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Steve Coogan

lines on the record: 50
first: 2009-10-11
most recent: 2009-10-11
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“My luxury would be a fully restored Morris Minor Traveller, the one with the wooden back, the wooden detail and the wooden frame because it's a car that I spent lots of happy memories of childhood in travelling back and forth to Ireland and I'd want one of those with vinyl seats and if it was a sunny day I could get inside and smell that smell the only hot vinyl in a car has on a sunny day and that would make me very happy.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'll take Laurence Tristram Shandy because I haven't read it. I never managed to get through it. I thought if I'm on the island, I'll be able to read the whole thing.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is the Smith's and Panic. I would see the Smiths at the Free Trade Hall in nineteen eighty three when I was seventeen, and Morris was twenty four and he bought me a pint of bitter, which I will remember forever. And what I love about it so much is that their inspiration, they didn't have to look outside of their own hometown to find their inspiration, so they sing about things in their immediate surroundings. They found beauty and poetry in the ordinary. And that was inspirational to me.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, in some ways I'm very comfortable on my own. I like I'm maybe schizophrenic I like company I love company I love conversation I like being sociable with people but I also like equally like being on my own and not talking to anyone there was a place in Ireland I used to rent this cottage and I would stay there for days not speaking to anyone and if any car passed by I'd be thinking oh who's that person bothering me so I think I'd be okay”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, when I do like work, I feel kind of equilibrium when I work hard. But no, I like to do nothing quite a lot as well, if I can.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I helped sell the mighty boost to a very sceptical BBC and stakes my reputation on it, which paid off on that occasion.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, in fact, I helped that baby cow up, but I'm not really there for the day to day running. It's all done by Henry Normal. You don't want to in the office say that I run baby cow.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next track is Jonie Mitchell and California. I love the lyrics, I love the fact that it captures a period of time where young people were exploring Europe and the world was changing and it brings something alive every time you hear it. And it takes me outside of myself. It takes me to another world and I love it for that.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's quite clever. No, no, no, I just know I don't think that is the case. I just don't think I'm I don't think I focus enough probably on my own life, that's what it is. I don't think I self sabotage particularly. Maybe I do. I don't know. I'm not vehemently denying that I might do that. I don't know. I need to talk to a therapist.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm very, very grateful to be working, quite frankly, certainly in this day at day age, and I never lose sight of that. But yes, of course, sometimes you think, well, I'd rather do a bit of this or a bit of that. And I don't think I'm attracted to a kind of discomfort. I think that's what it is. And certainly if I do a job, if there's something about it that unnerves me or worries me or runs the risk of me making a fool of myself or getting it wrong and making a big screwing up in a public way, it makes me want to do it. So I don't know what that says, but certainly it makes me feel like I can't be complacent. I can't sit back. I don't like to take the easy option.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, sometimes you see people playing themselves on things in movies, and it looks like they're saying, get a load of me laughing at myself, aren't I cool? And I wanted to avoid that. But I also wanted to make sure it had some resonance, and I felt that playing myself would work. Now, I do tap into things about myself that make me vulnerable, and that's fine. The only thing is, my fear was that it would be too self-indulgent, which is not good.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It comes so easily to you. Yes, I find it slightly embarrassing. It's all tied up with that class thing that we were talking about. It's a trick and it's not about using your brain. It's just about having a facility. So to me it's lowbrow and it bothers me to be associated with it.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is Algaz Enigma Variation. I think it's number nine Nimrod. I am very sort of proud to be and happy to be from England, and that gets a bad press sometimes because you associate it with sort of people with mastiff bulldogs and racists and such like. And I really am pleased that I'm from this country with all its faults and everything. I'm happy to be from here. But the best thing about it is that there's an optimism about it. There's an optimism about the future that I find really uplifting and really positive. So it's a really comforting piece of music.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's fine because I can look back and laugh now. And I went and did some terrible, terrible holiday camp gig for a few hundred quid on this hotel in Rhodes, Greece. I had a blacker box room with a view of an air conditioning duct, and I read in Guardian International that Frank had won the Perrier Award in Edinburgh. The guy had supported me the year before said, yeah, that was I really felt like it's just down to you. You either sort of pull your socks up and do something or you don't. And I did.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a really depressing time for me and a great time for Frank. Yeah, it was, we went to the Edinburgh Festival and Frank worked very hard. I didn't work hard. And I was doing impersonations, which I found a bit, it was just something I could do, and I got the review that said, it's funny everyone remembers the bad reviews, but I'm no different. And it said, Steve Coogan does a passable impersonation of a bad comedian. until he comes on in the second half and you realise he is a bad comedian so I was sharing a flat with Frank at the time in Edinburgh and that he hid that review under the sofa cushion because he didn't want me to see it”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, to me, doing Tony Wilson to me is a gift because you'd have to research a character, you don't have to develop a character, he's spent fifty years doing it for you, and he was such an interesting larger than life character that it was a gift to play. It wasn't like playing someone who'd done something significant but had no charisma. He was incredibly charismatic.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who did I do? I did kneel Kinnock at a Terry Wogan. I said a very good. Be a nice radio voice there goes up and down half the time like that. So I used to Terry Wogan and I did Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, La Rang Michael and read this in the papers it true and oh yeah, we just haven't gone around to asking you yet OK then it wasn't so much that I was desperate to claims that the idea of someone else playing him and getting it wrong really annoyed me and I sort of thought I knew something of he was, and all the things about him, all the sorts of lots of contradictions about him. Again someone who sort of encouraged people from lower middle class backgrounds to be creative.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“while I knew turning before did the film, and I read about it in the paper first I read Oh Steve Coons play Tony Wilson read it in the paper.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Specifically because it's from the film I did with Michael Winterbottom called twenty four Hour Party People where I played Tony Wilson, an iconic Manchester figure. There's a scene in the film where as voiceover I describe Manchester all the words I said as Tony Wilson I could well have said been saying myself about Manchester and how I felt about, how I feel about my home city. It encompasses everything that's industrial and yet creative and poetic about my hometown.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes, absolutely it did. It really sort of opened my eyes and I still remember reading the first script and thinking this was so fresh and different and yet making me laugh for reasons I couldn't quite understand but it fascinated me. They sort of raised my games, no doubt about it. And they also gave me confidence because they thought I was funny.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's oxbred educated and he is a very clever man, says Patrick Marb, and all the other people on what was on the hour on the radio and day to day. I had no.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What drama school gave me a lot of confidence because the people that I said I found intimidating when I auditioned at the London Drama Schools, I started to realize that the things that made me feel slightly intimidated and slightly inadequate because if we're going to talk about class, something I'm sort of a lower middle class background, I realized those things were actually my strengths. Because it's like whenever you see those sixties films with rather actresses trying to be northern, they'd say things like When the Somat summer being pregnant, I remember our daughter in family way, and that's how I think Northerners speaks, she's pregnant then, right. Okay.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What did I look like? Well, I look like some teenager from the 80s. That's what I was. And I joined this theatre company in Manchester after my school days and travelled round adult education centres doing sort of devised theatre before I went to drama school. And that actually gave me a bit of confidence in what I was doing and who I was, and got me into drama school ready.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I found a truly intimidating experience because all the people who seemed to turn up there were all very middle class. That's going to sound like I got a big bag of chips on my shoulder, which I probably have. I would say I've got chips in a tray with gravy on my shoulder. Lots of very friendly girls in Dungarees with ponytails being ever so friendly in Brighton bushy tailed and lots of blokes called Julian and Sebastian who had these very well modulated voices, these ex public school voices, and they wore long overcoats and scarves and had ironic hairstyles. And they'd say things like, Hello, Roger, you know my father, Algernon, he worked for the BBC World Service. I think, oh my God, I think I've got a cat in hell's chance. What did you look like?”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Talking heads and nothing but flowers. I love talking heads, and David Byrne, who is another example of one of those people who are outside the ordinary. America gets a lot of flack these days in this country. People try to paint America as all a bunch of meat heads who don't know what they're talking about. He was one of those people who takes a slightly odd, unusual, sideways look at life and humanity and gives you this different perspective on things through the music.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was probably a bit at first, yeah, I mean, since then the solution to anything that's ever happened to me like that, irrespective of my culpability, which I don't really want to go into here, but irrespective of that, my attitude is that I'd get on with my job, the people in my life who know me and love me what they think of me is the most important thing, not how I'm defined by people who don't know me, and given a choice between if you are engaging with people who write things about my personal life and trying to justify who I am, I'd rather people didn't know I'd rather say, hey everybody, oh, I'm not like that. I'm a really nice guy, honestly. You should come and talk to me. I'd rather they didn't know who I was and misrepresent me than give them everything of me.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first of all, they don't read the tabloids anyway, but they know that things are in there. People often speak to them, but they're very tolerant non judgmental people, which is basically how they've lived their lives. So when people ask me my father, they say, oh, you must be very proud of your son. His response is always, well, I'm very proud of all my sons, just because one of them happens to have a public profile is in some ways neither here nor there. And I don't regard myself as a Catholic now, but I will defend it insofar as the notion that it's this sort of judgmental, unforgiving kind of attitude certainly wasn't my experience growing up. It was about tolerance and humanity and compassion for those who are less fortunate than others. So if I was the subject of some tabloid story, they were very grown up about it, really, and not at all hysterical, as I was, but they weren't.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Uh Well, I don't think very well I took it all very personally and I saw it as being just intrusive and I was worried about people around me, people who aren't interested in that kind of thing. I felt guilty about people who are disconnected with having a public profile as I have being dragged into things. That made me feel bad.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“More than I was, yeah, because first time there was something in the tabloids about me, it seemed totally alien to me, because I don't read the small newspapers because I want to aspire to be better than. what you're supposed to be. I mean, first of all, I was just staggered that anyone would be remotely interested in my personal life. I didn't really believe, I didn't really understand that I was famous. And so it was a shock to me. I was naive.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is my brother's band. He had his moment in the sun in the early nineties with a song called Can You Dig It. It reminds me of a very happy time in my life when his band was doing really well and I was just starting out and I was living in Manchester and I remember he was in the charts and he was on top of the pops and it was a very sunny, optimistic time where the whole of our lives were ahead of us. I mean I've still got a bit left. But it was that time where you're young and anything was possible. It's my favourite song he ever wrote and it's called Wicker Man.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Norris McWerter. Do you think this sounds like him? He'd sit off in bed and go, Yeah, it does, yeah, maybe a little higher, maybe a little lower. Then I'd go back to bed.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not saying it was a perfect childhood, but it's only when you're older you realise how formative your childhood is. Of course, purely statistically, you didn't get a lot of one-on-one time. All my brothers used to stay at school for school lunch, and I would come home at lunchtime. And it's only looking back, I realized it was so I could have just have an hour with my mum to myself. I knew there was a lot of love in the family, but it wasn't very conventionally demonstrative, there wasn't very touchy feeling. I remember when I first started acting in London I used to think God, whenever I see my agent, I kiss her on both cheeks, and when I see my brothers after months of not seeing them, I just nod at them across the room. But it meant that you didn't get a lot of attention, and yes, I was sort of a middle child. And the way to get attention was to say, look what I can do, get a load of me. Tapping on the show they're saying, do you think this voice sounds like?”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was well it still is, in fact, the nice things when I go home I sleep in the bedroom I was born in, which is really comforting thing. It was fairly big, but yeah, there was always a lot of people in the house. I remember once a policeman came around because there was an accident outside or something, and there were lots of kids running around and my brother used to cop people's hats. There was a line of kids lining up to have their hair cut. And we had a pinball machine in the corner of the dining room. And the policeman said, is this a community centre? He didn't think it was someone's house. So that gives you an idea of the sort of quite a lively place. And we had like a tramp who came around once a week and sat in the hall and we give him a cup of tea and a sandwich. It was very welcoming sort of a hospitable sort of house and a really sort of warm kind of environment to grow up in, very secure environment.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have four brothers and two sisters, and my parents foster did short term fostering of children, sometimes two or three at a time in the house.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've chosen that because I loved the music of John Barry, and to me all the music of John Barry really reminds me of that cinematic escape in Louis Armstrong's vocal on it is wonderful. The last thing he did before he died, but it's timeless. It reminds me of this other world of sophistication and perfection that's slightly unreal but very comforting.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I think so it's therapeutic and cathartic for me what I do creatively and I need to I feel comfortable when I'm writing, I feel comfortable when I'm performing, and I'm not entirely comfortable when I'm myself. But if you like, I'm comfortable with that discomfort. Anything that happens to me on a day to day basis or generally in my life, I never see anything as a negative experience in a philosophical sense because I know that whatever happens to me is useful and interesting. I do remember once, and this is real, I don't know whether this is vain actor thing, but something was happening in my life a long time ago, and I was actually crying. And I remember looking across at the mirror and thinking, oh, that's interesting. That's what grief looks like.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“About twice a week. Not that bad. It's quite a comfortable amount. If it stopped altogether, I'd be upset. But two or three times a week is acceptable to me.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no, the cat's out the back. Yeah, and I sort of got sentimental attachment to it actually. I remember afterwards Patrick, Marba, he said, ye do realise, he said the scout that ye record us night is going to change your life. People are going to be shouting that aha at you. I remember thinking at the time, wow, that would be extraordinary. What an amazing thing that would happen.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I nipped to Lily White to buy a Pringle sweater that was quite expensive actually, a sort of golfing sweater. I still got that sweater actually. You're wear”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of life that you have. I remember quite clearly recording the pilot of the talk show, knowing me knowing you for radio. And I dressed up as the character, even though it was radio. Can”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not trying to write Allen, and I remember Patrick Moab just writing down what I'd said as myself thinking that was funny, saying just say what you said, and I'd be slightly insulted by the fact that he thought that what I'd said as myself was worthy of. But I didn't mind, as long as what ends up being funny and people enjoying it, then I didn't mind that”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dissecting life into it. I suppose. Do you think people say There's things about me that I've sort of channeled into Alan Partridge. But Alan Partridge was a collective effort. I tried to describe it as when I would speak to someone in conversation or meet someone has private thoughts that you don't speak out loud. You edit your thoughts and you say the appropriate thing. And I think I do think before I speak, but all I do when I did Allen was to remove that natural edit that people who are sensible and measured have, and let your subconscious speak and try and make it sound reasonable. But sometimes I would say things as myself, and”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Susie and the Banshees. It was during the time when Punk Rock was just emerging, and I was a bit too young to go to the nightclubs, but just young enough to be excited about its irreverence and its maverick status. And I still remember ordering Susan de Benches from Boots the Chemist because my older brother told me to used to tell me what to buy because he was the cool one in the family. I remember ordering it and putting it on the turntable for the first time and being so excited about this sort of energetic difference sound.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, it was probably deeply unfunny, but people would say, did you see that thing the other night? And try and describe it. And I would hear people do it and get it wrong, and it would annoy me, and I'd step into the conversation saying, no, it wasn't like that, and I'd try to replicate it with accuracy.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it was. At first, I used to put a microphone on the cushion in front of the TV. I've got some recordings at home where you can hear me telling people to be quiet in the room while the TV show's on because I didn't want their voices on some recording of forty towers or something. So I would play the tape back and then speak the visuals.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I wasn't interested in football, I wasn't interested in sport, in fact when I did play football, I used to always play defence because I could talk to the goalkeeper who was very interested in movies like I was. I found I could do impersonations and I could entertain people, not in a kind of a class clown kind of a way, but in a very sort of with my little coterie of friends who liked our little exclusive sense of humor. It was a little bit elitist in a good way, I think. I was part of the television generation, definitely. Most TV shows, if they were half decent, were an event because the next day in the playground people would discuss them and dissect them. And I felt part of that and connected to that.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It sort of made me annoy to try and do something extraordinary was unwise, but to be charitable to him I think he thought he would flush me out, and if I really wanted to do it then despite what he said to me then clearly I was committed.”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was from a background where there was a kind of a sense of caution in what you did. I remember a teacher called me in and said, you know, thinking of going to drama school, that's a very precarious profession, and you might have a wife and children to support. Is that the wisest choice to make? And there was a kind of caution about things. What was your answer?”
2009-10-11 · Desert Island Discs · Steve Coogan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I remember it very clearly because I started thinking about all the people I admired on television, all the creative people I admired. One always thinks that whoever's around now is that's going to be the status quo forever. And then, of course, you realise there isn't the case, and it never will be the case.”
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