Alanatomy: The Inside Story

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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. Interview: Alan Carr". This is Nottingham. 8 October 2008 . Retrieved 18 January 2009. [ permanent dead link] 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. [1] [2] His father, whose family comes from the North East of England, [3] is a former Northampton Town manager and Newcastle United chief scout. [4] [5] Carr has a younger brother, Gary. [6] He has written two autobiographies, Look Who It Is! and Alanatomy, and even they are in the distinctive voice he describes as like “a seagull fighting for a chip” but I receive as trilling reverberations of Kenneth Williams in his scratchy Carry On heyday. As a comedian, Carr’s DNA is 60% Williams, with dollops of a softer camp reminiscent of Frankie Howerd, Julian Clary, Larry Grayson and Dale Winton.

Carr has been featured in three Edinburgh shows and in 2007 he toured throughout the UK, which was followed by a DVD entitled Tooth Fairy Live. He has performed at the Apollo Theatre in London, which was televised for the BBC One series Live at the Apollo, and has been featured in the Royal Variety Performance.

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The boy who plays young Alan steals the show however, he seems to be a genuine talent who might well go on to greater things. The rest of the cast, including Alan as his older self, are really just supporting actors. He hams it up a bit, just like the subject, but some scenes are almost tearful as well. So, emotionally, he’s having a rebirth. Creatively, too. He threw himself into work post-divorce and has written a standup tour and a sitcom – “the comedian’s version of a novel” – for ITV called Changing Ends. It’s set in 1984 and based on his childhood in Northampton, where Graham Carr moved his family when he became manager of Northampton Town. My dad found my show incredibly sad. Which is not what you want to hear when you’ve made a sitcom 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.

Noah, Sherna (6 March 2012). "Alan Carr gives up radio show to reclaim his weekends". Independent.ie . Retrieved 17 April 2022.Carr performs stand-up regularly, on tour and on television. He became a regular performer on the Manchester comedy circuit in his 20s, where he met fellow comedians Jason Manford, Justin Moorhouse and John Bishop, and had his own monthly comedy and cabaret show Alan Carr's Ice Cream Sunday at the Manchester Comedy Store. [19] [20] [21]

Alan Carr gets married to long-term boyfriend in LA". BBC News. 20 January 2018 . Retrieved 20 January 2018. The British Comedy Awards - The British Comedy Awards - Winners 2007". www.britishcomedyawards.com . Retrieved 4 May 2022.Fuller, Christian (26 January 2022). "Alan Carr's husband Paul Drayton jailed for drunkenly hitting police car". The Argus. Brighton . Retrieved 26 January 2022. 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). But then you moan, you moan and moan, and it all just got like Speakers' Corner towards the end. Everyone was just moaning. I worked for four years in a call centre, so my days of listening to people moan are well over." 3. His husband proposed in Indonesia. Carr's early TV career included guest appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats in 2005 and The Law of the Playground in 2006. [12] [13] He and Justin Lee Collins co-hosted The Friday Night Project from series two in 2006 until it was cancelled after the end of series eight in February 2009. [14] Carr went on to host two series of Channel 4's game show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong from 2007 to 2009, and the chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which ran for 16 series from 2009-2016, with Christmas Specials in 2016 and 2017. [15] Radio [ edit ]

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.” 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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Since his big break, Alan has spent the last two decades entertaining his legion of fans with sell out comedy tours, best-selling autobiographies, celebrity chat shows and radio performances.