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:

Going Out with Alan Carr

Going Out with Alan Carr was a BBC Radio 2 show hosted by British comedian Alan Carr and Melanie Sykes. Launched in 2009, it was broadcast for two hours on Saturday evenings. The final show was broadcast in March 2012 after Alan Carr announced his departure stating that he wanted to reclaim his weekends.

History

The show was launched on 25 April 2009, and was originally presented by Carr alongside Emma Forbes. Forbes unexpectedly quit the show and wider radio station in April 2010 when, after requesting a holiday, the BBC refused her request to present Going Out as usual, despite Melanie Sykes having already been recruited as a stand-in presenter. Sykes was confirmed as Forbes's replacement in May 2010. In March 2012 the BBC announced that Liza Tarbuck would start presenting her new Saturday night show on BBC Radio 2 from 12 May 2012. It will be on between 6pm and 8pm, replacing the programme presented by Alan Carr and Melanie Sykes, who broadcast their last show together on 31 March 2012 after Carr's decision to leave the network.[4][5]

Going Out

"Going Out" was the first single to be taken from In It for the Money, the second album by Britpop band Supergrass. It was released in February 1996, and reached 5 in the UK Charts. Apparently the song was originally written in the key of E, because the engine of Supergrass' tour bus would tick at that same musical pitch. The song is also featured in the UK chart-topping compilation Now That's What I Call Music! 33.

"Going Out" caused problems when Danny Goffey accused Gaz Coombes of basing the lyrics of the song on himself and Pearl Lowe's (his then girlfriend) involvement in the British tabloids.

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Music video

The music video was filmed on a bandstand in Battersea Park (the same bandstand is pictured in the video for "Late In The Day"), and features Supergrass in coats and scarves (due to the cold) playing the song in question. As the middle eight begins, the camera shows a framed photo of Gaz Coombes with Ronnie Biggs (the infamous train robber), which then pans out to Rob Coombes with a thermos flask at his side. Rob is also reading a newspaper entitled the "Evening Rooster", with the headline "SUPERGRASS EAT ROAST DINNERS" and a picture of the band underneath that; he looks over the edge of his newspaper sinisterly as the camera focuses on him.

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.