I’VE returned from my holidays to the rather exciting news that Steve Coogan is coming to the Liverpool Arena on his newly announced (and not at all bitterly titled) “Steve Coogan is Alan Partridge and other less successful characters”.

Ah, anyone would think he was doing it for the fun of it and not for the taxman, but still. It got me thinking. It isn’t hard to think of enough reasons to make him the subject of The Comedy Blog’s second pointless random list – The Unofficial and By No Means Definitive top ten Steve Coogan moments:

10. He is not an animal
I Am Not an Animal was a rather strange animated series by the wonderful Peter Baynam about a group of talking creatures from a vivisection lab. Coogan did some of the voices, including that of a deluded sparrow searching for fame. It was a bit odd.