jack carroll
Mobility is a comedy short for BBC Three, that follows three Huddersfield teenagers with nothing in common except that they all have to catch the mobility bus to school.
It’s the first day of 6th Form, and Mike (Jack Carroll) is looking forward to a bit of social mobility. He’s way better than the group of loser friends he’s somehow accrued, and aspires to higher things.
Disabled comics Jack Carroll and Pete Selwood are joined by token able bodied comic Chris Copestake for a podcast entitled Impaired. Together the trio discuss the lighter side of disability and set out to answer the questions that most able bodied people are too afraid to ask.
In the most recent episode, entitled I Came Second, Like You Will Be Later Love, we find out how Pete has a huge disadvantage at drinking games, and why to Jack, every dance is a lap dance.
So tonight's the night that Jack Carroll either makes it big on Britain's Got Talent or heads back to obscurity. Nothing of the sort of course. The 14-year-old sit-down-sometimes stand-up has become something of a national hero since his first appearance on Simon Cowell's variety trade fair. Even David Walliams rather over-excitedly dubbing the lad from Hipperholme near Huddersfield the next Peter Kay should not hold Carroll back from a successful career in comedy.
When I wrote some thoughts about Jack Carroll on Britain's Got Talent recently I sang his praises but wondered whether he wrote his own material. This prompted the following response on Facebook from Alan Holloway: "It's not a prerequisite to write your own material, really.
I've been thinking about Jack Carroll's triumphant first appearance on Britain's Got Talent and have been trying to decide whether it will be good for the 14-year-old's career or not. Plenty of exposure certainly. But could it be too much for someone so young? Looking back on past young comedians, staying power, not wit, seems to be the issue.
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