Ideal Home: Bickering

Steve Coogan is all cowboy-ed up to play a demanding celebrity (who is shooting a Western-themed episode of his cooking show) in The Hollywood Reporter's first look at Ideal Home.

The comedy stars Coogan and Paul Rudd as a bickering gay couple whose lives are turned upside down when Coogan’s character’s grandson that he never knew he had shows up at their dinner party. The couple, who live an extravagant life, decide to take in the new addition after he crashes their lives.

Ideal Home, which began shooting May 11 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is written and directed by Andrew Fleming. Aaron Ryder, Gabriella Tana, Maria Theresa Arida and Clark Peterson, Maxime Remillard producing...

First Look, Hollywood Reporter.

A bickering gay couple?

Oh fuck, it's going to be a middle-aged version of Vicious.

And there's a child, too, just so the straights can relate.

An Ideal Home: A-Ha!

Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan will star in dramedy An Ideal Home, directed by Andrew Fleming.

The actors, who previously worked together on 2011's Our Idiot Brother, will star as a troubled married couple with an extravagant life. Coogan plays a celebrity while Rudd is his more hesitant partner and sidekick. But when the grandson that Coogan's character never knew he had shows up at their home with nowhere else to go, the couple reluctantly decide to take him in.

Fleming wrote the script for An Ideal Home, which Remstar Studios and National Bank of Canada are co-financing. Fortitude International is selling the pic in Berlin, and UTA Independent Film Group is handling domestic rights.

Gabriella Tana, Maria Theresa Arida, Maxime Remillard and Aaron Ryder are producing, while Clark Peterson and Lisa Wolofsky will executive produce.

"Comedy stalwarts Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan are reuniting on the big screen as a squabbling married couple in Andrew Fleming’s endearing and hilarious script about modern family, and we are delighted to present this charming film to buyers at EFM," said Fortitude’s Nadine De Barros...

Hollywood Reporter.

I'm not sure if this film has actually been made yet...

Alan Partridge: "A Fairly Robust Hatred Of The Gay Community"

"I will be the first person to throw my hands up and say in the past, circa 1983, I developed a fairly robust hatred of the gay community - but that was before I met Dale Winton. And I realised I had absolutely nothing to worry about. The man was a perfect gentleman. I actually spent three days at The Earls Court Boatshow with Dale Winton... and Paul O'Grady and Noel Edmonds - he's not gay but you get the picture.
"You know if you told me 25 years ago that I would be talking about rigid inflatable holes with Dale Winton I would probably have spat at you.
"Do you know any jokes about gays?"

From the hilarious internet-only Alan Partridge's Mid-Morning Matters, Episode 4.
Shame this return to comedy form is pushing some pissy lager...