Steve Coogan Bio, Age, Family, Children, Married, Net worth, Movies & TV Shows

In 2004, Steve Coogan and Ricky Gervais were at the pinnacle of British comedy. Both had created seminal characters in Alan Partridge and David Brent and had become part of the firmament of British comedy, and both had their eye on Hollywood.

Fifteen years later, their last series fall within fifteen days of each other, and a lot of things have changed. Coogan is riding a wave of five-star reviews for This Time with Alan Partridge , while Gervais has become a hugely prominent but increasingly controversial public figure, insulted as vehemently as he is adored. So what happened?

Coogan enters a new BBC series This Time With Alan Partridge on the back of a Bafta nomination for Stan and Ollie to go along with his Oscar nominations and Bafta win for Philomena in 2014 – plus three stellar Michael Winterbottom series The Journey With Rob Brydon. He’s got so much credit artistically that nobody really cares whether he’s showing up as Holmes and Watson or Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief , and he can do some weird dramatic parts with Richard Gere and Laura Linney in The Dinner Party or the Biopic. by Paul Raymond The gaze of love for hell.

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The stock of North Norfolk’s most distinguished light-disc entertainer, meanwhile, has never been higher. Having been revived by new writers the Gibbons Brothers since the first series of Mid-Morning Questions in 2010, the Partridge-Industrial complex has been bubbling it up every two years since in the television specials Welcome to the Places of My Life and Scissor Island , the feature film Alpha Papa , and two books, Me, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan and Nomad . Each got material worthy of Partridge’s sizzle reel.

Gervais lived through a much more mixed period. His follow-up to The Office, Extra Features, was often brilliant. Life is too short was very often not. His films Graveyard Junction and The Invention of a Lie passed without incident, then he wrote, directed and starred in Derek , David Brent: Life on the Road and Netflix action comedy Special Correspondents . Derek earned him a few Emmy nominations, but his syrupy tone divided audiences. The Brent film received lukewarm reviews and raked in £3.5m from its £10m budget.Special Correspondents has been widely criticized. He’s hugely wealthy, has hosted the Golden Globes four times and is a guaranteed draw – he was comedy’s fifth-highest earner last year at $25 million, according to Forbes – but there’s still a drifting feeling.