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Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge (also known as Knowing Me, Knowing You or abbreviated to KMKY...WAP) is a British comedy show first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as a six-episode series, which subsequently transferred to BBC Television with a series of six episodes (beginning 16 September 1994), and a Christmas special (Knowing Me, Knowing Yule) in 1995. It is named after the song "Knowing Me, Knowing You" by ABBA (Alan Partridge's favourite band), which was used as the show's title music.

The show was a parody of a chat show, and both the radio and television versions were so embarrassingly accurate that listeners and viewers often thought they were the real thing. Many wrote in to complain, for example, at Partridge slapping a child prodigy in an episode of the radio series. The series did feature an audience who clearly knew the show was a parody, but apparently this wasn't enough to persuade some listeners that it wasn't real.

Steve Coogan played the incompetent and annoying but self-satisfied Norwich-based host, Alan Partridge. Alan was a spin-off character from the spoof radio show On The Hour (which later transferred to TV as The Day Today).

Knowing Me, Knowing You was written by Coogan, Armando Iannucci (who produced the radio version) and Patrick Marber (who also starred), with contributions from the regular supporting cast of Doon Mackichan, Rebecca Front and David Schneider, who made up Alan's weekly onslaught of annoying and inane guests. Steve Brown also appeared as the man in charge of the house band, Glenn Ponder.

Some of the more notable ‘guests’ parodied real life appearances by guests on chat shows. For example, the medical fashion parade by ‘Mrs Whippy Head’ is clearly a reference to Vivienne Westwood's infamous appearance on Wogan, and the child prodigy Simon Fisher's appearance in the radio series was seemingly inspired by James Harries' (now Lauren Harries) appearance on the same show. There is also a curious homage paid to the BBC in the form of Adam Wells' fictional pop single "The Smiling Bicycle Of Amsterdam": it is based on a loop of John Baker's (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) BBC station ID "Radio Nottingham" (1968).

Alan went on to appear in two series of the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge, following Alan's life after his sacking from TV after punching the commissioning editor of BBC2 (David Schneider) on his Christmas special, shortly after his wife left him.

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na Langland: I never knew I had so many fans. an Partridge: Then why book Earls Court? It's massive.

o a member of the slaphead political party] an Patridge: Everyone likes a bit of fun but your just wasting people's time - get yourself a girlfriend.

an Partridge: Phillip Parsons, if you're watching, in five minutes time, I will be strapped to a Wheel of Death and you will have a plate with some words and a knife and a fork. What I'm trying to say is you're going to eat your words.

an Partridge: Well at this stage of the show, some of my viewers maybe thinking "Alan, You're a liar! You promised that this show would be hot and now you're chatting to three senior citizens." But if I said I am now going to jump into a TARDIS, go back in time and recreate the Berlin Olympics with these three old women, you'd say "Alan, that is hot, we were wrong earlier."

an Partridge: You join us live at the Berlin Olympics on "Grandstand" in 1938 on this pleasant summer morning in Nazi Germany. Everyone's here. Hitler's in his box, Jesse Owens just waved to him. He doesn't like that.

an Partridge: Now I'm no Georgio Armani, I'm Alan Partridge.

onne Boyd: Underneath our clothes we are, all of us, naked. Even you, Alan. an Partridge: No, I'm not.

an Partridge: That's not racist. French people chomp onions and go "hoh-hee-hoh-hee-hoh", that's a fact.

an Partridge: Knowing me, Alan Partridge, sacking you, Glen Ponda. A-ha!

rbes McAllister: Hello, lesbians.

an Partridge: My face was designed as a leisure accessory.

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