Editing Alan Partridge (section)

=== 2003–2009: Hiatus and smaller roles ===
After ''I'm Alan Partridge'', Coogan tired of Partridge and limited him to smaller roles, feeling he had become an "[[Albatross (metaphor)|albatross]]".<ref name="Wray-2020" /><ref name="Nicholson-2020"/> In March 2003, the BBC broadcast a [[mockumentary]], ''Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge'', about Partridge's life and career.<ref name="BBC"/> Coogan performed as Partridge at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in support of the [[Teenage Cancer Trust]] in 2004.<ref name="NME-2016">{{Cite web |date=2016-09-20 |title=Teenage Cancer Trust gigs through the years, starring Oasis, the Who, Coldplay and more |url=https://www.nme.com/photos/teenage-cancer-trust-gigs-through-the-years-starring-oasis-the-who-coldplay-and-more-1404007 |access-date=2020-12-02 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2008, he performed a tour, Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge and other Less Successful Characters, featuring Partridge as a [[Coaching|life coach]].<ref name="Reviews roundup">{{Cite web |last=Masterton |first=Simon |date=6 October 2008 |title=Reviews roundup: Steve Coogan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/oct/06/steve.coogan.alan.partridge |access-date=19 December 2015 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

Coogan returned to Partridge after pursuing other projects, such as his work with the director [[Michael Winterbottom]] on films such as ''[[24 Hour Party People]]'' (2002)''.''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoad |first=Phil |date=2023-02-06 |title='I did my climactic speech – then took half an E': Steve Coogan on making 24 Hour Party People |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/06/how-we-made-24-hour-party-people-steve-coogan-michael-winterbottom |access-date=2023-02-06 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> He said he did not want to say goodbye to Partridge, and that "as long as I can do my other things, that, to me, is the perfect balance".<ref name="Wray-2020"/> In 2020, Coogan said that though he had once tired of Partridge, he had now become "a battered, comfortable old leather jacket".<ref name="Nicholson-2020">{{Cite web|last=Nicholson|first=Tom|date=2020-09-05|title=Steve Coogan: How we made Alan Partridge's 'Monkey Tennis' scene|url=https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a33922072/steve-coogan-how-we-made-alan-partridges-monkey-tennis-scene/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-02|website=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913083028/https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a33922072/steve-coogan-how-we-made-alan-partridges-monkey-tennis-scene/ |archive-date=13 September 2020 }}</ref>