The only reason I watched Anchorman is 'cause it seemed a bit like a US Alan Partridge, and I've been an uber Partridge fan for the past 10 years.
Alan Partridge is a fictional TV presenter/radio host. I'm sure he must have been part of the inspiration for David Brent/Michael Scott 'cause he's got that same kind of ignorance about how much he's offending people. Started out as a bit part in someone else's sitcom, then got his own (fictional) chat show, which ended when he accidentally shot a man through the heart. Since then his career has been plummeting. He went back to being a DJ and worked for Radio Norwich (an entire county in the UK) doing the breakfast show, then he got demoted to the graveyard shift when absolutely nobody listens, and most recently went down even further to work for North Norfolk, a bottom-of-the-barrel digital radio station broadcasting to half of one UK city. The humour is mostly him not understanding how annoying and offensive he is while thinking he's an upstanding citizen the entire time, and being in denial about just how increasingly terrible his life is getting. This takes place over four short TV series and a radio show... and now a movie.
I saw "Parker". Awesome movie. Yesterday I saw some of "The Presence" before I decide to turn it off because it was so stupid