Frank Skinner

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2010

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian Frank Skinner.

As a football-obsessed comic whose stand-up routines were peppered with details of his personal life, he became the poster-boy for the 'Loaded' generation. Beneath the surface, though, he seems to be full of contradictions. He was expelled from school when he was a teenager - but went on to gain a masters degree; he has long been obsessed with Elvis Presley - but now says he feels a tingle when he goes to the opera. Although he had long enjoyed entertaining his friends, he was 30 before he realised where his future lay. "I was an unemployed drunk going nowhere," he says, "And then comedy turned up. Comedy saved my life"

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1:18.1	My castaway this week is Frank Skinner, comedian, writer, TV host, and it would seem walking contradiction.
1:23.4	He was expelled from school as a teenager, yet he went on to get a master's degree in English.
1:31.6	A staunch Catholic, he's unmarried and childless, sharing with audiences the most intimate details of his many sexual adventures.
1:37.1	An opera buff, he once paid 11 grand at auction for a shirt worn by Elvis Presley.
1:41.0	He was 30 when he realised where his future lay.
1:45.9	I was an unemployed drunk going nowhere, he says. And then comedy turned up.
1:47.7	Comedy saved my life.
1:52.7	It began saving your life on December 9, 1987 then.
1:53.3	How did that go?
1:54.2	That was the first gig.
1:57.1	I must say I sound absolutely fascinating from that.
1:58.3	I'm looking forward to this.
1:58.5	Good.
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