Episode 363: Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson: Exploring Fame, Fitness, and Funny Stories with a Comedy Legend
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Hi, guys. It's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits & Hustle. Crush it. So... Here we are. Here we are. I didn't want to say anything before we started rolling because I have so many questions for you and I didn't want to get all the good stuff. Right, right. No, it's hard when you're sitting up, we're talking like... Wait, save it for the show. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Because I have to tell you again... I hope we didn't do all the good stuff during the pre-show. I hope not either. Because...

I have been legit fascinated, fascinated by you probably my whole life. Oh, wow. Like at least 20 years. I've always thought you were so exceptionally talented. Thank you. And,

Just the fact that you've had the longevity you've had in this career, like you've been in residency in Las Vegas for 30 years almost, right? Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. Are you the longest ever to be at a show? I'm up there. I don't know. We've never really done the, but I'm up there because, yeah, as far as longevity, especially in one particular hotel. I've been at the Luxor now coming up on, it'll be 19 years later.

So that's a long time in one property. That probably, I own that probably record, but. For sure. And then. And then about 30 some years in Vegas itself. I'm 40. It'll be 40 years in comedy coming up. Well. It's kind of exciting. 40 years. 40 years. You were at MGM Graham, weren't you before? Right. And then you came to Luxor and been here forever. So when, by the way, I was so excited to have you. I didn't even say who I have on. This is Carrot Top. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. I could think I'm Reba. Yeah. This is Carrot Top. Yeah.

I have Keratops. Reba's letter said, Reba's got some guns on her. Yeah. Like, you're like crazy fit. But by the way, we're going to get to that. Okay. But your real name is Scott Thompson. Scott Thompson. Now you know why I went by Keratops. Yeah. What a pretty boring name, Scott Thompson. Well,

Well, there's a kids in the hall. There's a guy from the kids, the hall named Scott Thompson. That's right. And kids in the halls, Canadian and I'm right. Oh yeah, that's right. And so I thought, well, Scott Thompson is already kidding. I know him. And, and it was kind of a funny story. Why did real briefly? They, I, when I lived in LA, they sent me on a, on an interview or what do you call it? Audition. And I get there and they're like, uh, I come in to read this part and they're all like, care top. And I'm like, yeah. And they're like,

uh, okay, how did you get this interview of this audition? I'm like, an agency sent me and they're like, they're all just like dumbfounded. And I'm like, did you get, oh, did you guys get the wrong Scott Thompson? And they all were like,

Yeah. And I'm like, kids in the hall. And they'll go, oh my God, yeah. So your Scott. I said, yeah, you probably wanted him. Then I come walking in my hair out the ear. And I said, well, thank you though. That's very sweet. I said, well, no, I'm going to read. I mean, I came all the way down here. I'm going to read the part, you know, maybe I'll get it. Did you get it? No, but I read for the part. And I remember thinking it's so funny. They were looking for the other Scott Thompson. That is really hilarious. Right away. They were like, what are you doing here? Well, it's funny because I do.

How many people actually even know that's your name, right? No, but lawyers in the government, people like that. Right, exactly. That's basically, and your mom. My mom, I don't know if my mom even knows me. But yes, no, my grandmother used to call me Carrot Top, and I always found that really weird. My grandma's like, is this my nephew, Carrot Top? And I'm like, it's Scott, Grandma. Yeah, that's really, well, who do your friends call you?

I have no friends, so they, no, they call me Scott. Yeah, Scott. They call you Scott. Yeah, nobody calls me CT or Carrot or, no, it's Scott. Like when you walk in here, so we're doing this podcast in Scott, a.k.a. Carrot Top's backstage dressing room. When you walk in, do people say, oh, hey, Scott? Yeah. Yeah, they don't say, hey, Carrot Top. No, no one ever says, no one. Down to security, down to anybody at the hotel, no.

I would never think no one's addressed me as Carrot Top. When you walk in here, do you go through the main entrance or do you have a backdoor entrance or how do you... I go through the backdoor. You go through the backdoor. Yeah. Okay. Front door. I don't go through the front door. I'm Carrot Top. Well, I figured, do they even have one? Like, do people always stop and recognize you? No, there's a backdoor in the luxury... It's not really about trying to not be recognized. I mean, I'm going to be on stage in hours, but it's just... Well, you're pretty recognizable. It's just easy to... We park in the back and we get through and it's a lot easier to get into the hotel and out of the hotel. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So...

I'm not one of those guys, though. Don't look at them kind of thing. No, of course. You're like the most... As I say, look at my jean shorts. Look at my jorts. You look really nice. You're very friendly and super nice and seem to be very kind and down to earth. Everybody who works for you have been here for like 100 years, 18 years, 17 years, 19 years. All my crew from day one, pretty much. That's crazy. Yeah. So how did you... Let's start from the way beginning. Okay. When did people start calling you Carrot Top and...

How did you even start? I started in college on a dare from my roommates. They had an open mic and I went up and I told like joke jokes, you know, old jokes, you know, guy walks into a bar kind of thing. And I did great. And everybody said, man, you're funny. And then they had it every semester. They had another one. And so my friends were like, you got to do it again. That was great. And I went up and did it a couple more times like that. And then...

There's a comedy club that had the same summer thing, like an open mic, and I went down to audition for them. The lady was like, I still remember her name is Colleen McGarver, and she looked at me and she's like, "I got down," and I had to audition in a sense in the comedy club. I've never been in a comedy club, it was just first time on stage.

just in front of her with her clipboard. And she's just looking at me. I'm like, do I do it in front of a crowd? She's like, no, do it in front of me. I'm like, okay, that's weird. So I did my act and whatever I called my act. And she's remember looking at me. I've never seen like yesterday. She's like, um, those aren't your jokes, right? I said, no, no, they're just like knock, knock jokes. And you know, George Carlin joke and Joan Rivers. She's like, okay, do you have any, like your own jokes? And I said, no, she's like, you gotta have your own jokes. And I said, oh, you do? And she's like, yeah. I'm like, oh, that's,

makes it difficult, a little harder. So she said, go home and try to think of something that's you and natural, like that would be your organic you. So

I went home and I just started thinking, I need a name. Before I even had a joke, I said, I need a name. I need like the Rolling Stones tongue, the Grateful Dead sticker. I need a name. And I just wrote down Carrot Top and I drew a little logo. It's in here somewhere. I drew it with a Sharpie and I said, Carrot Top. And my roommates came and said, what's that? It's just my logo for my company and my career as a comic. They're like,

you're not a comedian. I said, I know, but I have a logo. That's the important part. You know, the hard part's over. I got the logo. It's not, I mean, I think I'm kidding. So I had like a logo. I printed it up on a t-shirt. I said, look at it, carrot top. And they're like, boy, you need an act. And I said, that'll be, that'll be the easy part. So I'd had a neighborhood crime watch sign that I'd stolen when we were in college. It was in our, my dorm room.

And as I was drawing my Carrot Top logo, I was kind of looking up at this Neighborhood Crime Watch sign. It's a metal, you know, four by four crime watch. It said Neighborhood Crime Watch. And I thought, there's something funny there because when we took the sign, there's nobody watching. So I thought, how good is our crime watch if then I'm watching us take the sign? So I took it off the wall and I went down to her and I said, here's one. Is this funny? And she said, yes.

"Oh, that's really funny. "And I like the visual aspect of it too." But I didn't know that everything was gonna be visual at that time. That was just one organic joke that I could come up with an idea. And she said, "I love that." And I said, "Okay, I'll try to think of more things." And I started doing, no, I said, "Do you want me to go steal more signs?" And she said, "No, don't do that." And I, in my head, said,

that's what I'm going to do. So I went around town and there was a lot of street signs that were funny. There was one that had slow children at play and it had, it had a kid with no feet and I said, well no wonder they're slow, they can't, they have no feet. Uh,

There was one, no train horn between certain hours. And I said, that's when the hours that the train horn isn't there is when we need it. We can see night. So it was really clever. It was like a, what do you call it? Like just a show and tell kind of thing. And I would do the signs. It was all signs. And I ended on the, you know, the best one was Butts Road. That was the name of the street that went right through Boca Raton. I said, this is Butts Road where all the assholes live. And it just killed. And she said, this is great. I love the idea of you with the signs.

but then I ran out of signs. So I, there's a whole bunch of them reduced speed ahead. I said, there's cheap drugs ahead, you know, all these dumb things. And, and,

I was known for this sign bit and it killed. And she said, you need to grow off that. What's the next thing? And I'm just sitting there and I said, how about a hat for old people when they drive so their head goes above the seat? So I made this, just like this, a hat. I got a mannequin head and I tied it on with a wig, a gray wig. And I'd say, you wear this for old people so they can see their head when they drive. And all of a sudden it was kind of like,

props, you know, kind of came into, she was like, this is fascinating. This is great. And no one's doing props. Oh my God. And how many do you have? I'm like, well, as of now that and the signs, but I'll keep thinking. So I just literally exhausted everything in my brain. I was like a cowboy boot with a kickstand. So drunks don't fall down an ice tray with a level. So you wouldn't spill the water, putting it back in the freezer. It was tons of hangers. It was a hanger for a bachelor. Didn't have a hook, you know, just went on the ground.

And she was like, this is brilliant. This is great. And it was all original. She's like, this is the best part. Because back then when I started, it was all about doing original stuff. It wasn't about doing someone else's act. Yeah. And so I was kind of proud of the fact that I was doing original stuff. And in any comic that would give me grief, which they all still to this day give me grief, I would always say, at least I'm doing my own thing. I don't know why. You would think just the opposite. That they all get behind you, right? In a sense, like he's doing something different. Totally. But more hate came because I was doing something original and clever. Yeah.

and people loved it, but other comics hated it. And then, you know, I just... But why? It doesn't make sense, though. Is it jealousy? Yeah, sure. It's all that. It's like, you know, but, you know, it really, when it comes down to it, like, I might have spoken about this on a few other shows, but...

I think that when it finally came down, because, you know, I'm like anybody else. I mean, we're humans and we want everyone to love us. We want everyone to love your brand and your comedy. And comedy is very selective. It's like music and politics. Everything is so, right? People love Carrot Top. People hate Carrot Top. And I get that. I know people that hate the Rolling Stones. It's unbelievable. They're horrible. They're hacks. I'm like, are you out of your mind? But anyway, I think the one thing

day that just dawned on me was when like George Carlin, you know, who was a mentor and a magnificent mind. I was at an airport and he walked up to me or I walked up to him. I don't want to bother you. He's not bothering me. I said, I'm a comic and I just wanted to say you're great. And he goes, Carrot Top. And it was like, it was like two things that happened. One, he knew who I was, which was like, what? And then

And then he said, your stuff's funny. And I said, oh my God, you're kidding me. He says, no, that paper cups and string thing is brilliant, dude. How did you come up with that? I'll never forget that. And I said, how did I come up with that? How did you come up with like stuff, that whole bit about stuff? He's like, that's just crap. But that cup thing is really, I said, yeah.

Dude, it's parallel how we think. He's a comic, I'm a comic. He thought this way and I thought this way, but I loved his observational stuff and that's what he loved about mine. And he said it was very clever. He's not a dummy. So the joke was it was a paper, cups, and string telephone. And it was during the...

Yeah.

And he gave me confidence that I'm actually doing something good and not worrying about all the other comics that were hating and bashing on me. I'm like, George Carlin likes me. So you kind of forget about the guy in the basement texting crap about me. And then you get Gary Shandling saying to me, you're great. George Carlin, you're great. Jay Leno, Bill Maher, all these people that I admire...

are fans of mine, you know. Like real legends. Yeah, real legends. Richard Pryor said to me, yeah, damn, you're fine. And I said, you know, that was the part that it took a while to get to that. But once I had that in the back of my head, I was like, yeah, I'm doing something good. And it's something, and the show's grown exponentially. I mean, literally, it was just props.

for the longest time because I was nervous and scared to do anything else. I was afraid just to tell a story. So how long were you just doing props for? Well, for a good while. And then when I would do, it's just, even like with the Tonight Show and Regis and Kathy Lee and all the shows that I... Yeah, I remember you used to do all those shows. I still do them. I mean, it's no more Regis, but I still do... What's her name? Kelly. Yeah, Kelly. But when I would do like the Jay Leno shows and all those, or senior, every show, the

They wanted the props. They didn't want me to come up and tell a story. They wanted Carrot Top with the trunk of stuff, which I get. And then when people see the live show, they're like, oh my God, I thought it was going to be like an hour and a half of what I see on Jay Leno. I'm like, I would die doing that for an hour and a half. You just can't go and manic for an hour and a half and die. But when I opened for people back in the day, like opening act for a big... I would do 10, 15 minutes of that. It would work fine. But doing an hour and a half of that. So once I started getting...

theater shows and live shows and that it had to evolve into more of a show and not just that one aspect. So, you know, I started using my video wall with jokes and I started telling stories. You'll see tonight. There's like, I might go 45 minutes without holding one prop. It's just, it's just storytelling, which I never did. And it happened. Two things happened.

One was COVID. And prior to that was I broke my leg snowboarding because I look like Sean White. So I thought I was good. You do look like Sean White. Yeah, I thought I was good. By the way, you look a lot like Sean White. Yeah, which is good because he's not my age. Yeah, I was going to...

And we're good friends. I know Sean's friend. So he'll say that. He's like, you know what people say on the show? I said, I guess Sean, well, he gets carrot top. You know what's interesting, though? Like, in all of these years, there's never been anybody who has been able to replicate what you do. I don't think anyone wants to be another carrot top. But that just says so much about, like, how talented you are. Like, nobody can do it. Well, I don't know. I don't know. That is true about not that part.

The second, first part, not the talented part. The part about another Carrot Top kind of is show. There hasn't been and people, like my agents have been with me for 30 years now. Where's your agents? LA, CAA. Oh, CAA, okay. But anyone will say like, there's no, or I go to comedy clubs, they're like, there's no, look on TV, there's no like a new Carrot Top. There's not a guy doing what, so I don't know if they just,

maybe I just, I just burned them all. No one wants to do it. No, but no one knows how to do it. Like, you know, it's kind of a, it's a different kind of format. Most people know standup comedy and especially now because, uh, it's, you know, like with the roast, I did plenty of roasts. I would just do my stand. I would do that. And maybe I'd have a proper to like flavor Flav's clock. I made a one for him. That was like an old fashioned. I saw, I saw that. I would always do my thing and then a prop, but, but,

But like when people mostly know what they stand up, that's why people are like, what is a prop comic? I'm like, I'm not, I am a prop comic. But if you saw the show tonight, you'd say, oh, it's props, but there's not, it's not a prop comic. There's props in it, but there's storytelling. But I think what's interesting is even if you, I even said prop comic, because to be able to think that quick on your feet for so many years and be topical and current, like, like you were just saying, it's not like you're,

pulling out and doing the same joke from like 1984. You have to be on point and stay current with whatever you're doing. And to think and be observational like that is very, very hard. And like, even if you're only doing a portion of that for the show now, you weren't, you were doing like, you were going on all these shows. And when did you say that

As of late, you said you've incorporated all these other storytellings and stuff. But I'm sure what for the first how many years were you just doing props because it was hitting the first probably probably for the first, you know, eight or nine or 10. And then that's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. But then that was like I said, I was known for that. But when I started doing like colleges and I have an hour show, it had to be involving to more of a show. It had to become not necessarily a Vegas thing, but we still do the road. We take the show on the road. We go to Kansas City. We go to Ohio. We go to.

you know, San Diego. So it's not a Vegas show. That's what I was feeling. We're in a Vegas show? No, it's not a Vegas, it's just a show we're going to bring to you. It's not Vegas. So... Because you're here, like, what, six nights a week? Yeah, we're here six nights a week. So, I mean, our show is definitely more, you know, probably people now know a bit that are, you know, like, Vegas, but they don't know that I, you know... Go to other shows. Yeah, the Vegas show. Well, the...

Did you, by the way, when you were younger, like before college. I was never younger. I don't feel like I was younger. When you were like before college, did you even know that you were funny? Were you considered the funny kid? Did you do funny things? Yes, but I wasn't, I was not like the class clown out there trying to get the laughs. I was kind of the quiet one that had the punchline ready. Yeah. Everybody would laugh. Were you a good student?

I was okay. Yeah, I mean, I was okay. My brother was a student, went to the Air Force Academy swimming scholarship, and I got Bs and Bs and Cs. And I was in the band, but I never got into arts and show business. I never went into acting or anything. I just went, you know, I wanted to be a comic. As a kid, like, I'd tell a story on the show. I was eight, and I would do, like, an impression of, like, Casey Kasem or something. And my mom was like, you're so funny. And she would...

I would entertain her and her friends. Like I always had something in me. And as my neighbors, he's so, he's so unusual and different. And I, I was, I, you know, I skinny redhead kid. Everyone, everyone where I grew up were blonde surfers. And I'm like this redheaded kid on the beach. I hated it. I wanted to be a blonde surfer. So that's where the, you know, the comedy kind of started because I'm,

you know, like Jim Gaffigan always says the same thing, you know, being a guy like me, it's true. Like you're, you know, you're redheaded people in general. People just stare at you in general. You're different. And then that was my defense when they would pick on me. That was my comedy. Yeah. So they would, yeah, it was to pick on me. And then, and then I would say, you know, I would make a joke about it or I would have observational things as a kid. You know, there, you know, I think one thing I told Gallagher who I was probably, I don't

13 years old and somehow I went to go see him. I wanted to learn comedy and I was standing with him. I was standing with him. There was a big door and it said, "This door must remain closed at all times." I'll never forget this. I said, "Why is there even a door?" Then he just looked at me and he said, "That's funny." He put it in his show and then he says, "Scott wrote that." I did. I just didn't write it. I just said it was an observation. Why is there a door if it says this door must always be closed?

then don't have a door there. And he thought that was genius. You know, it's like a Carlin kind of thing. It is. It's really, exactly. So I kept writing a lot of those, like, you know, can you run with a Walkman? You know, why does the host for 2020 wear glasses? I had all these, like these clever little one-liners and I started putting them in, into the show. So I wasn't doing a prop. I was doing kind of a standup and it slowly started doing stories.

And then it really started changing. I broke my leg snowboarding and I had to... What year did you break your leg? Well, a couple of times. But the first time, I just, I don't think I, I just didn't do it. I, you know, now who I am, I couldn't just like, I'm going to take six months off and heal. Yeah. So I broke it and I was on stage the very next night. And it wasn't how we're going to do this. I said, we'll get a knee, you know, this knee...

carts. I remember you did that. So I did it for like six months. I did the whole show just on a knee scooter with no, with nothing. I couldn't reach back to get my props. I couldn't. So I did an hour, almost like a monologue thing on one knee. And it was so incredible that for me and everybody watching it grow into this thing that had never happened. And then COVID hit. And then we had a double, you know, that and then COVID and they put me in the

this room, we were the first show back because I was the only guy on stage. There's a whole bunch of rules they had with this. So I, you know, none of the dancing shows, none of the, just stand up, they asked everybody, and I said, I'm not doing it. And they said, you want to come back? And I said, no. And then finally, they're like, you'll be the first one to come back. And I said, well, do I have to wear a mask? And they said, yeah, I'm not going to do comedy with a mask on. That's,

the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. So they finally came back and said, you can, you can do it without a mask, but the audience has to be not only distance and spread out from, it was a 3000 seat theater at the Luxor. And they, is it 3000 people? No, at the others too here, there's one for the, that no one uses now. It used to be like a big room. Oh, okay. Okay. How many people are in this room? Like,

350 for me. Okay. Which is perfect for Vegas, especially with visuals and all. That show was, that show was great, but it was, it was too big even for my act. So, but they had them all spread out so that they had like 200 feet of tarp before the first audience member. Oh my gosh. And then two people, two people, four people, two people. And we'd have, I think max, you're allowed to have a hundred people. So I came back from Florida, you know, year off and,

And we went into the room and I'm like, wait, what are we doing? And they're like, see the X's? That's where people are going to be sitting. And I'm like, yeah, I ain't doing it. And they're like, no, it'll be great. I'm like, it's not going to be. I mean, how are you going to do comedy, especially visual comedy with people spread out so far? And the first audience member was like, it was literally 500 feet from me. And we did it.

And that was the, between that and my leg, it was just changed the whole dynamic of how I did my show. I just started telling more stories because I pull out props in the beginning. It's like the very first part of the show is kind of a rapid pace, just props. It's like the old carrot top. And then it goes into, it slows down and gets into a little bit of a rhythm. But, uh,

You couldn't hear anything. And so then I stopped and just started telling stories. It was better. You still couldn't hear them. And then they allowed us to have 200 people. And then finally we went back into this room and it was back to, you know, normal kind of setting. But there's a lot of things that kind of happened and changed the dynamic of how I performed and stuff.

and how it just changed and evolved. Are you friends with other comics that are just tinted in? Definitely not. I don't know any comics. You don't know any? When I lived in L.A., of course, I'd always go to the comedy clubs and sit in the back. I pretty much know most comics. Newer comics, I don't know that well. I feel bad about that, too. People ask me, who's your favorite new up-and-coming comic? I'm like, Jim Gaffigan? No, no, new. I'm like, ah.

I do like Jim Gaffigan. Seinfeld, Gaffigan? I don't know the new, but not the roast for whatever. I didn't know anybody on that. You didn't know anybody? Not one person. I mean, I knew Tom Brady. I knew Kevin Hart, but all the comics, no. Nick Glazer? Jeffrey Ross. I know Jeffrey Ross. You know Jeffrey Ross. You also probably know Nicky Glazer, don't you? No, I don't know Nicky Glazer.

You've never heard of her? No, I've never met her. Oh, you never met her. Okay, you never met her. But like, okay, so how do you not... The comics, we're all friendly to one. Everyone knows, we know each other. Well, how about like in the Vegas community? I mean, do you see the same, like the David Copperfields, the Criss Angel? Do you guys hang out together? Because you all are residents for here for so long? We have, you know, hang out. We don't like go get sushi with David Copperfields.

Why not? You guys are- I have gone to dinner with him and I have gone to dinner with Chris Angel. We have- Okay. Yeah. So, but we don't, it's not a normal basis thing. You don't hang out. The rat pack thing. No, we don't hang out. But yeah, like the rat pack. I just went to see him. Which one? Chris. Okay. Because he was giving me so much grief that I hadn't seen his show in a while. I said, dude, I work six nights a week and the night that I get off, I'm not going to go to your show. Sorry. Right. You know, I don't even want to go to my show. So- But you went. He finally talked into me going, and I went and it was,

phenomenal and it really was a great show and i and i there's a trick i put in the show tonight that i that i it's we're doing well and it's all based on after that's how the creative happens i went and saw him and i said to myself i need a magic bit and then we just created it or i didn't say we i just kind of thought of the idea i already have all the bells and whistles with the smoke and the thing and the boom to boom so i said let's just come up with some kind of bit and um

That's what I do. And then I give them the thing, like, you know, if you want to see it done properly, go see Chris Angel. Oh, so you guys collaborate, kind of. No, no. He didn't help me with it, but I think he would like it. No, I say collaborate, like you help promote each other, kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. I think he, I hope he, yeah, yeah.

I love all the, every, you know, I've been here so long, all the shows here are great. You know, they wouldn't be here because, you know, they weren't good. Well, people obviously like come back for 1830, whatever, 30 years. Right, right. You obviously have an audience. But how do you, like, does your mind ever shut off? I mean, because you, do you have to think of things automatically?

all the time. Like, do you sleep? Are you, like, what, how are you able to? I'm a pill popper, but I, but I, no, I, yeah, I can't, I don't shut it off all day. But I don't, I don't sit around juggling salt and pepper shakers at the restaurant either. Like, I'm a very quiet guy.

You are in real life? Yeah, like very shy and quiet. I'm usually by myself when I go out. So people that live around here know me. In fact, they always say, you want to sit with us? You always feel lonely. I'm like, no, I love sitting by myself. Right. Are you a loner? Because that's what I'm kind of thinking. That's what I'm kind of thinking. Yeah, I'm totally a loner. Do you have that? I don't like being around a lot of people. And it's weird because I do it for a living. But if I had to go to a party and sit around with 100 people and talking to them, I would lose my mind. Right. So I don't go to social gatherings.

functions much. That happens a lot though with entertainers though, because you're so used to having people around. I'm not a neurotic about it. I just don't really have, I don't want to share small talk about it. And the last thing I want to hear when I go to like a thing, especially if it's here in Vegas. So, oh, so, you know, so six nights a week. Yeah. Yeah. Let's not talk about our, our shows. Yeah, exactly. That kind of thing. So. But do you, okay, wait, do you have a family? What's your personal life like? I rent a family. It's a lot easier. Like a car, literally you get done with them. You just

Now, I have a family, yes. My mom lives in, I had lunch with her today, actually, my mother. Your mother, okay. She lives in Vegas. She's a stripper. She's doing great for her age, actually. My mom had lunch with her today. Your mom lives in Vegas? Yeah. She does. She's lived here longer than I have. She moved here when, yeah, we all lived in Florida, and then my mom got married to a new guy and went west, and she just ended up out here. And we even said, where are you, mom? She's in Vegas, way before I was doing Vegas. Really? Yeah, and then I got a show at Bally's.

Was that the first show you got? 1994, yeah. Wait, so can you tell me something before? Do you have kids? No. Are you married? No. Do you have a boyfriend, girlfriend? No, nothing. Neither. Okay. And so are you single? Yeah. Do you date? No. Are you on apps? No.

No, definitely not. You don't go on dates? No, I'm not. No. I am happy just being single and no dates. No dates? No dates. So you really don't like social life? No, I really don't like anything social. I really don't. I go home and I watch SportsCenter or watch a little bit of something to keep me up to date with the world, like for the show, like a news thing. Right. So you can keep current.

A little politics just to say I'm on. So I know what's going on. So I don't do something on stage and they're like, you already picked his vice president, you idiot. So I don't know what's going on. But you'll see there's a little politics in the show, but it's all lighthearted and fun. But I'm not like, yeah, make sure we clear this up. I'm not like this crazy neurotic guy that doesn't like social. No, no. I totally understand. I go to the gym by myself. Then I go to lunch usually by myself. And then I go here and.

And then I see all the people and then I go home and I'm by myself. Well, wait a second. Yeah. I mean, by the way, it doesn't seem weird. So what is your, I was going to say, a lot of people have to be surrounded by a lot of people. I have friends that like have to have a girlfriend and every time, you know, they fight and they hate each other. It always has a new girlfriend. I'm like, why don't you just try not having a girlfriend? It's just kind of, yeah, be alone. Enjoy yourself for one night. You know, I can't do, I got to have somebody. How do you just sit home and not be yourself? I'm like,

I don't know. Just like I would say to you, how do you sit home? I know. It's true, though. So it is true. I don't know. I like aloneness is fine. No, I think that. Listen, I think that you're probably around. You've been around people your whole life. When did you have a girlfriend? Like recently? Yeah. She went to lunch today with us. Oh, she did. Okay. She's the word. Just still best friends. You're still good friends. Okay. But tell me what time you wake up. What is the day in the life? Then you were just kind of saying it. What time do you wake up? And what happened that you became such a fitness fanatic?

I've always worked out. That's what's so funny. All the way back to 13, 14 years old, I was in high school when I was on the wrestling team and swim team. And I always worked out. That's why people talk about it. They're like, all of a sudden you just got, go back when I'm 14. My yearbook picture, I always had muscles. I always worked out.

Because you look like to most people, like you went from being like a regular size person. I mean, there's pictures of me in the show. You'll see I'm the same exact. I weigh exactly like 165. And when I graduated high school, I was 155. So I'm like 10. I'm literally my same exact skeletal. Well, you look jacked to me. I think I'm lean. And so the leanness comes out, makes you look more jacked. But you're also like wide. Yeah, a little bit. You're super like.

I don't know if you see what I see, but you look really fit. I try to. I try to. It's all makeup and lighting. You know, and he said it all. It is true. But no, but like, I don't remember you being this jacked 10 years ago. Yeah.

Easily. Well, how long? When did you start this? High school. No, no, no. But then would you say that you weren't this jacked for a while? No, yeah. All the way to comedy clubs, I'd bring my own weights in my truck. You think you always look like this? Yeah. You can look back at my internet and say, oh, yeah. Really? That's why people are shocked. Like, when did you get muscles? I'm like, I've had them my whole life.

Were you not showing them? Maybe I wasn't showing them. I mean, on stage, I don't show them. I wear baggy clothes. So maybe that's what it is. Well, I was. I'm definitely more baggy. And I just went, I came literally from the gym here. What do you do? When I walked in, I said, should I put on some clothes? Yeah, you did say that. No, just say how you are. I'm like, okay. But also, you're like also 59. Yeah.

And you look like you are like 30. So what are, okay, so I want to know, what are your tricks and secrets of looking this, how, like this fit? I don't know, because I don't do any kind of diets. I don't do anything. Do you eat a lot? No, I don't. That's my problem. I don't eat a lot. I mean, I'm surprised I have a build that I do because I don't eat anything. I eat like my father. I just don't. Whenever I go to lunch, I have, yeah, nothing. What do you mean? What'd you have today? Well, I had a...

In fact, my mommy said, eat more of your sandwich. And I said, Mama, this is how much I always eat. So I did like a half a sandwich, you know, today. That's it? Do you eat something? No, I don't eat breakfast. I get up and I go for a run. And then I go back and I kind of yard. Do you get right on the feet? You got to get up early.

And then I blew all my, I do like, I'm like this, like, yeah, normal guy. I'd blow all my leaves and water my, I planted all these flowers yesterday. I went to the nursery, plant flowers, put on music. And I, you know, I do, I get everything all pretty for the day. And then I go to lunch because I don't go to dinner. So I go to lunch.

and then I go to the gym and then I come here and do a sound check and do a show and go home. And I have my social time here, like with the crew after the show. You eat a little bit for lunch and you don't eat again? Yeah, I'll snack when I get home a little bit, but nothing like monstrous.

- Really? - No, and I don't drink a lot, but I drink. I mean, I have a glass of wine every day at lunch, but that's it. I mean, it's not that I would drink, I just, I don't like and I don't enjoy, I haven't been drunk ever since I was,

Now, I sound like Trump. Never had a drink, but never did. Never had a drink. You know, the best way not to get drunk is just don't ever drink. But I never, no, I literally, my friends, my girlfriend, and my mom will tell you. For the friends. She's never seen me drunk.

And it's just not, I just don't, it's not in me. I don't even know how to get drunk. I don't, I mean, I don't do shots. I don't pound shot. And when I go out for dinner, I have a glass of wine and that's it. I don't, I don't go drink. I don't go to a bar and drink. Right. You're not interested. Yeah. But I like, I like when I get done with the show, I love a crown on the rocks and then sip on that when I go home. And then, and then I, I,

drink a little red wine and go to bed but yeah but how do you have the energy to work out like you do like how long is each workout just find it you know it's like the show you got to because people always that's the most fast people always fascinated by that even today they're like you gotta go to work tonight i'm like yeah like oh my god i'm like having dinner i'm gonna go to bed and i'll be in bed by eight i'm like yeah i'm just getting ready to start my day so it's just you just you just do what you're used to doing it's kind of becomes same with going to the gym

It's just in my blood. I go to lunch and then I said, like, Mom, you're going to go to the gym. I was, yeah, I'm going to go to the gym. And I go. Do you do body parts? I do a lot of honey. I eat like a shot of espresso right before and like some honey. Yeah. That's what I did when I was, you know, 14 years old as a swimmer. The honey was like instant, you know, energy. It's not great for you, but.

It's way better than other things. Yeah. And people are amazed when I'm at the gym. You eat like a thing, like a honey bear. I'm like, yeah, it's horrible for you. I'm like, well, okay. You burn it off in the workout. So my workouts is only definitely under an hour. I'm there 40 minutes and I just do one thing, you know. You do one body part at a time? I do like today was back and byes because you're drawing your bone back. So I throw back and byes. Now I'm talking to Joe Rogan. Do back and byes and I throw, let me do chest J. And

And then I run every day, so I don't really do a lot of legs because I have great legs. So I don't have to touch them. How are you so lucky? Because I run too. I make a joke. If I didn't shave them, they'd be even bigger. Those legs are, I mean, you run every day? Pretty much. How many miles a day? It varies. Sometimes with the heat now, a little less, but up to five, usually five miles, five, four miles, three miles. Three, four miles a day.

Every day. Usually. And then you go to the gym every day or five times a week? I take a day. I didn't go yesterday because I, yeah. You got to take a day sometimes.

And so do you do like the sauna? But I don't do a lot of, like I said, my workout's not like three. I have guys in the workout in my gym like three hours a day. I'm like, dude, you're killing yourself. And you're not going anywhere. You're not getting any gains. Yeah, you're not getting gains. No, you're not going to do that by overworking yourself out three hours. No, it's actually going to do the opposite. Right. 30 minutes, you hit it hard and you're out. You're going to grow and take a day off and then go back. And I take, when I go home to Florida, usually a week off, I don't do anything. I just kind of just...

I run still in the morning, but I don't go to the gym. Do people ask you all the time about your jackness? No. I mean... No, they always say, you're in good shape, yeah. No, but don't... I remember years ago, that was like a big thing in the press, like how you looked so jacked. I think people... Well, there's one photo they used that they just completely...

I did or something. And that was funny. I think I even put into the show at the time. I'm like, okay, first of all, let's break this photo down. That's not me. I mean, it's not, they had, they had this literally like in a movie, like, I don't know. They do that on. Oh, I find it's on the thing. But when you see it, you're like,

No, it wasn't me. It was just funny. And that's what I thought. It was funny because it was so clearly obvious that they put my head on something. And then people see me in person like, oh, you're not as big as I thought you were. I think you're like this big, huge. I'm like, no. No, you just look really fit. Yeah, that's it. People always think I'm smaller than I am when they meet me. They're like, you're small enough that you're about that. You're like really big, muscular and like 6'3". I'm like, no. I did think you were. I weigh like 155 pounds. How tall are you? 6'5".

Six, five, minus what, like seven inches? No, I'm like 5'10". 5'10"? Maybe, with the hat on. What do you do in terms of other... I used to do that, by the way. Here's a joke. Not a joke. I mean, I knew it was funny. My mom would take me to the doctor's office, and this is, you know, young, 8', 9'.

And she would bring me in and the doctor, the nurse would come in and say, okay, Scott. And I said, Scott, how much do you weigh? And I'd say, I'd say like 150. And she'd get 150. And how tall are you? And I'd say 6'4". And she'd say, right, 6'4". And what did you finally get? You're not, wait a minute, you're not. And I do that every, I still do that when I go to the doctor.

- Are you serious? - Every time. I had something I had to go, no, every time I've ever been in the hospital. Anywhere they ask you questions, I always do the same shit and they always just write it down 'cause they're just doing their-- - Yeah, they're not paying attention. - I had to go for my colonoscopy, you know, 'cause I'm old and I had to check. And I'm still doing the same material that I did when I was eight.

It still works. It still works. I mean, drinks per day. I'm like, 23. Do you really? I'm like, no. Two or three. Did I put two? I meant two to three, not 23. But, you know, who to call in an emergency? I said, a doctor.

That's exactly true. I feel like the whole thing. You know, nearest relative, I'd say eight miles. You know, I just dump stuff. But that's always just stupid stuff. I always do. What else do you do for healthy wellness, longevity modalities? Are you doing the sauna, the cold plunge? No, none of that. Are you taking supplements? No. Are you taking any kind of... No vitamins, no supplements. You don't take supplements even? No, no, nothing. Nothing? Nothing. Literally nothing. Not even a multivitamin? Nope. I should. Hormones, you should.

No. HGH? Nope. Never done anything. Nothing. Cialis. I do take a Cialis. No, I'm not kidding. I do. No, no. I'm not kidding. But it's a daily one, so it's not dangerous. It's good for you. My doctor said it's good for you. It's good. Is it like a blood pressure medicine? It is. It's kind of like blood pressure medicine. But it's funny. I actually take it. And then my friend, you take a Cialis every day. I'm like, it's really my blood pressure pill, but it's more fun to take a Cialis. Yeah.

Do you really take a Cialis every day? Yeah, it's five milligrams, so it doesn't do anything. It's not like... What is it supposed to do? I was just joking about the blood pressure. Oh, Cialis is supposed to give you an erection. No, I know what... But it doesn't give you one. That's the fallacy behind these. I know what it's supposed to do. Well, the fallacy behind those pills, because that was jokes every comic would do. Yeah. You don't just take one and you're like... You're not? No. You have to be aroused, first of all. So all it does is enhance your arousement. So if you...

were on sales and you got aroused, it would enhance your erection. You don't just take one and you're like, oh, shit, I got a boner. No. Oh, so you have to be aroused first. Yeah, it doesn't directly. That's why those stupid commercials, if you have an erection that lasts longer than eight hours, you know, just say, thank you, God. That's what you say. Yeah.

Oh my God. It actually lasts longer than 30 seconds, eight hours. God damn. Don't call for help. Just enjoy it. Enjoy it. Yeah. Why would you take one every day though? It's just for like a blood pressure. I was just joking about that. I wasn't really expecting that. Prostate, prostate. Oh, for the prostate. Okay. I have some questions for you with regards to like finances and business. You don't have to answer me, but I want to know. Okay. Because the longevity of your career, having a residential show this long, like you must be loaded. Yeah.

for the fact you have to be that's the biggest fallacy in this whole thing there's a website it makes me laugh we did it one night with my crew in here whatever it's called celebrity wealth yeah yeah yeah celebrity net worth so you can punch in carrot top celebrity net worth and it comes up something silly like 75 million or something so oh that's like less than I would even think

Well, it says on there. Okay. $75 million, right? So then when COVID happened, we were all making a joke and my road manager said, oh, dude, you went down. I went down what? You're now at $74 million. I'm like, oh, man, they counted and I lost a million because I was off a year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm like, well, it's not the right number, but I think I find it funny because, yes, I'm at $75 million. I guess I should be happy. But then I have friends. They have, you know...

300 million. I'm friends with them. They're not worth 300 million. Yeah, they're not. No, that's what I'm saying. Those things are like a bunch of... No. I don't even know how they come up with it. I don't know. I think they just make it up. Right, they do. Because they don't calculate... It's not accurate. He's been doing comedy 40 years. He must be... I don't know how they would even do it. You count it when I'm on vacations, too, and I get paid. Well, no, because they say... I mean, some of these...

crazy residencies that you hear about, like J-Lo, all these people get crazy money for it. Yeah, a lot of those are BS2 when they said they get a $100 million contract. Yeah. That's not true. It's not true? No, all these contracts nowadays that are out here at these hotels are four walls, which is what I have. Unless you get like... What do you mean? Four wall means you own four walls and you pay rent. So basically...

I own this show and Luxor doesn't own this show. It's my show that I use the property, but the Luxor has nothing to do with my show, except they let me do the show and we promote it here, but they don't own a bit of my show. Now, someone like Katy Perry or one of these people that come in, they do this like residency, Adele, they probably do a two wall, probably they split it probably, or like with Elton John or it's a completely different deal. And the residencies in general are four or two walls. Someone like a,

Elton John probably is not. It's just they pay him, you know,

you know, whatever they sell. So there's probably some of those that they might have given $50 million for four, five, six shows or whatever it is. So wait, hold on a second. So you're telling me you own, so you basically rent space at the Luxor. Yeah, basically. And you, they continue to want me to be here. So they let me extend my extension. So if they ever had one day, they didn't like what I did or wanted me to go, they can pick you up in a sense. It was a moral conscious something. They can't just be,

be done with me unless it was something that they felt like they needed some distance. So your show then, all the money you make every night, that's your money and then you have to pay everybody. So it's a caretop business. So there's no like, it's not a partnership really with Luxor except the fact that they just house you here. You pay rent like I would somewhere else. I didn't know that. So is that the same deal with Criss Angel and David Copperfield? I don't really know their deals. I have no idea.

But if people are staying here for like years on end, like Chris Angel must have been or what for like the same amount of time. Yeah, I don't know. I really don't know his deal. He might have a different deal. But our deal has always been that. We work really for ourselves. Wow, I didn't know that.

So then... Come banking off my name, you know, to sell the tickets. Yeah. So if you do a two-wall, right, you're taking a risk if you don't sell tickets. And hotels aren't going to do two-walls unless someone, they have a good name because they're not going to take a risk. They'll give everybody a four-wall because they can come in and eat shit and

Right, well, because you pay rent. How much are you paying rent, though, for this type of thing? Well, I don't know. That all varies. Like, what is... If I wanted to rent four walls here, would they give it to me? No? Yeah, they're slanted walls, though, so it's different. But, like, you basically would pay, like, a big chunk of rent, right?

Yeah, rent. You pay monthly like I would at a department? We pay with ushers. We pay the local union crew. You pay everything? Yeah. Wow. And my crew. So then you have to make a lot of money. My seven houses. No. Do you live here? I live here in Orlando. So you have to be working all the time to pay for this. Yeah, that's why I work every night. Yeah, that actually now makes more sense to me than why you would do six hours.

Six nights. Right, right. I got bills to pay, man. It actually makes sense. So the two-wall deal that you just said, like a... I don't know. I don't even know who has in them anymore, but there's such a thing. I don't know who has one. Yeah, well, I guess like, I guess right now the stratosphere is like a huge deal here in Vegas and they bring in U2 and they bring in... Oh, the stratosphere. You mean the sphere. Yeah, I call it the stratosphere. The sphere. Stratosphere is...

Definitely different than The Sphere. The Sphere. But that's more of like a concert venue. That's a bad example. But like... Yeah, that's a good... Yeah, for sure. Or Usher. Yeah, whoever plays The Sphere, I mean, I don't even know how that works. That's different. I have no idea. But like if Usher comes in and does a deal with whoever, I think it was... Yeah. Who was it? I don't remember. I don't either. I thought they don't pay...

It's more of a ticket split? Is that really how it works? I really don't know. I just know my deal. I have never asked about other people's deals. I just know we do a four wall and then we've been doing it for, well, ever since day one. How much longer? 30 years. How long do you want to be doing this? Oh, just another week or so. And then it's, if I can get through the weekend. That would be great. You're happy. Now, how long do you actually have? What's your contract to? We have till 2025. So we've got about six more years left on our...

No, no, 25. 25. I mean, 30. Oh, you have another five years left. We have five and a half, six years left, yeah. Because we have one year left on our previous COVID thing that we didn't get to do. So we have five-year extension plus one. So we have like six years. Do you want to be doing it that long? Yeah. I mean, what am I going to do? You don't get tired of it? No. What else would I? I'm definitely not one of those guys that when I retire.

Yeah. I mean, I look like a teenager anyhow. Why would I want to? I'm not going to. You do. No, but I mean, what am I going to do? Right. So you love to work. I love this. Yeah. No, there's nothing else. There's more fun. I mean, yeah. And I get to do it and I feel good and people still come out and I get to laugh and yeah, nothing more fun than this job. I can't even imagine. I remember they asked Willie Nelson this not long ago. They said, when are you going to retire? And he said, from what?

I thought that was a great answer. That's a great answer. This is who you are and what you do. Yeah. I don't know anything else. Yeah. Like, did you ever think in a million years you'd have this type of longevity? No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Even when I was at the MGM Grand, after five, six years there, I didn't think that I would have longevity.

I didn't know. You never know your destiny, your future. I didn't know we'd be here. I mean, I was at the MGM for 10 years and then David Caulfield came in and they wanted to take the room. The four-wall room. I don't know. Again, I don't know. Mine was there. Yeah, I was going to say your room was there. Mine was further. But you had a four-wall there, yeah. Yeah.

We've always have, unless we do road shows, I think it's a guarantee kind of thing. But he wanted the room. And I remember saying, well, you know, David Copfield, Carradop. So I guess, you know, fuck, there I go. And I said, but I don't want to leave Vegas now. I'm just starting to have fun. Yeah. And they said, well, the MGM has a property across the street, the Luxor. You want to go look at the room? And we went over and looked at it and completely different than the MGM Grand Room. And it was just instant like, hmm, let's give it a shot.

So it kind of, it worked for a little bit and then I was like, hmm, I don't know if I want to do this. And then

now it's been 19, almost 19 years. So it's great. And like, how do you keep your relic? You're still relevant so many years. How do you stay relevant? Because it's like different gender, it's generational. And these generations, people still know who you are and you're doing a lot of TV. Yeah. I've said, there's a lot of, I mean, a lot of things that you do, like my guy, there's a lot of things that continue to pop up, you know, a pop up and pull pop culture that keeps you relevant. So there's a lot of those. There's roasts that come on comedy central that keeps showing that I did years ago. The,

the family guy, the, you know, the TV shows, movies, hacks. So, I mean, that's a new one. So yeah, you try to keep yourself relevant by doing, you know, the, the good shows that are out there. You pitch yourself and see if they want to, you know, do you pitch yourself? Yeah. That one particularly, well, it kind of happened by, I was watching, I was a fan of the show. Yeah, me too. And I,

And I was, my phone, it was just weird. My phone like was going off and they said, do you, you've seen Hacks? It talked about you on it. So I'm like, well, I haven't, I've watched it. I didn't see it. And it was the last episode. I went, don't ruin it. I haven't seen it yet. So then I watched it and the girl, the daughter is dating me in the show. Oh, shit.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The blonde girl. Yeah. She's in the kitchen all crying and upset eating, you know, pancakes and cookies and just, you know, depressed. And she, Jean Smart walks in and goes, oh, for God's sakes, get over it. You can do better than Carrot Top. And I watched it and I was like, that's great. So I call my, my people.

And I said, reach out to them and see if, you know, since they like me and I'm supposedly dating her on the show, maybe we could go on. Yeah. And they were...

absolutely beyond thrilled. I remember they were like, oh my God, yes, we'll come up with something. And we got to the set, they sent me a kind of a script and we got there and we improvised most of it once we got there, but she's brilliant. And she's brilliant. Great lady. Great lady. She's brilliant. You improvised that? A lot of it was because we would kind of, when I got there, it was kind of like, you wouldn't do that. What would you do? I don't know. They had me doing something different. I said, I

I don't know. We just went off my energy of what I would do in a situation. So we just kind of, it was written and we had fun with it as well. But it was great. And they were stoked that I would do it. And I was stoked that I got to do it. It was a great, you know, it's HBO. It's a great show. It's a great show. So yeah, keeping yourself relevant, it helps, you know. And I've been doing years of different things. You'll see in the show tonight, I talk about when I did, you know, AT&T commercials last

in the 90s or 2000s or whatever it was. I don't even know now. And they were on every day, like every day. They were like the Floke progressive commercial. They were just so annoying. The progressive ones? No, you mean the ones that are on every day. I totally remember. The Allstate or progressive. I totally remember. That was like me. I was doing collect call commercials and they were on every day, every day, all day, all night. So I could walk a foot down the street like, dude, fucking the phone guy.

I totally remember those.

making collect calls. I'm like, really? You make that funny that way. Then I'm like, no, it's a comedy show. There's no, there's not, there's nothing about fucking. I do that for a paycheck. I don't, I don't feel like they come to the show and they go, Oh my God, you're as a comedian. I just thought he was a commercial actor. Yeah.

They didn't know that I did comedy. So it was just, it was so powerful and strong and they were out every day. Yeah, people just knew who I was. They knew Carrot Top, but they didn't know what I did. You have such an iconic image, right? Because of everything about... By the way, having back to that one time in college when you created that brand, that was actually a smart thing to do. You didn't have to have a whole bit because you actually created a name and a brand that actually had...

Right.

This is a long time ago. When I started doing like television, there was a lot of TV shows that had comedians on there, comedy shows. It was called, you know, Comics Trip Live. All of them. There's 20 of them. So I was doing all those. And I had Regis and Kathy Lee, Jay Leno, Arsenio, you name it. Whatever show, talk show, The View, you name any show, I was on them. And so I had...

all the break. It wasn't like one big personal thing that just broke me. I was in a movie Chairman of the Board. Nobody saw it. It wasn't a big break. But probably all combination of things really was the break. I was saturated. Accumulative. Yeah. And it was on every platform. I would have...

you know, college, I mean, Notre Dame. And then the next morning I'd, I'd go to New York and do Regis and Kathy Lee, and then do like a college in New York and then go to Atlantic city and do the weekend in the theater, like Trump Plaza or something. And then next week I would go to, so I had college kids,

watching me on the college campuses and then the old people watching me on Regis. And then I would go on Leno and that would get like the middle ground. And then I'd had, I had a show on Cartoon Network where kids, I was called AM Mayhem with Carrot Top. So I had every, every age group. So it was weird. Like people would always say, what's your demographic? And I'm like, we don't have a specific demographic. It's like all ages, like not young, but I don't like the Cartoon Network was not what I wanted to come to my show. But,

The show here, it's all over the place. There'll be 14-year-old kids, 15-year-old kids, and probably 80-year-old people. Do you repeat any jokes? Because people don't remember from like 10 years, 15 years, 18 years. Do I repeat them? Yeah, like the prop stuff. You can pull stuff out. People won't remember from... No, I mean, I do some stuff in the beginning that kind of just gets going with like...

kind of the current stuff oh no the like more classic carrot top when i start no but then when i bring then i go into a whole bunch of it just no but the topics that you when even when you pull stuff out you still use them they're topical i feel like i've heard you do stuff where it's like this is donald trump's face orange whatever you always do like funny things that you can do i can i can well one example you'll see tonight was i had a dinosaur on a rope it was uh dick cheney's dog

I think it was Dick Cheney. Whoever was old at the time. It was either Dick Cheney. I think it was Dick Cheney. Yeah. Dick Cheney, yeah. It was either Dick Cheney or whatever. The guy running for president, senator from Arizona. It was either him or Dick Cheney. But I think it was Dick Cheney.

And so I had Dick Cheney's dog and it was a joke. He's old and it was a dinosaur. So I'm in my warehouse. Yeah, that's great. And it's visually funny. So I'm in the warehouse and I'm going through stuff and I see it. I'm like, God, that was a great one. And I just hit me. Why don't I make that Joe Biden's dog? Yeah.

So that's an example of one that I can take back and restructure to work now. That's so good. That's hilarious. So now it was one I did. So I'm getting mileage out of one that used to be. So they wouldn't know the Dick Cheney one, but they know now the Biden one. So there's an example. That's a really good one. So like...

How are you using today's time to kind of, are you using social, like I know you're on social media and Instagram, but are you using the platforms to really kind of promote to a younger generation? Because again, like this stuff is still. I mean, I do that. I do TikTok and I do things like that. That's a really funny one. Yeah, yeah. That's a great joke.

It is. It's easy, too. It's instantly funny. It's one of those, you don't have to think about it much. It's pretty funny. But the fact that you think about that, how are you so alert all the time? You have to be thinking constantly. That's the curse of being... I forget, like comic, just an artist or general. I mean, I don't think there's a songwriter that never...

is sitting around not thinking of a song of stuff yeah just like a comic is never not thinking about a new joke or something you know something happens in conversation like oh it's funny i'm gonna use that so yeah it's it's just what we do it's what you know like i said songwriters probably do the same thing they never just go out to dinner or go for a walk they're thinking of a song a new song to write down yeah you know constantly have you ever seen like we talked about earlier that there's nobody who's done it like like no one's doing it has there like who

Now that we say that, there'll be three Carrot Tops tomorrow. I know, there will be. But no one will be ever the real Carrot Top with the orange hair and the look. You know what? Everything works together beautifully. That's the other thing, right? You're like a caricature that works. It's definitely a brand and a caricature that kind of was, in a sense...

in a sense, somewhat manufactured in my head, but it wasn't like, you know, I have friends in the band, like NSYNC, and they've been friends of mine since they were from Orlando and all the boy bands that they, you know, they manufactured those guys that put them in and did it. They made it like a, that's why they all had the same, you know, and they have the yellow shirt, blue shirt, red, you know, green, the rainbow shirt. Yeah.

I had an idea for a brand. I always had, I mean, I didn't do this for, I was a surfer. I had long hair. So I had carrot top and then the hair kind of went with the brand name. My logo, you'll see, is like a kind of shadow of me with my hair, which is funny because a lot of comics said to me, well, what would happen if you lose your hair, dude? I said, I know it's my logo. I was going to ask you about that. I'm glad I have it on my hair. I was going to say, is that,

your real hair yeah this is all my hair yeah it's just kind of like dreaded up right now at the time but that i was gonna ask you that i didn't want to be rude no this is all mine because like what would happen if you lost your hair because that is your it'd be no top yeah i don't know but yeah i got lucky you got please welcome no top what happened to him it's so true like peter frampton you know that's that's exactly now you're like what happened to peter frampton

It's 100% true. But it was like I said, so the brand was, you know, I did well think it out. I was a marketing major. So when I, the very first time I was on stage, very first time, where I had my trunk, I had only four things in it.

Right before I went to the club, I drew out on a cardboard, you know, carrot top, like the name and my logo, and put it in the lid of the trunk. And I remember people thinking like, and I thought, well, it's marketing. I'm marketing myself because when I'm on stage, the whole time they're watching me, they're reading my name. So when they get done,

in the evening and they asked, who'd you see tonight? They're going to say, some guy from Caratop. And we saw, there's no way to forget the brand. I mean, it was kind of forcing it down their throat in a sense. See, this is what I wanted to talk to you about because you have to be business savvy. Like no matter how, you're very obviously, you have the stamina of like a child. But besides that, you've always been super business savvy marketing wise. You branded yourself and it's been very...

It's been thorough for everything. No one cannot know who you are. That's because everything works together. The look, the way you branded yourself, what you're doing, where you go, how you put the logo. It's a blessing and a curse is what I tell people. Well, because you're stuck as Kirito. I mean, I could have been Queen Latifah, but I went with Kirito. Yeah, well, that's true. But what's the downside of being Kirito?

Carrot Top. It was no downs. I'm just being silly. Like first time I went across campus and I told the guy to bring me up as Carrot Top and then people were yelling across the campus, Carrot Top. I was like, oh my God, what have I done? Yeah. I'm really going with this. This is going to be my Carrot Top is going to be the moniker. Yeah. It could be a better one, you know? What's, but. I don't know. No, it worked out fine, but I'm saying it was meant to be, but you know, I, I already looked like this. It wasn't like I have to stay like this. Like if I wanted to change my look, I could, I didn't, I could shave my head and still go on stage and say, look, no top what happened, but.

yeah i like my hair and i like yeah like this so i i don't you know i try to keep it i mean to be honest with you my people my my my people hate my hair right now because it's like dreadlocked and purple and green and red and orange and they're like dude your carrot top it should be all orange and i'm like it's my brand bitch i'm gonna do what i want to do yeah so i do all this and because i like to do this so it's still orange enough to get the joke across from karen it's definitely orange enough they're like go back

Just the orange hair. Who's saying this to you, though? You know, the beta carotene. Yeah. I think they want you. Yeah, I've got to go do a sound check so we can do this. Oh, my gosh. Okay, so I guess I'll have to just wrap. But I want to say, guys, Carrot Top is at the Luxor. Carrot Top. Right now. Right now, actually, as we speak. And it's...

If they want to know more about you, can you tell them? Yeah, carrottop.com. I've got Instagram as carrottop live, carrottop on my Facebook, real carrottop. And you travel too, you said. And we do road shows as well. When are you touring again? We just toured. We did a few. We're not doing some, but we can check our calendar. I think for the rest of this year, we're just doing Luxury Dates. Perfect. Okay. And just by the looks of it, it's a great show. I can't wait to see it now. We'll see. It's going to be happening soon. Uh-oh. Yeah. And that's...

That's it. And I'm going to go watch it now, guys. And you're the best. Seriously. Thank you. I appreciate the fun. It was a fun chat. You really are amazing. Thank you. Really. Thanks for watching. Thanks for doing it. Thank you.