Alan Carr

Piers Morgan calls Alan Carr 'repugnant'

Piers Morgan has stepped up his feud with camp comic Alan Carr, branding him "repugnant, whiny and helium-fuelled" - and with a voice as annoying as the Krankies.

This is worth watching for curiosity value alone, as the publicity shy Katie Price and her new husband, former cross-dressing cage fighter Alex Reid, pitch up on Alan Carr's couch for their first TV interview as a married couple. Obviously they have much to plug, including Price's "latest novel" Paradise. "Latest novel" is a shocking phrase when you consider that as this is her latest novel, there must have been others. Also appearing are James Corden, who will bore on about the World Cup, and Latino cutie Enrique Iglesias.

Radio head: Going Out with Alan Carr

The banter between Alan Carr and Melanie Sykes makes for genuinely funny listening.

Chatty Man review

Alan Carr's on the wane. The tedious Sunday Night Project's been mercifully axed and he's having to rely on the uninspired Chatty Man; his hit-and-miss chat show that proves cheeky banter and plentiful double entendres don't equal good TV.

Meet the don of British comedy: Addison Cresswell

Who's the biggest name in comedy? Michael McIntyre? Alan Carr? Jonathan Ross? Well, it's none of these. There's one man bigger than them all. Addison Cresswell.

Anyone who had their doubts that Alan Carr would make a good chat show host has been proved firmly, delightfully wrong. In this fourth series of knockabout conversations, he demonstrates his show isn't just deliciously watchable, it now has serious pulling power. Top of the bill tonight is man of the moment Russell Brand, currently receiving rave reviews in America for his performance as a dissolute rock star in Get Him to the Greek. For all Brand's global fame, Carr will be sure to bring him crashing down to earth with a few cheeky questions about Sachsgate. Other guests include Pamela Anderson and three of the cast of Glee (including Matthew "Mr Schue" Morrison). With music from quirky rapper Plan B, it should be a pleasantly packed show.

Alan Carr is proof that TV sometimes does inexplicably awful things. At best Carr is tumbleweed, grinning and flapping as he rolls across the light entertainment schedules. At worst he is a cackling banshee, making everything a point of camp pride. Which makes it the more remarkable that Channel 4 has brought him back for this, yet another series of his charmless chat show. His line-up of guests tonight is somehow fitting: Russell Brand, he of the preeningly verbose stand-up routines and Sachs-bothering phone calls; Pamela Anderson, who in the early Nineties filled the lead bimbo role in Baywatch; and the cast of Glee, the shrilly hyperactive musical comedy series broadcast on E4.

Video: Alan Carr's homage to The Birds

Alan Carr gets all dressed up for a photo shoot. The Chatty Man host, who's a keen bird watcher, does his version of a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's classic film The Birds.

Funnyman Alan Carr has urged former comedy partner Justin Lee Collins to tone down his chat show. The Chatty Man star said of Justin Lee Collins: Good Times, on Five: "I like it but it's a bit disjointed and all over the place. I'd rather it stuck in the same place and he wasn't whizzing around the studio so much."

In a merciless variation on a tribute show, a host of comedians and celebrities line up to lampoon Sharon Osbourne. At the start, the host Jimmy Carr compares her to the Queen. "Her children are dysfunctional. Her husband is incoherent and nobody is really sure what she does." Thereafter, the likes of Alan Carr, Ronni Ancona and Louis Walsh take to the podium and let rip about her age, her plastic surgery, her husband, her incontinent dogs, her foul mouth and her fashion mistakes, while she sits at a table and cackles loudly. The highlights of the evening are Ancona reading extracts from Osbourne's new novel, Revenge, and Patrick Kielty risking his life to mock her parenting skills. "What a delightful evening it's been," says a glum Jack Dee.