Steve Coogan rips into The News Of The World

[SimonB198207]

STEVE COOGAN IS GOD - wise words, rock solid resolve, eloquent and dignified responses.... cool hair...

Serioiusly though, brilliant clip.

[ProtestantsRUs]

What a bastard. He doesn't even recognize what he's doing is so wrong.

[MrThisplaceisweird]

Lol the news of the world fella gets all pissed off when talking about celebrities walking down the red carpet. They are obliged to do that to promote their new film, and he HATES Them for it because he is JEALOUS! He just can't stand people being admired, and yet he chooses to be an absolute parasitic cunt of the highest order. Very interesting behaviour, kind of like a fat person being jealous of a skinny person while crying in to their king size tub of ice cream.

[tigermunky]

What would have been better is if Coogan did the entire interview as Alan Partridge.

[freewestpapua11]

Coogan, what a leftie legend! Down with multinationals

[SuperJackthehat]

@freewestpapua11 yeah what a legend . he dosnt want abu qatada deported and wants all the falkland islanders deported back to england. yeah what brainwashed leftie he really is .

[MiklePrickles]

fuck off paul macmullen you fuckin scum...go straight to jail and do not collect your cash you dirty corrupt sleazy cunt

[sparkyinbath]

i went down the greasy spoon the day after this and i looked around for a news of the world but obviously there wasn't one :( But i agree with Coogan. But i miss the news of the world when i'm hungover in a cafe

[enos218]

Steve mate i could not agree more,btw i never bought the rag

[odinssverd]

Scum. Sub-human scum.

[derangedband]

i feel like im watching "the day today"

[RangerParus]

And now he legally doesn't have a bad word to say about News International.

[paranoidandroid2442]

I never liked Alan Partridge but I have a lot more respect for him after seeing the way he handled that tosser.

[heardorsalfins]

McMullen just hangs himself doesn't he?

[roblightwater]

I totally agree with Steve Coogan.

[Renneskid]

what is the point in disliking this video, some people are such idiots

[daverigby23]

Doesn't it just make you feel like handing Steve Coogan a baseball bat and saying ' Go on Stevie boy ' ?

[matman283]

I don't like how the journalist from the News of the world won't let steve finish and is constantly interrupting, this is hardly a debate :(

[Kalanag01]

Hitler was nice to dogs. LMAO!

Coogan restrained himself better than I would have.

[DougPatton1]

Why don't Millionaire Meeja Monsters hack & spycam each other ?!

[DougPatton1]

Truly FREE Democratic Press-Media Millionaire Monsters would also spycam each other !

[helloman2332]

G'wan Steve.

[ca5k]

fuck, I'd need to be further away from that McMullen prick

[ca5k]

back of the net!

[iwantrhysmother]

Tittle-tattle. Brilliant.

[RayDequina]

You see, why can't American celebrities be this astute?

[fairbezz10]

do you want me to take out sue cook.....

[wurble]

I'm stunned McMullen actually went through with this. All his arguements are laughably weak, cringeworthy and utterly embarrassing.

[jiggawoo]

AHA!

[ThePowell1989]

the way he says 'BS' is so Partridge..

[gymnosophy]

Coogan takes 5 million doing murdoch movies? Fucking hypocrite.

[mikelheron20]

@gymnosophy And you think that justifies phone tapping?

[gymnosophy]

@mikelheron20 No but it sure don't justify hypocrisy

[MrTonyInchpractice]

SNF Episode 4 part 2 05:30 ... somehow this 20 year old stephen fry emma thompson hugh laurie jim broadbent sketch forecasted this exact episode of newsnight.

[steve30toon]

I quite enjoyed reading about Wayne Rooney and his Granny whore if I'm honest, it brightened up my Sunday morning to know the ugly little bastard was at that very same time having to plead with his wife for forgiveness.

[PhilSpanswick]

this is saaaad



[reltubnahte]

Come come Mr Bond, you derive just as much pleasure from killing as I do.

[Mr420cuz]

@reltubnahte hahahahahahahhhahahahahah :)

[geoffster1990]

The NOTW is moribund!!

[BennSeven]

COCK PISS MCMULLEN

[DANNYM35]

Get in, Lynn!

[nath909]

"Knowing me Steve Coogan, knowing you Paul McMullen, a-ha...No? He's not going to do it"

[alfamonk]

Coogan spot-on; The shite rags NEVER go after the real villains in society who make the UK an almost unaffordable shithole to live in; Merchant-Bankers, Insurance companies...they squander their investigative notion on celebs paying for hookers. Not Journalism..it's sensationalism, and this country is the poorer for it.

[FracturedUnion71]

@alfamonk The contrdictory Coogan, Dyke and the whore of the dance Kirsty, all on the Gov's propaganda channel the Status Quos mouth piece, have all held out there grasping media claws for payment from the immoral BBC, who always disguise propaganda and sensationalism as journalism. Who's worse the BBC's promotion of illegal wars and the subsequent slaughter of innocents or some sleazy and salacious penny books for adult sheeple.

[TheSamee]

Paul McMullen really is scum. Just makes me angry watching this. Feel like reaching through the screen and smacking him across his smug gob.

[littleman787]

Hitler was nice to dogs!

[andantealamierda]

Fucking hilarious

[bufton6]

That cunt from the NotW hasn't got a leg to stand on. Morally vacuous shitdribble of the highest order, he should be punched in the cock thrice daily unto seven generations hence.

[thecultofjonnybighed]

@bufton6 I'll second that

[kingwells2]

@bufton6 Your comment made me laugh out loud. And I'm a miserable sod. If this was a flower arrangimg contest I would "highly commend" your bouquet,

.

[j1mf1eld]

@bufton6 Can I be first... but I'd rather have a baseball bat.

[etocadet]

@bufton6 if you watched charlie brookers review of the year he shows you a timeline of this guy appearing on different channels and over time very rapidly he looks worse and worse.

[ThreeWordsFirstWord]

@bufton6 here here! Agreed

[TheGroucho66]

@bufton6

Indeed. It is abhorrent to me to watch a man defend something so disgustingly invading and "morally bankrupt". His case for the NotW's journalism is, according to him, seeking "the truth" when clearly it is to sell papers. It's like Channel 5 claiming their documentary called something like "the man with five arms and two heads" is filmed to show the public another interesting side to life when clearly the intent is "Look at this freak, more viewers". It is horrible.

[DODODADATUMTEETAAA]

I couldn't give a shit about how many houses Steve Coogan has, to be honest, he has earned it as he gave us Alan Partridge and other great comic characters. Everyone has a right to privacy.

[TobeUK]

"you walk down the red carpet and pose for the cameras"- yeah that's courting it isnt it....so what, every star of a movie, every actor should go to a premiere of a movie theyre involved in via the back door? if they DID do that, the tabloid paparazzi would just be crowded and huddled around by the back entrance anyway..

[TobeUK]

plus, McMullen, the 'naming and shaming' thing was not a smart way of trying to deal with a very serious problem. and btw, tabloids don't 'own' celebrities. when someone becomes famous or in the public eye it doesnt mean you can start dishing dirt on them- not all of them delibrately court publicity, some do, but thos who become known for doing something people like, like Coogan with his TV shows, becoming known is inevitable, not the AIM of his work

[TobeUK]

cheers Coogan for saying on national TV pretty much exactly what i feel about ALL tabloid "newspapers", they're scum...hopefully NOTW is just the FIRST to go....they don't give a shit about anything IMPORTANT, all they care about is gossip, shit-stirring etc- shut up McMullen, you're a cunt.

[Hughezy]

KISS MY FACE!

[richrichrichism]

SMELL MY CHEESE

[guitarreilly]

jurassic park!

[mojones87]

needless to say he had the last laugh

[TheBinmeister]

Scum. Sub human scum

[Mehargildargil]

Hitler was nice to dogs fantastic steve

[StrawberryJungle]

Steve Coogan is the best!

[spakasam]

Is it just me or does this sound very similar to the farmers rant in Partridge?! Lets have a spinal column on a bap

[0xshotgunx0]

@spakasam Yeah i thought that as well haha

[matteuklol]

smell my cheese

[seebeeproductions]

Striiiiiiker!!

[guyverjedi]

everyone knows the press will do anything for a story... they will go through bins, follow you anyware, set up camp outside celeb's houses in the hope they can get a picture of them with a bad hair day. So they hack phones for info for a story... or emails..... WoW !! never saw it coming ?? honist.... ffs i wouldnt be surprised if they put cameras in Rihanna's food so they could get a crack shot on the way out. It's the price of fame ...... bet you wish you work at Mc Donalds instead ....fuk off

[ozmond2600]

thumbs up if the sun should go next

[ozmond2600]

back of the net



[karezza6]

Partridge is a fucking hypocrite.

[iRiggers]

Journalists like him should be executed.

Their entire ethos is Criminal. Enemies of privacy.

Death to them all, and all who think like them.

[SmileyFaceMan1]

@iRiggers Bit harsh. Horrible, immoral people, but execution a little too far?

[RalphPacker]

Bloody, shitting , buggerheads!

The lot of em!

[SlackAlley]

'A system of..'

'Head-slapping'

'A system of..'

'Head-slapping'

'IGNORE HIM!'

[evenflow94]

@SlackAlley Haha! Classic lines :D

[BULLETPROOFGONG]

Phone hacking my arse? Just non entity celebs trying to court publicity ( Hugh Grant Sienna Miller etc) I am surprised at Coogan a true British talent.

[TheDustpile]

Greg Dyke... the man who called the BBC 'hideously white'.

Who cares about him?

[MrJoshbeckwith]

Paul McMullen is clearly a scumbag...

[jking6155]

Go coogan go

[Jpbremner]

Tommy saxondale

[krelmish]

Back of the net

[dunkiep]

Aa haaa!

[kookoopops1]

when i first watched this i thought this was one of coogans comedy sketches mainly due to mcmullens indifference to people who are on the receiving end of phone hacking.

[jackbox1971]

Steve Coogan just became a huge hero of mine.

[metafis]

I do agree with Steve almost completly, but the way he puts it across is VERY Alan Partridge, which makes me tend to laugh, rather than listen to the arguments properly.

[kevinindublin]

There's something slightly ludicrous about Alan Partridge sneering and going 'you're shit' to somebody in a TV discussion. The whole thing is a bit, eh .... Alan Partridgy.

[karezza6]

How many houses does Coogan own?

[csmith1234567891]

When you're a celebrity, you're going to get exposed. Fucking deal with it. I like Steve Coogan don't get me wrong and he makes interesting points, but at the same time what he's saying is tantamount to fascism. Newpapers, any kind of media have the right to expose people for who they truely are if they are a bad person. The journalist made a good point about Hitler, imagine Hitler was British in the 21st century and he was making his way to power, there is no fucking way he would be PM

[JasonKT]

@csmith1234567891 No they don't! It's nobodies business what you do unless it's criminal. These types of jounrnalists are sick and only nosey fuckers who couldn't be bothered to report on something worth reporting. Going through peoples rubbish, stalking their famiy and hacking their phones is not right and they shouldn't be anywhere near journalism. Just because you are famous does not give everybody the right to know everything about you.

[fatfacerick]

I can't believe the attitude of these ppl who say that celebrities want to be, essentially, stalked. To have ppl going thru their bins, have crowds of photographers and journalists literally stalking them everywhere they go - it's legitimate stalking, and I don't understand why it's not illegal. And their attitude that being stalked by press is part of being in films It's not, Acting in films is. Being stalked is not. God damn, a serious punch in the mouth for all the tabloid scum, everywhere.

[jcpadmore]

Ridiculous argument from Paul McMullen - he is saying that Steve Coogan is just as bad because he takes £5 million for a film funded by Rupert Murdoch!!?!?! How the hell does that make Steve Coogan as bad?! It just means he is being paid!! He isn't going through people's bins or hacking phones. That Paul McMullen is a prick. Fact.

[superhamzah85]

Well done Steve, that was textbook.

[chefblanc]

20 years before this mcmullen was probably one of those scum in the riots..

[chefblanc]

freedom of the press.. hang em

[chefblanc]

who is this idiot mcmullen.. surely he is beter off in an mental asylum.. is he on the lose..?

[derekdextremist1]

I don't have children but if I did, I would NEVER allow them to be alone in a room with Paul McMullen

[zilvafish]

Morally bankrupt!

[madgeniusmusic]

'Very occasionally, Hitler was nice to dogs' HILARIOUS

[madgeniusmusic]

I've never liked Steve Coogan before, I do now.

[karezza6]

How many houses does Coogan own?

[BestMaxScheffel]

@karezza6 How is that relevant?

[CrazyEddi3]

Wasn't this the cunt that took photos of Grant and promised they wouldn't go in the paper?

[willimurph]

Hitler was nice to dogs

[Phimmmm]

And these chickens are scaaaaared, they don't know why they're so big!

[littleben11]

DAN, DAN, DAN, DAAAN, DAAAAN, DAN.

DAN.

[desertprincessuk]

Steve Coogan...you're so right. They talk about 'public interest'....its the press/media and their perverted little minds that encourage the public to be 'sick'. when my children were younger they used to ask me 'hey Mammy why dont you buy newspaper?'...to which i replied 'they destroy peoples lives'.....and that was a long time ago and now they have seen the reality of the 'gutter press' and their evil ways.

[ec123456789able]

If I saw Paul McMullen in the street I would trip him up and steal his wallet.

[drzenote]

I bet this jounalist is a bit of a ladykiller!

I mean literally, I bet he kills women.

[ProjectFlashlight612]

Coogan is not only the funniest man in Britain right now, he is also one of the few who isn't completely full of shit...like that sad little criminal and muckraker he rips into here.

[eRidESCo]

bottom line: has he got a second series?

[honestjohntellsit]

@eRidESCo Actual proper lulz

[wixy20071]

@eRidESCo hahaahahaha :) 

[RickDougall]

Go Steve!

[wafi84]

I don't understand this McMullen guy. Why does the fact that Steve Coogan has lots of money (justly earned with his comic genious) mean that it's ok to tap his phone? McMullen is basically jealous of people with real talent and skills and waits around outside their houses like some kind of pervert, wishing he himself had something to offer the world apart from gossip. Very sad.

[stanoolfc]

Scum subhuman scum

[ImahGoer]

@stanoolfc Thanks Alan :D.

[dilmao]

@stanoolfc Well spoken, subhuman scum indeed. Alan would agree!

[HannaJadeBrowne]

Paul Mcmullen, knows he is morally wrong his just saving his pride.

[meanmrmustard007]

AHAAAAAW



[RabbiRizzle]

2011 has been a tough year - but it's the year when the grubby, hypocritical, and totally useless News of the World was put out of business.

[TheFloorFellAway]

Every time I see Greg Dyke I think of Nosy Neighbour.

[mynameisrudi]

the journalist was clearly the scum of the earth

[jesuschristlolomgwtf]

Hitler was nice to dogs! Steve Coogan is on it. Who even read News Of The World anyway?

[wm8032]

@jesuschristlolomgwtf it was only the most read newspaper on sunday in the UK......

[jesuschristlolomgwtf]

@wm8032 Oh. Thanks newspaper boy.

[GaringCat]

3:32 Lol at Allan Partridge reference.

[wafi84]

@GaringCat ha ha... she couldn't help herself

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

Coogan should have chinned this cunt. I've seen McMullcunt a few times in recent months and can't believe how much of a lunatic he is

[fatfacerick]

@z0mgrugbyreturns dude everyone who works at tabloids the world over, they all need it. Fuckin' chin the lot of 'em repeatedly. Or stalk them, totally turn the tables on them.

[DoctorKandosii]

Don't fuck with Coogan.

[RattleheadUK]

To all those slagging off the journalist and applauding Steve and Greg; do you buy tabloid newspapers, Heat magazine and such like?

Simple truth is, if nobody bought this shit, then these practises would stop immediately. I stopped buying newspapers over a decade ago and have never bought or even read a gossip magazine. I ain't no shining beacon of truth, but if the five million sheep who were buying the NOTW prior to its collapse had stopped buying it ten years ago too, none of this would hav

[asamushroomcloud]

Watch McMullan's testimony at the Leveson inquiry today. If your jaw doesn't drop, you are broken.

Then watch this. It becomes about ten times as amazing.

[jaykulls]

Paul McMullen doesn't seem to even be aware that he has been breaking the law. To continue bragging about it even after being spoken to like that is pretty disturbing. Very hard to imagine the Murdoch's not knowing about this.

[cmacca3596]

I was willing for him to go 'ahaaaaaa' all the way through. Good on him though.

[nickthelick]

May all the papers go down the toilet... they're just tools for governments and powerful individuals to swing public opinion and ultimately change laws in their favour. I'm sure they didn't all start out that way and there are of course honourable examples, but unfortunately, most have too much self-importance and self-aggrandisement. Celebrity culture is a festering boil on the arse of society and it needs lancing!

[Asmazif]

haha his attempted comebacks are so terrible and ALL are inaccurate and irrelevant. What a nob.

[nickthelick]

Top man, Alan! I mean, Steve!

[alexjamesdf]

I'd be surprised if there weren't a few punches thrown in the corridor after that !

[alexjamesdf]

Sweet!



[mjwidk]

Go Steve!

[TooMuchGass]

RIP News of the world.

Noone will miss you.

[Waitingforriki]

@TooMuchGass Ha !! Abso-Godamn-lutely !! Great comment !! Peace! Rx

[Unadmiserable]

Coogan is a boss.

[thedigitalemotion]

IT'S ALAN PARTRiDGE PLAYING STEVE COOGAN!

[Freehardy]

a worse place without it? aha!

[TheEdPond]

We love you Steve! lol



[murravia]

This newspaper hack is all too typical of the mentality of the tabloids. I've heard Irish tabloid journalists take about it being fair game to go after anyone (celebrities or just ordinary people in the news). How many times did he say 'titilation'?!! Well done to Coogan and the other guest.

[eraserhead321]

OWNED.

[kimordon]

paul mcmullen isn't exactly doing himself or his industry any favours here....

[Oscar301]

that news cunt is as unrepentant as the bankers and all these right wing fuckheads. When I am king you will be first against the wall

[grengd]

WHY DID'NT COOGAN JUST KNOCK THE WORM OUT. LIVE ON THE BBC.

[sinistergnr]

"I didn't realise you were on a moral crusade, sorry."

[Masychefx2]

what a legend

[Oldschoolmetalnrock]

...and inside these newspapers are TWENTY FOOT HIGH CHICKENS!

[suterman100]

I nearly spat on the computer screen then at the end, those three should have kicked that man to death, stick that in your shitty rag rupert

[suterman100]

Steve Is A legend, those dirty filthy rats at the NOTW can rot in hell.

[curlywelshfreckles]

Bring down the tabloid press!

[curlywelshfreckles]

Coogan is bang on. The NOTW journalists embarrasses himself in the extreme and shows how simplistic his beliefs are. I can't believe he was an editor, he presents his arguments in such an immature and unsophisticated manner. B

[amutimer100]

Go for it Steve!

Nice to see you being yourself and saying it flat with no BS or any pretence of being nice about it.

Well done mate.

[WelshDegenerate]

Coogan is right.

That moron... 'a bit of fun'? what a sad loser. I couldn't give a shi*t what Steve does in his private life.

The only people entertained or consumed with tabloid junk are people who have junk for brains. It's tedious, what a complete ass.

[Samsgarden]

kind of lost respect for Coogan now. Fairly self-righteous.

and no, I don't support Murdoch either.

[Etcher]

Right on to Steve Coogan, legend. To go from On The Hour to The Day Today to ripping that McMullen cretin a new arsehole, it's great.  Britain's best comic in my opinion

[toasterowned666]

GO ON STEVE FUCK HIM IN HIS LITTLE CUNT YOU HERO!

[magwiggle]

what a prize cunt

[MrDarkTides]

Fair play to Steve.

Back of the net

[MrSmoothtrooper]

Steve is a total badass

[Yellowswift3]

Steve, thump the ****.