Entertainment 29-11-2002 who: Steve Coogan what: Has made Norfolk a laughing stock, say councillors where: NORWICH when: Yesterday snippet: Coogan`s comic creation Alan Partridge is facing censure by Norfolk county council for portraying the county and its main city as "a backwater populated by yokels". Labour councillor Charles Joyce tells The Telegraph he cannot understand why the mere mention of the names of Norfolk villages - such as Spixworth and Acle - produces gales of laughter from the studio audience, and suggests that the comedian should be invited to visit Norfolk to see some of its achievements, "such as the Nar-Ouse Regeneration Area". [... more]

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