Coogan excellent as usual but Harriet Walter I thought was mirroring Janet Brown more than Margaret Thatcher....

No matter what Coogan does, he always lets his real accent slip in. I will never forget seeing Coogan live, but it was a bit lacklustre. The bloke near me was reading the programme during the performance.

Green Man wrote:
No matter what Coogan does, he always lets his real accent slip in. I will never forget seeing Coogan live, but it was a bit lacklustre. The bloke near me was reading the programme during the performance.

I absolutely loved the last Partridge tour although it got some poor reviews. Thought it was very clever.

Green Man wrote:
No matter what Coogan does, he always lets his real accent slip in. I will never forget seeing Coogan live, but it was a bit lacklustre. The bloke near me was reading the programme during the performance.

I watched his film The Parole Officer at the cinema on it's first day of release in August 2001, the cinema was far from filled, this was at the iconic The Point in MK which should have been busier. After about 45 minutes an entire row in front of us began muttering to each other and then got up and left, about a dozen people, presumably all together with each other. I'd suggested the film but the person I was with was clearly finding the time dragging sat there and fidgeting, and I came away less than impressed with it as a "comedy", didn't laugh once and neither did the cinema. That was so noticeable. At one point I remember turning to a stranger nearby and asking if I was mistaken expecting it to be a comedy!

It was meant to be something like one of those old Ealing comedies I think. Coogan actually dislikes the film he's later said, even saying it makes him "squirm", comparing it to a childrens film.

I saw that movie in the cinema also Rich, the only scene that had a few people giggling was the roller coaster scene. I remember seeing similar scenes in Problem Child 2, Mind The Baby Mr Bean and Vacation. Only about 30 people were watching the Parole Officer the numbers went down gradually throughout, to about 10 or so.

When I saw Mission To Mars there were only 20 people then it went down to 6 people halfway. Not even Tim Robbins could save that movie. Don't get me started on Phantom Menace, terrible acting and script.

I still don't rate Mark Kermode as a critic everything he suggests I find boring and end up sleeping through them.

Christ knows why I rented Problem Child 2 from the video shop, I remember it was the cheapest rental in the shop. I thought Earnest's movies were amusing at the time.

I'm always surprised when I see people walk out of a theatre show, mostly by not returning back to their seats after the interval, and even more surprised when they walk out on a film. If I've paid for something I'm going to sit and watch it all the way through no matter how crap I think it is. That's the British way I thought!

There's only one thing I can ever recall really wanting to walk out on and not come back to after the interval and that was a Brian Conley one man show about 7 years ago that had me restless very quickly. Poorly staged, lazy tiresome gags that had been used in the 80's, that "it's a puppet" one and constant mentions of farting, and kept referencing having been on a reality show. I was genuinely bored. Nice enough guy though, a close family member lives next door to his mum and Conley pops round to hers on visits and my own mum has been with his mum and others to watch his other shows. He was good in panto though with others to bounce off.

I remember people walking out at a Joan Armatrading concert when she was playing stuff from Starlight, it's very jazzy. You can't please everyone.

I remember Brian Conley in a sitcom where he plays a petty crook, it seems to be forgotten like Holding the Baby with Nick Hancock it's probably good both are buried in the ITV vault.

The thing is with old comedians they seem to live in the past sadly.

The late Duncan Norvelle was a very nice man and did a lot of work for charity, but how many times could he say "Chase me" and still find it funny after the umpteenth time?

I don't think Jim Davidson is barred from venues like he says he is, the theatre managers are probably scared to lose revenue due to people not turning up. I can't imagine Ustream makes him a lot of money either it's behind a paywall.

A friend walked out during his shows about 10 years ago, he was telling the same jokes that he told in the early 1990s and was bitching about the town and retelling the story he got an award from the Queen, it was neither amusing nor interesting.