While working on the Radio 4 comedy On the Hour, Coogan created the character Alan Partridge, a parody of British sports presenters ... writing: "Like Steve Coogan, or crack, it's one of my ...

The actor/comedian shot to fame after creating the character as a parody broadcaster in the 1990s for a series of radio sketches which later transferred to TV and spawned sitcom 'I'm Alan Partridge' ...