Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge
(Picture: )If you’ve ever wondered whether you sat next to Alan Partridge on a plane to Manchester in 1996, good news: you did.
Keen to get in touch with the youth vote, the Labour Party had booked Steve Coogan to interview then-leader of the opposition Tony Blair in character at that year’s Labour conference in Blackpool. But then Coogan and Armando Iannucci missed their first flight to Manchester, and had to dash for a second.
