Jasper Carrott was born in Birmingham in 1945, and educated at Acocks Green Infants/Junior School and Moseley Grammar School. His first performance of note was as resident compere at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull. There he discovered his talent for comedy, and his inability to sing, and the rest, as they say, is history.

In 1975 Jasper released his first single. Funky Moped / Magic Roundabout, was a massive chart hit, selling almost a million copies and narrowly missing a Gold Disc.

Jasper’s first television appearance was in The Golden Game for BBC Midlands, in 1975. His first television series was aired in 1978, 'An Audience with Jasper Carrott' for LWT, a series of six shows. The show title was then purloined for the hour-long celebrity shows we are all familiar with now.

In 1979 Jasper was named as ITV Personality Of The Year and his live TV show from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 'The Unrecorded Jasper Carrott'. This remains unique as a live to air one hour comedy show. Since then Jasper's national and international tours have taken him to many corners of the world.

In 1982, Jasper conceived and co-wrote the live series "Carrott's Lib", which won a BAFTA Award the following year. In 1985 he starred in the stage play 'The Nerd' and, in 1988, the film 'Jane and the Lost City'.

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.

Jasper has regularly presented a Christmas special for the BBC, either in the form of the hugely successful "Carrott's Commercial Breakdown", with over 14 million viewers, which won the Best Independent Prize at the prestigious Montreux Festival and a Gold medal at the New York TV & Film Awards, or as a television special such as "One Jasper Carrott" recorded live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Jasper has regularly presented a Christmas special for the BBC, either in the form of the hugely successful "Carrott's Commercial Breakdown", with over 14 million viewers, which won the Best Independent Prize at the prestigious Montreux Festival and a Gold medal at the New York TV & Film Awards, or as a television special such as "One Jasper Carrott" recorded live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

In 1995 Jasper celebrated his 50th birthday and was presented with the "Midlander Of The Year" award, a prestigious honour which he now shares with such diverse characters as Betty Boothroyd and Ozzy Osbourne! In the same year, Aston University presented to him an achievement award for services to the Midlands.

1996 and 1997 saw Jasper return to writing new material in preparation for a new series for the BBC and a major UK tour in 1998. The tour embraced over 150 sell out shows in the major theatres of the country including a sell out fourteen night run in the 2000-seater Birmingham Hippodrome.

1998 culminated with the filming of a brand new six part BBC television series, Back to the Front, which Bob Monkhouse called “the finest stand-up comedy on television”. It was transmitted three times on BBC1 Television during 1999.

In 2002, Jasper starred in All About Me – a new sit-com for BBC 1 Television, made by Celador Productions, transmitted in March, which has now completed three series.

In June of that year, Jasper became a Savoyan, when D’Oyly Carte invited him to appear as Koko in their production of The Mikado at the Savoy Theatre, London.

In 2003 Jasper Carrott was awarded an OBE in Her Majesty’s New Years Honours List in recognition of his outstanding work for charity.

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 also 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.

In July 2004, Birmingham University presented Jasper Carrott with a Doctorate for Business Studies.

The third series of All About Me was broadcast September 2004.

Notable achievements include two gold albums, four silver discs, 1.5 million books and two T-shirts!