Habits and Hustle - Episode 363: Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson: Exploring Fame, Fitness, and Funny Stories with a Comedy Legend

Episode Date: July 16, 2024

Have you ever wondered about Carrot Top's incredible career longevity? He has maintained an extraordinary 19-year residency at the Luxor in Las Vegas as a comedic legend. In this Habits and Hustle episode, I dive into Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson’s life, encouraging him to reveal the secret behind his stage name and personal brand.  Carrot Top shares laugh-out-loud stories of audition mishaps along with personal experiences that have shaped his comedic path. We discuss his rigorous fitness routine, the continuous effort to stay relevant in pop culture, and more!  Scott Thompson, known professionally as Carrot Top, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is widely known for his use of prop comedy. What We Discuss: (12:04) Evolution of Carrot Top's Comedy (17:59) Evolution of Comedy Performances (24:59) The Loneliness of a Comedian (29:54) Daily Fitness Routine and Health Habits (40:42) Financial Aspects of Comedy Residencies (46:32) Career Longevity and Staying Relevant (57:19) Maintaining the Carrot Top Brand …and more! Thank you to our sponsors: Magic Mind: Head over to www.magicmind.com/jen and use code Jen at checkout.  Find more from Jen:  Website: https://www.jennifercohen.com/ Instagram: @therealjencohen   Books: https://www.jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://www.jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagement Find more from Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson: Website: https://carrottop.com/  Instagram: @carrottoplive

Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it. 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. Because I have to tell you again. 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. 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? If you wanna ask me that, I'm not, I'm up there. I don't know, we 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 would be 19 years.

So it'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, it'll be 40 years in comedy coming up. Well... It's kind of exciting, 40 years. 40 years. You were at MGM Grand,

weren't you, before? Yes. Right, and then you came to Luxor and you've 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. All right.

Yeah. Yeah. People could think I'm Reba. Yeah. This is Carrot Top. I have Carrot Top. 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. Would it be a real name is Scott Thompson? Scott Thompson. Now you know why I went by Carrot Top. Yeah. What a pretty boring name, Scott Thompson.

Well. And there's the kids in the hall, there's a guy from the kids in the hall named Scott Thompson. That's right, and kids in the hall is Canadian, and I'm Canadian. Right, oh yeah, that's right. And so I thought, well, Scott Thompson is already a kid, and I know him, and this is kind of a funny story.

Real briefly, when I lived in LA, they sent me on an interview, or what do you call it, audition. And I get there, and they're like, I come in to read this part, and they're all like, Carrot Top? And I'm 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, I'm like, uh, okay. How did you get this interview? I was 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 you're Scott. I said, yeah, you probably wanted him. Then I come walking in my hair out there. 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. Like lawyer, 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. Well, I can't like- My grandma was like, is this my nephew Carrot Top? And I'm like, it's Scott, grandma. Yeah, that's really, well, do you, who do your friends call you?

I have no friends, so they, no, they come with Scott. Yeah, Scott. They call you Scott. Yeah, nobody calls me C.T. or Carrot or no, it's Scott. Like when you walk in here, so we're doing this podcast in Scott, AKA Carrot Tops backstage dressing room. When you walk in, do people say, oh, hey Scott? Yeah. Yeah, they don't say, hey Carrot Top people say, oh, hey, Scott? Yeah.

Yeah, they don't say, hey, Carrot Top. No, no one ever says no one. I'm 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 back door entrance or how do you? I go through the back door. You go through the back door?

Yeah. 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 back door in the Luxor. It's not really about trying to not be recognized. I mean, I'm going to be in stage in hours'm a paratop. Well, I figured, do they even have one? Like, do people always stop and recognize you? No, there's a back door in the Luxe. It's not really about trying to not be recognized.

I mean, I'm gonna be on stage in hours, but it's just- Well, you're pretty recognizable. It's just easy to be parked in the back and we can 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, you're actually- Because I say, look at my jeans shorts, look at my shorts. You look really, you're very friendly and super nice. And you seem to be very kind and down to earth. Everybody who works for you have been here for like a hundred 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 like the way beginning. Okay. When did people start calling you Carrot Top? And how did you even start? I started in college on a day off 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 gotta 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 similar thing, like an open mic and I went down to audition for them. And the lady was like, I still remember her name is Colin McGarrett.

And she looked at me and she's like, I got down and I had to like audition in a sense in the comedy club. Never been to a comedy club, which is first time on stage, just in front of her with her clipboard. And she's just looking at me and like, do I do it in front of a crowd? She? She's like no do it in front of me. I'm like, okay, it's weird So I did my act and whatever I called my act and she's remember looking at me. I've never forget seem 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 got to have your own jokes. And I said, Oh, you do? She's like, yeah, I'm like, oh, that's makes it difficult, a little harder. So she said, go home and like, try to think of something that's, that's, you know, you and natural, like, that would be your organic view. 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 my logo for my company and my career as a comic. You're not a comedian, I said, I know but I have a logo. That's the important part.

The hard part's over. I got the logo. I'm not even thinking I'm kidding. I had a logo, I printed up on a T-shirt, I said, look at the carrot top. They're like, well, you need an act. I said, that'll be the easy part. I had a neighborhood crime watch sign that I had stolen when we were in college.

It was in my dorm room. As I was drawing my Carrot Top logo, I was kinda 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?

And 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, oh, that's really funny. I like, and I like the visual aspect of it too. But not, I didn't know that everything was going to be visual at that time. I just, 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 gonna 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 a kid with no feet.

And I said, when they're slow, they have no feet. 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 it at night. So it was really clever. It was like a, what do you call it? Like just a, you know, 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 Booker Aetone. 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 there's a whole bunch of them. Reduce speed ahead. I said, there's cheap drugs ahead. You know, all these dumb things. And I was known for this like sign bit. It killed.

And she said, you need, you know, grow off that. What's the next thing? And I just sit in 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 like, just like this, a hat. I got a mannequin head and I said how about a hat for old people when they drive so their head goes above the seat So I made this like 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 all people Cuz so they could see their head and they drove and all 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 drunk still fall down. An ice tray with a level so you wouldn't spill the water putting it back in the freezer. There's 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 was all original. She's like, this is the best part. Cause back then when I started, it was all about doing original stuff.

It wasn't about doing someone else's act. And so I was kind of proud of the fact that I was doing original stuff and 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. But more hate came because he's doing something different. But more hate came because I was doing something original and clever 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've spoken about this on a few other shows, but I think that when it finally came down, because I'm like anybody else, 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 then politics, everything is so, right? People love Caratoc, people hate Caratoc. And I get that. I know people that hate the Rolling Stones. It's unbelievable.

They're horrible. They're hacks. They're like, are you out of your mind? But anyway, I think the one 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 gonna bother me. I said, you're a comic me or I walked up to him, I don't wanna bother you.

He said, you're not bothering me. I said, I'm a comic and I just wanted to say you're great. And he goes, caretop. And it was like two things that happened. One, he knew who I was, which was like, what? 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, dude, it's parallel to how we think where 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 early part of my career, I said, you know, they have the cups and string phone and everybody's had that when your kid, Hey, what's going on? I said, we should have an updated version has call waiting, you know, the cup that comes out. And he just was like, that's fucking great. And so then I have three cups to come out. It was conference calling and then I had a clear cup for caller ID.

I said, no, it's you pick pick up, I'm looking at you. And so it just grew as a bit. And then when he told me that, it kind of legitimatized me as a comic. 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 on me. The trolls. Right. And then you get Gary Shanling 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. Like real legends. Yeah, real legends.

Richard Pryor said to me, damn, you're fine. And I said, 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 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 Kathie 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 more Regis, but I still do... What's her name, Kelly? Kelly, but when I would do like the Jay Leno shows and all those, or senior, every show,

they wanted the props, they didn't want me to come up and tell a story, they wanted Caratop with the trunks of stuff, which I get, and then when people see the live show, they're like, oh my God, I thought it was gonna be like an hour and a half of what I see on J-Lenner. I'm like, I would die doing that for an hour and a half. You just can't go manic for an hour and a half with prop prop prop, you'd die.

But when I opened for people back in the day, like opening act for, 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, um, 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. Yeah. No, 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.

I'm good. And we're good friends. I know Sean is a friend. So he'll say that. He says, people say I look like Sean. I said, I get Sean. Well, he gets Carrot Top. So. 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 there wants to, there anyone wants to be another Carrot Top.

But you, do you, do you? It's not a neat, you'll see that it's, it's, it's not. 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 the 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 from 30 years ago. Where's your agents? I see LA, CAA. Oh, CAA, okay. But anyone will say like there's no, we're going to comedy clubs. There's no, look on TV, there's no like a're a good comedy club, so like, there's no, look on TV, there's no, 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 out and no one wants to do it. No, but that's- Or 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 stand-up comedy, and especially now because it's, you know, like with the roasts, I did plenty of roasts. I would just do my stand-up, I would do that and maybe I'd have, you know, like with the roasts, I did plenty of roasts. I would just do my stand, I would do that, and maybe I'd have a prop or two,

like flavor, Flavs, Clock. I made one for him that was like an old-fashioned clock. I saw that, yeah. So I would always do my thing and then a prop, but like when people mostly know what they stand at, 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 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 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 so well? 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 that, I have an hour show, it had to be evolving to more of a show. It had to become not necessarily a Vegas thing, but we still do the road. I mean, take the show on the road, we go to Kansas City,

we go to Ohio, we go to San Diego. So it's not a Vegas show. That's why we always be like, we're gonna Vegas show? No, it's not a Vegas, it's just a show we're gonna 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, probably people now know that are like Vegas, but they don't know that I, you know, probably people now know that are, you know, like Vegas, but they don't know that I, you know, the thing is like, Vegas, Vegas show. You know, it's like, well, the. Did you, by the way, when you were younger, like before college. I was never younger.

Yeah, I know, you were always this age. I don't feel like I was younger. Did you, 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. Everybody would laugh. Were you a good student? Could you have to be? I was okay. Yeah. I mean, I was okay. I was, my brother was a student,

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

And she would, I would entertain her and her friends. I always had something in me. And as my neighbors say, he's so unusual and different. And I was, you know, I skinny redhead kid. 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, being a guy like me, it's true, like 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. So they would go-

Yeah, self-deprecating. Yeah, they would pick on me and then I would say, 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 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 it was a big door and it said this door must remain closed at all times so I forget this and I said why is there even a door then just looked at me

and he said that's funny and he said, that's funny. And he put it in his show. And then he says, you know, Scott, Scott wrote that. And I did, I just didn't write it. I just, that it was an observation, you know, 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, 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 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? I had to sit on a knee scooter. Well, a couple of times. But the first time I just, I don't think I just didn't do it. I, you know, now who I am, I couldn't just like, I'm gonna take six months off and heal. So I broke it and I was on stage the very next night.

And it wasn't how we're gonna do this. I said, we'll get a knee, you know, with his 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 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, it doubled, you know, that and then COVID and they put me in 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, you know, 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 do it without a mask, but the audience has to be not only distanced and spread out from,

it was a 3,000 seat theater at the Luxor. And they put- Is it 3,000 people? No, at the others, two 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, 400. Which is perfect for Vegas, especially with visuals and all. That showroom was great, but 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. I swear to God. And we'd had, I think max, you're allowed to have a hundred people. So I came back from Florida, you know, year off, and people. I swear, and we'd have, I think max, you're allowed to have 100 people. So I came back from Florida, you know, year off, 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 gonna 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 gonna be, I mean, how are you gonna 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. to do comedy, especially visual comedy, with people spread out so far. Oh my God. 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 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 rhythm. But you couldn't hear anything. So then I stopped and started telling stories. It was better, you still couldn't hear them. Then they allow us to have 200 people and then finally, we went back into this room and it was back to normal setting. But there's a lot of things that happened and changed the dynamic of how I performed and how it just changed and evolved.

Are you friends with other comics that are just today? Definitely not, I don't know any comics. You don't know any? No, when I lived in LA, of course, I'd always go to the comedy clubs and sit in the back. And 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, I don't know. I do like Jim Gaffigan. Seinfeld? Gaffigan? I don't know the new, like, but neither Roast

or 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, I know. Nicky Glazer. Geoffrey Ross.

I know Geoffrey Ross. You know Geoffrey 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 heard of her. Oh, you never met her? Never met her. Oh, Ross. You know Jeffrey Ross, you also probably know Nikki Glaser, don't you? No, I don't know Nikki Glaser. You've never heard of her? No, I've never met her. Oh, you've never met her? Never met her.

Oh, okay, you've never met her. But like, okay, so how do you not? 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 Chris Angel, do you guys hang out together?

Because you're all like our residents for here for so long? We have, you know, hang out. We don't like go get sushi with David Cauffield. Why not? You guys are like, I have gone to dinner with him and I have gone to dinner with Chris Angel. 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 path. I just wanted to see him. Which one? Chris, because he would give 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 gonna go to your show, sorry. Right. You know, I don't even wanna go to my show. So, I finally talked into me going, and it was phenomenal. And it really was a great show. And there's a trick I put in the show tonight that I, we're doing well and it's all based on,

after that's how the creative happens. I went went saw him and I said to myself I need a magic bit and then we just created it or I did say we I just kind of thought of the idea I said already have all the bells and whistles with the smoke and the thing and the boom-da-boom so I said let's just come up with some kind of bit and that's what I do and then I give him the I give them the thing like you know I know that Chris if you want to see it done properly, go see Chris Angel. Oh, so you guys collaborate kind of. No, no, I say if you want to.

I know, I know. 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, 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, if they weren't good. Well, people obviously like come back for 1830, whatever, 30 years. You obviously have an audience, but how do you, does your mind ever shut off? I mean, do you have to think of things all the time? Like, do you sleep? Are you like, how are you able to?

I'm a pill popper, but I know I, yeah, I can't, I don't shut it off all day. But I don't sit around juggling salt and pepper shakers at the restaurant either. Like I'm a very quiet guy. And so... 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 fact? 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 a hundred people and talking to them, I would lose my mind. So I don't go to social 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 a 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, let's not talk about our shows, you know. That kind of thing. 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 turn them in. No, 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. You know, my 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 Vegas, actually. You know, 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 Vegas. Way before I was doing Vegas. Really? So she and my mom, yeah. And then I got a show at Bally's.

Was that the first show you got? In 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, definitely not.

You don't go on dates? No, I've not, no. I am happy just being single and no dates. No dates? No dates. So you really don't like socialize? No, I really don't like anything social. I really, I go home and I watch Sports Center

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, damn, you already picked as vice president, you idiot. Yeah. So I don't know what's going on, but you'll see there's a little politics in 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 as 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, I'll make sure we clear this up. I'm not like this crazy neurotic guy that doesn't like social. No, no, by the way, I totally understand. I go to the gym by myself, then I go to lunch usually by myself,

and then I go here, 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... But I like it. I'm not... It doesn't seem weird. So what is your... I was gonna 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? Just kind of... Yeah, be alone. Enjoy yourself for one night. You know, I can't do it. I gotta have somebody.

How do you just sit home and not be yourself? I'm like, I don't know. gotta have somebody did how do you just sit home and up yourself like I don't know just like I would say to you how do you sit home with I know it's true though so it is true I don't know I'm just I like a loner and this is fine no I think that I 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 wants to lunch today with us oh she did okay she's the word just still best friends you're so 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. Day in the life, cherry top. 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 the like, all of a sudden you just go, I'm dude, go back when I'm 14. By yearbook picture, I always had muscles, I always worked out. That's why people talk about the like, all of a sudden you just 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. Yeah, I know, I mean there's pictures of me in the show,

you'll see I'm the same exact, I weigh exactly when I was 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 up. 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 new goodness? 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're always, you always looked like this?

Yeah, you can look back at my internet and say, I'm like, yeah. Really? That's when people were shocked, like, when did you get muscles? I'm like, I've had them in 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. 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? No, just say how you are. I'm like, okay. But also you're like also 59.

And you look like you are like 30. So what are, okay, so I wanna know what are your tricks and secrets of looking this fit? I don't know, cause 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 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, um, yeah, nothing. What do you mean? What'd you have today?

Well, I had a, in fact, my mom even said, eat more of your sandwich. And I said, uh, mama, this is how much I always eat. So I'd eat like a half a sandwich, you know, today. That's it. Did you have, do you eat too much? I don't eat breakfast. I get up and I, I go for a run And then I go back and I kind of yard. Can you run in the streets?

You gotta 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. Wow. Put on music and I do,

I get everything all pretty for the day. And then I go to lunch cause 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 soundcheck and do a show and go home. And I have my social time here, like with the crew after the show, that's you know. And you don't eat, so 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. You know, 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, I don't enjoy, I haven't been drunk ever since I was born. 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, she's never seen me drunk. And it's just not, I just don't, drink. But I never, no, I literally, my friends, my girlfriend and my mom will tell you,

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 shots. And when I go out for dinner, I have a glass of wine and that's it. I don't go drink, I don't go to a bar and drink.

Right, you're not interested in buying a drink. Yeah, but I like, when I get done with a show, I love a crown on the rocks and then sip on that when I go home. And then I drink a little red wine and go. Yeah, but I like, when I get done with the show, I love a crown on the rocks and sip on that when I go home. And then 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 does each workout? You just find it, you know, it's like the show, you gotta, 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. And I'm like, yeah, I'm just getting ready to start my day. So it's 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, oh mom, you're gonna go to the gym? I was, yeah, I'm gonna go to the gym. And I go. I do a lot of honey. I eat like a, I do a shot of espresso right before and like some honey. And that's what I did when I was, when I was 14 years old as a swimmer.

The honey was like instant energy. It's not great for you, but. It's way better than other things you're doing. And people are amazed when I'm at the gym. You eat like a thing, like a honey bear? I'm like, yeah, that's horrible for you. I'm like, well, okay. You burn it off in the workout.

So my workouts 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 buys cause you're doing your bone back and so I threw a back and buys and I'm talking to Joe Rogan do back and buys and that throw, let me do chest J and then I run every day. So I don't really do a lot of legs cause I have

great legs. So I don't have to touch. I was like, how are you so much? Okay. Cause I run too. I make a joke. I said, 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, 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? Some, I take a day. I didn't go yesterday because I, yeah.

You gotta take a day to, sometimes. Okay, 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 any 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, there's one photo they used that they just completely AI'd it or something, and that was funny. I think I even put it in 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 this literally like in a movie, like, I don't know what you're saying. I don't know what you're saying. They do that on, oh, I 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. But, 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. Yeah, so do you, okay.

But people always think I'm smaller than I am when they meet me, they're like, you're smaller than I thought you were. I thought you were like really big, muscular, and like 6'3", I'm like, no. I did think you were. I weigh like 155 pounds. Well, how tall are you? 6'5".

6'5", 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 the 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, eight, nine, 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 six four and she'd say, right, six four. And what did you finally, you're not, wait a minute, you're not're not and I do that every I still do that when I go to the doctor

Are you serious every time I was 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 they always just write it down because they're just doing their yeah They're not paying attention. I had to go for my colonoscopy You know because I'm old and I did check the same, I'm still doing the same material that I did when I was eight. And it still works. And it still works.

How many drinks do you have per day? I'm like, 23. And I'm like, do you really? I'm like, no, I don't do that. Two or three, I did, I put, I meant two to three, not 23, but you know, who to call in an emergency. I said, a fucking, you know, a doctor. Yeah, that's exactly true.

I fill out the whole thing. You know, nearest relative, I'd say eight miles. You know, I just, a dumbstip. But that's always just stupid stuff. I mean, they always do. What else do you do for like, for healthy wellness, longevity modalities? Are you doing lasagna, 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. 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 actually. My doctor said it's good for you. It's good, is it like the blood pressure? It is, it's kind of like blood pressure. But it's funny, I actually take it, and then's good for you. It's good. Is it like the blood pressure medicine? And you don't get an erection?

It is. It's kind of like blood pressure medicine. Yeah. But it's funny. I actually take it, and then my friend, you take a Cialis every day, I'm like, it's really like 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 it's supposed to do. But it doesn't give you one.

I know what it's supposed to do. That's the fallacy behind these. Well, the fallacy behind those pills, because that was jokes every comic would do. You don't just take one and you're like, blah, I don't like it. You're not? No, you have to be aroused, first of all. So all it does is enhance your arousal.

So if you were on C.L.S. 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, so you have to be aroused first. Yeah, it doesn't just, 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. An erection that lasts longer than 30 seconds. Eight hours, God damn, don't call for help, just enjoy it. Enjoy it. Why would you take, why would you take one every day though?

Just for blood pressure, it's just for like, it really is for like a blood pressure. I was just joking about that. I wasn't really expecting that. So can I- 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 for the fact. You have to be. That's the biggest fallacy in this whole thing. There's a, there's a website.

It makes me laugh. We, we did it one night with my crew in here. Um, whatever it's called, celebrity wealth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Celebrity net worth. Celebrity net worth.

Yeah. Yeah. So you can punch in carrot top, celebrity net worth, and it comes up something silly, like 75 million or something. So, um, Oh, that's like a lesson I wouldn't even think. Well, well, it says on there, 75 million, right? So then when COVID happened, we were all making a joke

and my mode 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 300 million and I'm friends with them yes, I'm at 75 million. I guess I should be happy, but then I have friends, they have, you know, 300 million, and I'm friends with them, they're not worth 300 million. Yeah, 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 like- It's not accurate. He's been doing comedy 40 years, he must be paid. I don't know how they would even do it. You count it like when I'm on vacations too, and I get paid, I'm so done. Well, no, because they say like, 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 BS too. When they say they get a hundred million dollar contract, 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's four, 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. I use the property, but the Luxor has nothing to do with my show, except they let me do the show and they promote it here, but they don't own a bit of my show.

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 the, it's, it's a completely different deal. And the residencies in general are, are four or two walls. Someone like an adult, John probably is not, it's just they, they pay him, they pay him, you know, you know, he, whatever they sell. So there's probably some of those that they they probably give him $50 million for,

for four, five, six shows or whatever it is. But. So wait, hold on a second. So you're telling me you own, so you basically rent space. At the Luxor. Yeah, basically. And 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 kick you out. Yeah, in a sense. It was moral conscious, something. They can't just 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, 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 Chris Angel and David Copperfield?

I don't, 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 don 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 and, you know. Wow, I didn't know that. So then- Come banking off my name, you know, to sell the tickets. So, so- Yeah. So if you do a two-hour ride, you're taking a risk if you don't sell tickets.

And hotels aren't gonna 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 be gone. Right. Well, because you pay rent. How much are you paying rent though for this type of thing? Oh, I don't know. That all varies. Like what is, if I want to rent four walls here, would they give it to me? No. There's slanted walls though. It's different.

But like you basically will pay like a big chunk of rent monthly or? Yeah, we 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 like make a lot of money. My seven houses. No. Do you have seven? You live here? I live here in Orlando. So like you have to be like 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 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 him 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 you too and they bring in or the strata you mean the sphere yeah I call it the stratosphere definitely different this year this fear but that's more of like a vet that's more of like a concert venue that's a bad example but like yeah that yeah that's a guy. Yeah, for sure. Or Usher. Yeah, whoever plays the sphere, I mean,

I don't even know how that works. That's different. But like, if Usher comes in and does a deal with whoever, I think it was, who was it? I don't remember. I don't either. I thought they don't pay, like, 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 that we've been doing it for, well, ever since day one. So, 30 years. How long do you want to be doing this? Oh, just another week or so.

Then it's, if I can get through the weekend. That would be great. So how long do you actually have? What's your contract till? We have till 2025. So we've got about six more years left on our... Well, no, no, 25. 25. I mean, 30. Oh, you have another five years left. We have five and a half six more years left on our. Well, no, no, 25. 25, I mean 30. Oh, you have another five years left.

We have five and a half, six years left, yeah. Could we have one year left on our previous for 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 wanna be doing it that long? Yeah, I mean, what the hell am I gonna do? You don't get tired of it?

No, what else would I? I'm definitely not one of those guys that wouldn't retire. What am I gonna retire? Yeah, well no. I mean, I look like a teenager anyhow, why would I wanna, I'm not gonna retire. You do. No, but I mean, what am would I, I'm definitely not one of those guys that when I retire, I mean I look like a teenager anyhow, why would I, I'm not gonna retire. No, but I mean, what am I gonna 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, and he said, when are you gonna retire? And he said, from what? Now 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, 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 Cotfield came in and they wanted to take the room. The four-wall room. I don't know, again, mine was there.

Yeah, so your room was four. Mine was four there. But you had a four-wall there, yeah. We've always have, unless we do road shows, I think it's a guaranteed kind of thing. But he wanted the room and I remember saying, well, David Cotfield, care a dump. So I guess, 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, let's give it a shot. So it kind of, it worked for a little bit and then I was like, 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 rel, you're still relevant so many years, how do you stay relevant? Because it's like different, it's generational and these generations, people still know who you are and you're doing a lot of TV. Yeah, I would say there's a lot of things that you do like. Family Guy, there's a lot of things that continue to pop up.

To put you in, yes. You know, a pop up in pop culture that keeps you relevant, so there's a lot of those. There's Roast that comes on Comedy Central that keeps showing, I did years ago, the Family Guy, the TV shows. You did Hacks recently, I saw. Hacks, so I mean, that's a new one.

So yeah, you try to keep yourself relevant by doing 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, that kind of happened by, I was watching, I was a fan of the show. Yeah, me too.

And I was, my phone, it was just weird. My phone was going off and they said, do you ever see Hacks? They talked about you on it. So I'm like, well, I've watched it, I didn't see it. And it was the last episode. I was like, wait, 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, oh yeah, yeah, 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, the gene smart walks in and goes, oh, for God sakes, get over it. You can do better than Carrot Top. And I watched it and I was like, that's great.

So I called my, my people and I said, um, reach out to them and see, you know, since they like me and I'm supposedly dating her on the show, maybe we could go on. 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 the, what would you do? I don't know. They had me doing something different. I said, 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 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 in the 90s, or 2000s, whatever it was, I don't even know now, and they were on every day, like every day, and they were like the Floke, progressive commercial, they were just so annoying. But the progressive ones? No, you mean the ones that are on every day? The all-state or progressive? I totally remember. That was like me, I was doing collect call commercials, and they were on every, 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. But then I became the phone guy. Like it was great. I would do theaters in like, you know, Birmingham, Alabama. And the meet and greet, they're like, you know, what are you doing? You don't do what's the show about? I said stand up. And they said, oh, it's like phones. And I'm like phones. And like, yeah, I'm like, yeah, the whole show is about making collect calls. And like, really? You make that funny that way. Then I'm like, no and like, yeah, I'm like, yeah, the whole show is about making collect calls. And like, really? You make that funny that way? Then I'm like, no, it's a comedy show.

There's nothing about, I do that for a paycheck. I don't pay a call. So they come to the show and they go, oh my God, he was a comedian. I just thought he was a commercial actor. 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 just knew who I was They knew carrots up, but they didn't know what I did It was that you have such an iconic like image right because of the everything about like by the way having back to that one Time when you're 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 a lot of right bit because you actually created a name and a brand that actually had a lot of longevity to it. What would you say was your big break though? Was that your big break? Because I thought you were on Star Search.

Yeah, no. It's interesting. I didn't have that normal person's big break. I was on Star Search, but I lost on Star Search. It wasn't a big break. But this exposure. I was on a lot of shows at the same time is what I think what my break was. So it was back when I, 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,

Comedy Stripped Live, all of them, there's 20 of them. So I was doing all those and I'd read just in Kathie 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. It just, I was, I was saturated. Accumulative. Yeah. And it was on every platform. I would have a college, I mean, Notre Dame. And then the next morning I'd go to New York and do Regis and Kathie Lee, and then do like a college in New York and then go to Atlantic city and do the weekend in

the theater at 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 a show on Cartoon Network where kids, I was called AM AM with Carrot Top.

So I had every age group. So it was weird. Like people would obviously, which are 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. So there'll be, there'll be 14 year old kids, 15 year old kids

and probably 80 year old people. Do you repeat any jokes? Cause people don't remember from like 10 years, 15 years, 18 years. Do I repeat them? Yeah, like the, do you have like the prop stuff that you could pull stuff out, people won't remember from. No, I mean, I do, I do some stuff in the beginning

that's kind of just gets going with like kind of. The current stuff. Oh no, like more classic care top when I start. No, but the, you current. And then when I bring, then I go into a whole bunch. It just. No, but the topics that you, even when you pull stuff out,

you still use them that are topical, I feel. Like I've heard you do stuff where it's like, this is Donald Trump's face or whatever. You always do like funny things that. Well, you can do, I can, I can, well, well, one example you'll see tonight was, I had a dinosaur on a rope. It was 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. It was 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 the joke is he's old, and he's a dinosaur. So I'm in my warehouse not that long ago. That's a really good joke the joke is he's old, he's a dinosaur. So I'm in my warehouse, yeah, it's great. 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 it just hit me, why don't I make that Joe Biden's dog? 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's, 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, 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 like the fact that you think about that, like how are you so alert all the time? You have to be thinking constantly. That's the curse of being, I think, forget, like comics as an artist or general, I mean, it's not, 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 that, you know, something happens in conversation, like, ah, it's funny I'm gonna use that. So yeah, 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 this earlier, that there's nobody who's done it, like no one's doing it. Heather, like who do you- 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. And you know what? Everything works together beautifully will be ever the real carrot top with the orange hair and the look and you know

Everything works together beautifully. That's the other thing right like as it you're like a caricature Yeah, that works. It's definitely a brand and a caricature of that kind of was In a sense in a sense somewhat manufactured in my head But it wasn't like you know I'm friends in the band like in sync and they've been friends of mine since they're all from Orlando and all the boy bands, they manufacture those guys and put them in and did it, they made it like, that's why they all had the same.

And they have the yellow shirt, blue shirt, red and green, the rainbow shirt. 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 Caratop 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, what will happen if you lose your hair, dude? I said, I know it's my logo, you know? I was gonna ask you about that. Yeah, I'm glad I have all my hair. I was gonna say, is that your real hair? Yeah, this is all my hair, yeah. Just kind of dreaded up right now at the time, but. That, I was gonna ask you, I didn't wanna be rude hair? Yeah, this is all my hair. Yeah, it's just kinda dreaded up right now at the time.

That, I was gonna ask you that, I didn't wanna be rude. I know, this is all mine. Because what would happen if you lost your hair? Because that is your- Yeah, it'd be no top. Yeah. I don't know, but yeah, I got lucky. You got really lucky.

Please welcome no top, what happened to him? It's so true. I'm like, I'm Peter Frampton, you know? That's right, exactly. You look at Peter Frampton, 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, when I 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, caratop, 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 ask, who'd you see tonight?

They're gonna say, oh, 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. See, this is what I was gonna, 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, there's been, it's been thorough for everything. No one can not 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. Is it? What's the-

Well, because you're stuck as Carrot Top. I could have been Queen Latifah, but I went with Carrot Top. Yeah, well, that's true. But what's the downside of being Carrot Top, I could have been Queen Latifah, but I went with Carrot Top. Yeah, well that's true. But what's the downside of being Carrot Top? There's no downsides, 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?

I'm really going with this? This is gonna be my Carrot Top? This is gonna be the moniker? This is it, yeah. It could be a better one, you know? I don't know, it worked out fine, but I'm saying it was meant to be, but I already looked like this, it wasn out fine, but I'm saying it was meant to be. But, you know, I already look like this.

It wasn't like I have to stay like this. Like if I wanted to change my look, I could, I could shave my head and still go on stage and say, look, no top, what happened? But I like my hair and I like looking like this. So I don't, you know, I try to keep it. I mean, to be honest with you, my people, 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 wanna do. So I do all this, cause I like to do this. So it's still orange enough to get the joke across from carrot. 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 carrot team. Yeah. I think theyot team. Yeah. I think they want you. Yeah, I gotta 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 wanna say guys, Carrot Top is at the Luxor. Carrot Top. Right now. Right now actually, as we speak. And if they wanna know more about you, can you tell them? Yeah, carrottop.com. I've got Instagram as caratoplive, caratop on my Facebook, real caratop. And you travel too, you said?

And we do road shows as well. When you toured again? Not a lot, but 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.

Yeah, it should be fun, we'll see. It's gonna be happening soon, uh-oh. Yeah, and that's it, and's a great show. I can't wait to see it now. It should be fun. We'll see. It's gonna be happening soon. Uh-oh. Yeah. And that's it. And I'm gonna 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.