Jasper Carrott Quotes

I was born a comic.

I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the best intentions, but usually it fails.'

I'd never been the class clown and comedy was not a fulfilment of a dream.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.

You know, I've never thought of myself as a comedian.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Yes, I'm known as America's most genuine comedian.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.

Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre. I thoroughly enjoy comedy, especially because it is inherent to my personality.

I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.

I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.

I was never really comfortable doing comedy.

I was born to be funny.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.