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* DeadpanSnarker: He does get many.
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* DeadpanSnarker: He does get many. Indeed, when he's not trying to be funny, he's often quite dryly witty. David brings out the snark in him. Exampli gratia:
-->'''Alan''': Funny how you say splidding instead of splitting because I know in real life you say splitting. Interesting how you substitute a d for a t when you're broadcasting. In my opinion it's the behaviour of a [[StealthInsult dosser]]. A dosser and a dwad. There's didhead, also dalendless shid, and as I understand it, [[TheAlcoholic you're back on the boddle]].
** Though he then ruins it as he so often does by [[DontExplainTheJoker adding]]:
-->'''Alan''': Gid. [[CaptainObvious That's git]].
-->'''Alan''': Funny how you say splidding instead of splitting because I know in real life you say splitting. Interesting how you substitute a d for a t when you're broadcasting. In my opinion it's the behaviour of a [[StealthInsult dosser]]. A dosser and a dwad. There's didhead, also dalendless shid, and as I understand it, [[TheAlcoholic you're back on the boddle]].
** Though he then ruins it as he so often does by [[DontExplainTheJoker adding]]:
-->'''Alan''': Gid. [[CaptainObvious That's git]].
** He tends to be quite protective of animals in general. When presenting horse racing in ''The Day Today'' he jokes that he hopes a large bag abandoned near a car doesn't contain a dead horse, before starting to genuinely worry that it might actually be a dead horse. Also An Irish guest comes on his show and gifts his co-presenter with a turtle. Alan is appalled that he put a turtle in a box, pointing out that this constitutes animal cruelty.
** He's equally horrified when the guest then starts singing "Come Out Ye Black and Tans", an anthem by the IRA, a terrorist organisation. Though as it's [[ItsAllAboutMe Alan]], this might be more to do with professional embarrassment than anything else.
** He's equally horrified when the guest then starts singing "Come Out Ye Black and Tans", an anthem by the IRA, a terrorist organisation. Though as it's [[ItsAllAboutMe Alan]], this might be more to do with professional embarrassment than anything else.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Alan's portrayal is partly based on TV personality and Creator/FactoryRecords founder Tony Wilson, to the point where Steve Coogan used Alan as a reference for his performance of Wilson in ''Film/TwentyFourHourPartyPeople''. Other British TV presenters with a reputation for being rather bumbling, egotistical and inept are also in the mix, such as Richard Madeley and Piers Morgan.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Alan's portrayal is partly based on TV personality and Creator/FactoryRecords founder Tony Wilson, to the point where Steve Coogan used Alan as a reference for his performance of Wilson in ''Film/TwentyFourHourPartyPeople''. Other British TV presenters with a reputation for being rather bumbling, egotistical and inept are also in the mix, such as Richard Madeley and Piers Morgan.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Alan tries extremely hard to come across as the usual friendly talk-show host but it takes very little for his more unpleasant character traits to show up.
** In "Alpha Papa", for all his cowardice, he makes little secret of his disgust at Greg Frampton saving his own skin first and leaving the female hostages behind.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Alan gets very angry when people don't recognise his 'greatness'.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Alan is a megastar of broadcasting and a legend of the medium only in his own head and he gets very angry when people don't recognise his 'greatness'.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Alan is basically a walking dictionary definition of the stereotypical small-minded "Little Englander" Tory.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Alan is basically a walking dictionary definition of the stereotypical small-minded "Little Englander" Tory. Tory though Alan believes himself to be more progressive.
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* CatchPhrase: ''"A-ha!"''
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* CatchPhrase: CharacterCatchphrase: ''"A-ha!"''
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Through all his self-sabotage, his lack of competence and poor sense of propriety often causes the professional veneer of other media-types in his sphere to break down, exposing their phoneyness or hypocrisy and occasionally giving rise to perceptive questions in his fluff interviews. The writers of ''This Time'' have said that, in a television world where Piers Morgan fronts a flagship breakfast show, Alan’s re-employment by the BBC makes sense.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Through all his self-sabotage, his lack of competence and poor sense of propriety often causes the professional veneer of other media-types in his sphere to break down, exposing their phoneyness or hypocrisy and occasionally giving rise to perceptive questions in his fluff interviews. The writers of ''This Time'' have said that, in a television world where Piers Morgan fronts a flagship breakfast show, Alan’s Alan's re-employment by the BBC makes sense.
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Dewicking Kick The Son Of A Bitch.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: When he himself isn't the victim of this, he's often dishing this out to guests in ''Knowing Me Knowing You''. Many are just as standoffish, egomaniacal or heckling as he is, but Alan often dishes out the abuse as much as he takes it.
