Look Who It Is!: My Story

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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! He 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. First, the hypnotherapist told him smoking was "just nicotine addiction", which Carr had never perceived before that moment, i.

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On the other hand, I found it really interesting reading about all the jobs he's had and the travelling he did and how he got to where he is now. The series is described as "a love letter to a time and a town where things weren't always so inclusive".The problem is that the public “like to place their celebrities – ‘Oh, you’re like that’; ‘They’re like that’. This is Carr’s second autobiography and it starts off where the first one ended, namely his big break into TV. There are darker shades to some of his tales; his battles with his own lack of self confidence, trying to help with his then-partners alcohol dependency and then having to act as a carer after said partner suffered a rather unpleasant mishap, all while working hard on his rapidly burgeoning career.

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The author laments his schooldays, when he was chosen last for the football squad after the other students discovered his lack of talent, and when his father forced him to decline to connect with a classmate because he was supposedly “gaying him up. The idea is that I won’t hear it, but the panto broadcast/whisper only exaggerates the effect, like a page censored with black marker. 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. 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. 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.It was also interesting to read just how uptight a lot of comedians actually are behind the scenes, especially the ones who still haven't made it onto the professional circuit.

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Alan Graham Carr was born in Northampton as the oldest son of Christine and Graham Carr, and spent the majority of his youth there. Even if you don't like Alan Carr, it's likely you will like this very funny, on point sitcom with the stand up comedian taking us through semi-autobiographical moments in his life.Alan Carr is perhaps, on the surface one, of the most irreverent comedians out there; his interview technique seems to be mostly about comradery and not asking questions of state. Whereas most guests arrived in a tracksuit, smoking a fag, Lady Gaga arrived in “a tapeworm dress with antennae” before changing into rubber.

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Carr is happy to tell a little bit about what happens behind the scenes and divulges who is nice and who is not.The book laments on his schooldays - he was picked last for the football team when the other students found out his lack of talent and his father forcing him to refuse to communicate with a friend because he was apparently "gaying him up". The series will star Shaun Dooley as Graham Carr and Nancy Sullivan as Alan Carr's mother Christine.