Saxondale.

[jodal]

Watched this the other night. was funny in parts but I can see it becoming more consistent as the series goes on.

Was I the only one who couldn't understand what they were saying half the time?

 

[Grandma Death]

I think its great-subtle, heart warming and very funny at times. Steve Coogan despite what I started to think hasnt lost it.

 

[DRINK?]

Wasn't that impressed and simplisitc don't think it will ever reach the heights partridge did....always be the poor relation though saying that was watchable...and in places tres amusant. the Rosa Parks quip was very clever I thought....watchable, enjoyabe in a won't buy the DVD kinda way

 

[Dask]

Really like this, I don't think Coogan is actually that amazing as a writer, certainly not without Armando iannucci or Peter Baynham, but it's still amusing non the less.

 

[fogbat]

I thought it was - not Brummy or Scouse though - dunno where you got that from - sounded like a soft Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire accent to me, with a hint of Sheffield.


Excellent new comedy!

I really enjoyed the first episode but managed to miss the second

Did anyone else find that his voice reminded them of John Peel?

 

[marty21]

missed the first one, but could the second, liked part of it, felt it was a bit weak, pantominey, at the end, i'll stick with it, i like his rants

 

[meurig]

Here it is. Brilliant.

Bastard. I've just been forced to buy it from itunes through insatiable curiosity.

 

[spartacus mills]

This week's episode as another cracker. I loved the conversation in the ambulance (and after) but thought that Mark Wossnim was miscast.

 

[goldenecitrone]

It made me laugh the most this week. When he's telling his mate about his kinky sex with Mags on Thursday evenings, well funny.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

No doubt it's slready been said but Saxondale is just Alan Partridge in a different wig.

 

[jodal]

No doubt it's slready been said but Saxondale is just Alan Partridge in a different wig.

True but so what, its still funny.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Just a bit sad really that he's turned out to be a one trick pony.
A bloody good trick but one trick nevertheless.

 

[LM17]

I thought the theme tune was a snippet of "Hocus Pocus" by Dutch rockers Focus, not Jethro Tull

e2a: It's a top tune anyways!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The song is by Focus.


The TV show is shit. I gave it a chance but it's just really poor.

 

[zoooo]

I don't think the character's all that much like Partridge, and regardless it's not fair to call him a one trick pony. He's written a lot of characters that are nothing like Partridge. (Paul Calf, and that Spanish fella that wasn't funny to name but two!)

It's a pretty slow show, but the two episodes I've seen made me laugh out loud a good four or five times each. Which isn't exactly bad going. Maybe it could do with a bit more plot - nothing seems to happen. But maybe that's the style he was going for.

 

[Maggot]

No doubt it's slready been said but Saxondale is just Alan Partridge in a different wig.

Bollocks! Saxondale and Partridge are pretty different.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Bollocks! Saxondale and Partridge a pretty different.

He's exactly like Partridge. The humour is exactly the same.

 

[jodal]

Just a bit sad really that he's turned out to be a one trick pony.
A bloody good trick but one trick nevertheless.

Every great comedian has a style which affects everything that he or she does; see Ricky Gervais, Eddie Izzard, Paul Merton, Sean Locke etc etc.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

That's very true. I still say he's only got one character in him. It's a bloody good one but Saxondale is just Partridge in a different guise....

 

[Skim]

I've had the bloody music to Saxondale in my head all week and can't get rid of it. My head's spinning with Jethro Tull flute solos and images of Ian Anderson in tights

 

[goldenecitrone]

That's very true. I still say he's only got one character in him. It's a bloody good one but Saxondale is just Partridge in a different guise....

In the same way that Arkwright was just Fletcher if he'd kept straight, opened a corner shop and developed a stutter.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Not really no

 

[Orang Utan]

There are similarities - Saxondale and Partridge both get in a tizzy and make arses of themselves when confronted with people smarter than then, but Saxondale is sassier than Partridge. He also has a caring side that is not present in Partridge.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I saw the last one (Mark Williams comes to hang out) and I have to say I found it very funny - easily the best thing Coogan's put his name to since the second series of '...Alan...'. He's back!

However, unlike with Partridge, we definitely laugh with more than at Saxondale - simply because he's basically a defeated but ultimately decent fellow as opposed to an entirely unsympathetic, deluded scrote...which is in many ways a return to the mores of traditional sitcom writing, before it became knowingly cruel and post-modern acerbic around the early '90s.

 

[Biffo]

For me it's a cross between Partridge and Paul Calf with some 70s music references thrown in. A lot the banter type dialogue (eg with the car show presenter) was very similar to the twins in the 'Top of the Form' episode (with Patrick Marber) from Steve Coogan Presents.....

 

[Maggot]

Last one tonight. I've been enjoying it.

There are similarities - Saxondale and Partridge both get in a tizzy and make arses of themselves when confronted with people smarter than then, but Saxondale is sassier than Partridge. He also has a caring side that is not present in Partridge.

Also Saxondale doesn't have the showbiz arrogance of Partridge.

 

[tangerinedream]

That's all of them then - Definately enjoyed it

 

[Jayshat]

Liza Tarbuck was good tonight, in a kind of cringey kind of way with all that innuendo...

 

[nuffsaid]

Thought the tinned potatoes representation of desperate loneliness was clever. I've bought them

Liked the idea of putting something you ABSOLUTELY detest at the bottom of a landfill.

I never thought the thing with the Mustang really fitted with the character of Saxondale though. He seemed the sort of guy who'd have an estate.

 

[8ball]

That's all of them then - Definately enjoyed it

Oh, is that the lot?

Tonight's was good but my fave has to be last week's one with the 'fleas eggs' detective storyline.