Jasper Carrott Quotes

Laughter is the best medicine – unless you’re diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.

I’ve played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit.

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in ‘Are You Being Served?’

Try telling people in the Seventies that butter was healthier for you than margarine, and they would force feed you with Stork.

If I were to ask you who the first million-pound show winner was on British TV, you’d probably go for Judith Keppel. She was, indeed, the first ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ contestant to win £1 million, but the first one on TV was actually Clare Barwick, who won £1 million on Chris Evans’ show ‘TFI Friday.’

The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.

When you’re six years old, the word ‘poo’ is the funniest word on God’s earth, but this insults my intelligence.

I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.

Yes, you could call me a tree hugger, an environmentalist, an eco-warrior even – except I don’t spend my life in a kaftan, smoking joss sticks and walking a skinny dog on a piece of string.

Touring has been a major part of my career. I’ve done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I’ve always got one eye on what’s in the bank.

My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked ‘Jasper who?’ I just said ‘Carrott’ – but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.

I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line.

I’ve always been sensible with my money. I can’t say I’m a business genius.

There’s a rumour going ’round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal.

There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.

Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.

My driving habits are so ingrained that the driving examiner would fail me in the first mile. That’s provided he hadn’t died of a heart attack by then.

When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don’t think I can be above it all.

My heart was always in my mouth when I started on a new routine.

Celador always ask me to do their shows, and I turned down ‘Millionaire.’ I couldn’t have done it as well as Chris Tarrant, or at least I couldn’t have done it any better.

I was never the class clown, and I’ve no idea where the comedy came from.

I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I’m not obsessive; I don’t play in the dark, but even that’s not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.

I just felt that ‘Golden Balls’ was the right thing to do. I didn’t care if people thought I was a failure.

I should be more vocal about the things I believe are doing us harm, but many years ago in my early twenties, I learned a bit of a lesson. I started to realise at that time the benefits of eating healthy food and drink.

Ringo isn’t the best drummer in the world. He isn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles.

I used to be a columnist for ‘Golf Monthly’ and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance in the game, which is more than can be said of tennis.

I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull. My career blossomed from there, and I became a big draw on the folk-club circuit.