For his first five years, he was looking at the sea, eating ice-cream, going on donkey rides, playing at the arcade. The autobiography is not a laugh a minute, though it does contain a good smattering of amusing chat-show-type anecdotes. Still, whenever you think it might start to dip into schmaltz, it swerves it, preferring a light, self-deprecating touch instead.

I know a lot of people who have worked in a supermarket their whole working lives and are still loving it. The following month, Carr revealed that his lung cancer was terminal and that his life expectancy was about nine months.Told with warmth and wit, it follows Alan’s journey through puberty, adolescence, and finally self-discovery, all against the backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain. The Carr family’s rivalry with their uptight neighbours is great and that aspect has the feel of a classic British sitcom to it. 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. That said, there’s one particular skit that haunts him: his 2008 impersonation of Amy Winehouse at Amnesty’s Secret Policeman’s Ball. Just the story of how a succession of spirit-sapping jobs made a career in showbusiness look so appealing.

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. Based on their full money-back guarantee (which requires two follow-up sessions without reimbursement of travel), Carr's clinics claim 90% success rate in aiding smokers to stop for three months, and 51% [7] success rate in helping smokers stop for 12 months based on an independent study not connected with any health organisation. Yes, you are going to find guts, a fair bit of cheek, maybe even a little bit of gristle, but hopefully, you'll find a whole lot of heart. And then he got into trouble because – disparaging voice – “People say, ‘Oh you’re not friends any more.Instead, it is essentially a brisk, chatty account of his life up to the point where he was offered the position on the Friday Night Project job, and is as often abut his social circle and flatmates as it is about his disdain for his dead-end jobs. Alan Graham Carr was born on 14 June 1976 in Weymouth, Dorset, elder son of Christine and Graham Carr, and spent the majority of his childhood in Northampton. I don't watch much in the way of light entertainment television, but have enjoyed interviews with Alan Carr in the past, so bought this when it came up as a daily deal on Audible.

When I saw this, I rolled my eyes, then thought of his stand up and radio show (which I enjoy) and thought "at the very least it's got to fill 30 mins better than bloody Heat magazine".

I don't think it's funny to shit on people with learning difficulties, or go on and on and on (for three pages, for example), about how they're 'simple', hindering your progress, bringing you down, and stopping you from integrating with other people. Welcome to The Personality Test, the panel show in which a brand new host takes the chair for every episode to present a quiz entirely themed around themselves. As he relives his early life and brings his readers them back with him to explore his journey to becoming a comedian he really doesn't lose sight of the comedy, finding the 'funny' in all situations.

Carr's voice certainly came through in the text and it was easy to imagine the comedian was actually saying those words as you read them.stars I think, as it was still amusing and entertaining in parts, but could have been saved by a better edit and perhaps planning. Co-written by the BAFTA award winning Alan and the Scottish BAFTA and RTS award winning Simon Carlyle (Two Doors Down), Changing Ends is based on Alan’s own life in Northampton in the 1980’s growing up as the son of a fourth division football manager. Carr himself appears as a sort of ghost of Christmas yet to come, albeit a more cheerful one, dropping in to scenes to narrate for a while, or crack jokes about the star he would become. Carr has always maintained that some of the nastiest people in television are our national treasures; that it’s a problem that the British public so revere their celebrities they want them to be nice, forgetting that television is pure fantasy. Described as "a love letter to a time and a town where things weren’t always so inclusive" it recreates Carr's journey through adolescence and his experience as a gay teenager in the East Midlands against the backdrop of Thatcher's Britain.