I dare say that most Australians would not have heard of Alan Carr. I happened upon him by accident online. I saw a few episodes of his show "Chatty Man" and enjoyed it. Usually I find campness to be rather irritating but Alan is genuinely funny. His autobiography is funny, as you would expect, but also rather honest and sobering in regards to his dealing with his sexuality, growing up. He is often self effacing and not afraid to talk about the terrible attack of anxiety he gets before shows. I had no idea that he lived and worked in Australia. The parts about his travels as a tourist were amusing. All round, an entertaining read. Not as funny as the likes of Peter Kay's and Michael McIntyre's books but just as informative. I loved reading about how hard it is to break into professional stand up comedy and that if you're not sucesful you could be forever condemend to the likes of the comedy club and jongluers. 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. Also treading about the Edingburgh festival was quite interesting and judging by all the stand ups biograpghies that I've read this too is a tough nut to crack and one that can also have a huge finacial burden. It would appear that the circle of profesional standups is quite small judjing by the names that re-appear regularly throughout the likes of this book and Peter Kay's and Michael McIntyre's. Names like Off The Kurb and Agroman - The Human Anogram and it is intersting to read these people's different experiences with these mutual people. Like I said not quite the laugh out loud book that I thought this'd be but a nice quick read not-the-less.
I couldn't put this book down. It had my laughing my head off at certain parts. Enjoyable read
—romilkor
Entertaining from start to finish with laugh out loud moment aplenty.
—Saad
Not as funny as I thought it would be, but love Alan x
—stephimarii
A hilarious book with some laugh out loud one liners!
—Maria
Emotional, funny. What a guy. A true legend !!
—kayla
