Jasper Carrott Quotes

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

I miss my singing career very much.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician. I love singing, but I don't have a big repertoire of songs that I've written; I mean, I've got a few, but nothing that I could fill an album with, and I don't want to do it just for the sake of it.

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.

In the mid-1970s, there was this huge boom of stand-up comedy throughout North America. I went to see a show at a club called Yuk-Yuks, in Toronto, and I was just fascinated. I ended up coming back for amateur hour on a Monday at midnight and got up there without any thought as to what might come of it.

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

I left home to become a singer and didn't realise when I turned comedian.

I always tell comics you got to hang with your stand-up.