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Jasper Carrott
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Jasper Carrott is a well loved comedian and comedy actor. Born and bred in Birmingham, he continues to live in the area and has strong local ties. He is ... very much a family man, proud of his four children and his two young grandchildren.
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In January 2004, Jasper Carrott returned to his Birmingham roots with a record-breaking season of shows at the National Indoor Arena. Such was the public response, the season was extended to fourteen nights, selling over 70,000 tickets and breaking existing box office records. It was ... the longest run for a comedian performing on consecutive nights in an arena. The show featured sketches requested by the members of the audience who were there on the evening, resulting in a different show every night. 24 Carrott Gold was filmed for the BBC and broadcast in six parts on BBC1 in spring 2004.
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Brummie comedian Jasper Carrott (OBE dontchaknow) will be hosting a new game show on ITV1 called Golden Balls. What do these balls involve? Well, it's a game of luck, intuition and barefaced bluff. One hundred ‘golden balls,’ concealing different cash amounts are up for grabs. Players must try to find and hang on to the balls containing life-changing amounts of money but they ... need to avoid the dreaded ‘killer balls’, which can turn pounds into pennies within seconds.
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Jasper teamed up with his old friend Phil Cool, the show CARROTT & COOL playing to sold out houses in a record 143 performances nation-wide. THE DETECTIVES evolved into a full six-part comedy series based on the antics of Jasper and Robert Powell as the two bungling detectives. The BBC1 Christmas Special ONE JASPER CARROTT live at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane attracted over 14 million viewers.Jasper was named as BBC TV’s 'Personality Of The Year'.
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In 1992, Jasper was named BBC TV's Personality of the Year and in this year teamed up with actor Robert Powell to record 'The Detectives', a comedy series based on the ridiculous antics of two bungling detectives. Such was the success of the initial series there have been four further series of 'The Detectives' to date, with a Christmas Special for Christmas 1997.
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Jasper concentrated solely on the second series of CANNED CARROTT, which was shown in November. The two series of CANNED CARROTT regularly entered the BBC Top Ten consistently reaching audiences of 13.5 million viewers. Prior to this, in September, two compilations of the best of the first series of CANNED CARROTT were shown and made the Top Ten ratings with the second show gaining over 11 million viewers. CARROTT'S COMMERCIAL BREAKDOWN 2 was shown between Christmas and the New Year and resulted in viewing figures of 14 million.
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