Alan Carr, comedian

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Alan Carr, comedian and chat show host, is known for his love of silliness, dressing up and camp daftness. His stand-up shows have filled arenas, and on TV he co-hosted the Friday Night Project and then his own show - Chatty Man. Alan was born into a footballing family – his dad, Graham, was a professional player and then a manager. Alan first tried his hand at comedy while reading Theatre Studies at Middlesex University. After he graduated, he took on a range of jobs before his ability to make friends laugh with his stories of working in a call centre in Manchester led him to try stand-up at a local venue. In 2001 he won the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards. His break into TV came after a spell as the warm-up man for the Jonathan Ross chat show. He has won many awards including Best Entertainment Show for Alan Carr: Chatty Man at the 2010 TV Choice Awards, the 2013 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance and 2013 British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. In 2015 he won the National Television Award for Best Chat Show Host. He and his long term partner Paul were married in January 2018 by Adele - who also organised the wedding, and paid for it. Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Cathy Drysdale

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.0	I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
0:08.5	Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to
0:12.8	take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:16.3	This is an extended version of the original Radio 4 broadcast and for right reasons the
0:21.4	music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:24.3	I hope you enjoy listening.
0:30.0	Music Music
0:42.4	My cast away this week is Alan Carr.
0:45.0	He's one of the country's best loved stand-ups, a TV favourite and his brand of humour is
0:49.7	the 21st century version of a traditional British seaside postcard, sharp, saucy and gloriously
0:55.8	silly.
0:56.8	He's a comedy in the ordinary stuff of life and revels in pop culture.
1:00.9	So it comes as no surprise that he started his comedy career running a cabaret night in
1:05.1	Manchester, though he couldn't have known back then that it would lead to three stadium
1:09.2	tours, two books and long-running TV shows like Chatty Man and the Friday Night Project.
1:15.1	He wasn't supposed to be a stand-up.
1:17.3	Football was the family business, his father and grandfather were both successful players
1:21.6	and his dad managed the football team in Northampton where Alan grew up.
1:25.3	He became obvious quite early that he wasn't cut out for the beautiful game and though
1:28.8	it took a little longer to work out exactly what he was cut out for, he got there in the
1:33.1	end.
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