Alan Graham Carr (born 14 June 1976) is an English comedian, broadcaster, writer, and television personality. His breakthrough was in 2001, winning the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards. In the ensuing years,… Alan Graham Carr (born 14 June 1976) is an English comedian, broadcaster, writer, and television personality. His breakthrough was in 2001, winning the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards. In the ensuing years, Carr's career burgeoned on the Manchester comedy circuit before he became known for co-hosting the comedy variety show The Friday Night Project (2006–2009) with Justin Lee Collins. This led to the release of a short-lived entertainment show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong (2008), and he went on to host the comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2009–2017).
Carr's other television work includes being a team captain on the comedy panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (2017–2018), judging the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019–present), starring in the sitcom Changing Ends (2023–present), and winning the first series of the reality show The Celebrity Traitors (2025). From 2009 to 2012, he hosted the radio show Going Out with Alan Carr on BBC Radio 2.
Carr has written and performed five stand-up comedy tours: Tooth Fairy Live (2007), Spexy Beast Live (2011), Yap, Yap, Yap! (2015), Not Again, Alan! (2020–2021), and Regional Trinket (2021–2023). In 2008, he released his autobiographical book Look Who It Is!. Carr has won three British Comedy Awards, two National Television Awards, and two BAFTA TV Awards. In February 2026, it was announced that Carr had bought Ayton Castle, Scottish Borders.
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