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Showbusiness personalities from Britain and across the island of Ireland attended the ceremony at St Patrick's Church, Donegall Street.
Carson, 85, who died last month at his home in Blackpool, Lancashire, had been ill for some time.
He was a regular on both Irish and British TV during his career.
The broadcaster Eamonn Holmes, comedians Lenny Henry, Stan Boardman and Roy Walker, sportsmen Dennis Taylor, Barry McGuigan and Pat Jennings and the singer Dana were among those attending the funeral mass.
The deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness was also present, as well as other political representatives.
The requiem mass was led by retired Bishop of Derry, Bishop Edward Daly.
Carson's coffin was then taken from the Catholic church to the nearby Protestant St Anne's Cathedral.
This was said to be representative of his wish to be liked by everyone.
Bishop Daly told mourners on Saturday that Carson had made millions of people laugh and described him as a "Prime Minister of Fun".
"That was his mission in life," he added.
"In his live performances, he could light up an audience and make them laugh and laugh.
"That is surely a great service to humanity."
Bishop Daly said he had known Carson for 50 years and valued their friendship.
He described the comedian as an "extraordinarily generous" and compassionate man who had often asked him to pray for colleagues who were ill.
"Frank, I think, would be mildly amused by the manner in which he has been almost canonised in recent days," he said.
"He loved acting the rascal.
"He loved being brash and very loud and naughty and mischievous, at times.
"It was just the way he was and he was all the more lovable for it."
Television presenter Eamonn Holmes paid tribute to a family friend.
"He is one of the most famous sons of Ulster, that sums up what he means to everybody in Northern Ireland," he said.
Comedian Stan Boardman said: "Frank was a nice man, whenever he went into the room, even before he came into the room, he was approachable, he would go over and talk to people.
"He was a sort of uncle, everybody used to call him Uncle Frank.
"He did not offend anybody, his gags were brilliant and he was a funny man."
Carson, the son of a binman, was born in Belfast on 6 November 1926 to a family of Italian descent.
He grew up in the Little Italy area of the city and worked as a plasterer and electrician, and then joined the Parachute Regiment.
After serving with the Parachute Regiment in the 1950s, Carson was spotted for his stand-up work and became a popular performer on Irish television.
He later moved to England and appeared in the TV music hall revival show The Good Old Days, before three victories on talent show Opportunity Knocks propelled him into the mainstream.
During the funeral, the comic was remembered for his charity work, which earned him an honorary title from Pope John Paul II.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth, three children, 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Following the ceremony, his funeral cortege drove past several locations around Belfast, en route to Milltown Cemetery.
The Dean of St Anne's Cathedral, the Very Reverend John Mann, led a prayer and tribute.

Local police confirmed that at least 13 people died as tornadoes swept across three counties in Indiana.
Twelve more died in Kentucky, with two fatalities in Ohio. Earlier, tornadoes hit Alabama, killing one person.
"We are no match for Mother Nature at her worst," said Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
There are fears the death toll may rise as the scale of the devastation and the breadth of the storms made immediate assessments of the destruction difficult.
The storms - stretched across a vast part of the US Midwest - came days after another system killed 13 people.
The first deaths on Friday were reported in Indiana, where the small town of Henryville was badly damaged.
Reports of extreme damage included a roof torn off a high school.
An official from Clark County sheriff's department described the nearby town of Marysville, Indiana - located close to Henryville - as "completely gone".
Jenn Helvering, 24, told the BBC she saw a storm cell cross the highway as she drove towards Henryville. She then came across wreckage, including an overturned tractor-trailer, alongside the road near the town.
Ms Helvering, who posted a series of images online said she saw "what seemed to be a funnel", when driving between two storm cells.
"The weather was terrible. I suddenly saw a tornado coming towards me, I could see it swirling, then I saw one behind me. I was stuck in between two tornadoes - my dad directed me while I was driving between the two tornadoes. It was truly terrifying."
'Take cover!' In Salem, Indiana, a toddler was found injured in a field after tornadoes passed through, reports said before being taken to a children's hospital, where she was later identified.
A family of four were found dead in Washington County, Indiana, Sheriff Claude Combs told the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Meanwhile, in Henryville, authorities found a man dead inside his vehicle. It was the first confirmed death in Clark County.
"We've got total devastation in the north-central part of the county [and] widespread damage from the west to the east," Clark County Sheriff Clark Adam told CNN.
Neighbouring Marysville was totally destroyed.
"Marysville is completely gone,'' said Chuck Adams of Clark County Sheriff's Department.
As Friday's storms grew in intensity, the National Weather Service issued severe tornado warnings for a host of states.
By 19:30 EST (00:30 GMT on Saturday) tornado warnings were in effect across swathes of Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, with parts of West Virginia and Florida also under advisory.
In a strongly worded warning, the NWS said residents in the path of the Indiana storm were facing an "extremely dangerous and life threatening situation".
"If you are in the path of this tornado... take cover immediately!" the NWS said.
Additional tornadoes were reported near Mumfordville, Kentucky and Memphis, Indiana, as well in southern Ohio.
Local TV broadcaster WHAS in Kentucky showed a storm-tracking team driving through Mumfordville, speeding away from a potential tornado as golf-ball sized hailstones fell from the sky.
As the evening progressed more details of the scale of destruction began to emerge, with officials in Kentucky and Ohio confirmed fatalities there.
Earlier this week, 13 people died after twisters swept through Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Tennessee.

Mr Najjar told state TV the high turnout meant "the great Iranian nation slapped the enemies in the face".
The preliminary figure came despite a boycott by the reformist opposition.
The elections are the first nationally since mass protests were sparked by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed election victory in 2009.
Final figures for the make-up of the new parliament are expected on Monday.
Speaking on state TV, Mr Najjar said: "The Americans, the Zionists, and the enemies of the system made some claims. People slapped them by this action."
On Friday state TV broadcast pictures from several polling stations in Tehran and the provinces, showing long queues. A commentary said the queues were a "disappointment to the bad-wishers".
The leaders of the opposition Green Movement have been under house arrest for over a year and were barred from taking part in the elections.
As part of an increasingly public fight between the leader and the president, even candidates favoured by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were disqualified from standing by the Guardian Council.
The Green Movement claimed that the 2009 presidential election was stolen from their candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. The government sent security forces to put down the mass protests.
This time, reformists asked their supporters to stay at home on election day.
The respective strength of the different conservative camps after this poll will define the balance of power for what may be a much more important vote - the 2013 presidential election, says BBC Iran correspondent James Reynolds.
However, the results of the elections are unlikely to change Iran's stance on its controversial nuclear programme, he adds.

Englishman Rose, 31, shared the lead with American Tom Gillis at eight under par after Friday's second round.
US Open champion McIlroy, who will become world number one if he wins on Sunday, made three birdies in the last five holes to finish one behind.
Lee Westwood (69) and Tiger Woods (68) both ended one under, as Graeme McDowell shot 64 for three under.
"I've not made that many mistakes," said Rose. "It's a course that rewards limiting the mistakes."
Northern Ireland's McIlroy stayed in contention with a 67 that included birdies on the 14th, 15th and 18th.
"I felt like I played another really solid round," said the 22-year-old.
"I had a couple of chances on the front nine and didn't take them, but I was just trying to stay as patient as possible.
"The bogey on the 13th when I had only a wedge in my hand [he hit it into a plugged lie in a bunker] was frustrating, but the finish was nice."
Former world number one Woods was in danger of missing the cut, which came at level par, but made amends for a double bogey on the fifth, his 14th, with birdies on his last two holes.
He said: "I got it going, lost it, got it going, lost it and then got it going. It was a little bit of a fight - probably the worst I've hit the ball in months.
"I figured something out with the swing the last four holes. Unfortunately it took me that long."
Westwood tweeted  after his round: "Played lovely today, waiting for a few putts to drop. Can't seem to get away from @TigerWoods this week! Playing with him again tomorrow."
The round of the day came from American left-hander Brian Harman who shattered the course record by three with a 61 to reach six under.

They show that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) won 19 seats, becoming the largest party with a total of 41 seats.
The main opposition PMLN party led by Nawaz Sharif secured eight seats.
Analysts say it is a big boost for Mr Zardari and his government, who have recently been under pressure from the judiciary and the powerful military.
They are in conflict over a leaked memo suggesting that President Zardari wanted to ask the US government for support to prevent a possible coup, during the turmoil which followed the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
The Supreme Court has also tried to force Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to have corruption proceedings reopened against Mr Zardari.
Several leaders of the PPP earlier accused the opposition of conspiring to stop Friday's elections.
Seats for minorities Elections are being held for 45 senators in the 104-member chamber. They are being replaced as their terms end.
Pakistan's official APP news agency says nine more candidates stood unopposed in the poll.
The unofficial results suggest that the PPP would now have 41 seats in the Senate, and together with its allies would control the chamber for another three years.
The voting took place in four provincial assemblies - Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan - with each choosing 12 senators.
However, results of seven of Balochistan seat have been withheld by the electoral commission because of objections raised by the PMLN.
All four provinces also reserve two seats for women, two for technocrats and one for minorities.
Four senators for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and two for the Islamabad Capital Territory will be chosen by members of parliament.
Pakistan's national and provincial parliaments elect half the members of the Senate every three years. The elected senators have a six-year term.
Parliamentary polls are due in 2013 but opposition parties have been calling for early elections, blaming the current administration for many of Pakistan's problems, such as economic stagnation and an energy crisis.

The Taliban said the suicide bombing was a revenge attack. There have been sporadic clashes between the groups.
The blast in Khyber tribal agency came hours after 10 soldiers and at least 22 Lashkar-e-Islam militants were killed in clashes in the same area.
The military and several militant groups are fighting to control Khyber.
None of the reports can be independently confirmed as there is no media access to the area.
A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Islam claimed that only six fighters were killed in the suicide blast, which happened in the remote Nahaqai area of Tirah valley in Khyber.
A local official told BBC Urdu's Rifatullah Orakzai that the suicide bomber detonated his explosives jacket in the presence of a large number of Lashkar-e-Islam fighters.
A spokesman for the local Taliban said the blast was to avenge the killing of their fighters at the hands of the Lashkar-e-Islam gunmen two months ago.
Khyber has been a sanctuary for the hardline Lashkar-e-Islam, which fights other religious groups in the area, and security forces have conducted operations in the area for years.
Earlier on Friday, Lashkar-e-Islam militants ambushed a military checkpoint also in the Tirah Valley. The military said 10 soldiers were killed. It said troops repelled the attack, killing 22 militants.
A major army operation was launched in the area about three months ago, forcing some 20,000 residents to shift to a camp for internally displaced people in the Peshawar region.
There had been a lull in fighting across the north-west in recent months. But this week has seen a spate of gun battles and bombings, raising concerns that violence is worsening.
The Khyber region is an important trade route between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Brent crude fell back to $124.9 a barrel after jumping almost $6 to $128.40 in New York on Thursday. US light crude fell slightly to $107.9.
A number of factors had pushed prices to their highest level since July 2008, including tensions over Iran's nuclear plans and regional unrest.
Thursday's high beat the level seen during the Libyan civil war last year.
'Market nervousness' On Thursday, the trigger was a report in Iranian media that an explosion had occurred at a pipeline in Saudi Arabia.
The report came at a time when there has been a steady increase in friction between Iran on one side and the United States and its allies on the other.
The US has imposed fresh sanctions against Tehran targeting the country's oil exports, while the European Union has announced a ban on imports of Iranian oil.
For its part, Iran has threatened that it will close the Straits of Hormuz, a vital trade route for oil from the Gulf - including Saudi oil - if the West were to impose more sanctions.
Analysts said all these issues had created an uncertainty over oil supplies and the latest reports had only fanned those fears further.
"The sharp move up on the pipeline story points to the market nervousness on anything related to supply problems," said Gene McGillan of Tradition Energy.
Sufficient capacity Among the biggest buyers of Iranian oil are Asian economies such as China, Japan, India and South Korea.
The US has been trying to convince these nations to reduce their imports of Iranian oil, to put further pressure on Tehran.
Earlier this year, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner visited China and Japan to drum up support for US sanctions.
But there have been concerns that if nations stop buying oil from Iran they will have to turn to other oil producers in order to meet their demand, pushing up prices and hurting global economic growth.
However, US authorities tried to allay those fears, saying that global oil producers were well placed to make up for any shortfall in Iranian oil.
"I think there is sufficient spare capacity," said Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary.
At the same time, some analysts said that change in global weather may also help in keeping oil prices in check.
"Oil prices have overshot in the short-term, and with warmer temperatures as we move from winter to spring, oil demand could start to fall, starting in March," said Gordon Kwan, head of energy research at Mirae Asset Management in Hong Kong.
"Brent could fall back below $120 (per barrel) if Iran doesn't flare up."