'Christmas is very much Alan territory': Steve Coogan in Knowing Me, Knowing Yule Credit: Alamy Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge – the comedy chat show first broadcast in 1994 – is perhaps best remembered for Alan’s “A-ha!” catchphrase (indeed, it’s dogged both Partridge and alter-ego Steve Coogan ever since: see Coogan shouting “A-ha!” into the northern wilderness in The Trip). But it was Alan’s other catchphrase which best surmised the show. “And on that bombshell,” Alan would always say in the closing moments, exuding Clarkson-esque vigour, as the show befell some new disaster of Alan’s own making.