In the early 1960s, Rogers appeared as a stand up comedian on the radio programme Billy Cotton Band Show, alongside singers such as Tom Jones, Cliff Richard and Alma Cogan and comedians Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd.
He was asked by Perry Como to join him on his tour of Britain in 1975 as a comedian after a Royal Variety Performance.
He earned £130,000 a year in the early 1980s from 3-2-1 alone[8] and combined this with a career as a highly paid after-dinner speaker, also making regular cabaret and public appearances.
Rogers was surprised by host Eamonn Andrews in Covent Garden, central London, with guests on the show including Jimmy Edwards and Sacha Distel.
In April 1996, Rogers told the Sunday Mirror that "The Oxbridge lot got control of TV and they didn't really want [the show].
His final television appearance, which was screened at the end of January 2001, saw him playing the host of a downmarket quiz show in the Series 13 episode Let's Get Quizzical of the BBC children's sitcom ChuckleVision.
Had he lived, he would have worked with his old friend Jackie Mason on a Vaudeville-type act in America which was due to start in October 2001.
On 2 May 2001, Rogers died after emergency open-heart surgery to repair a heart valve at St Thomas' Hospital in London, aged 67.