It’s strange how some people are trendy for a while and are all over the place. It seems to be that the trendy idiot of the moment is Alan Carr. Given that he’s not very good, his agent must be fantastic. He really does get on my nerves — I’ve yet to identify anything with his act which isn’t just annoying. While Justin Lee Collins moved on to make some light hearted documentary type programmes, Alan seems to have just gone on to do anything he possibly could. And he doesn’t bring anything to any of them. I thought that maybe I’d be safe listening to BBC Radio 2, but no — his irritating voice popped up there too. Lets hope he’ll burn out reasonably quickly, although I guess that would just leave a gap for the next one to come along and be in everything… [read more]