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Since winning the BBC New Comedy Award for Stand-up as well as CityLife Best Newcomer of the Year in 2001, Alan Carr has become one of the hottest comedy stars in Britain. The success of the first series of his own chat show, Alan Carr: Chatty Man, in the summer of 2009, led to Channel 4 commissioning a further three series’ as well as a 2009 Christmas Special. Alan has a regular slot on BBC Radio 2 every Saturday night presenting Going Out with Alan Carr alongside the lovely Melanie Sykes. He is the Celebrity Reporter for more! magazine and has interviewed Michael McIntyre, Gok Wan and Radio 1 DJ Greg James, to name a few.
Alan’s three-year working partnership with his Sunday Night Project co-host, Justin Lee Collins, came to an amicable end in 2009 with both Alan and Justin off to pursue solo projects. “It was an amazing show,” said Alan, “but there comes a time in a man’s life when you have to step away from the leotard and stilettos and move on.”
Elsewhere on the telly, Alan’s inimitable Channel 4 quiz show, Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong first aired in 2008 and on Red Nose Day 2009 Alan co-presented Comic Relief on BBC One as well as joining the Men’s Team for Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, alongside Jonathan Ross, Gerald Ratner, Gok Wan and Jack Dee. His team lost and Alan was fired (or as Alan Sugar put it “I’m doing you a favour”).
The DVD of Alan's 2007 stand-up show, Tooth Fairy Live topped the HMV charts and was a Christmas 2007 best-seller. His autobiography Look Who It Is was published in September 2008 by HarperCollins.
Son of one-time Northampton Town FC player and later manager, Alan Carr sportingly took on the Arsenal ladies team in 2008 in aid of Comic Relief. He sports some great moves.
Watch Alan vs Arsenal Ladies.
Alan’s been described as “the spiritual son of Frankie Howerd” (City Life). His formative years were spent working in a supermarket as well as a call centre for lost and stolen credit cards.
In 2002, his Edinburgh Festival show ‘Me 'Ead's Spinnin’ earned a four star review in Edinburgh bible, The List as well as the The Daily Telegraph's Critic's Choice. There were no surprises then, in 2003, when ‘I Love Alan Carr’ was rated a four star show in both the The Scotsman and The Independent, but it was at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005 that things really started to happen for our Alan. He earned five star reviews across the board in The Independent, The Scotsman and Three Weeks as well as numerous 'Pick Of The Fringe' accolades. It was here that Alan came to the attention of the Channel 4 bigwigs.
Alan has gone from strength to strength appearing at comedy festivals all over the world, Melbourne, Montreal's 'Just For Laughs' and Kilkenny as well as touring the length and breadth of Great Britain with his ‘Tooth Fairy’ tour culminating in a three night sell-out run at the Hammersmith Apollo. Alan doesn’t just perform for commoners, he has performed for her Majesty The Queen at the Royal Variety Performance too.
Sharp, sassy material with pitch perfect comic timing The List
Joyous stuff that most of us can relate to without it sounding clichéd, and it is delivered effortlessly by a comedian who owns the space he is working in so much, he could put up a flag ***** The Independent
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TV & RADIO
- Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Channel 4
- Going Out With Alan Carr, BBC Radio 2
- Host of Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong, Channel 4
- Co-host of the The Sunday Night Project (previously The Friday Night Project), Channel 4
- Live From The Apollo, BBC 1
- Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, BBC 1
- The Graham Norton Show, BBC
- Regular guest on The Paul O'Grady Show , Channel 4
- Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Take Away, ITV 1
- Top Gear, BBC 2
- 8 Out of 10 Cats, Channel 4
- TV Heaven Telly Hell, Channel 4
Awards:
- 2009 Television and Radio Industries Club 'Personality of the Year' Award
- 2009 Royal Television Society Entertainment Performance of the Year
- 2009 Heat Magazine’s Funniest Book of 2009 for Look Who It Is!
- 2008 Winner of Best Comedy Entertainment Personality at the British Comedy Awards
- 2008 Winner of Variety Club Best TV Presenter Award
- 2008 BAFTA Nomination for Best Entertainment Programme 'Friday Night Project'
- 2008 British Academy Television Awards – nominated for best Entertainment Performance for The Friday Night Project with Justin Lee Collins
- 2007 British Comedy Award for Best Live Stand Up
- 2007 Cosmopolitan Celebrity Men Of The Year (with Justin Lee Collins)
- 2007 LAFTA's Funniest Double Act (with Justin Lee Collins)
- 2006 Best In Show, Sheffield Comedy Festival
- 2006 The Golden Rose of Montreaux for Best Entertainment Show for The Friday Night Project
- 2006 LAFTA's Funniest Double Act (with Justin Lee Collins)
- 2006 LAFTA's Funniest Entertainment Show for The Friday Night Project
- 2005 Best Circuit Comic in the North West
- 2001 The BBC Best New Stand Up
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