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.

[2] The Friday Night Project was originally presented by comics Jimmy Carr, Rob Rouse, Sharon Horgan and, as a roving reporter, Lucy Montgomery, with sporadic appearances from Abi Titmuss.

The guest hosts for the series were: The show returned on 6 January 2006 for 8 weeks with new hosts comedians Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr (who worked together on late night show Flipside), with Debra Stephenson replacing Lucy Montgomery for the Celebrity Spotting segment.

Comedian Ronnie Corbett and Actress Daryl Hannah were slated to host an episode, but both pulled out.

Also, The Big Fun Gameshow was axed for this series, with Who Knows The Most About The Guest Host and My Question Time moved to the final segment of the show.

The guest hosts for the series were: Carr said on This Morning on 25 June that the show would at least return at the end of the year for Christmas specials.

After Collins's solo series ended, Alan Carr: Chatty Man began airing on Channel 4 in June 2009, during The Sunday Night Project's original timeslot.

Finally, the previous week's evicted housemate would always show up during the "Who Knows the Most about the Guest Host" segment as a contestant or to wear "The Coat of Cash".

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, while funny pictures are often shown as well.

The celebrities are often Big Brother contestants, soap actors, 'it-celebrities' or someone who has a personal or professional link to the guest host.

If an unrelated or repeated word is given or a contestant hesitates to answer, they are promptly given an electric shock via panels which they must place their hands on, connected by a control box held by the Guest Host.

After the break, the guest host talks to Justin and Alan on the sofa, before showing video footage of them playing a prank on an unsuspecting member of the public, similar to Beadle's About.

Glimpses of the celebrity secret lover would appear, and viewers texted to guess his or her identity, from three name options, to win £1,000.

In this section, the guest host tried to win up to five prizes for a member of the audience, five different styles of questions were answered, with the first four often being things such as answering a question set by Stephen Hawking, guessing who Alan is imitating and naming a certain number of things in a time limit.

In series 1, Lucy Montgomery toured the streets where the guest host grew up trying to find celebrity lookalikes.

In the fifth series, Celebrity Spotting made a comeback, with Chris Moyles taking to the streets to find more lookalikes.

This segment returned briefly in Series 5 during the Chris Moyles, Beth Ditto and Rupert Everett episodes.

An example of this includes in Episode 1 where a game of 'Hard Man Bingo' was played as Vinnie Jones was the guest host.

In the event of multiple people completing the card at the same time a near impossible to get spot on tie-break question was asked, regarding the guest host's career or personality.

This usually meant they were led into a false sense of insecurity only for Rob to appear and sing accompanied by several backing singers.

As of Series 5, the fourth part of the programme was "The Big Fun Gameshow", a game show style section in a bright buzzing set.

There were six prizes on offer and these were selected from a huge spinning wheel on the floor - with the audience member acting as the pointer (complete with costume).

After playing four games the contestant had the option of taking the prizes they have won or gamble them by answering one 'A or B' question about the Guest Host.

"The Big Fun Gameshow" was cut from series 8, instead being replaced with an extended My Question Time followed by the Band performance.