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2001

Fresh faced and slim, I decide to embark on a career as a
stand-up comedian.

I win BBC New Stand Up of The Year!

2002

My 2002 stand up show, 'Me 'Ead's Spinnin' is previewed
at the Edinburgh Festival

2003

I'm back in Edinburgh for the second year running with 'I Love Alan Carr'
This is the flyer!

2004

I get a job as the warm up guy for Jonathan Ross's chat show.
Little did I know that one day he'd be gracing my sofa on Chatty Man!

2005

I jet off to Canada for the Montreal 'Just For Laughs' Festival

I perform for her majesty at the Royal Variety Performance

I win Best Circuit Comic in the North West

2006

The Friday Night Project starts with Billie Piper as our first guest host

I win some awards...
Best In Show - Sheffield Comedy Festival
The Golden Rose of Montreaux for Best Entertainment Show
for The Friday Night Project
LAFTA's Funniest Double Act (with Justin Lee Collins)
LAFTA's Funniest Entertainment Show for The Friday Night Project

2007

I complete my 'Tooth Fairy' tour with three sold out nights at the
legendary Hammersmith Apollo.
My live DVD, ‘Tooth Fairy’ is released

I win ...
'Best Live Act' at the National Comedy Awards
British Comedy Award for Best Live Stand Up
Cosmopolitan Celebrity Men Of The Year (with Justin Lee Collins)
LAFTA's Funniest Double Act (with Justin Lee Collins)

2008

Me and Justin Lee Collins – our first BAFTA nomination for
Best Entertainment Programme 'Friday Night Project'

My autobiography ‘Look Who it Is’ is released

I'm awarded Best TV Presenter at the Variety Club and Best
Comedy Entertainment Personality at the British Comedy Awards

2009

Alan Carr: Chatty Man hits the small screens on Channel 4 - my very own chat show!

On Saturday nights you can hear me on BBC Radio 2 with a new show,
Going Out with Alan Carr, with Emma Forbes

Three fabulous awards come my way
The Television and Radio Industries Club Personality of the Year
The Royal Television Society Entertainment Performance of the Year
and Heat Magazine’s Funniest Book of 2009 for Look Who It Is!

2010

Chatty Man wins Best Entertainment Show at the TV Choice Awards
voted for by the show's fans!

Chatty Man continues on Channel 4 – I interview Cheryl Cole, dance with
Justin Bieber and wrestle with Mickey Rourke!

There's more laughs on Going Out with Alan Carr on Radio 2 and I'm
joined by Melanie Sykes

I start doing warm up shows up for my big 2011 tour, Spexy Beast

2011

Spexy Beast hits the road – my first arena tour and there's a DVD
launch in November!

Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga and Adele are just some of my guests on
the Chatty Man sofa

There's more Telly Quizzes and Carr-e-oke on Going Out With Alan Carr on Radio 2

I finish the year in style with my New Year’s Specstacular on Channel 4!

2012

Chatty Man is back for series' 8 and 9

Another awards hat trick!
Best Talk Show at the National Television Awards for Alan Carr: Chatty Man,
Loaded LAFTA Award for Best Stand Up
Television and Radio Industries Club for Best TV Personality

After 3 years, I decide to hang up my headphones on my Radio 2 show.
I've loved every minute of it...

Alan Carr's Big Funny Package: Tooth Fairy Live / Now That's what I Call a Ding Dong / Spexy Beast Live [DVD BOXSET]

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How did I get here? From Best New stand Up in 2001 to rubbing shoulders with the A - listers on the Sunday Night Project...

TV, FILM & RADIO

Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Channel 4 (2009 – present)
Going Out With Alan Carr, BBC Radio 2 (2009 – present)
Alan Carr’s New Year Specstacular, Channel 4 (2011)
Who Do You Think You Are BBC1 (2011)
Children In Need, BBC1 (2011)
Live At The Apollo, BBC 1 (2007, 2011)
Loose Women, ITV1 (2008-12)
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, BBC 1 (2008, 2010)
Nativity! (2009)
Sunday Night Project (previously Friday Night Project), Channel 4 (2006-9)
The Paul O'Grady Show , Channel 4 (2007-9)
Comic Relief, BBC1 (2009)
Comic Relief Does The Apprentice (2009)
TV Heaven Telly Hell, Channel 4 (2009)
Top Gear, BBC2 (2009)
Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong, Channel 4 (2007-8)
The Graham Norton Show, BBC1 (2007-8)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks, BBC2 (2007-8)
Big Fat Anniversary Qui, Channel 4 (2007)
8 Out of 10 Cats, Channel 4 (2007)
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Take Away, ITV1 (2007)
Royal Variety Performance (2005)

AWARDS:

2012 Best Stand Up, Loaded LAFTA Awards
2012 Best Talk Show for Alan Carr: Chatty Man, National Television Awards
2010 Best Entertainment Show, Alan Carr: Chatty Man, TV Choice 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

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. Now the show is booked to continue into 2013.

Alan also has a regular slot on BBC Radio 2 every Saturday night presenting Going Out with Alan Carr alongside the lovely Melanie Sykes. And he is the Celebrity Reporter for more! magazine having interviewed Kylie, Gok Wan and Radio 1 DJ Greg James, to name a few.

Alan Carr Chatty Man

About to start a seventh triumphant series in April 2012, Alan's hit Channel 4 chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man continues to go from strength-to-strength. Winner of the 2012 National Television Award and 2010 TV Choice Awards for Best Entertainment Show and with nominations for Best New British Comedy & Best Comedy Entertainment Personality at the 2009 British Comedy Awards, Alan Carr: Chatty Man is now firmly established as one of the nation's favourite entertainment TV shows. NTA's 2012

Guests from the past seven series includes: Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Adele, Grace Jones, Drew Barrymore, Robin Williams, David Walliams, Mariah Carey, Samuel L Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Florence and the Machine, Kate Hudson, Bette Midler, Sharon Osbourne, Gok Wan and Miranda Hart.

Alan Carr's New Year Specstacular aired on New Year's Eve 2011 on Channel 4 to 2 million people. Alan invited a host of celebrity friends that included Jonathan Ross, Mickey Flannagan, Gok Wan, Alesha Dixon and Melanie Sykes.

If he wasn't busy enough, in 2011, Alan travelled the country with his second live tour. Spexy Beast Live was a 33-date arena tour and culminated in the successful DVD of the same name. 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 and has become a best-seller, selling over 375,000 copies to date.

Alan Carr Spexy Beast

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”).

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 Carr & Her Majesty The Queen

Alan has appeared 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' and Spexy Beast tours. 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