Alan Carr

Alan Graham Carr (born 14 June 1976) is an English comedian and television personality.

Carr was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and spent most of his childhood in Northampton before moving in his early 20s to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, where he began his comedy career. Carr's breakthrough was in 2001, winning the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Award.

In the ensuing years, his career burgeoned on the Manchester comedy circuit before he became well-known for hosting The Friday Night Project with Justin Lee Collins. This led to the release of a short-lived entertainment show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong in 2008 and, eventually, his popular comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which has been airing on Channel 4 since 2009.

Carr also hosted a radio show, Going Out with Alan Carr, on BBC Radio 2 for three years as well as releasing his autobiography Look Who It Is! (2008) and going on three arena tours: Tooth Fairy Live (2007), Spexy Beast Live (2011) and Yap, Yap, Yap! (2015).

Alan Carr (footballer)

Alan Carr (born 21 April 1939) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

While captain-coach of Frankston in the 1968 VFA season, Carr had to have an eye removed, due to an injury sustained in a game against Box Hill.

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Alan Carr (disambiguation)

Alan Carr (born 1976) is an English comedian and television personality

Alan, Allan, Allen Carr may also refer to:

Alan Carr (politician)

Alan Carr (born 1948) is a former trade unionist and politician from Northern Ireland.

Carr studied at Annadale Grammar School in Belfast and the New University of Ulster, at which he founded a Labour Club. He joined the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), and was first elected to its Executive Committee in 1970/71.

Carr became a lecturer and administrator for the Open University, and was the NILP's leading figure from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, chairing the party for much of the period. While the British and Irish Communist Organisation claimed that he was a member of their group in the early 1970s, he was criticised by them later in the decade. He also led the expulsion of Peter Hadden's Labour and Trade Union Group from the NILP in 1977, and with the Newtownabbey Labour Party, which split away from the NILP following disputes over the Ulster Workers' Strike. Carr strongly opposed Michael Foot's leadership of the British Labour Party, believing Foot was too sympathetic to Irish nationalism.