“Write this down!” says Steve Coogan: he is only half joking. “I’m comfortable being a bit uncomfortable and I’m not comfortable being a bit too comfortable.” The line could be straight out of Alan Partridge, the tragicomic persona around whom Coogan has built a 30-year career. In this instance, however, the English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer is talking about himself. Specifically, why he has not only taken on his first major West End role, but four of them. At…

