Steve Coogan

Stephen John "Steve" Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, writer, and producer. He began his career in the 1980s, working as a voice artist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image. In the early 1990s, he began creating original comic characters, leading him to win the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 1999, he co-founded the production company Baby Cow Productions.

While working with Armando Iannucci on On the Hour and The Day Today, Coogan created his most developed and popular character: Alan Partridge, a socially awkward and politically incorrect regional media personality. He featured in several television series, which earned him three BAFTA nominations and two wins for Best Comedy Performance. A feature-length film, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, was released in 2013, and opened at number one at the British box office.

Coogan grew in prominence within the film industry in 2002, after starring in The Parole Officer and 24 Hour Party People. He portrayed Phileas Fogg in the 2004 remake Around the World in 80 Days and co-starred in The Other Guys, Tropic Thunder, In the Loop, Hamlet 2, Our Idiot Brother, Ruby Sparks and the Night at the Museum films, as well as collaborating with Rob Brydon in The Trip and A Cock and Bull Story. He was also a voice actor in the animated comedy films Despicable Me 2 and its prequel Minions, and played Hades in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.

Famous quotes by Steve Coogan:

"Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun."

"This isn't the Gulf War, Michael. Which ironically IS like a big petrol station."

"And on that bombshell ..."

"a womb with a view."

"It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about."

"[When asked if he] remembered someone called Courtney ... Yes, I do remember someone called Courtney but I'm not prepared to talk about it because I don't talk about those kind of things."

"I went on tour and I wouldn't say I was bored with the Perrier show but I started doing this stuff that wasn't as charming as the Perrier show."

"I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill."

"If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you."

"I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest."

"As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4."

"I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy."

"I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable."

"The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny."

Steve Coogan

Famous quotes by Steve Coogan:

"Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun."

"This isn't the Gulf War, Michael. Which ironically IS like a big petrol station."

"And on that bombshell ..."

"a womb with a view."

"It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about."

"[When asked if he] remembered someone called Courtney ... Yes, I do remember someone called Courtney but I'm not prepared to talk about it because I don't talk about those kind of things."

"I went on tour and I wouldn't say I was bored with the Perrier show but I started doing this stuff that wasn't as charming as the Perrier show."

"I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill."

"If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you."

"I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest."

"As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4."

"I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy."

"I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable."

"The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny."

Steve Coogan

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