The Friday Night Project is a comedy-variety show show that first aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 in February, 2005.

Each week, regular hosts Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr are joined by a celebrity guest host. These guests provide an opening monologue, are interviewed by Alan and Justin, and take questions from the studio audience. They also take part in comedy sketches, hidden camera stunts, and a game show where someone from the audience is selected to win prizes.

Music each week is provided by a weekly guest house band.


Opening Monologue
The guest host of the show appears after being announced by Justin Lee Collins in the title sequence, after applause, the guest host makes jokes about the funnier side of the weeks news, things frequently mentioned are celebrity mishaps and Big Brother, whilst funny pictures are often shown as well, after a few jokes, the week's musical guest is introduced by the guest host, the musical guest is usually an up and coming band, though established bands have appeared on a few occasions. After the introduction of the musical guest, the guest host sits down and talks with Justin and Alan, often about themselves, before they talk about how they met up and did something together in the previous week.


[edit] Meeting The Guest Host
Video footage of when Alan and Justin went to meet the guest host earlier in the week is shown, Justin and Alan usually greet the celebity, before they take part in an activity, the activities are very different each week, ranging from crusing in Hampstead Heath with Rupert Everett (Series 3, Episode to recording a song with Girls Aloud (Series 3, Episode 11), at the end of the meet, Justin and Alan fantasize about something, usually related to the guest host, which leads to the next section.


[edit] The Sketch
Justin, Alan and the guest host participate in a sketch of some sort, usually related to something that the guest host is famous for, sketches have ranged from Alan and Justin being TV detectives (Series 4, Episode 3), Alan and Justin having their own television shows called the AC and the JLC (Series 3, Episode 4) and Alan and Justin running a hotel Fawlty Towers style (Series 4, Episode 2), after the sketch, the action returns to the studio, where the guest host calls a commercial break.


[edit] The Friday Night News
After the break, Justin announces that they will be going over to Alan and the guest host for The Friday Night News, some major news stories of the week are read out, which Alan comments on in a humourous way (such as Hug-A-Hoodie, where Alan commented that he would like to hug the hoodie, except that he cannot move as the hoodie has just beaten him up), after the news has been read, Alan makes a penis reference, which the guest host often takes the wrong way, before chastising the guest host for being dirty and bringing out his topical barometer, where Alan identify what is hot and what is not, making comments on each thing he puts on the barometer. After this, the action returns to the sofa and in to the next section.


[edit] Who Knows The Most About The Guest Host?
In this section, the guest host hosts a quiz where all of the questions are about them. There are two teams, with Alan and a celebrity making up one team, and Justin and another celebrity making up the other team, the celebrities are often Big Brother contestants, soap actors and 'it-celebrities', in the first round, questions are asked by the celebrity and one of the players has to press the buzzer and answer correctly, the second round is different each week, and often sees the two teams competing against each other in something silly, such as miming sex positions (Series 4, Episode 1) and doing Shrek Impressions (Series 3, Episode , the team with the most points wins the game, after the quiz, another celebrity guest runs into the audience wearing "The Coat Of Cash", a golden coat covered in five pound notes, members of the audience ar