Jasper Carrott proving he's on live telly 1979

[ChromeDrifter71]

I remember waiting to see this all evening, when I was 8, sitting through the Return of the Saint and my mum had allowed us to stay up later to watch it, because we were fans of Jasper... thanks for posting - we had it on cassette (a livid yellow colour as I recall) and so it brings back loads of memories.

[blueleadguitar]

God, I haven't seen that for years! Absolutely brilliant, thanks so much michtyme3 for uploading it! Cheers!

[Maundervision]

One of the LPs I remember my father playing to me a lot when I was a kid, this show. In fact, the album carries on after the programme finished, with JC informing us of he & his mates' doomed attempts to set light to their farts ('We had to stick 'is bum out the window, in the end...'). Classic.

[00simonwise]

I remember Carrott saying not all ITV regions took the show live - some put him on after the epilogue...!

[drpoxy]

I can remember watching this - It was on after "The return of the saint" (the title of the episode escapes me !). Thanks for posting.

[UKArchiveTV]

9.15pm on Sunday 17 Feb 1979. The film was Perfect Gentlemen with Lauren Bacall. The Shakespeare was Measure for Measure with Tim Piggot-Smith.

[mutinyonthekitkat]

This seems familiar. I think I might have actually watched it at the time when I was a schoolkid.

There were only 3 UK channels in 1979 - BBC1, BBC2 and "ITV", C4 didn't start till 82. The channels used to close down around 1am as well, but that's the way is was and it's only strange looking back at it now. It's funny that even with tens of channels nowadays I still hear "there's nothin on telly" said a lot. I supose there'll never be enough channels.

[BethanyJayneCullen]

He's dead you know, Shakespere, I didn't even know he'd been ill-lmao

[wesker100000000]

Bloody hell jasper carrot looked like jean wildur when he had a lot of hair back then

[xandy1959]

someone put up his taking apart of the protect and survive what to do in the event of a nuclear war pamplet

[abbafan50986]

He is still the only Comedian to perform a whole hour of live comedy on British television

[jaychristie909]

The only comedian to get laughs out of switching TV channels.

[jeffrey44]

@jaychristie909

Did you never see Flipside?

[jeffrey44]

Why didn't he check to see what was on Sky Three?

[videotaper]

he said "side two" not "Sky Two"

[jeffrey44]

Oh, so why didn't he check BBC Four?

[videotaper]

nobody checks BBC Four

[eggfromsywell]

@videotaper There wasn't BBC Four back then. BBC Four only started in 2004 and is only available on digital broadcasts

[eggfromsywell]

@jeffrey44 There wasn't BBC Four back then. BBC Four only started in 2004 and is only available on digital broadcasts

[jeffrey44]

@eggfromsywell

I'm pretty sure that the TV Jasper Carrot is using has a built in digital tuner, but it does not allow him or the TV to travel through time. This is the reason he can't get BBC 4 or Russia Today.

[tigergibbs]

lol there were only about 5 channels in those days

[jeffrey44]

If 3 is about 5 then you are correct. There would have been 3 channels in the UK in 1979 although ITV were on strike for some of the year leaving viewers with just the choice of Channel 5 (now called five) and E4+1.

[gillymcilroy]

ha ha ha ha ha ha!

[eggfromsywell]

@tigergibbs There were only 3 channels then. Channel 4 didn't start until november 1982 and channel 5 did start until march 1997. So in 1979 there was only BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV available to TV views in the UK

[tigergibbs]

@eggfromsywell thanks for the info lol,youre right, im a bit young to remember the first two additions which is why said about, come to think of it i do remember channell five starting up though

[RJohnLloyd]

I wonder what the film was on BBC1.

[nmPKers]

it was a film about the person who wasn't a housewife but a russian spy who was the murderer. According to Carrott...

[TheMessiah79]

Brilliant - I was born in 79!!!

Great comedian

[jeffrey44]

Are you saying you are a great comedian or Jasper Carrott is a great comedian?

[TheMessiah79]

Erm... He is...

Mind you I'm not bad... ;)

[Madmonkeymusician]

Kisbie - just to continue.

I get annoyed with comedians, as I suspect you do, who think adding a swear word every other word makes it funny. Some of the best comedians actually don't swear at all. On the Tinselworm dvd box it says "one use of swearing" and that's the point. Someone once said swear word should be a full stop not a comma, and to me that is accurate. I don't mind it, I just think that currently it is so over done. Regardless Jasper is too good for tv gameshows!!!

[kisbie]

You've probably heard of Frank Skinner's attempt to remove all bad language from his act, just to see what the reaction would be. Like you, my problem with swearing is when it's used unnaturally or attempts to shock all by itself. (Though Sachsgate may prove the nadir of such lame humour.) As you say, there are plenty of comics who don't swear - or at least not much. There are also some whose use of it is still natural/creative.

PS Connolly adheres to national/gender 'types, but not racial.

[kisbie]

Congrats to Jasper on his British Comedy Lifetime Achievement Award. It seems incredible to think that there was a time when, as far as British stand-up was concerned, only him and a few others (Connolly, Dawson, and perhaps to an extent, Dodd) were doing non-racist, non-sexist, non-homophobic, observational stuff.

[Madmonkeymusician]

You're right, except that Connolly was doing some very dodgy stuff at the time.

This was a point when Dawson and Carrot were two on the guys on telly who weren't racist, sexist or homophobic.

Carrot was the king at the time for observational comedy.

Dodd was the barrage of jokes (kind of like Tim Vine is now)

Dawson was the old-time "my mother in law" king, making that type of comedy fresh!

And Morecombe and Wise ruled at Christmas.

No -ism's or swearing in sight. Just laughs.

[kisbie]

I left M&W out of my comment as I was referring to solo stand-ups. Connolly's act is dodgy in being 'rude', but not full of prejudices (at least not in the pre-alternative way).

Dodd's act is old-fashioned in that he is a straightforward gag man (although the one-liner style has made a slight comeback), but very much not Manning-esque.

I don't have as much of a problem with swearing as I do with isms, but I do feel that are a few too many (talented) comics around who are lazy with it.

[Madmonkeymusician]

I get the point with M&W I was just giving an example.

Connolly's act is rude now, but was very 'dodgy' in the sense of isms in the past not as blatantly or as contemptuously as Manning. But like many of the time, it was there. Dodd may be old fashioned but it has to be said he is legendary for his type of work. I don't have a problem with swearing, I just feel comedians are lazy with it. Though with Evans it is more a nervous thing. Others like Frankie Boyle just stick it in so sound Good.

[chippyhippychick]

I remember this... oh dear... I AM old!

[tittetybumpety]

I remember this show it was called The Unrecorded Jasper Carrott and they did an LP of it as well

[asifsmartie]

those where the days hours of fun

and jokes on the tv

and not one hint of a four letter word

put that up your pipe and smoke it

"little-britain"

only the mighty boosh can do that nowdays back in 1979 all of them did

this clip was pure class

wonderfull

[4276357]

i remeber tis class cmadyn

[jaymiller12]

he looks like Gene Wilder

[asifsmartie]

your not wrong jaymiller12

and both joke-gods

[ilawn43]

Fantastic stuff from the master

[bish1977]

this is part of the routine that featured the mole, absolute classic

carrot is a legend, right up there with david armand

[lindsayheyhey1991]

oh mr carrott sir you are truly amazing!!!

i'm in stitches!!!

[shezbanjo]

what a brilliant man

[danbit5]

those were days:)

[OmegaRFox]

Awesome...

[BHX]

Jasper Carrott - Brilliant.

[StargateCommando]

That is cool. Great way to show you're live, and funny too.

[poductions]

This was an ITV special that later got released as an LP, with a bonus routine they couldn't show on telly. Anyone remember that routine?

[teebee17]

Yes, it was Harry setting light to his farts!

[bigkevcool23]

Saw him at I think Fountins Abbey One of the Abbeys anyway. A few years ago with Phill cool he was class and Phill Cool was brilliant to.

[TheZ07]

killamanjaro is way bigger

[sharkteath]

Brilliant, I love it. Thanks..Does anyone know where I can see a copy of "There's only one way to get rid of a mole"?

[RoseSpyda665]

The Unrecorded Jasper Carrott, posted by nedoflanders. If memory serves the joke is separated between numbers 3 and 4.

[Waterfall64]

I remember seeing him at Blackpool in 1998, shortly before his resurgent BBC series. Brilliant stuff.

[purplex111]

If only they had magic roundabout.

ha ha its for kid init

[jl1127]

Someone must have 'the mole' sketch somewhere, and 'Scunthorpe baths'. C'mon, anybody??

[limeyosu]

more jasper please

[michtyme3]

This was an ITV show

[afhjkdgf]

What was that channel that he showed before the "ITV" interference? It sounded like "Side 2" or something. He was supposed to be on BBC2 wasn't he?

[sundaeg1rl]

Jasper ROCKS! I wish it was '79 again. Only 3 channels!

[PinkRinse]

Love Jasper. I remember him doing something about a mad cat they had called Lollipop and how it would attack ppl. Made me cry laughing :)

[VerityBlack2000]

My dad told me about him, and he's been trying to find me something so I can listen to him... he's hardly on here at all, it's sad. I really wanted to hear him.

[sendtothefunnyfarm]

hes on telly quite often now

[bhvictory]

Ah yes, but only in the rubbish game that is Golden Balls. He's a great presenter and comedian, but I'd love to see him back doing comedy on TV.

[sendtothefunnyfarm]

no i mean on paramount comedy they play his stand up quite often at weekends

[bhvictory]

Which of his series are they showing?

[sendtothefunnyfarm]

cant remember

[Madmonkeymusician]

GET HIM OFF OF GOLDEN BALLS!

he's too good for a game show.

We need him doing programmes like he did before, the observational comedy.

"the Detectives" comedy was better than many of the crap comedy series we have today and that wasn't even his best work.

If only the telly bosses could realise that wasting such talent on a crap gameshow is criminal!

He did comedy with music added in before Richard Digance or Bill Bailey - let that genius be seen!!!

[sendtothefunnyfarm]

Yea. Is he still doin the stand up? I wish he would come to Glasgow

[ukgolfa]

Magic, this takes me back...have it on 33rpm vinyl somewhere in a crate in England. Anyone have the "Nutter on the Bus", "Old Microphones" and "James Stannage" from this show, "Live at Drury Lane"..? God, I miss this kind of stuff. Thanks for the upload.

[TheSuperLambBanana]

Ah luv Brummies.

[Orneyfooka]

shame there isnt more jasper on here he's class thanx for the clip

[BabyGal89]

He's dead you know shakespere, i didnt know he'd beeen ill lol

[Snobert]

Me Four

[farveree]

Me three !

[MissKumquat13]

Aw, I love Jasper Carrott...

[Schpudd]

me too :)