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Jasper Carrott

One of my favourite jokes from jasper is the football match, he doesn't half take the mickey out of us brummies. Very funny man.
 
Just watched Jasper Carrott on the BBC One Show. Still very funny, and about to tour with fellow Brummie Bev Bevin (ELO), and other Brummiemusicians, including Tony Iommi. Should be agreat PR job for Birmingham. I understand that the tour will include Birmingham Town Hall.

Living in North Norfolk I hope to be able to see the show somewhere. Eddie
 
yep

Top man from Acocks Green like me
Only joking he is the best. Still remember the sketch of the moles
on his lawn in knowle. Didnt get one

mike Jenks
 
Hi mike
I think you will find jasper in his early days of boy hood grew up in old Ladywood it was some think walk as I can recall
It was when Ladywood was first ever being redeveloped it would have been the back of the old squirrel pub
On ladywod red was changed and redeleoped and then move possible to acocks green before his manhood and getting married and living in
Solihull as he does now incidently I ran the old red lion acocks green many years ago and I do recall a lot of the locals even today
Best wishes to you and the locals astonian,,,,,,
 
I had a Jasper Carrott cassette tape back in the day. I put it on while travelling in the car. After about 10 minutes, I was becoming dangerous, and faced with the choice of ejecting it or pulling in, I pulled in until it was finished.
Andrew.
 
I remember seeing him, early 80's, just after Ron Saunders had "defected" from Villa to Blues. He ended the first half of the show with "A Visitors Guide to Birmingham", showing pictures of various aspects of the city on a big screen behind him with an hilarious commentary. After a bit a picture of Ron Saunders appears, face like thunder, mouth set at "twenty past eight" as it were. Carrott says "There's Ron Saunders wondering what to do with the 10000 pegs he bought from the gypsies to get the curse lifted off the ground....." we had silence for about 2 seconds then the whole place fell apart! Another time I saw him Blues had beaten the Baggies that afternoon - he came on stage and said "Hello - any Baggies fans in - he! he! he! he! he!" - brilliant!
Best routine ever though was his take on Tony Butler - "He's world famous in Birmingham he really is...."
 
Actually no - best routine ever is the mega-rare version of the "Aston Villa Football Club Skinhead Supporters Song" (original was about Bickenhill Rovers I think but this one is MUCH better) - the one that would NEVER have been played on Radio 1. "It could be about any football club, at any football ground........ it just happens to be about... Aston Villa...... he! he! he! he! he!"
If anyone has a recording of this please post it!!!
 
Brushed past him as he was leaving the Grapes Hurst st only been told who it was when i got to bar my mate Roy ran out after him sporting a Villa scarf for a autograph
no chance i shouted
back he came smiling with his Jasper Carrot signed copy of
AH My Part in His Downfall by Spike
 
I think the thing is with Jasper he's a Brummie and we all like him (as we say at Villa Park "he's one of our own". Whether he is a Blues fan (which he doesn't hide :grinning: ) or not, his humour is ours and even those of us of the claret & blue persuasion are very much amused, we had the pleasure of seeing him at the Odeon back in the days of Magic Roundabout and Funky Moped, and he comes across as a nice bloke off stage too.

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