Digital Social Hour - Carrot Top: From Props to Punchlines in 30 Years | Carrot Top DSH #792

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

🎤 Carrot Top: From Props to Punchlines in 30 Years 🎉 Join the conversation with the legendary Carrot Top on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 With over 30 years of comedic genius, Carrot Top shares his journey from being the longest-running comedian in Vegas history to his experiences with props and punchlines. 🃏💪 Tune in now to hear about his disciplined approach to comedy, his thoughts on the evolving entertainment landscape, and hilarious anecdotes from his illustrious career, including unscripted moments in Hollywood hits. 🎬✨ Don't miss out on this packed episode full of valuable insights and laughter. Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more insider secrets from the world of comedy and beyond. 📺 Watch now and subscribe for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🌟📻 #actor #carrottopcomedy #carrottopluxor #carrottopprops #jerrylewis #howiemandelpodcast #chipchipperson #carrottoplive #carrottopprops #funny CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Howie Mandel Comedy 01:10 - Carrot Top’s Transformation 02:58 - Theft of Props in Comedy 04:27 - Late Night Comedy Shows 06:12 - Shane Gillis Insights 07:56 - Changing Comedy Material 10:16 - Longevity in Comedy 11:10 - Discipline in Comedy 12:32 - Bombing on Stage 14:10 - Upcoming Projects 15:23 - The Hangover Film 17:44 - Improvisation in Movies 19:54 - Creating Your Own Movie 23:07 - Social Media and Comedy 24:15 - Reno 911 Series 25:35 - Family Guy Influence 28:20 - Finding You Online 29:48 - Closing Remarks APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Carrot Top https://www.instagram.com/carrottoplive https://carrottop.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@CarrotTopLive LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Why? You can skip it. Oh, what? Just like that? Just like that. How about dinner with my third cousin? Skip it. Prince Fluffy's favorite treats? Skippable.

Midnight snacks? Skip. My neighbor's nightly saxophone practices? Uh, nope. You're on your own there. Could've skipped it. Should've skipped it. Skip to the good part and get groceries, meals, and more delivered right to your door on Skip. You know, it's so easy to be pulled in any direction with all the, you know, attractions and the things and the side things. Hey, there's

parties, there's drugs, there's booze, there's women. And then you're like, you know, I got to be a pro. I got to go home and I got like, you know, I got to be a pro. I got to go home and I got to write some jokes and I got to do a show tomorrow. So you got to stay focused and always keep it tight. Yeah. All right, guys, got Carrot Top here today. Longest running comedian in Vegas history.

Good lordy, right? Crazy. Man. How many years you on now? Well, if you add up all of them, I think 30. Holy crap. Yeah, 30 years. 30 years.

8.19 at Deluxor and 10 at MGM, and it's almost 30 at one of the ballets. Yeah, I feel like most comedians don't last more than 10. Minutes. I know. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, I've been lucky. Damn. You still want to do another 30 more?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I feel like Biden. I feel like he did. Yeah, I know. I'm ready to go. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm still having more? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I feel like Biden. I feel like he did. I know. I'm ready to go. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm still having a good time, too.

I think that's an important thing, I think, to enjoying it. I enjoy the process of writing jokes. I love the energy of getting up there and doing it every night. It's a new crowd, new audience. It's fun. I love that. Yeah, Vegas is always a new audience. Yeah.

Dude, you're looking jacked. I am jacked. I have been training a little bit. Summertime, I'm getting my bill back. I'm going to have to Vegas is always a new audience. Yeah. Dude, you're looking jacked. I am jacked. I have been training a little bit. Summertime, I'm getting my bill back. I'm going to have to hire you as a personal trainer. These friends gave me this shirt last night, so I'm wearing it. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. There's two kids, and they look just like Bill and Ted.

Really? Yeah. Little young kids, and they had long hair. Damn, I got to check them out. So I'm going to wear this shirt on this podcast tomorrow. Dude, you must be working out like two a day. Like, I can't believe this. Yeah, I'm about to win once a day. Okay. Yeah, you're the most jacked comedian I've ever met. I'm the most on this podcast. Dude, you must be working out like two a day. Like, I can't believe this. Yeah, I'm about to win once a day.

Okay. Yeah, you're the most jacked comedian I've ever met. I'm the most jacked comedian. Was that a goal of yours? No. No. No. Damn.

I'm just carrying all my hate mail. That's where it comes from. You do get a lot of that. No, I don't. You don't? No. On social media? Mm.

Everybody gets mail. Everybody gets hate shit. You know, that's part of being especially Carrot Top my god people love just to it's gotten less I mean

years ago when it first started it was just like you know who's this guy and it was kind of cool to hate me

and I've done it so long now now I've become kind of a staple of you know I've been doing 30 years

40 in comedy so I think it's probably gotten around to the point where hey he's pretty, I've been doing 30 years, 40 in comedy, so I think it's probably gotten around to the point where, hey, he's pretty good. He's been doing it 40 years. Yeah, I didn't notice that at first, though. You got a ton. Yeah, they liked you in the beginning because there's something new and something, which was odd. You'd think that would be the opposite reason.

You know, you do something original that's new and people hate that. They don't want new and original and funny. They want, like, they'd probably rather me do other people's act, which was the most forbidden thing to do back when I first started doing comedy. It was like, you do your own material. And so that's kind of what the route I did

with the props and the other stuff, because I'm saying no one could say I stole their act. I'm carrying around a walker with a dildo on it and a Crimewatch, so, you know. Has anyone tried to steal your material? People have tried to steal my props, like, just to have them. Yeah. We catch them all the time, like,

Dad, you can't take that. The Tonight Show, a couple of shows have stolen my prop. I had, and even just simple ideas, like a social media thing. I had one where Mike Tyson, speaking of ears now, it's a popular topic now because Trump got shot in his ear. So I had a couple of Trump jokes with the ear. But I had one that was for Mike Tyson.

Mike Tyson bit Amanda Holyfield's ear. The joke was he bit his ear. So I was on the Tonight Show. So I had this, like, you're the George Foreman grill. Everybody was like, yeah. I said,

the Mike Tyson has a grill. And I opened it up and there was an ear on it. And it killed. And it was like, you know, the funniest thing. So the next,

I don't know, two weeks later, Jake does this whole segment on the show where he does like these props. These things we found on Junkyard. And I'm like, he did my exact joke. Like, it we found on on junkyard and i'm like he

did my exact joke like it was the mike tyson's grill i'm like you gotta tell your writers to maybe steal a little bit you mean jesus don't steal right from the show you did it on damn so that's crazy so he was at the show and then stole it oh the writers all the writers writers writers looking for bits and they writers just hey do, do that one. But I was just on the show. It was a week later. Wow. And I'm like, really?

I always wondered how those shows come up with random topics, but that makes sense if they just go to other people. Yeah, sometimes they just lift them like they did mine. Damn.

That's crazy. A lot of those shows are losing audience and podcasts are taking over. They are, really. They are. Yeah, I know you go on a few. You've been on Rogan too, right?

Yeah, Rogan's great. Rogan's super duper. Him alone is getting more views than all these shows combined. It's pretty crazy. Times are changing. I know those shows were, like, the thing when I was growing up. Yeah, they were. Tonight shows and Late Night with Letterman and all those,

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They've turned real political. I think a lot of people aren't going on those shows because of the political size of them. I've been doing it for years, and it was always just fun. And then you go on now, and it's mostly policy, political-driven. So it turns away a lot of people. Do you even touch on politics in your shows, or do you stay away? I do in a roundabout way. I mean, I do a Trump impression where it's so bad.

I'm actually with a cold today. It's kind of not good. But just that, you know, I make, the joke is basically something I, and he always claims everything he makes, so I do a joke about it. You know, burgers, there was hot dogs, but never burgers. I made burgers. You could look, the administration didn't have burgers. They didn't have motels, they didn't have hotels.

You know, my friends, I stop. I said, there was stop, there was to go. I made stop. And this Trump, anything you say, he will just start, just start like he invented it you know we didn't have microphones no one had microphones so that way i do but on that i don't get too political no one cares about it and i don't think to get people riled up over it yeah i know some comedians die fall into it yeah which is not my thing you know it's carrot top you want to see me doing goofy things yeah vegas is tough though because i feel like it's a mixed political crowd so you don't want to kind of definitely mixed yeah you don't want to go too far down one road indeed yeah i saw

shane gillis just did a trump thing on kill tony yeah did you see that i didn't but i like him yeah he's dude he's so fucking funny he might be my favorite oh that's great yeah i saw him when he was coming up he opened up for michael rapaport like five years ago and he was unknown his trajectory has been insane that's great did you see him really coming up like that early on yeah no because you probably know all the same comedians yeah we're all aware of each other and look at each other do you see them as competition or is it friendly no never competition i mean i look at him as uh just now i just like watching how other comics work, you know. It's always fun to see the process, how they

come up, how they write, the style of comedy, how they deliver it. Everyone has a different delivery, a different approach, you know. A lot of mine is observational, like, you know, a lot of my stuff is everyday things, like people that back their car in. I do a whole joke

about that, and it was turned into our routine. But it's great, because I see how many people back in, and people clap, and I say, it's you people that are ruining America. And then they all, you know, like, why? I'm like, what the fuck? We're first out. You're last in. It doesn't matter. Unless you're robbing a bank, just park your fucking car. And we have all this digital jokes that come with it. So I'm like, it's funny visually.

You'll see, here's your cap. It's big in here. We're not quite at the gate. If you don't get to stay in your seats while I back this bitch into the seat. And then it shows a picture of this plane backing into the tarmac. So it's funny looking because people, it's just pop culture. It's like that's what we're talking about. Imagine a pilot backing his car and his truck and plane in.

That's a good point. People that back in, how much time are you actually saving? None. They're spending more, exactly. Yeah, you're spending more trying to reverse. I don't know who gave them the idea that it was supposed to be the quickest way to park. Yeah, that's interesting. How often are you changing your jokes and material?

Oh, God. Every day I try to add one thing. Wow. Yeah. I don't care if it's just one thing, whether it be a bed board or add something to something. But usually once a day I come up with something that might be on the news, that might be with all the campaign stuff going on.

It's been a big week with making jokes, but but uh i try to do one a day that's actually insane i didn't know that i thought you just did the same show for like yeah no no i never never done that never done that because a lot of people do do that i know well you know in their defense a lot of those guys if let's say uh chris rock let's say is getting ready for a special and he he's getting ready to do that hour special in omaha you know he's going to do that same exact show for however long it takes for him to get it down right and then he'll do it and tape it and then he'll go and he'll mess around and back yeah because he's practicing he's practicing that exact thing but i'm not i'm not necessarily getting ready to shoot

a special so i don't have to change have – I can change my every day. But if they came to me and said, hey, we want to shoot a special in a month or two, I'd start tightening it down and staying. I'm surprised you haven't been approached. Yeah, we've had to be approached with more documentary kind of stuff as opposed to a special. Okay. I'm not really keen on just doing an hour special. How come? The document.

The money. I think just by giving away the hour of the show that kind of seems dumb to me. It's like you kind of want to give them a tease, and then they want to come see the show. If you do the show on Netflix, they've seen the show, and then they go, hey, want to go see the show? And then they come like, we just saw that. So with a documentary, you get to also get to know how I got here. How the hell did I get here? And you get to see behind the scenes. And it's more of a learning to know who I am.

Older people might know. Young people might not really be aware of my career and how I got here, why I'm still here. I think that would be a fun documentary. That would be really interesting. And get testimonials from you know other comics get jaylen or you know all these other people saying hopefully nice things about me but you know to say like yeah it'd be fun to see who is keratop yeah there's something to learn

from your longevity yeah i mean you're like the lebron of comedy i like that the lebron of comedy yeah i mean he's 20 years in you're 30 yeah. Yeah, but he's about to wrap up, I think. His son's in the league now. You follow NBA at all? A little bit. I know his son got in the league. I know that's kind of a proud moment for him. Any sports you're big on?

Probably still more football than anything else. Football. Yeah. What's your team? Well, the shitty Dolphins. You live in Vegas. Well, but I'm from Orlando. So when I was a kid, we had the Miami Dolphins

so I've always stayed true to them yeah I can't remember in my lifetime them ever being good no

probably not in your lifetime they were barely good in my lifetime I think it was when I was two jeez you don't even remember no

yeah my giants well literally I was born in so in the like 71 that was when they won damn so yeah in my lifetime good for your age man great for my age yeah that's impressive Literally, I was born in the 60s. So in the 60s, like 71, that was when they won. Damn.

So yeah, in my lifetime. Good for your age, man. Great for my age. That's impressive. Out here in Vegas, it's easy to get wrapped up in the partying, drinking, and clubbing, but you say- But I'm old, so I don't- You're very disciplined.

That's what keeps me. I am disciplined. That is a really big part of the comedy, too, is discipline. With anything, it's discipline discipline i don't care what what job it is um but especially a job like like show business you know it's so easy to be pulled in any direction with with all the with all the you know attractions and the things and the side things hey there's parties there's drugs there's drugs, there's booze, there's women. And then you're like, you know, I got to be a pro.

I got to go home and I got to write some jokes and I got to do a show tomorrow. So you got to stay focused and always keep it tight. Yeah. Did you go through a phase in your younger years where you were? I don't know if I was that. I mean, I'd never been a partier, but I mean, I would go out more than I did when I was young because I had energy, you know. Yeah. Show was over and I'm like, let's go get a drink, a partier, but I mean, I would go out more than I did when I was young because I had energy, you know.

Yeah. Show was over, I'm like, let's go get a drink, you know. Now it's like, let's go on my support center. Yeah, because there are a lot of comedians that go down that road. Yeah. Like drinking and drugs or whatever. Yeah.

Seems to be common in that space. Yeah, it is. But that's cool that you stay locked in. Yeah, it's easy in Vegas to get distracted. And I was just saying, top of that Vegas. So top of not just being being a comic in Las Vegas. How about that? A lot of distractions.

So much distractions. Yeah, you probably get invited to so many events, dinners, parties, clubs. Yep, yep. Damn, props to you, man. Six days a week you're performing.

Six days, yeah. Six days. That's crazy. Sunday, yeah. It's fun though, too, because you kind of get into a rhythm. You know,

if you have one where you're, you know, you always have the next night to kind of fix it and try it better, you know. How many people are in the audience usually? Four million. No, it's about 400 people. That's a good size.

Yeah. So you can really feel the energy and see if it's a good show or not. Yeah, yeah. Has there ever been like a show that bombed? Oh, yeah. If it would give you comics, I'd have a show that bombed. Although I would say bombed, not professionally now, not bombed? Oh, yeah. Every comic had to have a show that bombed. Although, I would say bombed, not...

Professionally now, not bombed. I mean, I had one that I didn't think went as well, but I don't have one that just, you tanked it. I mean, I've been doing it

too long now. You kind of learn how not to have a tank, but when I first started, oh, boy. There's a lot. You're just so green. There's a lot of shows.

I remember in clubs, you just, man, you just... And you'd eat it, man, then but when you come off they're like that was great and so you you sometimes would think you know even to this day sometimes i'm like man that was horrible people were like that was great great show i'm like really like yeah so they don't know until you tell them you guys fucking suck then they'd know yeah and that must hurt i mean getting off stage and getting booed. Yeah, like I said,

I'm lucky in my fan or my career where I'm at that I have fans and I have people that go to see it specifically. They're not going to boo me or heckle me.

Wow. You got people coming multiple times. Oh, yeah. These guys, you can be sure unless they've been on the show like 10 times.

Holy crap. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you're changing your material. And they're young kids and they're that young and still seeing the show like 10 times. Holy crap. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you're changing your material. And they're young kids, and to be that young and still seeing the show that many times.

That's cool. Is this the main thing? You got any other businesses or podcasts that you're starting up? I was doing something. You know, we do a lot of podcasts. We're trying to do a documentary. I'm trying to write a book. There's some talk about maybe a movie a movie too and i've done some movies that are still coming out did have some parts in some i had like little cameos

in some um that's what's fun about i'm on that hack show hacks on hbo um it's always fun about this job you never know you know the next day that like they call me they say you want to be on most of those things happen wouldn't say by accident but i mean just by not planning them but i remember larry sanders if you remembered his show i was i was driving in l.a just going to lunch or something they said where are you and i'm like i'm at 405 stuck in traffic like where are you can you get to the cbs studios like in like the next two hours or something and I was like

yeah what it's a Gary Shanley show and I was like what am I doing you don't even need to bring your props just go down so I went

and I just kind of played a character and then they put me in it and I'm you know an hour prior to that I had no idea

I was going to eat lunch I had no idea what was going to be on one of my favorite shows you know Larry Sanders so sometimes things just happen and you're like oh cool yeah my hangover was one of the best but uh you know i was backstage getting ready for the show

my manager came and said um there's this guy he was kind of like a no there's this guy out here they said they're shooting this movie and they want to know if you want to do something in it i said when they said like right now i'm like right now so we're getting ready for the show They said they're shooting this movie, and they want to know if you want to do something in it. I said, when? They said, like, right now. I'm like, right now? I said, well, we're getting ready for the show. They said it would literally take one minute. And I said, what, they have a script?

He said, no, just bring the director in. It's Todd, you know, Phillips. Yeah. I don't know. And he says, hey, Todd Phillips, we're filming this movie called Hangover, and it's, you know, these guys. And the joke is they just want to be, they're partying with you. So I said, all right. And they all walked in. Now, I don't know any of them at the time.

I'm like, hey, Zach. I said, yeah, I know him. You're a comic, right? And he goes, yeah. I said, yeah. And they said, so what's the, they're all like, yeah, we're talking. You know, like, this is crazy. I'm the big, you know, star.

And these guys are all now huge stars. This show, this movie hadn't hit yet. So they're all just like, you know, star-shocked at me. I thought it was funny. And they said, what do you want to do? And I said, I don't know. What's the plan? They said, what would, you know, we'd be drinking,

and he'll pull his shirt up, and you'd be laying on his belly drunk and i'm like they're filming a little bit and i'm like well this isn't funny i said what if we're doing like coke and they all like yeah i'm like well that'd be funny i mean doing coke with carrot top is pretty funny i mean i don't know i think everyone knows i or there probably is this assumption that I do, you know, part of my appearance. I look like I do drugs. I don't. So they said, if you're cool. I said, yes.

And my assistant went and got some sweet and low and shit. And we made up, you know, all these lines of coke. We put one on Zach's belly. And I was throwing it off his belly. And then all of a sudden, it was hilarious. It looked like a party. It looked like they came to my backstage and were doing blow with me. And that made the movie. Wow. But that's one that my rock you know my backstage and were doing blow with me and that made that made the movie so wow but that's one that's you know not knowing that just happened

never knew then they left and i was like dude you're in the hangover i'm like what oh one that we did coke when yeah i'm say it's huge it's the biggest movie in the world that's so i'm like oh cool i'm glad i did it and then people are like dude i know you did coke any coke i'm like no it's a movie wow so that scene was kind of improvised. That's pretty much it. A lot of things in comedy really are. A lot of things. Damn.

Movie sitcoms. I mean, sometimes there's a base script. Sometimes you just kind of improvise off it. Damn. They should have had you in the second one, too. They tried. Oh, they did? It was going to be exactly that. They were going to be in a plane going to Europe. And I look back. I'm in

first class, and they're all back there getting drunk and crazy. And the lady says, the gentleman up front would like to buy you a drink. And they all look up. There's the curtain. They pull the curtain back, and I'm like, I'll go do some coke. Classic.

But what happened? They just never got, they were, they were, they would just were too far along and couldn't get back to it. But he was like, yeah, dang, why didn't you tell me earlier? Because I thought of it. I thought, hey, you know, I got wind of it that they were filming the second one. So I thought, oh, I'll come up with a bit. He loved it. He was like, damn it.

That would have been so good. Great, great callback. But oh well. Did loved it. He was like, damn it. That would have been so good. Great callback. But, oh, well. Did they film both in Vegas or just the first one? I have no idea. I think the first one. Okay. I don't remember this.

I've been cut out of so many movies now. Really? Oh, yeah. I met everyone you probably interviewed. If they asked me how many movies I cut out, they'd probably have dozens. I didn't know that was common. I didn't either.

But I've been cut out. Yeah, it is very common what happens they shoot all the footage they can it's not that they didn't like me or my scene they just got to the point

where they say it's not needed damn I'd be so hurt well when we shot with Melissa McCarthy it was brilliantly funny but it did

we shot it I kept saying this is a weird scene it was kind of like a flashback she ate some bad fish and she went on this trippy thing.

And they just, when they probably put the movie together, like, it didn't make any sense. Damn. So. Yeah. A little too edgy for their,

their liking, I guess, right? Who knows? I feel like a lot of movies are kind of soft these days. Yeah. They're not as like, yeah.

Vulgar as they used to be. Yeah. You know, like Adam Sandler movies don't hit the same anymore. Right. Those used to be hilarious. He did make good movies. The 2000s?

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. But his new ones on Netflix, they're decent, but nothing like the old ones. Right. But you want to eventually create your own movie one day? Is that something in the books? We did a movie called Chairman of the Board, which I did. God, whatever year it was.

And it was my movie starring me. But it was an interesting time because I'd never been in a movie. You know, first time starring in a movie. And I'd barely even gotten behind a camera. I'd never been on a crew. And I'd been on, you know, the Tonight Show and whatnot. But I'd never had a movie crew where there's, you know, over a thousand people on the set you know doing something

everyone's looking right at me and they're all like you know everyone's getting me ready and getting me in the camera and action you're just like fuck you know it's just a lot to to to absorb especially never doing it right so i did okay considering that was my first ever doing a movie cold you know blue green as I could. But we had a great cast. The supporting cast was Raquel Welsh and Jack Warden and Larry Miller. God, you name it, they were all in it. And so it really, really was fun.

It was a legit movie. And it still holds up to this day when we see it. Okay. I've got to check it out. Chairman of the board. So you were a producer and actor? No, I was barely an actor. Oh, okay.

Yeah, I didn't produce. But I had, I used a lot of my ideas. We wrote with, I wrote with the other guys, and some of the scenes are my props that I was using. Like, I was an inventor in the movie, so when I came into the pitch, I had some of the jokes that I use in my show in the movie. Got it. As an pitch i had you know some of the jokes that i use in my show in the movie as an invention kind of thing so in a sense i kind of helped but you

know i should look and see if i was a producer in that because i should yeah you might have to make a writer producer yeah that'd be cool you know i think that's neither chairman of the board too get ready get ready guys what year did that one come out 90 something oh so it's old yeah yeah okay 30 years old almost damn been at this for a while man do you even go to the movies anymore? no no I just don't

it's fun to think the last movie I went to see the last movie I saw in theaters was the new Top Gun I think Top Gun the new Top Gun because everyone said you gotta see it because of the surround sound and the

jets. So I saw it. It was very good. But part of that, jeez. Blazing saddles. I mean, it's been that long. I don't even know what that is. I mean, these days everything just comes out on streaming. It's true. It's odd. You always wonder if movie theaters are even showing movies anymore. You don't even know

they existed. They got to be hurting. Yeah. As you said, everything streams. That's scary. Is the comedy space slowing down? No, the comedy thing is still good. Live comedy is still, people want to see live comedy. Thank God.

Okay. People do stream it too, but I think you still get that live audience and they're watching comedy. That's good. Yeah, we hope. So that's one of those spaces that's recession-proof. I don't know if it's recession-proof, but as of right now, it seems to be. Okay.

I mean, right now, I feel like we're in one. Yeah. And if you're still getting spots filled. Well, people always want to, that is one thing during a recession and hard times, they want to laugh. That's one thing people really, you know, find their medicine from getting to laugh

and kind of forget about their problems. That's why they don't want to talk about politics. Do you think social media helped the comedy space overall because a lot more eyeballs saw the new skits and stuff? On social media? Yeah. I mean, I still haven't figured quite that one out yet, if social media does that.

I mean, whether or just not maybe for me as other people. I mean, some people have become huge internet stars off of social media. I mean, this is one example, what Justin Bieber, I mean, some people become, you know, huge internet stars are off of social media. Yeah. I mean, what is this one example? What Justin Bieber, I think was one of the first,

um, or the Kardashians, if they have a show, but, um, there's people that, that, that are musicians and singers that have become huge just off social media.

Oh yeah. And comedians like a lot of comedians, a lot of comedians, Andrew Schultz, Theo Vaughn, uh, Trevor Wallace. Yeah. There's a few that really blew up from social media. Oh, yeah. And comedians. A lot of comedians. A lot of comedians. Andrew Schultz, Theo Vaughn, Trevor Wallace. There's a few that really blew up from social media. Yeah.

But that's not part of your marketing strategy? No, it is part of it. Yeah. You just got to get people to take care of it. We've already heard of him. He's a good guy. Yeah. Plus, your stuff, you kind of don't want to put out, right?

You want it to be more of a surprise. Well, I put it out. Yeah. We put it out a little bit. Oh, like your prop? Yeah. You put it out? Okay. Yeah. I always put it out there and show, yeah. Oh, like your prop? Yeah. You put it out? Okay.

Yeah, I always put it out there and show the making of it and the new prop of the day or whatever the week, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Because a lot of times there's a shelf life to it, too, so you want to get it out. Yeah. Were you on Reno 911?

Was I what? Were you on Reno 911, the show? Yes, yes. What were you doing in that show? You didn't do your homework. Yes, I was on there. No, I knew you were on there, but what went down on that episode? Actually, what went down on there was hotel furniture right off the balcony into the parking lot.

Oh, shit. Yeah, it was a great scene. I'm in my room in my robe, and I'm partying on my floor excessively, and I'm throwing TVs off the balcony, and I launch my sofa, and they come bring me down, and I'm in a robe, and I'm saying, look, sorry, I'll write you a check. And I have like a rubber bank check. It's a rubber check, and it's some stupid thing.

And I grab the guy's gun and I run. I get in his car and I peel out and they go chasing after me. Damn. Yeah. It was a fun, fun episode because I'm completely not playing me. I mean, you know, I would never act that way. And I wouldn't take a gun. But I'm shooting at them and I'm peeling out of the hotel parking.

So it was very fun. I miss that show, man. Yeah, it was a good episode, too. Yeah. Jason Aldean threw a couch off the balcony. Yeah, yeah. You're also on Family Guy. Yeah.

That is one of the best shows of all time. Yeah, of all time, yeah. They just hit you up to come on? Yeah, same thing. They had an idea um and they said do you want to be the voice of it or do you want us just to get a voice for it i said of course i want to be the voice for it so they sent me the stuff and i i went to read it and i was like oh man this is really really not funny which you know hard to

tell them yeah it's not funny talking to people that are talking to seth you said that to seth yeah wow yeah how do you take it well he he he said okay um but what is well it's not what it's not but it's not well it's funny though i said no it's horrible and he's like what's not funny about i'm like well one it's a pun it's just like it's it's the dumbest thing i mean kiertop's already the lowest common denominator then you may have me do puns now it's really horrible. He says, well, I thought that's what you do. I said, no, I don't do puns. I do like inventions and whatnot. So he tried to, he said, explain to me then.

What, what, what would you like to replace the prop with? And I said, how about my paper cups and string phone that has call waiting? And he's like, Oh, that's great. That's clever. And that's good. But that wouldn't work in, in this. Cause the whole thing is it's great that's clever and that's good shit but that wouldn't work in in this because the whole thing is it's it's it's dumb the prop has to be dumb i said so you're making fun of me because i'm dumb he's like well no but um and we've already we've already made the animations i'm like well then why did i spend an hour trying to talk you into doing my cups and string if we already knew that was what you were married to so i said okay well it's horrible i'll go i'll do it so i did the

voice reluctantly did the voice to it and then they had me go back to la because they had to do another part to it and loop it over and get it anyway so i'm sitting in in them and with them now face face and i said this is all of them it's like 10 of them i said this is horrible by the way and everybody's just like they're all going this is great i'm telling you scott this is great everyone loves it so i said all right so i i read the lines and it was laughing i'm like it's horrible though but it's funny to you but you're not the one but the joke was it's a it was a like a saw yeah they had glasses on it and the joke was look it's a seesaw oh and i'm like that's kind of hard to where i so i said this is horrible. And I kept saying, it's horrible. This is horrible.

And so they all said, no, you're wrong, Scott. I'm telling you. This is the highest rated one we've done in a long. We've already shopped it and got everybody's comments. And they howl. Really? So I said, OK, I trust you. And it was great.

And people still walk up to me and say yeah Seesaw it was great what? yeah to me that's too hard to put in my head to register the joke

like when you have to think about the joke too hard yeah well it's a pretty easy joke horrible I mean Seesaw yeah it's horrible

yeah damn well they know what they're doing they've been on TV for a while that's why I said I gotta listen to the pros any other shows or movies you want to make an appearance on? Well, yeah.

I mean, I love doing – I love anything. I just love being part of movies. I love being part of shows. I love being – especially if I'm kind of the odd guy out. Most people book me in things that you know you're going to be carrot top i have done one where i was a really horrible mean like killer clown yeah which is i think it's going to be really cool it's just i just am this murdery guy and covered in blood and so it's kind of cool i'll check i'm not really revealed as Top. I don't think it's just... I love horror movies. I don't think it's just clown. Did you have to wear

a clown thing? Or was your hair good enough? No, I used my own everything, but I had blood and shit. Damn. When's that coming out? I don't know. They don't know. It's coming out soon. I'll check that one out for sure, man. Where can people find you and check out your shows, man?

Well, they can find me at the Luxor is where the show is and caretop.com. And they can look me on Instagram, which is real caretop live. Real caretop is my Twitter and Facebook. Perfect. We'll link it all below. And I'm going to check out your show soon. Yeah. Check it out.

It's here every night, six nights a week. Cool. I'll be there next week. Yeah? Yeah. Come out. All right. Thanks for link it all below. And I'm going to check out your show soon. Yeah. Check it out. It's here every night, six nights a week. Cool. I'll be there next week. Yeah? Yeah. Come out. All right. Thanks for coming on, man.

Thank you, bud. Appreciate it. Thanks for watching, guys, as always. See you tomorrow.