Via hilarious jokes and sharply-observed comic routines, Micky takes us from the mean streets of the East End to the leafy lanes of East Dulwich, outlining his rise to fame from Billingsgate fish porter to successful entertainer, from Sunblest to panini, tabloids to broadsheets and the street party to the dinner party. Raised in the East End of London, he left school at 15 with no qualifications and followed his dad into work as a fish porter at Billingsgate fish market. The Evening Standard described it as 'Comedy Par Excellence' and The Guardian stated 'he's the country's most popular comic and, by some measure, its most popular entertainer full stop'. Flanagan is a supporter of the Labour Party and was a member of the Labour Party Young Socialists in his youth. but decided not to pursue teaching as a career, later describing the experience as "the unhappiest year of my life .

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Exhibit A: how he deals with the issue that besets any successful comic who bases their act on unpretentious Everyman appeal. He makes it easy: the personality he presents on stage – well-meaning but workshy; shoots his mouth off, but a bit of a softy – is one with which many will readily identify.Yet a career as a professional comedian was not something that he had ever dreamed of when, as a troublesome teen, he left school aged 15 to work in a fish market. But Flanagan is smart, generous spirited, at ease with his own ridiculousness and purveys a democratic brand of humour the vast popularity of which it’s impossible to begrudge.

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Sell-out UK tours and appearances on 'Mock the Week' and 'Would I Lie to You' followed, and he's made two TV series for Sky - 'Detour De France' and 'Micky Flanagan: Thinking Aloud'. No mobile phones, smart watches/accessories, cameras or recording devices will be allowed in the arena at this event.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. As his earlier shows documented, Flanagan is something of a class chameleon, an ex-window cleaner turned university graduate, an Eastender now resident in East Dulwich, as apt to be found dissecting his new-found middle class habits as peddling the traditional values with which he grew up. In this page-turning biography you'll also discover why his mum labelled him a drama queen, and how he tried his hand at various professions - including trainee teacher and painter and decorator - before having the last laugh by becoming one of the country's most popular funny men. was the biggest comedy event of 2017 playing to over 600,000 people across the UK and Ireland, breaking box office records across the UK.

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He was a team captain, alongside Frank Skinner on the BBC One comedy series I Love My Country, which is hosted by Gabby Logan. That sabbatical supplies what passes for the show’s subject, as our host disappears off the professional radar for 12 months. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. In 2009, Flanagan's agent lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority claiming that a television commercial for directory enquiries service 118 118 was using his "out out" catchphrase and skit.So, pour yourself a cup of Rosie Lee, take the weight off your plates and prepare for a right giraffe as you read this engaging tale of 'an East Boy done good'. He jokes frequently about modernity – new men, their grooming and preening; millennials and their earnestness. That’s slightly less the case with his new show An’ Another Fing, which – as its title suggests – lays on the cockney shtick pretty fick. Here, Abi Smith looks at how Micky, who was laughed at by his teachers when he said he wanted to be a vet, has triumphed by conquering all on the comedy circuit. Flanagan became a professional comedian in 1997 [10] after attending a comedy course at Jacksons Lane in 1996.

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In 2012, he starred alongside Mark Watson and host Mark Dolan as a captain on the Channel 4 advertising-based comedy panel programme The Mad Bad Ad Show. Flanagan resumed education at the age of 25, beginning with a GCSE in English [8] and going on to a foundation course in Arts and Social Sciences and a degree at City University, which he began aged 29. Micky Flanagan is one of Britain's best-loved cheeky-chappy comedians, thanks to his stand-up routines about how he's gone from growing up in London's East End in the 1970s to his life now in middle-class suburbia.The skit, performed on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, is based on the idea that people have different levels of going out, with "out out" referring to a big night out.