You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.

Carr lives in North London with his girlfriend Karoline Copping a commissioning editor for Five whom he has been with since 2001. In a 2009 interview with The Times he said: "He (Carr) makes jokes like little clocks. On 22 January 2009 he covered Zane Lowe's evening show on BBC Radio 1 between 19:00 and 21:00.

He is also a writer actor and presenter of radio and television. Carr moved to a career in comedy in 2000 and has become a successful comedian.