Customer Reviews
Ah-Ha! The original and still the best! - By: J. K. WARREN, 24 Jun 2008 
Let me just say right now that I agree with a viewer from Somerset... brilliant. I would have rated it 6 stars, but Amazon will only alllow 5.
Perfect comedy, perfect timing. You will not regret buying 'Knowing Me, Knowing You With Alan Partridge' or 'KMKYWAP' for short, or simply, 'The Alan Partridge Show'.
Well worth the asking price.
average enough - By: sean paul mccann, 06 May 2008 
Knowing me,knowing you first aired in 1994 to critical acclaim & for years since people have told me that i needed to check it out so when i saw it in a shop for 7 notes i danced to the counter & got it & watched with an eager twitch,i wasnt blown away.
It isnt that it has aged,far from it,its just that when compared to things like the office & curb your enthuasism which have come after then this seems a little bit one dimensional.
Steve coogan plays the talk show host who has talent,but lets himself ruin what appears to be a good interview with smugness,vanity,his own beliefs show up in what should be a neutral interview & his desire to oversell himself & with his dodgy product placing,it alll comes undone.
It is parody but wears itself down every now & then,coogan is exceptional & of course he would need to be to make this work but some of his guests who are other comics who reappear time & time again in different roles means that this does feel a bit lazy.
I wasnt blown away,i didnt laugh my bap off but i liked it,i can do no more.
Oblivious Alan - By: Bianca White, 23 Mar 2008 Alan Partridge is considerably more crass & sociallly unaware than any real host you will find on tv. That's what makes Knowing Me Knowing You extremely funny. Partridge is a very poor interviewer - discourteous, narrow-minded & dour are words that spring to mind. There are many horrific (read hilarious) moments during his painful gem of a series & the fictional guests are just the right mix of famous, infamous, quirky & banal. These extra characters are played well by a reliable & talented stable of Coogan chums, such as David Schneider, Patrick Marber & Rebecca Front. AP slaps alll of them down in some way & a few of them hit him gamely back with barbed comments that at times have the audience squirming. I think that some of the studio spectators believed KMKY to be a genuine show, as i understand that some home viewers complained to the BBC after the original airing, convinced of the same thing. One can only imagine what these people thought of the scene where Alan accidentallly kills one of his guests.
I particularly liked the episode that was set in Paris. Co-fronting it was a chic & professional Parisienne doomed to suffer quite shameless Frog-bashing from Alan. At the end of that episode, after he'd insulted the French to the point of no return, AP glibly announced that he hoped Britain & France would be just a little closer because of his ground-breaking show.
The Yule one showed AP managing to offend both Christians & Jews, pyrotechnicians, his disabled guests,his gay co-presenters & patients in the local children's hospital. The episode resolved a few things touched on in the earlier programmes, especiallly AP's boasting of the mega bucks spent on his tacky studio sets in comparison to the need for dialysis machines. Special guest on that show (To Alan, because he wanted to schmooze) is Tony Hayers (Schneider), the commissioning editor for BBC tv. Hayers finallly pulls the plug on the expensive sets, the product placement & lastly, on Alan's career. This cringey crescendo provides the set up for the Patridge/Hayers animosity & sensitivity in the next series.
I didn't think much of the "extras" of this DVD but then I never buy DVD's for anything other than the movies/programmes themselves. This is a 5 star series & Alan Patridge is one of the great, comic monsters.
Brilliant comedy - By: S J Buck, 26 Aug 2007 The original Alan Partridge show is as good as the Travel Tavern series & 13 years later remains as funny as when I first watched it. Never has a chat show host been so rude, humiliated so many people & been humiliated by so many people in the history of television.
If you've only ever seen the two later series, or if you managed to miss Alan Partridge completely you reallly do need to see this. As previous reviewers have said it has some of the same cringe worthy elements that make The Office so brilliant. Imagine combining the the characters of David Brent & Gareth together & it'll give you some idea just how dreadful Alan Partridge is. Dreadful he may be but its very very funny. Partridge is mainly self-obsessed & hates being upstaged by his guests, even though in some cases he worships them (Roger Moore for example). Roger Moore of course never appears on the show.
A particular favourite moment of mine is when Alan gives his three guests a chance to complain about the show, which inevitably has been a complete disaster.
Alan: "If you've got any criticisms I can deal with them"
All three guests then complain vehmently for a minute or so.
Alan: "UP YOURS" (sticking a single finger up at his guest)
Subtlety is not Alan's strong point!
This is endlessly watchable, with some very funny extras, which makes the DVD a great purchase.
The perfect comedy? - By: M. Godenho, 27 Mar 2007 Looking for a git for a friend but not sure what to get?
This is it!
A truely outstanding series from Steve Coogan & Armando Innauci (spelt yer name wrong sorry!)
It's very very very...takig the micky out of the variety "barrymore" type shows of the 80s. It's done so darn well, the first time I saw it I wasn't sure if they were alll actors or not!
The humour is also slightly cringy enough to please fans of The Office, yet worldly enough to make the whole family laugh.
Buy it!
