Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I tiimata a Coogan i tana mahi hei kaikawe me te whakaata, i te mahi auau i Ipswich, i mua i tana mahi hei kaitoi reo mo nga panui pouaka whakaata me te whakaaturanga taatai "Spitting Image". I te tau 1989, i puta ia i roto i te raupapa o nga pikitia whakairo i roto i te rauna Tirohanga i roto i te whakaaturanga petipeti ITV "The Krypton Factor". I te tau 1992, i riro i a Coogan te Tohu Perrier
i te Edinburgh Festival Fringe mo tana mahi me tana hoa mahi a John Thomson, a ka wheturangitia e ia me Caroline Aherne i roto i te whakaaturanga whakaari a Granada TV, "The Dead Good Show". Ko ana ahuatanga tino rongonui i whakawhanakehia i tenei wa ko Paul Calf, he Mancunian o te akomanga mahi, me tana tuahine a Pauline, i whakaarihia e Coogan i roto i te kakahu.