Carr hosted the radio show Going Out with Alan Carr on BBC Radio 2 (2009–2012), as well as releasing his autobiography book Look Who It Is! (2008), and going on three arena stand-up comedy tours: Tooth Fairy Live (2007), Spexy Beast Live (2011) and Yap, Yap, Yap! (2015). Carr has won three British Comedy Awards (2007, 2008, 2013), two National Television Awards (2012, 2015) and a BAFTA TV Award (2013).

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Alan Carr's autobiography. I have only just recently become a fan of Alan Carr (unfortunately I never delved into the delights of 'Friday Night Project') - nevertheless, I find him extremely funny and was expecting the book to be a 'laugh-a-minute' book. It wasn't but that didn't really spoil things as the whole book was still enjoyable to read. Carr made his radio presenting debut on Christmas Day 2007 for BBC Radio 2 as part of their Festive Highlights with the show Alan Carr's Christmas Box. [16] He filled in on BBC Radio 6 Music on 16 February and 14 June 2008 for Adam and Joe and co-presented The Russell Brand Show on 4 October 2008. He also presented Alan Carr's Comedy Outings for BBC Radio 2 in 2008. 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.” Carr with actor Oliver Savell, who plays the comedian as a boy in the sitcom Changing Ends. Photograph: Matt Frost/ITV Allen John Carr [1] (2 September 1934 – 29 November 2006) was a British author of books about stopping smoking and other psychological dependencies including alcohol addiction.He has appeared and performed at many festivals, including the Reading and Leeds Festivals, Latitude Festival in Suffolk and Kilkenny Comedy Festival in Ireland. He has performed stand-up internationally, including an appearance at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal. [24] 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.”

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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.” 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?”While reading this book I particularly enjoyed the parts where he talks about his childhood, his pushy father, his school days, life at University, temp work and then when he goes travelling. However, I found the later chapters after this much less enjoyable. The British Comedy Awards - The British Comedy Awards - Winners 2013". www.britishcomedyawards.com . Retrieved 4 May 2022. I tell Carr I love Rihanna, but on his show she seemed a little, ahem, dazed. “Yes. You’d go into her dressing room and there’d be a shower cap over the smoke alarm,” he says. He didn’t mind because “she just laughed at any old thing I would say. She’s just smiling. She’d had her first hit but there was no massive list of things you couldn’t talk about. She was just really fun and lovely.” Noah, Sherna (6 March 2012). "Alan Carr gives up radio show to reclaim his weekends". Independent.ie . Retrieved 17 April 2022. I'm of the opinion now, after reading this and also the autobiography of Scottish national treasure Kevin Bridges, that perhaps books by comedians are best absorbed as audio books. Timing is everything, after all, and with both of these comedians, it's their voice, personality, and sarcasm I love most of all; difficult to convey through the printed word.

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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.

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If you loved Alan's first memoir - Look Who It Is! - then his follow-up, Alanatomy, will take you further into the hilarious and bizarre world of the country's favourite chatty man.*** Michael McIntyre's The Wheel, Series 1, Christmas Special". bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 19 December 2020. Carr is gay, but does not consider his sexuality to be a focal part of his act; in 2008, he said: "I just think gay people need to get over themselves. Just because you're gay and on the telly doesn't mean you're a role model. I'm just a comedian. That's all I am. What am I meant to do? Do I go down the Julian Clary route and talk about fisting and poppers? I don't talk about being gay and I think what better equality for gays than that?" [6] According to Carr, he has been comfortable with his sexuality from a very young age. When Eddie Izzard was a guest on Chatty Man and asked Carr when he came out of the closet, he replied that he was "never really in" and other children were already making fun of his camp behaviour when he was eight or nine years old. [26] In his very first book, Alan tells his life story, (‘oh and what a life’) with his unique twist of natural, observational humour – After completing his degree in his early 20s, Carr moved to Manchester, aspiring to be a comedian. He lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy after which he moved to Stretford, which he cites as an inspiration for his comedic work. [9] Carr worked in a call centre for five years and performed on the comedy circuit in his spare time, before moving into comedy as a full-time career. [10] [11] Career [ edit ] Television and film [ edit ]

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Allen Carr's Easyway is clinically proven through two randomised controlled trials. In 2020 a UK randomised clinical trial found Allen Carr's Easyway as good as, if not better than, the Gold Standard NHS Programme which uses NRT & 1-1 psychological support [5] and in 2018 an Irish trial found that Allen Carr's Easyway was almost twice as effective as other smoking cessation methods available on Health Service. [6] Alan was born on 14 June 1976. He took birth in Weymouth, United Kingdom. His full name is Alan Graham Carr as known as Alan Carr. He completed his high school study at Quinton House School in Northampton. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Drama and Theatre Studies from Middlesex University. Alan Carr Age, Biography Carr also wrote a number of other how-to books on subjects such as losing weight, stopping alcohol consumption, and overcoming the fear of flying. Along with his close friends, protégés, & co-authors Robin Hayley (chairman, Allen Carr's Easyway) & John C. Dicey (Global CEO & Senior Allen Carr's Easyway Therapist), he wrote books dealing with gambling, debt/junk-spending, sugar addiction, emotional eating, mindfulness, tech/smartphone addiction, caffeine addiction, vaping/JUUL with Online Video Programmes handling smoking, vaping/JUUL, alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, sugar & carb addiction, emotional eating, gambling, caffeine addiction, fear of flying, and mindfulness. In 2020, it was estimated that Allen Carr's Easyway method had helped more than 50 million people worldwide. [9] [10] Alan Carr to Host this Year's Royal Variety Performance 2021". itv.com/presscentre . Retrieved 2 November 2021. I read this book because somebody that I know recommended it to me last year. I’ve just managed to get round to reading it, and overall I would say that it has left a mixed impression behind.With any other story, I'd be irritated by the author going off on a tangent. Alan does this here, but it's so endearing and true to life that I loved it. He'd be in full flow one minute, before veering off to talk about something else that reminded him of that situation. It was like hearing a story from a friend, and I embraced it. His memories are incredibly personal, and I was pleased to share these with him, much preferring his stories from childhood and his hilarious call centre tales to reading about the ins and outs of the comedy circuit. I must admit, however, he didn't go into heavy detail about what happens behind the scenes; I've read comedy autobiographies before which have totally over-cranked this.