Funny story: His daughter is Lucy Davis, who played Dawn Tinsley in The Office, so once a reporter asked her "So when did you change your surname from Carrott?" Her reply was "When did you think that Carrott was our real surname?"
Yeah so funny Powell is an awesome actor, classicaly trained and when I first saw him on this I couldn't believe how funny he was!! Such a laugh what were their names Bob and louie?
Had this on audio cassette and listened to it so often back in the day I can still recall every word but had never actually seen this sketch until now!
I saw him at Swansea, UK years ago, God he is funny! He asked the audience "is it always raining in Swansea"? I yelled back "only when you come here". The place erupted in laughter and Carrot looked directly at me, then he laughed too. It was a great evening.
His weekly shows for the BBC were unmissable back in the day. Some really funny sketches with great support from the likes of Punt & Dennis, Frost and Arden, and the brilliant Nick Wilton.
His original shows on LWT were about the time that Carrott in Notts came out, and were even better than this (IMHO). Just him in a rugby shirt and denim jacket with the ever present guitar. Ill have a guess at 1976-78ish? A couple of years later, for reasons that I won't go into, he somehow ended up round ours one Sunday for lunch, we went on to see him that evening at The Central Hall in Chatham. Very happy days.
Man this is so weird...this is the routine that stays in my mind all these years later....."Carrot! Carrot!" I've got the bleeding money!" That phrase lives in my mind....it must have made an impact upon me because it pops into my daily life with great regularity....it's the phrase that comes to mind when I think of Jasper Carrot. I didn't realise I was going to see this routine when I started watching....oh wow....I've gone back in time to watching Saturday night tv as a boy....
The one that always sticks in mine is "Oi Carrot! They've got no cowin bovril!' from the sketch when jasper and his mate went to watch Birmingham city at old Trafford and they were losing at half time. His mate was talking to the Man Utd supporters 'I was just telling em how lucky they are to be 2-1 up' 😂😂
I used to have his first, private pressing album, from which Magic Roundabout was taken as they had used all the studio time recording Funky Moped and did not have a B side for the single.
In 1976 ish, a couple of mates and I were sitting in the set room on top of a mountain in Cyprus, listening to BFPS (British Forces Radio). It wasn't brilliant, but suddenly the DJ stated that some squaddie had asked for the B side of Blue Funkey Moped. None of us had heard Jasper's Magic Roundabout. Needless to say, we were almost wetting ourselves laughing. BFPS never played it again. A friend of mine partnered Jasper in a charity golf tournament a few years ago, and said Jasper was an ace bloke.
Still funny after all these years (best said in a Brummie accent!) When I worked in BT, I was once on a project in Prague. My boss on the project was a great guy called Chris Harvey - and Chris' claim to fame was that he used to be the manager of a folk club and that he gave Jasper Carrott his first ever gig.
I’m a huge music fan and have to say that funky moped was in fact a really catchy little ditti. It’ll never be a musical masterpiece, but it depicts a brilliant era and came out in the same year I married my beautiful late wife Patty. Ooooh funky moped. 😝😝😝
Its my Karaoke speciality, always gets a good laff, and some under 50 say " where the bloody ell did that come from, so l say l wrote it originally and had a one hit wonder with it, surpring how many believe me 😂
I played Scunthorpe Baths twice in the 90s with a Bryan Adams Tribute band. The venue had a really good set-up there with an excellent PA system and and even a fold back system with somebody working on the monitor mix. Our band's name was 'Reckless' after BA's breakthrough album in the UK. When we did our first gig there, as we drew up to the building, we saw a banner advertising our gig. It billed us as 'Wreckless - Brain Adams Tribute Band' 😆. From then, we quite often (despite his name being Gary) called our singer 'Brain' 😊
Saw him 2 years ago as part of the Stand Up & Rock tour with the Bev Bevan Band. The guy hasn't lost it, one of the best comedians of my generation and has always been a favourite of mine (despite being a Blues fan! UTV).
The algorithms sent this to me an hour or two before I'm off to see Charlton play Jasper's beloved Blues. Coincidence? Loved watching him back in the late-seventies/early-eighties.
We saw Carrot at the old, now demolished, Coventry Theatre in 1976/78, a bus load of us, up in the 'gods' at an angle of about 45 degrees! I purchased his vinyl LP, Carrot In Notts not long afterwards.
Beyond Funky Moped, his stand up and his TV shows, Jasper Carrott likely made more money as founder/shareholder of Celador - the production company who own Who wants to be a Millionaire? - Jasper did :o)
I will never forget one of the best jokes I ever heard was Jaspers; "The old folks have a whale of a time on holiday - they've got special tours: 'Incontential Vacations' " I actually and literally fell of my chair and laughed till my ribs hurt!
I made the mistake once of listening to a cassette of Jaspers whilst driving. I had to pull.over as I was laughing so much I couldnt keep the car in a straight line
I've played scunthorpe baths, with a band from sheffield called TNT - hello boys, if ever you see this - and no-one believes me, the pool with the boards over it. and the "I'd DRINK scunthorpe baths..." for whatever gig fee me and my friend neil used to get offered, man we got some mileage out of that.
I saw Jasper Carrot at the Sands Centre in Carlisle in around 1990 I think. He was hilarious, especially the way he pronounced "Carlisle" with elongated vowels, and reminisced about the old gas lighting in the market hall..
Arrrr Scunthorpe my home away from home back in the early 00s when Hull didnt have hardly any work Scunny did and appreciated that. Lived there for a year with my brother and I had been there to visit him when i was younger. But go to work go up a bloody hill go home after go up a bloody hill lol nah it was great back then Westcliff area i stayed in
I had this set on cassette. Used to listen to it every night (it was that or Showaddywaddy). "She's the sort of person who's never had an accident.... ....seen thousands." "Kick his balls!!......The ones on the lawn!"
I was there, my mate (Mick Prescott) was a bouncer on the door and he let me in for nothing. There was a lad behind me who had no shoes, well sort of. He was wearing a pair of football boots. Mick let him in, god bless him
Billy Connolly, Jasper and Tom O'Connor (yep in the same breath) changed British stand up from being a series of standard joke telling to the now universal story ballad style way back in the 70's. And the world was a better place ever since. Until wokerie broke out with Alexie Sayle and his comedy manifesto.... Funny ol' game Saint
About 35 years ago Jasper made a joke about driving his grandmother slowly down the motorway and a car going twice the speed overtaking, and his grandmother said they won't get there any faster. Now when we are driving the German motorway doing 200 km an hour, and a car speeds past doing 300 km my husband says "they won't get there any faster". 😂
Only 2 comments?? Carrott is a hero. This is my childhood right here listening to this on tapes or seeing VHS my Dad had taped. Classic
Nearly 2,000 now!
I was actually there that night, it was an absolute riot...
@@welshrecon 1975 /76 ?
I loved the bantam cock bit. This is for beryl who's birthday it is...this year
1981
Every gig in Scunthorpe is a riot. It is a byelaw that has stood since 1485.
Yeap, so was my mate, Claims that's exactly what the manager did "I've got the money!"
He used to be on TV all the time late 80s early 90s so funny, genuinely a class act of the day, wish he was still on.
Funny story: His daughter is Lucy Davis, who played Dawn Tinsley in The Office, so once a reporter asked her "So when did you change your surname from Carrott?" Her reply was "When did you think that Carrott was our real surname?"
I live in Scunthorpe and that impression was spot on 😂😂😂
Ive seen Jasper twice....both times in Scunthorpe Baths!
hope you clapped!!
Swimming?
"The Detectives" with him and Bob Powell was fantastic!
YES!! excellent series!
Yeah so funny Powell is an awesome actor, classicaly trained and when I first saw him on this I couldn't believe how funny he was!!
Such a laugh what were their names Bob and louie?
I agree absolutely brilliant one of the best comedy series.
Possibly one of our greatest stand-up comedians of all time, and he's not bad at music too- a legend of laughs
I always enjoy a clip when Jasper talks about how he used to sit next to Bev Bevan at school.
Saw him perform this at Birmingham University back in the early 70’s still as good today as it was back then 🤣
Had this on audio cassette and listened to it so often back in the day I can still recall every word but had never actually seen this sketch until now!
I saw him at Swansea, UK years ago, God he is funny! He asked the audience "is it always raining in Swansea"? I yelled back "only when you come here". The place erupted in laughter and Carrot looked directly at me, then he laughed too. It was a great evening.
Great entertainer, fantastic live act.
I miss him, I miss his comedy. Great guy!
He's still a working comedian who tours. Everyone thinks he retired, but he didn't.
@@dunebasher1971 After I typed the message I did come across a video of him promoting tickets for one of his shows
His weekly shows for the BBC were unmissable back in the day. Some really funny sketches with great support from the likes of Punt & Dennis, Frost and Arden, and the brilliant Nick Wilton.
Also in The Detectives with Robert Powell
@@me38443 No, sorry. I didn't find that at all funny.
His original shows on LWT were about the time that Carrott in Notts came out, and were even better than this (IMHO). Just him in a rugby shirt and denim jacket with the ever present guitar. Ill have a guess at 1976-78ish? A couple of years later, for reasons that I won't go into, he somehow ended up round ours one Sunday for lunch, we went on to see him that evening at The Central Hall in Chatham. Very happy days.
When the BBC has a comedy spine unlike today it's ran by political activists
+ Loudon Wainwright III
Bloody hell, i forgot what a fantastic storyteller he was. Brilliant
Very quick witted. When you realise how much he improvised. He was brilliant.
Jasper is one of my favourite ever comics. He is hilarious. I love his insurance claims and Newcastle curry. Bloody funny.
Man this is so weird...this is the routine that stays in my mind all these years later....."Carrot! Carrot!" I've got the bleeding money!" That phrase lives in my mind....it must have made an impact upon me because it pops into my daily life with great regularity....it's the phrase that comes to mind when I think of Jasper Carrot. I didn't realise I was going to see this routine when I started watching....oh wow....I've gone back in time to watching Saturday night tv as a boy....
The one that always sticks in mine is "Oi Carrot! They've got no cowin bovril!' from the sketch when jasper and his mate went to watch Birmingham city at old Trafford and they were losing at half time. His mate was talking to the Man Utd supporters 'I was just telling em how lucky they are to be 2-1 up' 😂😂
I used to have his first, private pressing album, from which Magic Roundabout was taken as they had used all the studio time recording Funky Moped and did not have a B side for the single.
A cassette tape of Jasper Carrot (including this sketch) got me through a long spell in hospital after a motorbike accident in 1978.
Did you have to fill in an insurance claim form?
'300 quid? I'll drink Scunthorpe baths for 300 quid.' Genius!
One of the few Comedians who made me laugh so hard when I saw him live that I could hardly get my breath. Brilliant!
real comedy isn't for you then.
He's a great comedian , much better than most of the the modern day stand up ups who use language to shock as humour . Please don't stop 👍
A clever man with a great sense of humour.
In 1976 ish, a couple of mates and I were sitting in the set room on top of a mountain in Cyprus, listening to BFPS (British Forces Radio). It wasn't brilliant, but suddenly the DJ stated that some squaddie had asked for the B side of Blue Funkey Moped. None of us had heard Jasper's Magic Roundabout. Needless to say, we were almost wetting ourselves laughing. BFPS never played it again. A friend of mine partnered Jasper in a charity golf tournament a few years ago, and said Jasper was an ace bloke.
Frank Carson Classic?
Still funny after all these years (best said in a Brummie accent!) When I worked in BT, I was once on a project in Prague. My boss on the project was a great guy called Chris Harvey - and Chris' claim to fame was that he used to be the manager of a folk club and that he gave Jasper Carrott his first ever gig.
I’m a huge music fan and have to say that funky moped was in fact a really catchy little ditti. It’ll never be a musical masterpiece, but it depicts a brilliant era and came out in the same year I married my beautiful late wife Patty. Ooooh funky moped. 😝😝😝
Funky Moped was produced by Jeff Lynne of ELO.
Its my Karaoke speciality, always gets a good laff, and some under 50 say " where the bloody ell did that come from, so l say l wrote it originally and had a one hit wonder with it, surpring how many believe me 😂
I put Funky Moped on the jukie down my local sometimes. Always goes down well!
Such a great storyteller!
I played Scunthorpe Baths in the 70s. It was an excellent venue for rock bands
It was one of John Peel's faves also.
I played Scunthorpe Baths twice in the 90s with a Bryan Adams Tribute band. The venue had a really good set-up there with an excellent PA system and and even a fold back system with somebody working on the monitor mix. Our band's name was 'Reckless' after BA's breakthrough album in the UK. When we did our first gig there, as we drew up to the building, we saw a banner advertising our gig. It billed us as 'Wreckless - Brain Adams Tribute Band' 😆. From then, we quite often (despite his name being Gary) called our singer 'Brain' 😊
He is a true genius… i remember getting his stuff out of local library on vinyl. Kids these days dont know theyre born lol
Hi Jasper Carrot. Good to see you, and hear a familiar Birmingham voice, telling the tales..😅😊❤❤
Jasper Carrot, Phill Cool, Russ Abbott. My telly growing up.
Saw him 2 years ago as part of the Stand Up & Rock tour with the Bev Bevan Band. The guy hasn't lost it, one of the best comedians of my generation and has always been a favourite of mine (despite being a Blues fan! UTV).
Love Jasper. Brilliant.
Some fun trivia: Jasper is the dad of Lucy Davis, who played Dawn in The Office (amongst other things since, eg she's in Sabrina on Netflix)
The algorithms sent this to me an hour or two before I'm off to see Charlton play Jasper's beloved Blues. Coincidence? Loved watching him back in the late-seventies/early-eighties.
his daughter Lucy plays Dawn the receptionist in "the Office" (UK)
Ah... A nepo baby I never knew about.
His manager was fellow Brummie, John Starkey.
We saw Carrot at the old, now demolished, Coventry Theatre in 1976/78, a bus load of us, up in the 'gods' at an angle of about 45 degrees! I purchased his vinyl LP, Carrot In Notts not long afterwards.
Scunthorpe, the bane of socially correct spellchecking.
Beyond Funky Moped, his stand up and his TV shows, Jasper Carrott likely made more money as founder/shareholder of Celador - the production company who own Who wants to be a Millionaire? - Jasper did :o)
One of my first jobs as a consultant was an options appraisal on Scunny Baths Hall it was riddled with asbestos
I will never forget one of the best jokes I ever heard was Jaspers; "The old folks have a whale of a time on holiday - they've got special tours: 'Incontential Vacations' " I actually and literally fell of my chair and laughed till my ribs hurt!
Did you mean Incontinental?
@@conradburdekin722 Yes I did - typo, sorry
You see around and about in Solihull…He’s very quiet guy, so tend not to approach him…He’s Daughter is Lucy Davies from the Office
Nepo baby... Hmm...
He was and is very funny. There are no comedians in the UK anymore.
I’ve seen some great bands at Scunny baths
One of the funniest lines in comedy history is (from 'Magic Roundabout') "Rubbish," said Dylan, "it's all over the canteen!"
I made the mistake once of listening to a cassette of Jaspers whilst driving. I had to pull.over as I was laughing so much I couldnt keep the car in a straight line
check out the detectives with Jasper and Robert Powell , bloody funny
I've played scunthorpe baths, with a band from sheffield called TNT - hello boys, if ever you see this - and no-one believes me, the pool with the boards over it.
and the "I'd DRINK scunthorpe baths..." for whatever gig fee me and my friend neil used to get offered, man we got some mileage out of that.
Jasper is a legend 😂
I saw Jasper Carrot at the Sands Centre in Carlisle in around 1990 I think. He was hilarious, especially the way he pronounced "Carlisle" with elongated vowels, and reminisced about the old gas lighting in the market hall..
Arrrr Scunthorpe my home away from home back in the early 00s when Hull didnt have hardly any work Scunny did and appreciated that. Lived there for a year with my brother and I had been there to visit him when i was younger. But go to work go up a bloody hill go home after go up a bloody hill lol nah it was great back then Westcliff area i stayed in
I had this set on cassette. Used to listen to it every night (it was that or Showaddywaddy).
"She's the sort of person who's never had an accident....
....seen thousands."
"Kick his balls!!......The ones on the lawn!"
"wish I could do that," "give him a biscuit and he'll let you."
Scunny Baths Hall, a great venue!
Legend
"Do Jasper Carrot want to play Scunthorpe Baths?"
'They might.'
Fantastic comedian..
£300 might not seem much now, but back then in the mid to late 70s that was equivalent of about 5 weeks wages.
I was there, my mate (Mick Prescott) was a bouncer on the door and he let me in for nothing. There was a lad behind me who had no shoes, well sort of. He was wearing a pair of football boots. Mick let him in, god bless him
I was there I lived in Scunthorpe near the old football stadium was
... The Old Showground...... such a good stadium. Now look at the Iron..... (sad face)
Never saw Jasper at Scunthorpe Baths, but did see the Who there!
Brilliant
Billy Connolly, Jasper and Tom O'Connor (yep in the same breath) changed British stand up from being a series of standard joke telling to the now universal story ballad style way back in the 70's.
And the world was a better place ever since.
Until wokerie broke out with Alexie Sayle and his comedy manifesto....
Funny ol' game Saint
Split
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Steal
I taught in Scunthorpe a few years back. Half the population are like this & the other half would be at the mosque...
Not when I was growing up...
About 35 years ago Jasper made a joke about driving his grandmother slowly down the motorway and a car going twice the speed overtaking, and his grandmother said they won't get there any faster. Now when we are driving the German motorway doing 200 km an hour, and a car speeds past doing 300 km my husband says "they won't get there any faster". 😂
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Have you got me money😂
I saw Carrot on a double bill with Brian Conley at Kidderminster Leisure Centre, has to be 35 years ago, that was a good night.
1:48 Looks like DEI could have been started by Jasper…
‘Do Jasper Carrot Wanna Play Scunthorpe Baths?’
‘THEY Might’ 😅😅
What happened to Jasper? He seemed to disappear all of a sudden is he still with us?
Yes, and still a touring comedian.
300 quid. Oh how times change.
Not many know this bloke played Ed Grundie out of the Archers, innit…
Just to be geeky. £300 in 1981 is about £1300 ($1646) today
Yeah, I'd take a sip of Scunthporpe baths for that
jasper carrot is mad hes funny
Brilliant! Going down like Bobby Crush on an Oil Rig! Lol
Ringer for Trevor Francis
Was this "An Audience With Jasoer Carrott", 1978?
No, it's Beat The Carrott from 1981.
300 quid says agent to venue, 200 quid says agent to band, thats how I remember things and then you paid agents fee on top. R.B.
I worked with a colleague who was a clone of Jasper Carrot. Guess what his nick name was? I bet you’ll never guess.
Bobby Crush on an oil rig is an old one
"A diseased John Cleese" slayed me.
Hey Carrott, I got the money, but they ain't got no cowin' Bovril!
Spaghetti Junction!
Mother in Law!
I've got this mole!
Zits!
BOOOOOIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGG!!!!
"The Mole" is an absolute classic .
Nutter On The Bus
Car Insurance Claim Forms
BRMB Radio
Defo not his finest hour!
Best, "Why does the nutter on the bus always sit next to me"
Mole problems anyone ? 😂
Now we know who put the ****** in S****horpe really is. Thanks Jasper.
Cmon Scuny up the iron
The difference a S makes in Scunthorpe.
I cannot listen to " Magic Roundabout" . I laught too much .
Ah the British gene wilder
Bobby Crush on an oil rig! 😂
Liked ol carrott as a kid but this was kinda cringe. I was waiting for a punch line
Stuipedkewagainwhy
Spunky Covid n other songs 😅✊✌️🙏🤞💪
has not aged well...
Scunthorpe is a dump. The downtown area is like a Hornby representation of the Bronx ghetto.
Jasper carrot gets a channel blocked.
funny how the 70's comedians are in prison or dead.
Carrott is neither.