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* Carrott Confidential ( BBC, 26 episodes, 2 series & 2 Specials, 3 January 1987 – 4 February 1989 ) ( this includes an election special broadcast on BBC2, and a special trailer for the 2nd series, broadcast on Friday 15 January 1988, which took the form of a mini sketch with Jasper dressed as Anne Robinson on ' Pointless Views ')
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Carrott and Confidential
* Carrott Confidential
* Carrott Confidential ( 1987 )
The most notable of these were Carrott's Commercial Breakdown, which broadcast weird and wonderful adverts from around the world, and the sketch and stand-up shows Carrott Confidential, 24 Carrott Gold, The Jasper Carrott Trial and Canned Carrott, some of which also gave TV exposure to the comedy partnership of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
However, it was in the late 1980s that he gained much wider popularity in Britain when he appeared as the resident singer with comedian Jasper Carrott in his UK show, Carrott Confidential, and has remained popular in the UK ever since.
Punt and Dennis later became resident guest comedians on shows presented by Jasper Carrott, including Carrott Confidential and Canned Carrott with Punt contributing in the writing team as well.
Carrott and BBC
He is also known for his role as Mark Williams in BBC One medical drama, Holby City, and in the sitcom The Detectives alongside Jasper Carrott.
Since then comedian Jasper Carrott, glam rocker Noddy Holder, motor racing commentator Murray Walker, the cast and crew of BBC Radio 4's The Archers, long serving Archers cast member Norman Painting and founding member of Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi have all been honoured on the street with a star.
While an impressionist, Dennis did voices for Spitting Image and appeared with Punt as resident support comics on two TV series hosted on the BBC by Jasper Carrott.
In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge / Monty Python / Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson's colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O ' Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones ; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott.
His first appearance on television was a half hour show for BBC Midlands in 1976, A Half Hour Mislaid with Jasper Carrott recorded at Pebble Mill.
* A Half Hour Mislaid with Jasper Carrott ( BBC Midlands, 17 September 1976 )
* Canned Carrott ( BBC, 12 episodes, 2 series, 17 January 1990 – 15 December 1992 )
* 24 Carrott Gold ( BBC, recorded live at Stratford Upon Avon, 28 December 1990 )
* One Jasper Carrott ( BBC, recorded live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 28 December 1992 )
* The Jasper Carrott Trial ( BBC, 6 episodes, 20 May – 26 June 1997 ) ( based on the original BBC radio series )
* Jasper Carrott – Back to the Front ( BBC, 6 episodes, 24 February – 31 March 1999 )
* 24 Carrott Gold: The Best of Jasper Carrott ( BBC, recorded live at the NIC in Birmingham, 6 episodes, 6 February – March 2004 )
* The One Jasper Carrott ( BBC, 9 January 2012 )
The collaboration began in the mid-1980s when the duo co-wrote BBC Radio 4 programmes such as Cliché and its sequel Son Of Cliché, and television programmes such as Spitting Image, The 10 Percenters, and various Jasper Carrott projects.
Carrott and episodes
* An Audience With Jasper Carrott ( LWT, 6 episodes, 6 January – 3 March 1978 )
Carrott and 2
* Carrott Gets Rowdie ( LWT, 2 November 1980 )
* Carrott Del Sol ( Sago ) ( LWT, 2 January 1981 )
* Canned Carrott For The Record ( EMI 8 31146 2, 2 CD TV soundtrack, EMI Records 1994 )
* Classic Carrott volume 2 – 24 Carrott Gold ( TV soundtrack CD, Sound Entertainment 2005 )
* The Jasper Carrott Trial-Series 1, Series 2
Carrott and series
In 1975, Jasper Carrott released The Magic Roundabout ( originally featured on his first live LP Jasper Carrot – In the Club ), a short, risqué comic monologue parodying the children's TV series, as the B-side of a 7 inch single, featuring his comic song " Funky Moped " on the A-side.
Powell then agreed to a request from his old friend and golf partner, comedian Jasper Carrott, taking the part of an incompetent detective in a succession of sketches that formed part of Carrott's television series.
It was well liked by Grade ; a five further shows were recorded and became his first TV series, An Audience with Jasper Carrott, in 1978, this successful partnership with LWT lasted until 1981, The Unrecorded Jasper Carrott ( 1979 ) and Beat the Carrott ( 1981 ) are the two best known live stand-up performances from his time with LWT.
Canned Carrott also featured a regular police drama spoof called The Detectives, co-starring Robert Powell, which was spun off into its own series.
The Detectives ( 1993 – 1997 ) is a British comedy television series, starring Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, and George Sewell.
In 2012, BBC1 broadcast a one-off sketch show The One Jasper Carrott ( part of a series showcasing various comedians ) which included an extended sketch about Briggs and Louis having formed an incompetent private detective agency ' Holmes and Watson '.
Due to their involvement in both Canned Carrott and the contemporary The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis also got their own sketch show, called The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show, which ran for two series.
Carrott and 3
* Classic Carrott volume 3 – One Jasper Carrott ( TLCD050, TV soundtrack CD, Sound Entertainment 2005 )
Carrott and January
* American Carrott ( Channel 4 / HBO, 19 January 1985 )
Carrott and 1987
In addition to his television work, Carrott made a foray into cinema, when he played Heinrich in the 1987 British comedy Jane and the Lost City.
Carrott and –
* Jasper Carrott – I've Got This Mole ( short animated film, LWT, 23 December 1984 )
* Jasper Carrott – Learner Driver ( Mother in Law ) ( short animated film, unknown TX date )
* 24 Carrott Gold – The Best Of Jasper Carrott ( TCLCD 58, live at the NIC Birmingham, Sound Entertainment 2004 )
* Classic Carrott volume 1 – Canned Carrott For The Record ( 2CD TV soundtrack, Sound Entertainment 2005 )
Canned Carrott ( 1990 – 1992 ) was a comedy stand-up and sketch-show by Jasper Carrott.
Carrott and 4
In the mid-1980s, Grant collaborated with co-writer Doug Naylor on radio programmes such as Cliché and its sequel Son Of Cliché, Wrinkles for Radio 4 and television programmes such as Spitting Image, The 10 Percenters, and various projects for Jasper Carrott.
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