Well, translation may not be the right word.
I read this review in the Torygraph yesterday -
tinyurl.com/3fxq5y5
and I have no idea if the writer thinks the book is good or bad (I don't particularly care either, I can understand why some people might find Partridge funny, but I dont)
Am I just an ignorant provincial bumpkin, or is this review well and truly up itself ?
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I did figure out that there are two books. And they have a star rating. But I don't know what the scale is, so I can't help you ;-)
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I think it's a long-winded version of Abraham Lincoln's summing up of a book:
People who like this kind of book will find this the kind of book they like.
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He thinks both books are overblown and boring. He thinks Partridge is unpleasant, smug, unfunny and boring. He thinks Brydon is just very very boring. He thinks the books aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
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Coogan was good when he was hungry - now he's up his own chuff and Brydon is very much the same - they had some gruesome painful comedy series together set in the really posh eateries in the Lakes....awful. And I'm a Partridge fan.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkeSJLgzG8k
Partridge/Coogan fact of fiction ? And what's with the haircut ?
Last edited by: R.P. on Sun 16 Oct 11 at 13:38
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>> they had some gruesome painful comedy series together
>> set in the really posh eateries in the Lakes....awful. And I'm a Partridge fan.
Me and Mrs F thought it was really funny - didn't catch them all, might request the DVD for Christmas. Like the Partridge series as well.
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@AC - I think I agree with you, but it that's the case why does the review in the paper give if 5 starts - or are they ironic stars ?
AFAIC, Coogan went downhill after he stopped doing Paul/Ine Calf
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You're right borasport - I was a giant fan of his, I first heard Partridge on R4 in the 90s and lapped up everything he did. He's become a caricature of Partridge sadly. He is a petrolhead - which makes him an OK person I suppose. Not be the sort of chap I'd invite for dinner.
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Calf was brilliant :) I've met a few real life versions of Paul Calf sadly.
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coogan is now right up his own bumhole, always happens - want to be taken seriously, kiss of death.
Nothing worse for a comedian with a wicked eye for the surreal, as you say they suddenly become that which they parody.
Last edited by: Zero on Sun 16 Oct 11 at 19:07
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"Nothing worse for a comedian with a wicked eye for the surreal, as you say they suddenly become that which they parody."
Known as Ricky Gervais syndrome, I believe.
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Thinking that today when his name came up on the radio. He was good in Extras though.
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Just watched him giving evidence to the Leveson Enquiry, what a thoroughly horrid and sordid little man - and he needs a haircut. Big girl's blouse.
Last edited by: R.P. on Tue 22 Nov 11 at 16:37
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He thinks Partridge is a barely competent bloke living off his blokish banter, whilst thinking himself himself better than others who patently (to the external observer) are in fact better than he is.
Brydon drops names unnecessarily and not only used to be famous, but still is.
The former gets five stars, the latter three. Presumably this is out of twenty, given the vitriol in the article.
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>> The former gets five stars, the latter three. Presumably this is out of twenty, given
>> the vitriol in the article.
He gives a book he is 'impressed' by 4 stars here: tinyurl.com/3zqssgo
I couldn't understand it either :)
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Translation required - Manatee
