At the Girls Aloud gig in Brighton last night, desperately unfunny toothy limp-wristed "ooh, I'm a poof, isn't that hilarious?" television personality Alan Carr was mobbed. I mean, mobbed so massively, with so much screaming and grabbing and photo-taking, that security had to step in and whisk him away to (presumably) one of the corporate boxes. What is happening to the world?
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Probably more to do with the sort of crowd you get at a Girls Aloud gig, innit?
I saw Alan Carr stroll down Crouch End Broadway a few Saturdays back, and no one batted an eyelid. -
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Isn't there something in the Book of Revelations about the foul whore wearing ten crowns? If that isn't a clear reference to Manchester United's latest Premiership victory, I don't know what is.Comment
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Well, I sit near a Manchester United fan whose decibel-bombarding voice cheerily bangs on about the fuckers all day long. But then that's not the sign of an apocalypse - it's merely the wish that it did happen so the bleeder could shut the fuck up.Comment
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Have to say, I saw Alan Carr a couple of years ago in Dublin - he was pretty much unknown at the time - and he was brilliant; it was a tears-in-the-eyes, stomach-sore-from-laughing experience.
I saw him recently on Friday Night Project and evidently he is now, not to put too fine a point on it, shite.
Has my taste in comedy changed? Has he significantly disimproved? Or is he just a one-trick pony who outstayed his welcome?Comment
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Or is he, as many people have suggested, a good stand up comedian who presents an atrocious TV programme for the money.Comment
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I think that might be true.
For ages I thought SR's description above of 'desperately unfunny toothy limp-wristed "ooh, I'm a poof, isn't that hilarious?" television personality' was pretty much all there was to say about him. He irritated me profoundly every time I saw him or heard him on the radio.
However, I caught a bit of him doing stand up a couple of months ago and he was actually pretty funny - far funnier than I'd have thought possible from what I'd seen on TV anyway.Comment
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Portsmouth win the FA Cup. Last tmie, this presaged a terriible world conflict that lasted seven years and ended only in the nuclear holocaust of two cities.Comment
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There seems to be a mist on the sea around Llandudno on hot days now, this didn't happen before.
This can only mean one thing; real life is mirroring art.
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