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“What a year I had. I got married . I got divorced. I spent lockdown on a farm. My dog died. So, it’s autobiographical,” Carr said about the material in his show. “There’s just something about being that miserable that you just kind of create the best comedy. And it’s like that old saying, ‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.’ I feel it is the most authentic show I’ve done and the funniest. It’s weird, I should really be just sobbing on stage.
“It’s all based on truth,” said Carr about the TV show. “I was obsessed with Murder She Wrote, and I read Agatha Christie, and the ice cream van did come. And I was so desperate for ice cream, I couldn’t find my shoes, so I put on my mom’s white high-heeled boots and ran up the street chasing after the ice cream van. These kinds of things just seem to have happened to me as a child. So, it was just flowing off the page.
Notable entries include The Friday Night Project, Chatty Man, Eight Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K., Interior Design Masters and numerous radio shows. He has also written two autobiographies, Look Who It Is! and Alanatomy. “They went to come over on the boat in 1912, well you can imagine where this is going, the boat they put themselves on was the Titanic, but they had so many kids they were turned away and they were told to get the next one,” said Carr. “I found that out on the DNA show.”