He is remembered for his role as Possum Lodge cook and wannabe actor and singer Eddie Johnson on the second season of The Red Green Show.
In the 1980s, Carr performed regularly in the comedy review "Ole Charlie Farquharson's Testament and Magic Lantern Show" created by Donald Harron and Frank Peppiatt.
Carr has also appeared at the festival as the title character in Moliere's Tartuffe, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, and Lopakhin in Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard.
"[4] Carr also was ensemble performer and head writer of the CBC radio series "Common Broadcasting Company" and a regular weekly columnist with the Sunday edition of the Daily News and the Chronicle-Herald.
He appears annually on the IWK telethon and serves as Master of Ceremonies for events in support of a number of charitable and arts organizations such as Unicef, Neptune Theatre (Halifax), Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Canadian Breast Cancer Society, the Abilities Foundation, Reaching out for Adolescent Mental Health and Phoenix House, the Salvation Army, the CNIB.