Justin Lee Collins & Alan Carr Talk To FemaleFirst

16 November 2009

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Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr are back this week with The Sunday Late Night Project DVD, which lets fans of the show take a look at some of the clips and action that didn't make the show.

I caught up with the comedy pair to talk about the success of the shows, working together and what lies ahead.

- The Sunday Late Night Project is about to be released on DVD which sounds pretty exciting so can you tell me a little bit about it?

Justin Lee Collins: Well it's me an Al in bed together for the first time; the public have been demanding this since 2006, so we are providing that for them. So you do get to see men and Al consummate our relationship.

Alan Carr: Yeah it's a bit of full frontal, it's worth it.

JLC: Although my penis is pixilated isn't it Al?

AC: Yeah. Mine isn't but it doesn’t need to be because it's concave, it looks like a vagina.

JLC: Yeah you have got that, that's the main thing.

AC: There are bloopers and stuff like that.

JLC: Some of the funnier stuff that was cut from the original transmissions sometime the funnier stuff does end up on the floor, for one reason or another, so we have put a lot of that stuff back in.

- Ok so there DVD is packed full of things that we didn't see on TV so how much of a say did you have over what goes on the DVD?

JLC: Oh absolutely no say whatsoever, we do have a say when it comes to what happens in the bedroom so that was down to us. Basically they put a camera on us and left the room and they said 'Give us magic, give us gold' and I think we have Al haven't we?

AC: Oh yeah yeah.

- Is there anything that you are disappointed had was left off?

AC: To be honest we haven't actually seen it yet.

- I saw it this morning and it's very funny.

AC: We are 100% behind it but we have just been so bloody busy but we are definitely going have a night aren't we Justin? We are going to sit in and watch it.

JLC: We are going to get a pizza aren't we?

AC: We are so proud of it and we are just over the moon at this DVD coming out really.

- Like I say I was watching it this morning and it's amazing what you get the guest hosts to do so when they come on how game are they?

JLC: Well some are more game than other but we always say that the best hosts that we have had on the show are the ones that really threw themselves into it and committed to it. Al and I act as their safety net and if you are confident in us and know that we have got you and you are prepared to give then it always works.

But it's funny some of the biggest stars, who you might have thought were less keen to show themselves up or run the risk of making themselves look silly, could be the best and most giving guests. Take for example Martin Sheen, who is one of the biggest stars that we had on the show...

AC: He came out dressed as a man in a leather cap and wiggled around Obummer.

JLC: And he was one of the few people that we had to rein him in, he wanted to take it further and we had to pull him back.

- And do you have a favourite guest?

JLC: Martin Sheen would be up there for me he would definitely be one of my favourites.

AC: I loved Kim Cattrall she was just so sexy and one of those Americans, like Martin Sheen, who got it she was like 'I get this I'm going to send myself up'. In the early days people would come on and you could almost see them looking over at their agents saying' Now are you sure that the money has gone into the account for this?'

But by the end of it, the third of fourth series, they were coming on going 'Right I want to dress up as this, this and this' they really want to get the stilettos on and look like a woman; it's just one of those shows that grew and grew and grew.

JLC: And that was just Rupert Everett.

AC: Oh yeah he loved it.

- Have you been surprised by the reactions of the guests that they were much more up for it than you expected? Or the other way around?

JLC: Some people come on and they are nervous, and that surprises you, David Walliams was nervous...

AC: Noel Edmonds dressing up as a giant arse who would have thought he would do that he was a massive arse hole?

JLC: It's crinkly bottom.

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