The Working Class

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6 жыл бұрын

A poem, by Alan Gordon Partridge.
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@Clembo 2 жыл бұрын

This is how 90% of building societies try to sell you a mortgage.

@paulcunnane4 2 жыл бұрын

Great comment.

@Juliancasabigchungus 2 жыл бұрын

@TheOldBlackShuckyDog 2 жыл бұрын

That’s true 😂

@Nergal_Slayer 2 жыл бұрын

The truth, ladies and gentlemen

@unknown_user8449 2 жыл бұрын

BRUHHH

@abbaszaidi8371 6 жыл бұрын

First class. That was liquid poetry

@willandboy 6 жыл бұрын

He is, of course, satirising the patronising attitude of the middle classes.

@danhughes7047 6 жыл бұрын

No, not first class, working class

@jeremyclarksonfragrance 6 жыл бұрын

it was textbook

@marcusorangeboomivnone7490 6 жыл бұрын

Liquid poetry? It was definitely fluid of some sort.

@MonkeyHunch1 6 жыл бұрын

clarkson used that line on the latest grand tour episode lol

@anjkhar6064 6 жыл бұрын

Alan is now the Guardian's official correspondent on 'The North'

@Bud1UK 6 жыл бұрын

You've misspelled "T'North" there mate.

@coldworld5 6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha that just cracked me up

@Thisisahandle701 6 жыл бұрын

*North east

@MrRuss81 5 жыл бұрын

fujigerry that’s the joke 🤨

@robsmith7567 5 жыл бұрын

If only. The Guardian exclusively hires ivory Tower intellectuals from Oxbridge.

@DavidThomas-ku7ls 6 жыл бұрын

I love how the poem highlights how the middle class fake feelings of sentimentality for the working class when, in reality, they actually fear and loathe them

@matthewcoombs3282 6 жыл бұрын

David Thomas agreed. Post Brexit hysteria shows. This the northern working class were blamed for Brexit. Called thick racists. When in fact Home Counties Tories were big supporters of leaving the EU. The working class English the least empowered people get the blame for the mess created by others.

6 жыл бұрын

Fucking moron.

@imnotgayyy8489 6 жыл бұрын

David Thomas I one pleasureed me self over a pic of liam Gallagher

@gladifly 6 жыл бұрын

Seán O'Nilbud Not an argument.

@DavidThomas-ku7ls 6 жыл бұрын

THE ROCK JOHNSON Cheers, buddy

@filmsbyEthan 6 жыл бұрын

is no one seeing that this is a parody of the nationwide adverts tho? can’t deny it’s pretty good though

@chesterdonnelly1212 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't notice that. Well spotted.

@jonher3605 3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah, got me a little emotional. Kind of embarrassing, really.

@yeetwchybaban 3 жыл бұрын

lool

@bobbob9364 3 жыл бұрын

No I can’t see that ,sorry,ps I really hate the nationwide adverts

@715michala 3 жыл бұрын

Its a shite life, but someone has to live it!! Lol

@josephhalpin3893 6 жыл бұрын

This is my favourite Nationwide advert

@o5h123 3 жыл бұрын

Funniest thing I’ve read on KZfaq in years

@moonbug7252 2 жыл бұрын

God I hate those ads

@TheJohnnycreep 3 жыл бұрын

The way he is moved by his own poetry

@Pooknottin 3 жыл бұрын

Very nicely done. I love the way he's captured the condesending, yet fearful view the 'middle class' has of the poor.

@TrueGritProductions 2 жыл бұрын

Middle Class? You don't get Alan Partridge. No man with a 5 bedroom detached house and private stream is middle class, in the UK

@stevenc6969 Жыл бұрын

How Guardian readers view the working class.

@Pooknottin Жыл бұрын

@@TrueGritProductions The 'middle-class' are an interest group, or subculture, not a social class imo. Besides, wealth does not in itsself define social class. It doesn't matter how many cars you own, or how much you have in the bank, that doesn't make you even gentry.

@vornamenachname594 Жыл бұрын

@@Pooknottin the "middle class" is exactly a wealth and mode-of-work defining expression.

@Pooknottin Жыл бұрын

@@vornamenachname594 Your definition is arbitrary. The concept of a middle class actually has its origins in early Victorian France. The 'culture of the living room'. A subculture of snobbish commoners who gave undue importance to the collection of tasteless frippery. So, not much has changed. There is no 'middle class', unless you define it as a social interest group, or subculture.

@neilsharpson996 2 жыл бұрын

It's the little nervous perimeter check he does before turning around at the end. Such a wonderful little touch.

@monsieurcondottiero2685 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite part of the whole vid 😆 like he lost himself for a second in his own poem

@cautionTosser 2 жыл бұрын

in my mind, barely audible, he says, "stay close" to the cameraman as he turns. :D

@eyeballtickler Жыл бұрын

I think it's a little nod to how PMs are when they announce something outside no10. The look, the papers clutched to chest. So spot on.

@tsuba14 3 жыл бұрын

love how he said CP30 (instead C3PO)

@monsieurcondottiero2685 2 жыл бұрын

he’s not even an alien lol

@YouOpaOpa 2 жыл бұрын

@@monsieurcondottiero2685 Isn't he? I mean he was created outside of our planet.

@emmacook112 2 жыл бұрын

In This Time he says ‘clantily scad’ 😂

@jackbauer4762 2 жыл бұрын

@@YouOpaOpa a alien has to be an organism. Would you consider a pen assembled in space to be an alien

@YouOpaOpa 2 жыл бұрын

@@jackbauer4762. Don’t we say “alien spacecraft”, or “alien ships”? “Alien weaponry”? I’d say “alien robot” as well.

@alexhenshaw8692 6 жыл бұрын

It's more of a criticism of middle class stereotypes of the working class

@YourLocalGP 6 жыл бұрын

Alex Henshaw I saw it as an honest and exhaustive list of exactly the components that make up working class life

@rkent06 6 жыл бұрын

Can’t work out if you’re the sort of idiot who thinks no one else gets it, or are double bluffing me.

@YourLocalGP 6 жыл бұрын

rkent06 latter

@YourLocalGP 6 жыл бұрын

rkent06 I think

@ryanpudlowski5777 6 жыл бұрын

Your dumb, it's a poem

@Speedy-pf5tm 6 жыл бұрын

Lynn, some of these people have come from Stoke

@stoneryoda9377 6 жыл бұрын

Speedy 78 dont shine that torch in my face mate , u just lost a point of blood

@sturycroft 3 жыл бұрын

@Speedy78 you couldn’t present a 🐈

@davesmith-rs1yo 3 жыл бұрын

As a builder for the last 30 years most of my clients are middle class and I can now truly say the do not like working class folk. They really do think their better. How do I know? Because they get a bit loose with the chitchat after a time...

@MilloSpiegel 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing gets people talking like a feeling of familiarity. Of course the middle class is afraid of the lower class. They, are what the Middle class is afraid to become. No one is more hateful of the workers then someone who thinks they made it themselves.

@nkenchington6575 2 жыл бұрын

they're, oik

@ErokLobotomist 2 жыл бұрын

I had a guy mistake me for one of his type one time. Started complaining about having to contribute to the School Lunch program because he didn't want to, "Pay for poor kids food". Talked about how disappointed that the kids from the poor neighbourhood went to the same school as his kids. Real Scuzzy experience.

@danhagerdanhager 2 жыл бұрын

They're just frightened, because (scientific fact) middle-class men have no testicles. I bet they start nervously calling you "mate" and referring to "Manchester Rovers" and "Liverpool United".

@MilloSpiegel 2 жыл бұрын

@@danhagerdanhager they are a bunch of gammons. Pink, salty and fat

@MoogleSan 5 жыл бұрын

This is Coogan at his finest. Walking a fine line between sincerity and satire.

@Deedee-ee1sg 3 жыл бұрын

We always knew Alan Partridge was a brilliant chat show host and NOW we see he is an extraordinary poet TOO. Is there no end to his genius?!

@mikeoglen6848 3 жыл бұрын

We need someone like him in politics...

@stijnvandamme76 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeoglen6848 What, you mean you want him to be come a bell end? I Don't think that's what deedee meant with "is there no end to his genius"

@pofict 3 жыл бұрын

Alan giving the timeless “you young people don’t get any closer or I’ll have to phone the authorities” look at 0:29 is spot on

@Sooka_Phatwon 6 жыл бұрын

A man at the gate, business like, his foot impaled upon a spike!

@mattgarbutt254 3 жыл бұрын

10 on 10

@unklemunky8992 2 жыл бұрын

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

@user-fv7jb1bd3s 2 жыл бұрын

A spaaaaaaaaiiiiikeee

@gitsurfer27 Жыл бұрын

"You know when you're just dry heaving and nothings coming up?"

@Burgmannn 3 күн бұрын

🎳🙌

@user-tx5sw4hq1h 2 жыл бұрын

If any partridge fans haven't listened to the oasthouse on audible it is honestly one of the best programs he's ever done

@ryemild115 6 жыл бұрын

CP30

@dylantierney6407 6 жыл бұрын

Callum Gunn thank you

@heloevry1noketa.mineformetoday 6 жыл бұрын

shitty drug

@taotoo2 6 жыл бұрын

Emphasize the P please

@davelocke 6 жыл бұрын

Callum Gunn c P 3 0

@leej70 6 жыл бұрын

It's a Star Wars robot.

@SinaiFieldMission 5 жыл бұрын

I love the earnest little “thank you” right at the end..

@Jackdaw5 6 жыл бұрын

Comments on Partridge videos can be divided into two types - the strange rants by Dossers and Dwads who think he's real, and the endless Partridge quotes by those who know he's not - Ooh, mince!

@melgrant7404 3 жыл бұрын

But all appreciate his comedy genius

@ImprovedTruth 3 жыл бұрын

@Gaynor Lewis You feed beefburgers to swans

@joevines3428 2 жыл бұрын

No one thinks Alan Partridge is a real person 😂

@hufclufc 2 жыл бұрын

Nobody thinks he's real - so there's only one category. This country.

@raminybhatti5740 2 жыл бұрын

Ooh, Camp David.

@DrWongburger 2 жыл бұрын

The way he did that, 'certain swagger' Crip walk had me out for the count.

@animalunaris 2 жыл бұрын

That’s the Manc swagger

@satchelyork 2 жыл бұрын

Lol you calling it a Crip walk 🤣🤣🤣

@-PaulT- 6 жыл бұрын

In three minutes time, we'll be taking to Norfolk's youngest butcher...

@pakora81 3 жыл бұрын

It started with a kiss...

@greenwoodorganics4681 5 жыл бұрын

Filming location was the Rochdale canal between Oxford Road and Castlefield, Manchester.

@davidjames579 5 жыл бұрын

I can't believe Alan ventured that far North. Bet he had to have a bath afterwards.

@robd399 3 жыл бұрын

Cotton and guns

@anthonykelly1649 3 жыл бұрын

here is me thinking it was close to Windsor Castle

@TheMijman 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I thought it was

@geoffrey1001 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for identifying it! Thought it looked familiar!

@marcusorangeboomivnone7490 6 жыл бұрын

Alan Partridge... A rose among thorns - a pearl before swine a langoustine amongst prawns.

@benmadi 3 жыл бұрын

i see he's wearing sensible plimsoles with grip, those canal ambles can be treacherous if not properly attired.

@karenpearson6991 3 жыл бұрын

Eee, thanks Alan mate, it's good ter see someone standin up for us working folks. None of them posh lot. And yer reminded us- ah must go ter poundland fer a new dog rawp.

@dpbuff 3 жыл бұрын

A touch of John Cooper Clark in his poetry

@zapkvr0101 Жыл бұрын

I didnt think so. John is much more percussive

@michaelarchangel1163 Жыл бұрын

@@zapkvr0101 And sincere. Coogan is more concerned about the rights of uninvited worldwide parasites than he is for aspirational Brits or ex servicemen sleeping in shop doorways.

@dillontaylor2569 3 жыл бұрын

I've smoked a joint in that exact location

@dansaunders1655 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating

@paulmurray6071 3 жыл бұрын

Your really painting pictures in my minds eye lovely stuff

@THOMASCOLTON1 3 жыл бұрын

Winning at life

@johnw218 3 жыл бұрын

It made me proud, proud to be working class ,you saying that

@blahasdirtysock3657 3 жыл бұрын

@@paulmurray6071 and not my words Lynn, but the words of Shakin Stevens

@pickledegg1989 6 жыл бұрын

If John Cooper Clarke was from Norwich...

@dfcvda 6 жыл бұрын

or certainly North Norfolk..

@ChubbyChecker182 6 жыл бұрын

Turkey Town (Bernard Matthews, etc)

@crh7742 6 жыл бұрын

Ha! I was thinking that myself.

@user-kz2sc9rx4d 5 жыл бұрын

He has nothing on John

@markparkinson6378 5 жыл бұрын

It's either a great satire of modern news reporting, or a masterclass poem. I can't tell which.

@nigelcarren 5 жыл бұрын

I was going to say something like, "My marriage fell apart after watching this" or "Back of the net" but instead I will just say this is beautiful. Not crying with laughter but crying with the sheer ruddy bloody sentiment of it all can only mean one thing: "I am Partridge"! Lynn... I've gone again.... Lynn... LYNN.... LYNN!!

@mrneutral8423 3 жыл бұрын

I love how wonderfully patronising this is, but he's the real deal from Manchester(ish).

@leeashford2259 3 жыл бұрын

David Cameron once said that Eton Rifles by the jam was one of his favourite songs when he was a public schoolboy!! This parody is akin to that

@iroscoe 3 жыл бұрын

Bit rough round the edges but the working class are actually a smashing bunch of blokes .

@josephharley9448 3 жыл бұрын

can I just shock you. I love the working class

@callithowiseeit5806 2 жыл бұрын

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth” - Oscar Wilde

@zapkvr0101 Жыл бұрын

Ah but what is truth?

@JackT13 3 жыл бұрын

When comedy and genuine poignancy meet, the stars align

@ThomasDoubting5 3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly its multi layered

@cfytcf 6 жыл бұрын

That poetry was like the dream of a shadow of hope's light... across my soul.

@turnip5359 3 жыл бұрын

Lol I was watching the Yorkshire Ripper programme on Netflix the other night and listening to the obviously upper-middle class reporter talk about a "hard-working (or was it respectable?) Working class girl" victim made me roll my eyes, those two statements are ALWAYS put together when mentioning working class, reminds me of this.

@ignoblesurfer6281 6 ай бұрын

Salt of the earth. Down to earth. Close-knit community.

@jamieirwin5082 6 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha! Sadly there is plenty of poetry out there identical to this but with no irony involved!

@harveyholmes9533 3 жыл бұрын

@Pedro Abreu nah it’s a piss take out of peoples who’s only knowledge of the working class is stereotypes usually of them being dangerous but who still pretend to care about them

@MilloSpiegel 2 жыл бұрын

@@harveyholmes9533 yeah, alot like noble savages. "Oh there hard work and piss poor working condition make them such tortured souls "

@mrmatthewmale5892 3 жыл бұрын

It's Owen Jones.

@Strykertattoo 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best Sleaford mods covers ive heard

@johnmandragon4830 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Alan. Thank you for everything.

@midnightmover2329 6 жыл бұрын

You’ve just got to love the Working Class,Bless ‘em!

@johnw218 3 жыл бұрын

That was beautiful, and powerful, Alan mate.

@shanethrelfall416 3 жыл бұрын

Alan Partridge is always gonna be my favourite character, Ahaaaaaaaa

@derfanddarf1 3 жыл бұрын

I love how the only actual alien he listed was ET

@monsieurcondottiero2685 2 жыл бұрын

“CP3O” was a nice touch 🤓

@doloresrio 2 жыл бұрын

it's legit simile use tho, friend

@Matt-kq3ks 3 жыл бұрын

He's finally done it....A Partridge among the pigeons!

@roryscottish8053 5 жыл бұрын

I am lower middle class. So the middle class see me as scum. While the working class see me as a ponce.

@robsmithracing 3 жыл бұрын

Great banter, it really is.

@dirkdiggler4136 2 жыл бұрын

That was beautiful

@markfairman162 3 жыл бұрын

"Dogs on ropes" 🤣

@Sameoldfitup 3 жыл бұрын

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.....

@JaffaCaik 6 жыл бұрын

beautiful

@metromikey1985 3 жыл бұрын

Alan Partridge is my favourite character of all time. I'm sure I have seen everything he has ever done. But I seen something which I had never seen before and thought it was hilarious. The Day Today - The Office skit I know Coogan isn't playing partridge but is still one of the funniest things I have seen in a while. Stops being funny when they get to the pig part.

@lew115 2 жыл бұрын

You should check out "I'm Alan Partridge"......was a spoof documentary first aired in the 90s. You'd love it. Ahaha!

@hmq9052 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, I'm John, and I'd like a copy of the Daily Mail please"

@brendanmarks5485 6 жыл бұрын

Lovely stuff

@tonycavanagh1929 3 жыл бұрын

I used to cycle along there, when I lived in manc. Good times.

@stevendouglas3860 6 жыл бұрын

Very moving

@margoomahony9565 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@libbaT 3 жыл бұрын

This poem had "a certun swaggah" abowt it.

@tedmcgee7363 2 жыл бұрын

It's a good satire. I hope to live to the day when concept of social class (working, middle) is itself: an irony and satire.

@MrKit19832009 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely stuff.

@arcticozzy792 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing.

@jaycuthbert245 3 жыл бұрын

"Ohhh wook, it's wayneee woooney! Top oneee!!!"

@user-fv7jb1bd3s 2 жыл бұрын

MEGA

@Rossa4444 6 жыл бұрын

“CP30” i can almost hear a nerd fixing the bridge of his glasses with his index finger, preparing his tirade of matter of factness. Which is exactly what Steve would want

@themeg1145 6 жыл бұрын

I don’t Understand why people get upset when others get the names of star trek characters wrong.

@kubla9834 6 жыл бұрын

The Pondering it's because c3po is one of the most iconic movie characters

@geoffdillon4637 6 жыл бұрын

Stop getting Star Wars WRONG!!!

@sausagedog98 5 жыл бұрын

@@kubla9834 r/whoosh

@CrazyLinguiniLegs 5 жыл бұрын

Well, how about that: _you_ managed to correct the error while displacing the nerdiness onto someone else. Well done, nerd!

@mh82100 6 жыл бұрын

That was as smooth as a nice fat shot of Director's bitter ..

@bensaunders8477 6 жыл бұрын

CP30, soccer, knuckle busters. Brilliant.

@edbarrett5995 3 жыл бұрын

Pitch perfect poetry from the Partridge.

@nicolaszancanaro5779 5 жыл бұрын

THIS Is guaranteed to raise the hair from my arms and to wet my eyes.

@carolineflanagan6855 4 жыл бұрын

bloody brilliant

@beef633 6 жыл бұрын

Powerful.

@shimmanojoe2221 5 жыл бұрын

Don’t know what line was better “crisps for dinner a pint of best” or “giros,glue sniffing,dogs on ropes” 😂

@theceoofcrackcocaineandamp9477 2 жыл бұрын

Isn’t this the fella who had a breakdown in a hotel lobby in the 90’s with a kettle plug and shower mat?

@MS-il3ht 2 жыл бұрын

You are the CEO? Pleased to meet you personally after so many years in business.

@theceoofcrackcocaineandamp9477 2 жыл бұрын

@@MS-il3ht Yes i am the CEO of this fine establishment, welcome to the directors board, I hope you will bring some fresh ideas on how we can sell our products because we’re not doing too well these days.

@MS-il3ht 2 жыл бұрын

@@theceoofcrackcocaineandamp9477 But legit now, original meth is probably healthier than my generic ADHD meds. :)

@reloda 3 жыл бұрын

That was classic and very thorough

@3ggg334 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!!

@marleywalker3284 2 жыл бұрын

I swear I walked over that bridge dam thing he was sitting on, on a bender about a year back that's gotta be manny right?

@harrywakefield8531 2 жыл бұрын

Yea Manchester somewhere along the canal, there’s a few of those lock gates tho so it might not have been the same one

@ChadEditorZ 2 жыл бұрын

i thought it was camden

@satchelyork 2 жыл бұрын

Did you do it with that certain swagger?

@TokioTE 2 жыл бұрын

Same 😂 but in daylight for a work experience thing 10+ years ago

@patrickobrien7681 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely stuff - Shakin' Stevens

@ulvosstanya 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@guitarlover302 3 жыл бұрын

He is just brilliant 👌👌

@manc7808 6 жыл бұрын

I know exactly where he was, theres a school for deaf offenders just yards from where he was stood at the end.

@gigixxx1836 6 жыл бұрын

Manc780 lmaoo deaf offenders... lul wtf

@MrSuperGriff 6 жыл бұрын

That mean there will be noise or there won't be noise?

@BDaMonkey 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah but are there Buck Rogers toilets there?

@kingshearer2 6 жыл бұрын

What the ear canal?

@EinkOLED 5 жыл бұрын

A viewing glass for visitors with no telephone.

@j.clementec.m.1558 2 жыл бұрын

this englishman just dropped some mad bars

@thesouthernwoodsmanuk216 3 жыл бұрын

fantastic

@sampearson2102 Жыл бұрын

This really was splendid and tremendous.

@gustavelofsson5611 6 жыл бұрын

This was quite beautiful.

@kdaz73 6 жыл бұрын

reminded me of Tennyson . Alan for poet laureate :)

@marcotee709 3 жыл бұрын

Great banter!

@merseydave1 3 жыл бұрын

I love Steve Coogan as a performer and as a person ... Let Me Tell You, that's Alan Partridge the character but what he is saying is Steve Coogan's words !!!

@paulmurray6071 3 жыл бұрын

You made me stop in my tracks your very inspiring in a modest way

@frankryan2505 3 жыл бұрын

He's a smart bloke ..

@jeffstone2136 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely stuff. Not my words, Michael, the words of Shakin' Stevens.

@henrycastle1 3 жыл бұрын

That was great. Thank you

@dominickeefe2454 2 жыл бұрын

That sums it up

@KobraVR 3 жыл бұрын

The more I watch of Coogan the more I like him, he is also looking more and more like Bond Villian Le Chiffre every day

@BobtheFishProductions 6 жыл бұрын

A DAGGER

@bhew7409 6 жыл бұрын

best bit!

@phillhosking 4 жыл бұрын

Lovely stuff..

@monkeymox2544 3 жыл бұрын

Its a bit scary how many people aren't getting the joke...

@karlosthejackel69 3 жыл бұрын

“Scary”

@SurprisinglyDeep 2 жыл бұрын

A very well made parody of something is occasionally nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. Also he gave a very subdued and dead pan performance, so well done that sometimes people might not realise he's just acting at points

@user-fv7jb1bd3s 2 жыл бұрын

OOO SCARY IRISH MENNN