Alan Carr – who stars in Amanda and Alan’s Greek Job today (Sunday, January 4) – once opened up about his regrets over his behaviour on Chatty Man.
The Celebrity Traitors winner Alan, 49, hosted Chatty Man for seven years between 2009 and 2016, before its cancellation.
Alan Carr on ‘punching down’ in Chatty Man
Between 2009 and 2016, Alan Carr: Chatty Man was a regular fixture on Channel 4, before its cancellation.
After being cancelled in 2016 due to low ratings, the show returned for a one-off Christmas special in 2017, before ending for good.
Back in 2023, during an interview with The Guardian, Alan briefly discussed the show, admitting that his behaviour on it still made him “wince”.
Every episode of the show would start with Alan giving a monologue, where he would make jokes about current affairs and celebrities. However, his jokes were a bit more…brutal…than what he would joke about today, as he admitted in the interview.
Alan explained that he used to watch Joan Rivers’ Fashion Police “regularly” – a show he described as “so harsh”. He then went on to admit that he used to say “awful things” in his monologues, where he would “punch down”.
‘No one wants to punch down’
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