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Female
37 years old
United Kingdom
Last Login: 9/11/2009
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liz's Comedian Bio
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| Bio | I'm a wheelchair using comedian, actor, podcaster and writer. I was a founder of the notorious disabled womens comedy group, Nasty Girls and for 3 years co-devised, wrote and performed with them. I studied performing arts on the Graeae Theatre Company / London Met Uni Missing Piece 3 course. Subsequently, I played Mother Courage and Madame de Twitville in George Dandin for Graeae as well as performing in The Exception and The Rule with the Young Vic Theatre Company. I returned to actinig during 2006, performing in 'Fluff' at Jackson's Lane and in the Wild Lunch collaboration between paines Plough, graeae and the young vic. My stand-up debut was in June 2005 with the show Abnormally Funny People (www.abnormallyfunnypeople.com) which then ran for a full run at Edinburgh Fringe 2005. A stand up show for 5 crips and one normal guy, for my first stand up experience I was working with Steve Day, Steve Best, Chris McCausland, Tanyalee Davis, Simon Minty and Huw Thomas! Bitten by the comedy bug, i now gig around the country and have performed over 150 gigs to date. In 2006 I completed the Jill Edwards stand up comedy course (bloody good!) which culminated in headlining a new act night to a sell out audience at Komedia, Brighton. Other highlights so far include compering the Liberty Disability Rights Festival 2005 in Trafalgar Square, performing at the Comedy Store, London in the final of the Funny Women competition 2006 and getting my first paid gig for Downstairs at the Kings Head. I produced, co-wrote and performed the show Bravetarts at Edinburgh Fringe 2006 with comedian Tanyalee Davis - an unforgettable experience! I hope to return to Edinburgh to do a Free Fringe show this August and am currently writing a one woman sow to premier at the Outside Centre Festival November 2007. I write a comedy column for the BBC crip website Ouch!, I host the irreverently funny Ouch! podcast available at www.bbc.co.uk/ouch with Mat Fraser and now and again can be heard on You and Yours, Radio 4. | | Website | lizcarr.co.uk | | TV Shows | Abnormally Funny People (SKY 2005) was originally on SKY December 2003 but is now on the Community Channel about once a week at some late night hour.
Was on the Newsnight Edinburgh Review in 2005 discussing 'taboos' in comedy and considering the question 'what can / can't you laugh at?'
As well as doing the BBC crip podcast, I've done bits and pieces of radio including You and Yours discussing how un-pc the podcast is, moaning about the paralympians making the rest of us look lazy and comparing residential care homes to being on Big Brother. |
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liz's Interests
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| General | comedy, travel, friends, films, crafts (yes, everything from card making and cross stitch to scrapbooking, stationery (particularly Paperchase), good food (recently went to the Fat Duck), adventures, crip stuff and probably more things but that'll have to do for now. | | Music | Music is really important to me - it reminds me of people, places and times in my life. Love making mix cd's for mates and love receiving them. I still listen to radio 1 but increasingly moving over to Virgin radio thesedays. Currently listening to Snow Patrol, The Kooks and Katie Tunstall. | | Movies | I'm such a fag hag. I love Dirty Dancing, The Sound of Music, Beauty and the Beast, Pretty in Pink, Mary Poppins, The Wizard of Oz, Doris Day films, James Stewart films... also, the Godfather trilogy, The Doctor, Delicatessen, wild at heart, The Idiots, horror films - especially slasher pics. I'm not a buff but i did subscribe to the evil SKY just so I could watch this years Oscars. | | Television | reality tv in all it's awful forms - love the apprentice, there's an american show called 'the amazing race', x factor etc. ER, Columbo, French & Saunders, West Wing, whatever disability shit in on tv, medical dramas and freak tv stuff. | | Books | About as crap as my tv selection - I like James Patterson, Patricia Cornwall and all kinds of murder / thrillers. i loved ya ya sisterhood, the wave, the little prince, wind in the willows, the world according to garp, geek love, the yes man, staying on and yes, i've read and enjoyed the da vinci code. | | Heroes | my friend and soulmate who died in 1999 - Sue Croshaw.
comedy heros are my friends who get up there and do some amazing stand up that's inspired and encouraged me to do the same. i'm also a bit partial to Bill Hicks and increasingly George Carlin. i like people who aren't afraid to tell it like it is, to tell the truth, to cut through the crap and who are the ones to reveal the truth about the emperors new clothes. |
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Bravetarts - Comedy Show, Comedians UK, Gimp Humor, Comedians of MySpace, iMac Hunt Presents Amateur Pro-Celebrity Karaoke, Funny Podcasts (Podcasters Promoting Podcasters)
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liz's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Orientation: | Bi | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | I don't want kids |
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About me:
I'm Liz, a common or garden cripple with funny bones. I live in London now and I love it. Happier than I've been in years. I think. Is that tempting fate when I don't even believe in fate?
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Who I'd like to meet:
peter faulk - I recently stalked him by spending an hour, sitting in my car outside his house, waiting for him to come out and walk his dogs. The 'stars homes' guide said he does that every evening. He didn't that night. Sadly.
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