Alanatomy: The Inside Story

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The British Comedy Awards - The British Comedy Awards - past winners". www.britishcomedyawards.com . Retrieved 4 May 2022. Carr has moved from Sussex, where he and Drayton shared a farm, and is “falling in love with London again”. He’s also “tentatively looking” for a relationship. “But I mean, how do I even meet people?” The most heartfelt and raw parts of this autobiography were the reflections on Alan's childhood - as much as this autobiography was written and narrated with his cheeky tone - and growing up in the shadow of his football manager father. With his father so known, there were always expectations about what his son *should* be, expectations which Alan never fit and was inadvertently punished for. Trying to come to terms with this burden and recognising that his sexuality was not "just a phase", Alan gave a real sense of the imposter syndrome that he experienced in his adolescence and how he gradually moved through that with the freedom of university and travel (via some particularly mundane jobs, who knew that Alan Carr has witnessed so many historically-significant Tesco moment?!?). The British Comedy Awards - The British Comedy Awards - Winners 2007". www.britishcomedyawards.com . Retrieved 4 May 2022. a b "Alan Carr - Who Do You Think You Are? A mysterious change of name..." The Genealogist. Who Do You Think You Are?. 26 September 2011 . Retrieved 2 October 2018.

a b Day, Elizabeth (15 April 2008). "Elizabeth Day meets award-winning comedian Alan Carr". The Observer. London . Retrieved 4 April 2009. Sex he can take or leave, he says. What he is looking for is “probably companionship, which makes me sound so old. I mean, I spend my whole time either alone on stage, or alone sitting on a seat interviewing people one-on-one. So it’s just nice to share, because I have the most amazing experiences.” He doesn’t want to date someone known – “I need somebody who’s like celebrity adjacent, who knows the business and understands the long hours and that I might be away.” Just now, he continues, he was in a bookshop and when the assistant handed him the book he’d bought [The Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson], he noticed the man had painted nails. “And I did not clutch me pearls. I thought, ‘Oooh.’ I mean, I wasn’t vomiting, I was thinking, ‘Wow.’ For me, that’s people being comfortable with their sexuality.” He lifts his eyebrows. “Maybe he doesn’t even identify as gay, what do I know? My friend’s kid had blue nail varnish. I said, is he, you know? And they said, ‘No, he just wants blue nail varnish.’ So, we’re all learning. Every day is a school day.” In January 2018, Carr married his partner of ten years, Paul Drayton, in Los Angeles. [27] The wedding was officiated by his best friend Adele. [28] The couple announced their separation in January 2022 following Drayton's conviction for drink-driving. [29] Carr lives in West Sussex, three miles from Horsham. [30] Controversy [ edit ] His weirdest guest was probably John Cleese, whom he’d been excited to meet, but who spent the interview either pouring drinks over Carr’s head or throwing nuts at him. Exasperated, Carr finally retaliated, pouring his own drink over Cleese. To the viewer, it felt like revenge on the bullies. “Obnoxious,” Carr mutters at mention of his name. Nonetheless, he feels bad about what happened. Why? “Because he’s a comedy legend. But he’s an odd man.”

He twists round to throw this to the audience. “Do you think about death?” There is a chorus of yesses. He hasn’t worked out whether he’d do a burial or a cremation yet. Then he perks up. “What about the Viking one, where they set you on fire and push you out into the lake? Yeah, that might be quite nice.” What music would he have? “Hopefully, Adele would sing me off. Someone Like You as I disappear down the River Nene in Northampton.” He shares his school days with a distinctive comic loathing, doesn’t try to hide the fact at all that he was lazy at university even by student standards and the following 9-5 jobs that almost (literally in some cases) drove him insane. Not to mention those eccentric house mates along the way.

Getting older does mean thinking about death. Last month, he went to the funeral of his friend the comedian Paul O’Grady, who died aged 67. He was unnerved – by the service, by the burial, by the process of watching the coffin lowered into the ground. At the wake, he could not stop thinking: “But he’s there, he’s still in the ground. So very weird,” he says, adding, “I’m always thinking of death. Not like suicide, but what happens when you’re going to the other side?” Alan Carr's Adventures With Agatha Christie - Channel 4 commissions new three-part series from Boom for More 4". channel4.com/press. 6 May 2022. Alan has won two British Comedy Awards, two National Television Awards and a BAFTA TV Award. His comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which aired on Channel 4 between 2009 and 2016 was a huge hit, and in 2019 he become a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. He has also appeared on the panel for The Masked Singer UK, and presents Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr on BBC2. He also regularly presents shows on BBC Radio 2. But what else is there to learn about the much-loved comedian and presenter? Here are a few things you might not know. 1.His distinctive toothy look is due to a childhood accident.

Alan Carr gets married to long-term boyfriend in LA". BBC News. 20 January 2018 . Retrieved 20 January 2018. Awards, National Television. "Winners | National Television Awards". www.nationaltvawards.com . Retrieved 4 May 2022. When Alan was young he fell and banged his chin on a family holiday. He told the Daily Mail: "I was climbing on a caravan towbar on holiday when I was six. Then slip... bang! My earliest memory is of my mum scooping me up as the blood flowed and my milk teeth fell out. I also felt like he was constantly shitting on what he deemed to be jobs that were beneath him. Again and again he talked about dead-end jobs and about how shit jobs in offices, shops and factories are. I understand that not everyone wants to work in places like that but some people do, and not all jobs in those environments are dead-end jobs. I know a lot of people who have worked in a supermarket their whole working lives and are still loving it. I know people who have climbed from a Business Admin apprentice to a manager for two departments in the office. Talking down jobs like that is so hurtful, it totally demeans all the people who love those jobs.

Carr with actor Oliver Savell, who plays the comedian as a boy in the sitcom Changing Ends. Photograph: Matt Frost/ITV I was really surprised to find I really enjoyed this book. He's become a bit of a camp icon, but doesn't bang on about being gay in this book, in fact reading about his own revealation that he was gay was very touching and amusing. Unlike most Comedians, it wasn't a 'woe is me', 'tears of a clown' type biography. He's very upbeat about everything, even the most bazaar situations have resulted in fabulous material. He charts his 'rise' in the world of comedy with hilarious anecdotes about his private life and career that make no attempt to hide his anxiety and fear and have you appreciating how cut throat it is to succeed as a comic. He works hard, faces rejection and takes financial gambles. Alan Carr is such a natural story teller, he comes across as a genuinely nice guy and you're soon cheering him on to succeed, even though you already know what happens at the end. At the moment, my baby daughter shares our bedroom and bedtime is the only time I get to read....I found it quite impossible at times NOT to laugh out loud for risk of waking her! I also found myself snorting and sniggering at the book whilst in the dentist's waiting room and people looking at me oddly probably wondering what I was laughing at.I love Alan Carr, put him on the tele and you are bound to be in stitches, his voice, facial expressions, I could listen to him all day. So when I saw this book years ago I bought it and it has stayed on my TBRM for years. I finally got round to it. I read it all in his voice which just adds to the humour. He was academically bright, loved reading (although he likes to play this down, saying on Desert Island Discs that his book of choice would be the Argos catalogue). He went from school to drama and theatre studies at Middlesex University. From there, he floated through a series of temporary jobs – the factories, Tesco, the call centre – that furnished him with rich material for his standup. Which, incidentally, is a distinctly unglamorous profession when you’re starting out. It’s scrabbling around the country’s darkest corners being jeered at and humiliated. In those days, he might be paid no more than a tenner for a routine. It barely covered accommodation or the train home. Of course there is an underlying theme of Alan fighting against, or maybe just shrugging off, prejudice, but mostly it is quite subtle, the script seems to assume intelligent viewers already understand what is going on, rather than having to spell it out to them as so many other series do these days. Graham Carr: Ex-Newcastle chief scout takes director role at Northampton Town' ". bbc.co.uk/sport. 22 August 2017.

What about Graham? “My dad found it incredibly sad. Which is not what you want to hear when you’ve made a sitcom.” Whereas I used to maybe slag off someone from X Factor, I think we’ve realised now who the enemy is He is obviously somebody that grew up in a football mad family and this is emphasised not only by who his father is but also how he has named the chapter headings. With some chapters I have failed to see how they correspond to the chapter content. There have been many series set in an 80s childhood, and as I am the same age as Alan Carr I do enjoy this sort of thing. But this is funnier than Young Sheldon, perhaps less poignant but not without such moments. The tension is in watching a child with Carr’s flamboyance unknowingly navigate the rampant homophobia of the 80s while his mother, Christine, fiercely beats away sneering neighbours. In one scene, Graham and Alan are sitting in their bronze Audi Quattro on the drive. “I don’t think you know what normal is, Alan,” his dad says. Modern-day Alan crashes in with a voiceover: “Hey, snowflakes! This was therapy, 80s style.”His former Friday Night Project co-host, Justin Lee Collins, did, of course. When that dark side became public in a 2012 court case, Carr says he was torn. “I don’t know what people do in their private life and I don’t want to throw him under the bus.” I thought that this could be due to the fact that he comes across as a bit whiny-moany especially when talking about his time at BarclayCard and then when he was struggling in the comedy circuits. Although this insight that he does give into life in the comedy circuit is very interesting. I wouldn’t have said that this book made me laugh-out-loud but it did make me smile in places and cringe (accident with his teeth and ripping his toe-nails out) here and there. The brilliantly funny and inimitable Alan Carr tells his life story in his own words, from growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton to his rise to become one of Britain's best-loved comedians. What I loved the most was seeing the extremes of Alan – from extremely nervous to travelling the world for a year. Seeing him see himself just as he had done before, even when success hit And even when things didn’t go so well – he still writes with such humour and wit about it. The ridiculous thing is, you say to people, ‘Oh, I’m writing a sitcom based on my life, where my dad’s like a northern, tough-talking football manager and his son’s camp as a row of tents’ and they say, ‘Oh, that writes itself.’” He narrows his eyes. “It does not write itself. You have to put in a lot of effort.”