net continues to be regarded among the best comedic abilities who competently concealed his authentic self, be it through physical look, exaggerated style or dead on impression.

More about Steve Coogan: The Secret Life of Pets 2016 Professor Flux / Tower Guard (voice) Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb 2014 Alan Partridge / Jason Statham / Jason Bourne / ... Despicable Me 2 Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce 2012 Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge 2010-2012 Comic Relief: Red Nose Day 2011 2011 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief 2010 Steve Coogan Live: As Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters 2009 Paul Calf / Duncan Thickett / Pauline Calf / ... Pigsy Doodle Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian 2009 Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness 2008 Tommy Saxondale / Gay Mancunian Heroin Addict For the Love of God 2007 Alan Partridge's Top Teen Tunes.

2005 Alan Partridge Presents: The Cream of British Comedy 2005 Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story 2005 Tristram Shandy / Walter Shandy / Steve Coogan Monkey Trousers Comic Relief: Red Nose Night Live 05 2005 I Am Not an Animal 2004 Philip the Horse / Mark the Bird / Julian Lovely / ... Around the World in 80 Days 2004 The Private Life of Samuel Pepys 2003 Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich 2003 Duncan Thicket / Pauline Calf / Paul Calf Cruise of the Gods Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe 2002 Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible 2001 Dr. Terrible / Captain Tobias Slater / Lester Crown / ... A Small Summer Party Comic Relief: Say Pants to Poverty 2001 Terry Wogan / Vicar / Self-Help Video Presenter Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's It 1998 Steve Coogan / Pauline Calf / Duncan Thickett / ...

The End of the Year Show 1998 Alice Through the Looking Glass 1998 Add-On Alan... with Alan Partridge 1997 Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who and Why? A Quest 1997 Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge 1994-1995 Paul Calf / Ernest Moss / Gareth Cheeseman / ... The Indian in the Cupboard 1995 Steve Coogan: Live 'n' Lewd 1994 Steve Coogan / Pauline Calf / Duncan Thickett / ... Pauline Calf's Wedding Video A Christmas Night with the Stars 1994 Alan Partridge / Alvin Holler / Bobby Sky / ... Paul Calf's Video Diary Douglas Hurd / John Major / Jeremy Paxman / ...

Harry The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer 1993 Lead Singer of Go West Saturday Zoo A Word in your Era 1992 Gus and His Dirty Dead Dad 2013 TV Series executive producer - 7 episodes Philomena Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce 2012 Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life 2012 TV Series executive producer - 1 episode Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge 2010-2011 TV Series executive producer - 12 episodes Steve Coogan Live: As Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters 2009 TV Series executive producer - 13 episodes Sensitive Skin TV Series executive producer - 12 episodes The Abbey TV Series executive producer - 12 episodes Dating Ray Fenwick TV Series executive producer - 15 episodes Monkey Trousers TV Series executive producer - 5 episodes Ideal TV Series executive producer - 8 episodes The Keith Barret Show TV Series executive producer - 13 episodes Boosh Music I Am Not an Animal 2004 TV Series executive producer - 6 episodes King of Fridges TV Series executive producer - 8 episodes Posh & Becks' Big

 Impression: Behind the Scenes & Extra Bits 2003 TV Movie documentary executive producer The Private Life of Samuel Pepys 2003 TV Series associate producer - 16 episodes Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich 2003 TV Series executive producer - 2002 Combat Sheep Dr.

Terrible's House of Horrible 2001 TV Series executive producer - 6 episodes A Small Summer Party TV Series executive producer - 6 episodes Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's It 1998 Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge 2010-2012 Comic Relief: Red Nose Day 2011 2011 Steve Coogan: The Inside Story 2009 Steve Coogan Live: As Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters 2009 Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness 2008 TV Series writer - 5 episodes, 2006 written by - 2 episodes, 2007 Alan Meets Roger Daltrey Alan Partridge's Top Teen Tunes. 2005 Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich 2003 TV Series written by - 12 episodes Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible 2001 TV Series written by - 6 episodes The Parole Officer Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's It 1998 Add-On Alan...

with Alan Partridge 1997 Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who and Why? A Quest 1997 Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge 1994-1995 TV Series written by - 7 episodes Coogan's Run TV Series additional material - 3 episodes, 1995 written by - 3 episodes, 1995 Steve Coogan: Live 'n' Lewd 1994 TV Series written by - 7 episodes Paul Calf's Video Diary TV Series writer - 6 episodes Philomena based upon characters created by / screenplay Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce 2012 Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life 2012 TV Series performer - 1 episode Hamlet 2 performer: "Raped in the Face" The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon TV Movie performer: "Fishing For Girls", "Help Yourself", "Silence Of The Lambs", "Bigamy At Christmas" Mr.

Toad's Wild Ride performer: "Friends Is What We Is" Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge 1994 TV Series performer - 1 episode Composer Steve Coogan Live: As Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters 2009 Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's It 1998 Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness 2008 Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf 2015 The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies 2014 11th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers 2014 Himself - Nominee: Best Picture and Nominee: Best Adapted Screenplay Cinema 3 EE British Academy Film Awards: The Red Carpet Show 2014 The EE British Academy Film Awards 2014 Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Debut by a British Director, Writer or Producer Katie Himself / Martin Sixsmith (in photo) CBS News Sunday Morning The 56th Annual Grammy Awards 2014 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards 2014 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 2014 The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill

 2014 Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2013 Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life 2012 The British Comedy Awards 2011 2011 Steve Coogan: The Inside Story 2009 Himself / Alan Partridge / Paul Calf / ...

Monty Python: Almost the Truth - Lawyers Cut 2009 Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story 2009 The 2009 Independent Spirit Awards 2009 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 2009 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross 2005-2008 Late Night with Conan O'Brien 2002-2008 Up Close with Carrie Keagan 2008 Late Show with David Letterman 2008 The Making of 'Marie Antoinette' 2007 Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy 2007 Himself / Himself - Presenter, Comedy Award I Am Not an Animal - I Am an Animation 2005 The British Comedy Awards 2004 2004 Bob Monkhouse: A BAFTA Tribute 2004 The British Comedy Awards 2003 2003 24 Hour Party People: Manchester the Movie 2003 24 Hour Party People: The Factory Records Saga 2002 Frank Skinner on Frank Skinner 2001 The British Comedy Awards 2001 2001 Comic Relief:

 The Record Breaker 1999 Comic Relief: Behind the Nose 1995 Jo Brand Through the Cakehole 1994 The Royal Variety Performance 1992 1992 The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2012 Jennifer Saunders: Laughing at the 90s 2011 The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2011/I Raiders of the Lost Archive 2009 Comedy Songs: The Pop Years 2008 The Comedy Map of Britain 2007-2008 Have I Got News for You 2007 The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz 2007 Alan Partridge / Various Characters (uncredited) The Story of Light Entertainment 2006 Greatest Before They Were Stars TV Moments 2005 San Sebastián 2005: Crónica de Carlos Boyero 2005 Tristram Shandy / Walter Shandy (uncredited) Greatest TV Comedy Moments Paul Calf / Alan Partridge (uncredited) The Comedians' Comedian Night of a Thousand Faces 2001 Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places

 of My Life (2012) 2013 Best Male Performance in a Comedy Role The Trip (2010) Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge (1994) Nominated awards Best Motion Picture of the Year Philomena (2013) Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film BAFTA Awards Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Georgia Film Critics Association (GFCA) Best Adapted Screenplay Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) Best Adapted Screenplay (Miglior sceneggiatura non originale) Philomena (2013) London Critics Circle Film Awards British Actor of the Year Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013) 2014 London Critics Circle Film Awards Screenwriter of the Year Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Philomena (2013) Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Screenplay - Adapted San Francisco Film Critics Circle Best Screenplay, Adapted Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life (2012) 2011 Outstanding

 Actor in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical Happy Endings (2005) 24 Hour Party People (2002) 2003 Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Breakthrough Performance 24 Hour Party People (2002) 2002 Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer BAFTA Awards Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge (1994) 2nd place awards Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards Best Adapted Screenplay St.

Louis Film Critics Association, US Best Adapted Screenplay Looks like we don't have Steve Coogan salary information. Sorry! ﻿ Fact 1 An accomplished mimic, his legion of uncanny impressions include Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Stephen Hawking, Michael Caine, Ian McKellen, Liam Neeson, Ray Winstone, Alan Rickman, Harry Enfield, John Major, Al Pacino, Martin Sheen and more. 2 Was considered to play Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). 3 Worked with Jackie Chan in Around the World in 80 Days (2004). 4 Has a daughter, Clare, from his relationship with solicitor Anna Cole. 5 Aidan McArdle is his cousin. 6 His show, Steve Coogan is The Man Who Thinks He's It, was nominated for a 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Entertainment for the 1998 season. 7 Older brother of Brandan Coogan (MUTV presenter) and younger brother of Martin Coogan (ex-lead singer of The Mock Turtles). 8 The third of six children. 9 His father was born in Manchester, of Irish descent.

His mother is from Mayo, Ireland. 10 Based the character of Alan Partridge on a radio presenter who interviewed him just as he was becoming famous. Coogan began mimicking the interviewer during the interview and from this came the inspiration for Coogan's most famous creation. 11 Trained as an actor at Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre. 12 Has worked on BBC radio. 13 English actor whose versatile character portrayals, range of voices and gift for mimicry have earned him comparisons with the late Peter Sellers. ﻿ Quote 1 I don't like modern jazz. I like smoother jazz, but not so smooth that it veers toward Chris De Burgh. That would be wrong. 2 [on his multifaceted contributions to 'Philomena'] It was a cathartic experience for me. Comedy as an end in itself is like chocolate - enjoyable and not very nourishing. Why are people so scared of sincerity? I wanted to talk about important things.. I'm not portentous or self-righteous. I've still got prosaic tastes. I like cars! I'm not joyless. 3 I don't have a Twitter thing. I don't do Facebook. I don't do any of that. I'm holding out.

4 I like cars. I have about 10 - all British cars. I have a Lotus, Morgan, Aston Martin. I don't really drive them much because I'm scared of damaging them. I just clean them and look at them and sometimes I take them out on a Sunday up and down the road and then I come back and clean them again. 5 I love "The Onion" on YouTube. It's one of the funniest things out there. And I like watching documentaries on BBC4. They don't insult your intelligence. But I have guilty pleasures, too. If I want to really dumb down, I'll watch Locked Up Abroad (2007). It's about people who get into trouble and get locked up in foreign prisons. If you're having a bad day, you look at that and think, you know what, I may be having a bad day, but I'm not locked up in a foreign prison. 6 [Dec. 2013] I'm reading is "How To Live: Or a Life of Montaigne," by Sarah Bakewell.

It's about this Renaissance writer Michel de Montaigne who wrote essays that together form a kind of manual on how to live your life, only he wrote it in the 1500s. It resonates still today. It's about not having to aspire to live in some perfect way but to somehow embrace your flaws. It's quite liberating and comforting. 7 I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Frank Bough either. 8 I got involved in Leveson because I knew no one else in the public eye would. They didn't want to take the risk. I thought the way the press behaved - and yes it was towards me, but also towards a lot of other people who didn't have a voice like me - was just wrong. 9 When my life has been the subject of tabloid intrusion, what I have never done is get engaged in justifying myself. Celebrities who go round apologizing are pitiful, and don't do themselves any favors. 10 People have made the observation, which is entirely valid, that Steve Coogan's becoming more like Alan Partridge. It's not actually true. Alan Partridge is becoming more and more like me. 11 I don't talk about my personal life.

I don't go in Hello! magazine to get a free kitchen because I show them my kitchen. I like to be creative, but I'm not interested in being recognized. 12 I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product. Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do. One could argue that there are those who make their career out of being famous and those people do enter into a Faustian pact, where they use the press to raise their profile. They exploit the press for their own ends. They are in the fame game. 13 The 'News of the World' is a misogynistic, single parent-hating, asylum seeker-hating newspaper, and it's gone to the wall, and I'm delighted. 14 The big comic performance is a very obvious thing to do. The bolder, more inventive thing sometimes is the subtler, understated performance with minute shades and variations.

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way. 15 In comic acting, to improvise effectively is quite difficult. A lot of actors can improvise up to a certain level - an entry level, which is when you see the actors having more fun than the audience. 16 I don't want to be someone who's trying to spin this public image of me. I have had some negative tabloid press, I'm sure you're aware [I am], but I don't like to portray myself as somehow a nice, well-rounded person. 17 As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4. 18 I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

19 Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun. ﻿ Looks like we don't have Steve Coogan trademarks information. Sorry! ﻿ The immediacy of war: 'The Hurt Locker' - By Tom Von Malder - Rockland - Camden - Knox - Courier-Gazette - Camden Herald The immediacy of war: 'The Hurt Locker' By Tom Von Malder | Jan 14, 2010 Photo by: Summit Entertainment Jeremy Renner is exceptional as a U.S. soldier and bomb disarmer in Iraq in “The Hurt Locker.” Owls Head — The Hurt Locker (Summit DVD, R, 130 min.). Director Kathryn Bigelow (“Near Dark”) has crafted a film that is suspenseful on two levels and gives a very real picture of the situation in Iraq for U.S. soldiers. The story tells of a three-man explosive ordinance disarmament team in its last 38 days of a year-long stint in Baghdad. The big names do not last long in the film. The opening shows Sgt.

Matt Thompson (Guy Pearce) trying to disarm a bomb, but the Remotic Andros robot loses the wagon it is hauling, so he has to go in on foot, in the lead suit and helmet (sometimes, all year here is breathing in the helmet, a la “2001: A Space Odyssey”). Meanwhile, his partners -- Anthony Mackie as Sgt. JT Sanborn and Brian Geraghty as Specialist Owen Eldridge -- keep an eye out for any potential threats. When the explosion comes, and you knew it would, the 1,000-frames-per-second camera captures the ground literally rising and the dirt being raised off a deserted car. Thompson’s replacement is Staff Sgt. William James (a brilliant performance by Jeremy Renner), who brings the second level of suspense, because, for him, like the opening quote says, “war is a drug.” Sometimes, his actions border on reckless, yet he gets the job done. At one point, he says he has disarmed 873 bombs during his deployment in Iraq. Complications that he encounters include one bomb leading to about eight buried ones, and a potential car bomb that a sniper has set afire.

Renner (expect an Oscar nomination for him as well as for the film and Bigelow) is particularly good in a scene of macho horseplay that turns briefly into anger. The film has a documentary look, with lots of hand-held camera work, and it immerses the viewer in a world in which one has to be constantly looking over one’s shoulder, where anyone, including children, could prove lethal. It was written by Mark Boal, who was embedded with a bomb squad in Baghdad. He also wrote the Iraq war film “In the Valley of Elah,” starring Tony Lee Jones. DVD extras include audio commentary by Bigelow and Boal; an image gallery; and a 12:32 behind-the-scenes look. Grade: film 4 stars; extras 2.75 stars Rating guide: 5 stars = classic; 4 stars = excellent; 3 stars = good; 2 stars = fair; dog = skip it In the Loop (IFC DVD, NR, 106 min.). This wicked, and very funny, political satire occasionally is like “The West Wing” on acid. It takes place when the British and American governments were considering whether to invade Iraq.

Peter Capaldi is a scream as the foul-mouthed, scathing, but very funny, Malcolm Tucker, the British communications minister. Tom Hollander plays Simon Foster, the rather hapless, and clueless, minister of international development, who puts his foot in it when he says U.S. involvement in Iraq is “unforeseeable.” Soon the lives of he, his assistant Judy Molloy (Gina McKee) and new assistant, young Toby Wright (Chris Addison) are involved in missions to Washington, D.C. and the United Nations. On the American side is Karen Clarke (Mimi Kennedy), the U.S. Secretary of Diplomacy, who is sure Linton Barwick (David Rasche) is hiding a secret war-planning committee from her and Lt. Gen. George Miller (James Gandolfini). In fact, he is and it is disguised as the Future Planning Committee. That fact is found out by Clarke’s young aide Lisa Weld (Anna Chlumsky), who has met Toby before. There’s a lot of trying to save face going on and very little regard for what war might actually mean.

Steve Coogan has a funny part as a constituent of Foster’s who is complaining about a public wall that is starting to tumble into his mother’s garden, The DVD comes with some 40 deleted scenes, including some very funny bits (Chad, played insufferably by Zach Woods, finally makes his racquetball connection with Barwick) and more of Coogan. There also is a behind-the-scenes look. Grade: film 4.5 stars The Steve Coogan Collection (BBC, 13 DVDs, 1,475 min.). If you want more of Coogan, this set includes all the episodes from “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “Knowing Me, Knowing Yule,” “I’m Alan Partridge” (both series), and “Saxondale” (both seasons). There also are “Dr.

Terrible’s House of Horrible,” “Coogan’s Run,” “Paul and Pauline Calf’s Video Diaries,” “Paul and Pauline Calf’s Cheese and Ham Sandwich” and “The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon.” Partridge, Duncan Thicket, both Calfs, Tommy Saxondale and Ferrino are iconic and memorable alter-egos he has created and presented on British television. The one-off gems include Nathan Blaze, Gareth Cheeseman and Ernest Moss. There also is more than four hours of bonus material. Grade: collection 3.5 stars The Marine 2 (Fox Blu-ray or standard DVD, R, 95 min.). WWE star John Cena starred in the first film, which had a lighter touch. This time the wrestling star is Ted DiBiase, who generally does a good job as Marine Sgt. Joe Linwood, a sniper stationed in Southeast Asia. DiBiase only looks awkward when carrying a huge gun and having to peer around corners. He handles the action stuff well (and shows his bumps and bruises in the extras to illustrate how he actually did the stunts) and evidences some chemistry in scenes with Lara Cox as his wife Robin.

And while the film’s action is satisfying, the plot is more generic -- call it “Die Hard” at a tropical resort. That resort was built by Darren Conner (Robert Coleby), the successful, but overbearing, author of the self-help book, “Why Shouldn’t I Have It All.” Robin works for him and puts up with some attitude that has Joe ready to punch Conner. During the resort’s opening, terrorists, led by Damo (Temuera Morrison) attack and basically blow up most of the place before taking about 20 hostages, including Robin. They clai to be a patriotic group with the aim of driving Westerners from their island of Kusan. Michael Rooker plays a former U.S. Army guy who now gives snorkeling lessons and does fireworks on the island. Most of the action is in the second half and the character of Joe sure takes a beating, but he keeps on ticking and fighting to save his woman. Filmed in Thailand, the film, especially in the pristine Blu-ray edition, shows some exceptionally beautiful island locales. The sound is extremely amped as well.

Extras include three behind-the-scenes features (25:43); two deleted scenes (2:43); five extended scenes (9:20); a montage of deleted shots; and Muay Thai fight outtakes. Grade: film 2.25 stars; extras 2.75 stars Jennifer’s Body (Fox Blu-ray or standard DVD, R/NR, 102/107 min.). Although opposites, Jennifer Check (Megan Fox) and Needy Lesnicky (Amanda Seyfried) are best friends and do everything together (that includes kissing at one point). One night they go out to the Melody Lane Tavern because Jennifer wants to hear the band Low Shoulder -- well actually to hook up with the guitarist/lead singer Nikolai Wolf (Adam Brody from TV’s “The O.C.,” and the band actually sounds quite good). However, Jennifer does not realize the band members are Satanists. After a fire burns down the tavern during the band’s performance -- Jennifer and Needy escape through the bathroom window -- Jennifer goes off with the band, which believes her to be a virgin and sacrifices her to the devil.

Only, since she is not a virgin, she comes back to life possessed and starts literally eating boys from their high school. When Jennifer starts to snack on Needy’s boyfriend Chip Dove (a sweet performance by Johnny Simmons), Needy decides it is time to put an end to Jennifer’s reign of terror. The Blu-ray contains both the theatrical and unrated versions, with both having audio commentary by director Karyn Kusama. Kusama is joined by writer Diablo Cody on the theatrical version. There also are six deleted scenes (13:55), including an extended funeral scene and a briefly nude girls’ locker room scene; a look at doing the pool sequence; four behind-the-scenes video diaries; and a gag reel. The second disc is a digital copy of the film. Grade: film 2.5 stars; extras 3 stars Big Fan (Vivendi DVD, R, 87 min.). From the writer of Mickey Rourke’s comeback film “The Wrestler,” Robert Siegel, comes this at-first darkly humorous film that descends into numbness and weirdness.

Comedian Patton Oswalt plays New York Giants football fan Paul Aufiero, whose live consists of sitting in a booth taking parking garage fees for work, to calling late-night sports talk shows from home (he’s Paul from Staten Island), but sometimes his mother interrupts because he has awoken her, and cheers on his team while watching the games on TV with his bud Sal (Kevin Corrigan). When they are home games, they watch and cheer in the stadium parking lot. One night, they see Quantrell Bishop (Jonathan Hamm), Paul’s favorite Giants player, at a gas station and decide to follow him. The trail leads to a gentlemen’s club in Manhattan, where Paul finally gets the courage to approach Bishop, only to be brutally beaten. Bishop is suspended, but Paul, fan that he is, does not give an account to the police and tries to stop his brother (Gino Cafarelli as Jeff Aufiero) from going through with a $77 million lawsuit on his behalf. Paul even downplays the incident on the radio, pretending he was not involved. However, a rival fan, Philadelphia Phil (Michael Rapaport) makes the connection and spills Paul’s secret on the airwaves.

Siegel wrote the film and made his directorial debut. Oswalt does a good job, but the role he is given simply turns pathetic. DVD extras include outtakes; a Q&A session with Siegel and Oswalt; Corrigan recalling his own big fan experience; a Siegel and Oswalt interview on NPR’s “Fresh Air”; and a downloadable poster. Grade: film 3 stars; extras 2 stars Steve Coogan As Alan Partridge And Other Less Successful Characters's description : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide Original Review: Reviewed at the Hammersmith Apollo, November 11, 2008: Well, you can’t say you weren’t warned by the very title of this tour. Steve Coogan’s stage comeback after ten years is most definitely a show of two halves: the superlative Alan Partridge plus a collection of characters that are not only less successful, but woefully less funny. Arrive in the interval and you’ll have a markedly better experience than those who endure the first half, in which the once-brilliant creations either tread water, or sink miserably.

If they were launched on today’s comedy circuit in this state, it’s unlikely you’d ever have heard of the likes of Pauline Calf or Tommy Saxondale. Visiting London after six weeks on the road, the good news is that Coogan is now on top of his material, and his struggles to remember his lines – as covered in our review of the Oxford date about a week into his schedule (below) – are a thing of the past. The script’s been tinkered with, too, with a few extra lines and some tightening of more troublesome segments. But it doesn’t much help the doomed supporting characters… it’s like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, or changing the in-flight movies on United 93. If anything, the first half seems more sluggish that the earlier date; possibly just because it’s a second viewing, possibly because the Hammersmith Apollo isn’t the most intimate of spaces to generate an atmosphere (just wait till he hits the O2 next month), or possibly because the indifferently-received characters have lost their lustre even for their creator.

Pauline Calf makes a decent fist of the opening number, a wry tongue-in-cheek track that tries to infuse some Bond-style glamour to the Marriot Hotel chain. But quickly her routine descends into a litany of cheap innuendo, neither delivered nor written with much flair. Surely lines like ‘Take me in the executive box’ should be beneath him, yet they never got much better than that. Tommy Saxondale also lobs in a few double-entendres, and he sings, too, though quite why is anyone’s guess as it’s flimsy stuff – as is his tiresome anti-drugs lecture, that goes little further than: look at this picture of someone looking odd! They must be on smack! And the first half reaches its nadir with desperately wacky Eighties comic Duncan Thicket – a character that’s deliberately not supposed to be funny, unlike the others which achieve this by unhappy accidented. His segment has been quite extensively edited over the course of the tour, but the real Timmy Mallett would still possibly be more entertaining than this thinly disguised parody. Possibly.

Just when it looks as if the entire show is going to be as flat as Partridge’s beloved Norfolk, Paul Calf rolls on in his wheelchair, with some cracking lines. This segment has also been through the rewrite mill, but this time emerges much sharper for it. There is still too much aimless padding – and another unnecessary song – but at least the stand-out gags serve as a long-overdue reminder of why Coogan got to be famous in the first place. Part two, however, was a different animal altogether – a hugely amusing romp with the character everyone had come to see. East Anglia’s favourite chat show host has reinvented as a personal development coach, his complete lack of empathy for his clients proving no barrier for his rampant ego, his lack of self-awareness revealing more about his tragic life, and his script just bursting with hilarious moments. Somehow he can be haughtily pompous, yet confess to soiling himself in a chain store, in the space of one sentence. Gimmicks about in this high-octane section, but the character is so complete, and the script so sharp, that this is genuinely hilarious from start to finish.

That self-importance manifests itself in a grandiose biographical play about Sir Thomas More, clunking with anachronisms of language and style, appallingly acted and almost collapsing under the weight of its artless historical exposition. The ‘bad play’ idea is nothing new, and Coogan sometimes overplays the woodenness, but this is entertaining enough. Ending the show as ‘himself’ or rather a Tommy Steele Cockney version of himself in a joyous song-and-dance number gleefully harnessing the outrageous, foul-mouthed spirit of Jerry Springer The Opera to flamboyantly send up his tabloid reputation. It’s a worthy show-stopper if ever there was one. You wouldn’t think this slick and funny second half was from the same performer responsible for the embarrassing shoddy first half. If this was an exercise to prove that Coogan was more than Partridge, it failed miserably. But for underlining just how uniquely brilliant that character is, job done.

Reviewed by: Steve Bennett Hammersmith, November 2008 First review at the Oxford New Theatre, October 3 He doesn’t have to do this, of course, but Steve Coogan’s decision to go on the road after ten years proves that the thrill of live performance is irresistible, no matter how famous you are. The title says it all. In the first half of the show Coogan reprises several favourites from his past, while part two is dedicated to the superlative Partridge. It’s a show of two halves in other respects, too. Before the interval, Coogan seems hesitant, phoning in a performance that lacks flair and electricity despite some nice lines in the script. But when Norfolk’s finest takes to the stage, the magic returns, as he builds to an audacious and spectacular song-and-dance finale that only serves to highlight the spark that was missing from much that preceded it. He started strongly, with Pauline Calf – more relevant than ever in this age of low-rent, high-maintenance WAGs.

She opened with a wonderfully bold Bond-style production number, literally singing the praises of Marriot hotels and the D-list celebs she claims to have encountered there – the first of many digs at low-level fame in this show. Anything best-selling author Jordan can do, Pauline can do just as tackily, which is why she treated us to an extract from her delightfully clunky novel, unsubtly drawn from her own life. It was a solidly funny routine, if unadventurous: Coogan used exactly the same set-up for his delightfully promiscuous creation in that last tour. Next up was Tommy Saxondale, lecturing us, half-heartedly, on the perils of drugs, which initially comprised little more than a series of pseudo-sardonic comments on strange pictures, claiming to be ‘before and after’ shots of drug use. It’s rather easy stuff, the sort of captions you might see on half-funny greetings cards. However, the second part of his set, about the sweet granny who was actually a powerful drug godfather, fleshed out the initial idea nicely, wringing out plenty of chuckles from the unlikely scenario.

Duncan Thickett is one of Coogan’s oldest characters, but still seemed new to most of the audience, who appeared baffled by this bad Eighties stand-up, complete with zany sound effects and novelty suit. Using irony to make good comedy out of bad is a tricky path, and while Coogan had a few knowing takes on the failings of easy observational and nostalgic stand-up, this never really hit the spot. The fact that, with a couple of notable exceptions, characters like the one he’s trying to parody aren’t generally successful any more can’t have helped. Heavy-drinking Northern layabout Paul Calf came on in a wheelchair – as with his fictional sister Pauline, reprising a gag from an earlier show. For half this set, Coogan seemed again to be simply going through the motions, even doing a ‘prick with a needle…’ double entendre that would have shamed the music halls, even if he did have the sense to feign embarrassment about it. However when Calf’s flamboyant, if dodgy, gipsy lover takes to the stage, the script finds a much richer vein of one-liners to explore.

Throughout the show the writing is strong, or at least solid, but Coogan doesn’t seem to have the command of the material that would allow him to wring the most out of. He stumbles over his words several times, and keeps glancing at clipboards. This might still be early in the tour, but when you’ve 1,800 people paying just shy of £40, you shouldn’t still be practising. Coogan’s concentration seems to be devoted to simply remembering his lines, rather than on delivering them with oomph. Betwixt Coogan’s characters, a small ensemble, including Edinburgh regular Steve Oram and Garth Marenghi star Alice Lowe, perform filler sketches that, like the main scenes, are good but not quite great; although the idea of God and Devil dating – and quarrelling – is especially strong. Partridge is who almost everyone has come to see, of course, and when he gets a rapturous reception at the start of part two, Coogan raises his game to match.

Desperately trying to exploit the last shreds of his celebrity, Partridge now runs a personal development programme – Alan’s Forward Solutions – which he relentlessly sells with all the unconvincing zeal of a mid-level sales conference for surgical supports in the East Midlands region. He’s also written, produced, directed and stars in his own one-man version of the story of Sir Thomas More, which is as ill-researched, anachronistic and dreadfully performed as you would predict. In fact, it makes Acorn Antiques look like Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet… but there’s plenty of fun in the inevitable way Alan’s precious ego-vehicle falls apart at the seams. There’s a reason Partridge is Coogan’s most popular creation. His naïve absence of self-awareness and myriad vulnerabilities have such appeal that his petty grudges, monstrous insensitivity and desperate quest for even modest showbiz success seem almost endearing. But he also seems to get the best lines, as Coogan and his collaborators have a more instinctive feel for the character. The gags are packed in, and the talk-show element, especially, zings along.

All the stops come out at the end, when Coogan has his tongue-in-cheek ‘…and this is me’ moment, breaking into an impressively choreographed West End song and dance number about his hookers-and-cocaine tabloid reputation. But don’t expect the catchy number to be getting much Radio 2 airplay… it is deliciously, extravagantly offensive. Shame the hesitant first half didn’t live up to the brilliant second. Despite some sparkling moments, and plenty of mid-level chuckles, the scenes without Partridge didn’t have the sense of occasion you’d expect of one of Britain’s biggest and best comedy stars making a comeback after a decade away. Best think of these of an extended warm-up act you don’t care less about before the star of the show blows the place apart. Reviewed by: Steve Bennett Steve Coogan As Alan Partridge And Other Less Successful Characters's description : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide Steve Coogan As Alan Partridge And Other Less Successful Characters Show type: Tour The star of I’m Alan Partridge, Saxondale and creator of Paul and Pauline Calf is returning in a show featuring the characters that have made him a Bafta and British Comedy Award winning comedy legend.

His last live show played 200 performances and was seen by 350,000 people, so get your tickets now and tout them later!

Question: Whose comic characters include 'Gareth Cheeseman', 'Tony Ferrino' and 'Tommy Saxondale'?
Answer: Steve Coogan