Editing Alan Partridge (section)

=== 1991: ''On The Hour'' ===
[[File:Armando Iannucci at Cheltenham Literary Festival 2010 (tighter crop).jpg|thumb|Co-creator [[Armando Iannucci]] in 2010]]Alan Partridge was created for the 1991 [[BBC Radio 4]] comedy programme ''[[On the Hour]]'', a [[Parody|spoof]] of British [[Current affairs (news format)|current affairs]] broadcasting, as the show's hapless [[Sports commentator|sports presenter]].<ref name="Husband-2013">{{Cite web |last=Husband |first=Stuart |date=5 August 2013 |title=Alan Partridge: the 'A-ha!' moments |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10208780/Alan-Partridge-the-A-ha-moments.html |access-date=14 September 2015 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref> Developing ''On the Hour'', the producer, [[Armando Iannucci]], asked [[Steve Coogan]] to voice a generic sports reporter, with elements of [[Elton Welsby]], [[Jim Rosenthal]] and [[John Motson]].<ref name="Wray-2020">{{Cite web|last=Wray|first=Daniel Dylan|date=9 October 2020|title=Aha! – The Oral History of Alan Partridge|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/oral-history-of-alan-partridge/|access-date=2020-10-09|website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]|language=en}}</ref> Coogan had performed a similar character for a BBC [[campus radio|college radio]] station while at university.<ref name="Husband-2013" /> Iannucci said they developed a backstory for the character "within minutes".<ref name="Huddleston-2013">{{cite magazine |last=Huddleston |first=Tom |date=2013-08-01 |title=Armando Iannucci interview - Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa - Time Out Film |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/armando-iannucci-interview-i-do-like-alan-i-want-him-to-succeed |access-date=2014-02-17 |magazine=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]}}</ref> The name was inspired by the former ''[[Newsbeat]]'' presenter Frank Partridge.<ref>{{cite news |title=''The Day Today'': the show that changed British comedy forever |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1ZDXDd7ZwhQWqjc6vqyf8kX/the-day-today-the-show-that-changed-british-comedy-forever |access-date=20 August 2021 |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> Iannucci, [[Patrick Marber]], [[Richard Herring]] and [[Stewart Lee]] wrote much of the early Partridge material; Herring credits the creation to Coogan and Iannucci.<ref>{{cite web |last=Connelly |first=Brendon |date=4 January 2013 |title=Richard Herring on co-creating Alan Partridge, his Rasputin TV show and Dave's new comedy competition |url=http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/01/04/richard-herring/ |access-date=14 September 2015 |website=[[Bleeding Cool]] |publisher=}}</ref>