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His comedy is focused on observational humour and he is particularly adept at weaving a story and carrying the audience along with him. A native of Birmingham and sporting a Brummie accent, some of his earlier routines were about the trials of supporting the not very successful football team, Birmingham FC. He was also the first and best-remembered host of ''Commercial Breakdown'', [[The BBC]]'s programme about amusing and unusual adverts from overseas (ironically, [[The BBC]] itself doesn't carry advertising). He has starred alongside Robert "Jesus Christ" Powell in ''[[The Detectives]]'' and Meera Syal and Nina Wadia of ''[[Goodness Gracious Me]]'' in the multicultural sitcom ''All About Me''.

 

 

 

* [[Apathetic Citizens]]: Implied with the people of [[Northern Ireland]] about [[The Troubles]] when he did a show there, such as a security guard at a hotel the IRA recently bombed telling Carrott "I couldn't do your job, not with all that stress!", or when Carrott asks the event organiser whether it's okay to mention "Semtex" in a joke or it would be bad taste, to which the man is appalled and says "You can't say Semtex!...it's a brand name!"

* [[Arch Enemy]]: Has pursued a vendetta with ''The Sun'' newspaper for years due to them printing absurdly inaccurate stories about him such as "Jasper Carrott Allergic To Food".

** More recently butted heads with [[David Hasselhoff]]. "Hey! I'm David Hasselhoff! Nice to work with you! Here's my signed photo!"

* [[Ass Shove]]: It's implied he did this to a fellow runner in the London Marathon who [[Most Annoying Sound|tried to spend the entire 26 miles playing "When the Saints Go Marching In" on a trombone]].

** Later after noting about how the Marathon was formerly sponsored by Nestlé and they gave each runner a chocolate bar, but is now incongruously sponsored by Flora and they give them a tub of margarine...

* [[Bait and Switch Comparison]]: Used as the punchline for a routine mocking astrology, after he comes up with pairs of completely dissimilar celebrities who share the same birthday and would therefore have the same horoscope. He ends on:

* [[Bald of Awesome]]

* [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]: Not the French, but a similar joke; in his routine about he and his mate Derek trying to travel across Europe on a moped in the early Sixties, he mentions that Derek (lacking a crash helmet) was wearing a German Army helmet his dad had brought back from the war, and when they got lost in a town in Belgium "the mayor surrendered to us!"

* [[The Comically Serious]]: In ''The Jasper Carrott Trial'', the QC (played by Robert Cordery) is one. When Jasper tries to explain comedy to him with the example of the classic joke about a dog with no nose:

'''Carrott:''' ...I'd ''[[Eat the Dog|bite its bollocks off]]'' if I thought it'd get a laugh! }}

* [[Dead TV Remote Gag]]: Talks about how people will push harder and harder on the button as though there's more chance of the signal coming out, will walk right up to the TV and hold the remote against the infrared sensor while hammering on the button...when they could just use the controls on the set.

* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: His impression of the Archbishop of Canterbury, stemming from him having a [[I Coulda Been a Contender]] attitude towards the Pope and trying to put a similar fear of God into the Anglican congregation, but also trying to be more liberal, and seesawing between the two:

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Sometimes does this, usually as though explaining it to someone in the front row of the audience who's slow on the uptake.

* [[Double Standard]]: The subject of one his jokes. If a woman looks over her neighbour's fence and sees a man sun-bathing naked he'll be arrested for indecent exposure, but if a man looks over his neighbour's fence and sees a woman sun-bathing naked he'll be arrested for being a [[Peeping Tom]].

** Also he has a routine about how teenagers and grandparents are exactly the same ("neither of them have got a job, they're both on drugs...") but you treat them differently.

* [[Driver of a Black Cab]]: While talking about unexpected people he found running the London Marathon:

* [[Eurovision Song Contest]]: When Birmingham hosted it in 1997, he complained about the lack of native-born presenters:

* [[Excuse Question]]: Mocked.

* [[Face Palm]]: Does the "forehead slap" version in response to stupidity.

Well, he's no fool. He said, "Um... they might." }}

* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]]: He has a set in which he fires off endless euphemisms for sex, breasts and penis before concluding with the punchline "and those are the things you can say on television!"

* [[Ignore the Disability]]: More "Ignore the Scandal", but he had a routine about [[Bill Clinton]] coming to Birmingham for the G8 summit (in the midst of the Lewinsky scandal) with Birmingham Council turning into this. First they put Clinton up at [[Unfortunate Implications|The Swallow Hotel]], and then they realise that on the road from the airport to said hotel is a hairdresser's called Monica's...they pay the owner to rename it, only for the new name to be "Cut and Blow"...

* [[Kavorka Man]]: After discussing polls in women's magazines rating the perfect man (which had the top two characteristics as 'good sense of humour' and 'pert bottom'); "So where does Pavarotti fit into this? He pulls women like you can't believe, but he's not exactly a laugh a minute, is he? As for 'pert bottom' it starts at his neck..."

* [[Last Second Word Addition]]: In his Bali routine, talking about his scuba diving lessons and how each trainee is assigned a buddy:

** "They put up this bloke's picture on [[Crimewatch UK]] with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'."

* [[Logic Bomb]]: Reacts like this to his grandmother's comment "Is the oldest man in the world still alive?"

* [[Masochist's Meal]]: The "[[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce|Magmaloo]]" curry he was introduced to by some [[North East England|Geordies]]:

* [[The Midlands]]: Of course.

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: His impression of [[The Troubles|Ian Paisley]].

* [[Opposing Sports Team]]: He presents Manchester United as this.

* [[Real Life Relative]]: In his recent one-off show ''The One...Jasper Carrott'', his real life daughter plays his character's daughter in a sketch.

'''Carrott:''' I don't make that many mistakes. }}

* [[Sweet Home Midlands]]: A lot of his routines involve his home city of Birmingham.

* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: When he ran the London Marathon (having signed up to it while drunk):

* [[Visual Pun]]: Most of his later musical gags are examples of this.

** "#While my guitar gently weeps..." ''(a hosepipe burst of water spurts out of the guitar and hits him in the face)''

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