Insight with Chris Van Vliet - Carrot Top: 30+ Years Of Comedy, The Power Of Consistency, His Favorite Props & Las Vegas

Episode Date: November 12, 2021

Today's guest is Scott Thompson, better known to fans around the world as Carrot Top (@RealCarrotTop). Carrot Top is a comedian an actor who has been making people laugh for more than 30 years and he joins Chris Van Vliet for this interview at the Blue Wire Studios at the Wynn Las Vegas. Carrot Top talks about performing his show 6 nights a week at the Luxor Hotel and Casino, how Jay Leno and The Tonight Show helped him get his first big break, the art of prop comedy, how he has been able to achieve such longevity in show business, the best advice he has ever received and much more! If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about CVV and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ladies and gentlemen, the legend himself, in person, carrot top. Thank you so much for coming by. Yeah, thanks. This is a pleasure. Beautiful studio. Very nice, right? I can draw a crowd.

Look at that. Oh, my gosh. There's so many people here. Hey, back off. I might break the glass. How many photos, though, did you pose for on the way over here? A few, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's good.

I mean, I stand out like a sore thumb. Well, this is a thing like nobody else looks like you. This is true, which is a blessing and a curse. I'm screwed in a lineup for sure. Like there's other people you could be like, oh, is that? I don't know. Is that this person or that person? Yeah, I do have a distinctive, like I said, it's good and bad.

Halloween and some dudes, like, that's a pretty good carrot top. If you were a little taller and a little more muscular, you nail it. I was like, not really. You literally said that. I said, yeah, oh, Mo, yeah. It's pretty good caratop. I can't. Oh, my God.

Or did they go, oh, that's a really good Kathy Griffin. Nice. Yeah, we had a whole thing without her, which is funny. You saw it maybe. I saw, yeah. With her boobs out and it says, hello, boys. It was a shot from behind, but you just see her hair. Her hair, so they thought, of course you think.

It was fun. Thank you so much for coming on. Yeah. You were like a Vegas staple. So today is our first day of filming Insight here in Las Vegas. Oh, good. So it makes sense to have a Vegas staple here like you. Thank you.

Yeah. We've been here for many, many years. It's crazy. You've been lucky. Is it 15 years? Well, 16 at the Luxor, and then prior to that, at the MGM for 10 and Bally's 1. Dude. It's been a lot of years.

Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. When you first got approached with the idea of doing a residency, was there any sort of... Apprehemptions. Yeah. Absolutely. I was terrified, and I said, no, actually. Really?

And, yeah, I was a road guy, and then we would come in and do, like, what they call now residencies, which is a week or two. A residency is what I do. We do 250 shows. That's a residency. People come in and do weekends, they now call it. residencies but when I started uh we do like about two weeks and then go on the road come back every three or four months do two weeks and go so it was kind of in and out residency um they offered me

the full-time gig and I was like no I'm not doing that um I'm a road guy you know yeah and so I took it and then uh now I can't imagine not doing it I you know there's nothing else I'd rather do than Vegas and we are doing some road shows coming up in December but only like five or six you know it's not a lot so it's like you get to like what that appetite So yeah, you get a little, exactly, and it keeps you, keeps you fresh on the road. You got to, you know, road shows a lot different than a, than a Vegas show. Yeah, how's the audience at a Vegas show? Oh, you know, it's great.

I mean, I've built, I've done this so long, so I can't, I built in an audience. So I think I'm lucky in that regard where I get people that actually come to see me, whereas, you know, back in the day when I first started, they were like, you know, we can't get into Circus Soleil, we can't get into Thunder from Nond, let's go see Caratop. And so, but I'm Bill, I still have people I say every day. how many people have never seen my show. And it's a lot of people I've never seen the show. No way. So it's fun to kind of to get those new people on fans, you know. And when most people leave your show for the first time,

and they're like, oh my God, I can't believe I've never seen Caratop before. Yeah, well, yeah, if they haven't. I mean, yeah. A lot of people have. We do have a lot of return visitors and fans, like I said, since I'm doing it so long. But it's fun to get the new people. It is fun because you get to turn them.

You know, they feel like they have no idea what they're in for. And the show is a lot different than I think that what they would normally think for a stand-up show, stand-up comedies. You know, this video, there's lights, there's snow machines, there's, you know, there's so many bells and whistles that go on during the show. So it makes it fun. After all this time, what do you still get out of it? Nothing. No, I get, yeah. No, I get, I get, I get, I get, yeah.

I get the same thing that the audience, I think, does. I mean, it's a rush. I mean, that's what's great about live performance. is that you get to feed off the energy of the crowd. So every night you get, you get that same feedback and the same kind of energy. And it's, yeah, you have to show. Here's a coming down process that happens that, yeah.

And it's fun. Every night I get a chance to try new things. I mean, we just did a Halloween bit last night. You know, because it's Halloween, it's funny one night. But it gives me the chance to kind of play a little bit each night, too, having a show every night, you kind of have that luxury of kind of, well, I've always, I've always tried new jokes. I never been one of those that I just do it. It eats, if it eats it, then I'd eat it.

Sometimes you'll eat it a lot and I just keep doing it. But do you ever, like believe in a joke so much that you're like, okay, it didn't work for this crowd, but. Oh, absolutely. I'm going to try it tomorrow. Oh, absolutely. It's not a comic living that doesn't have that theory. I mean, you know, in your brain, it's funny. And then you do it if it doesn't do well, then you, sometimes I'll do it for months if it doesn't do well.

And I'm like, I believe in that. this joke. So, um, and then some that are instantly hit. Um, like I know in my heart, like, this is going to kill. I just did it. It was brand new. It's two nights ago. It was a, uh, that 23 and me thing where you check your ancestry. So I said, I checked mine. Did you see mine? And it's a big screen like this behind me. And it's got, it's got a chart graph and it's got Wendy's Burger King McDonald's, you know, the icons. That's, that's my 23 me. So I'm all the, I'm all the fast food guys. They all have red hair. It's creepy. What is the general? What is the general? What is the of a joke look like for you?

Well, you know, they're all, well, there's always that, you know, if there's a core, if it's funny or not, I mean, there's something that you, you see and like, like that, I'm, I was just watching TV. And I thought every hamburger chain has a redhead in it. So I just thought, yeah, why is that? I don't know. Well, someone told me that red and yellow makes you hungry. And I said, I've never had someone around me think I'm starving when they hang around me. Red. But, um, or maybe they are. Or they're horny. There is. they're hungry or horny. But that's what someone told me.

But the whole idea of any kind of joke, whether it's a stand-up joke or it's a prop, there's got to be a beginning and there's got to be something funny. It's got to be, I think, clever in a sense. I try to keep the show pretty clear. The Halloween one was pretty funny. I said, can you give out candy anymore? Because the COVID, so I played it safe this year. I just gave out COVID shot.

So I had the little pumpkin with the little syringe. I think of Barney, you read a few booster. And then, so it's funny already. It's current. It's funny. It's brand new Halloween, COVID. And then I said, remember, if you don't feel good in about an hour or two, it's from the candy, not the shot I gave it.

So it ends with a, you know, you start, then at the beginning, and then there's a nice big punch on the end. Are you physically writing down these jokes? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or are you writing them in your iPhone, or what is it? No, I still am old school. I write in a pad and a paper and napkins. I just had a little bit of a bite to eat for here,

And I was writing things on napkins. Seriously? Yeah, yeah. So do you just have like a pile of napkins? Yes, I, yes. No, it's serious. People say, you have an iPad, right? And I said, no, I don't.

I really, I've never worked on a computer in my life. I just do everything on scratch paper still. Wow. I'm old, by the way. You still look great, though. Thank you. It's the lighting. We've softened all the cats.

You have great lighting in there. It does. Damn, I look good. When you got super jacked, how did this? It was like two hours ago, by the way. I mean, you still are in great shape. But I think that for, like, the public perception of you is one way.

And then these photos showed up where you were like huge. Well, some of them were altered, I think. I mean, it was as big. And people, in fact, people always still say, I thought you were bigger. I'm like, yeah, me too. But, um, how are you supposed to respond? Well, I think a lot, I know. You're a lot better, yeah, you're a lot better looking in person than you are.

And I get that, I got that at a Raiders game last time. Oh, nice. You look really good in person, by the way. I'm like, oh, great. How do we look like a lot? TV. Shit, hell. You look like crap, pretty much.

But, you know, the whole, I mean, I've always worked out and ran swam. I was a wrestler, swimming when I was 12. And I think when I got the full-time gig at the luxars, when I started just, I had nothing else to do all day long. So I would, I'd go to the gym and just hit the gym every day. And then I just was like, what? And I'm big. So I just completely just stop, like cold turkey and just started running.

So now I run about five miles a day. I still looked a little, but not like, not even close to, yeah, I just, I just got to a point where you were like, I don't like the way this looks. Yeah, I was just kind of, especially on stage, it was just, it would take away from, you know, it was comedy. You know, you're a skinny guy with freckles and red hair and big hair is what, you know, it should be based on. And when people would see me, the first thing he'd say is, wow, you work out, then you know you work out too much. Oh. Yeah, well, that's what I thought. They wouldn't say, well, you're funny.

They'd say, well, you really work out. And so I thought, that's taking away from my, and I'm really kind of. It's honestly just like this skinny guy. I was only in that phase where I was pretty jacked up for about two years. But dude, when you look at those photos. Fabulous. You were jacked. Yeah.

If you stopped working out cold turkey, was there ever a point where you thought to yourself, maybe I should shave my head? No, there's never been, I've shaved my balls, but never my head. Never my head. Yeah, no, I've always loved my hair. I've always loved having hair. It's like my thing. It's my power.

You know, I can't get rid of your hair. You're like Samson. Right. And people say, would you cut it for a movie? And I said, well, of course I would. But nowadays, they can, of course, just, you know, there's no such thing as having to shave your head for a movie. They can CGI it and they can bulk cap and whatever. Like Henry Cavill's mustache when he was Superman.

He has just like that. But I saw recently that Sean White was sharing a story. Yes, he was. He got rid of his hair. He did. I told him not. I said, don't do it. He said in his thing that I told him he should cut his hair because he's, he should cut his hair.

saw and I said don't I said that's that's your to keep your hair that's your that's your thing but he was telling the story like you should probably you were saying to him you should cut your hair because you don't want this to be your thing yeah I don't remember now I remember speaking to him a few times yeah but I just said you know dude you got you got you got to stay in the hair club you can't you know I think I might have been kidding when I said you still have time to not get stuck in this is right maybe I might have said something I think that. But you know, it's, it's okay. I like being, I like being, uh, I like being, uh, I like being this is good. No, I can't imagine not having hair. So,

when do you think, like there was a point in your career with, with great respect for you where you were like the punchline of a lot of jokes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I feel like it came back around where like, it wasn't funny anymore. Yeah, a friend of mine had said something kind of funny, said, uh, to, to make fun of of Caratopas kind of hack. Because, uh, you know, because it used to be, it's funny, but now 36 years doing it. It's kind of like, you can't really quite make that much fun of you

because you've been successful 36 years. So you kind of, you know, you're finally allowed to go to the barbecue, you know. But for many years, and I think it was because when I first started out, people, you know, I worked for years. People just, I just came on the scene and people thought that it was overnight, you know,

hit, especially doing something different with the props and they were just, they just wanted to not like, well, not just, not everybody. that was what I, what I used to, what survived me through all the poking fun of days was my mom

would always have, when I was a kid even, I get picked on at school for having red hair and freckles and skinny. I would say, you know, everyone's making fun of me. Who's making fun of you?

I said, so, consider the source. And so I've always, that's always been a big thing for me in my, in my life's considering the source of where it's coming from.

So, you know, the comics that are people that were making fun of me weren't people that I would really give a two rats about because they weren't, you know, like Jay Leno love me and Belmar love me and, you know, Chris Rock and

you know, Dave Chappelle, they're all friends of my. So they respected me and loved me and that was more important that they enjoyed me and appreciated my style of comedy more than, you know, some guy living in Arkansas that just pissed off that Caratops on the Tonight Show again. Right. Nothing I can do about it. So, yeah, it's like with anything, when they kind of art, I think you just try to please the people that are your fans, you know, whether it's in music or sports.

I mean, you know, if you old hate Tom Brady, well, you know what? You know, a lot of people love them. So, you know, it's always, you know, you're going to have haters and you're always going to have, no matter what you're in. I feel like if Tom Brady joined us right now for a conversation, you'd be like, man, it's really hard to dislike this guy. Yeah, well, Tom Brady, yeah. Yeah, of course. I mean, I think that's what, I think that's like that with anybody, though. There's been people that I was like, I'm not sure.

And then I would meet him somewhere to party. We'd meet him in a red carpet. And I'm like, that guy was really, really sweet. Yeah. So, yeah. I feel like nobody that's doing less. than you is ever going to like make I didn't know when that's doing more than you's right right right right well sure that's that that goes back to my my theory on uh especially you know at the end of the

day too is you you believing in your own craft yeah like I'm pretty I'm pretty proud of like that Halloween joke I mean that's like it's it's it's you know it's you can't be more current yeah it's Halloween the first year of Halloween with COVID so I came over the clever bit yeah so it's kind of uh You know, my props are like my songs in a sense. You know, you look back at your, your, what do you call it, catalog of years of props and jokes. And, you know, you sit back and go, oh, I'm pretty proud of that. You know, they're like, they can answer to you one in a couple days of that's, you know, it's current.

It's new. So, um, try to keep it going, you know. And so I pride myself in that, too. They're like, always writing a new joke or a new prop or, or bit. You know, the show has a lot of, um, which is another thing I, I, learned with just doing it for so long. My sound guy, or my lighting guy, I believe or not, one day said to me, you know, that big screen you have behind you, I just had my logo on it, the whole show, which I used to always, you know, it was a marketing major, so that's

another reason why the whole keratop and there's always a logo and people would leave the comedy club and say, who did you remember singing? And they said, well, the guy, Karatop, because it was a, it was in their head, you know? But my lighting guy says, you know, why don't you use that screen for emphasis for jokes. And so I said, what do you mean? And he's like, you know,

like I did a Michael Jackson joke. And I, and then I would have his thing. And I'd say, got your nose. And I'd grab his nose and his nose would go away. But it was like, then I started thinking,

oh, no, now this is going to, you created a monster. So now the live show probably has, oh God, 200 or more video jokes. So I don't even have to do the joke

with the prop or the standup. It could be both. It could be a video joke. Like the 21 and me. that's a total video joke. Yeah. And then I'll do, you know, every other, every other third joke is probably something on the big screen.

Yeah. So there's like a multimedia thing happening in the show, so it's kind of hard not to. You're always, it's either a boomed prop or a stand-up or a song or a thing, and so kind of all comes together. If we take this way back, who is the first person that you ever made lap? the first person I may laugh, probably my, my mom, maybe, my mom, she always said, you're funny. And then, of course, as it went on, I would make my friends at school.

My dad had a great sense of humor and a great timing is what I always. My dad was very, very funny in a way that was just his dry. He was very dry. He wasn't at all outgoing loud. Like, he just would have this timing. and I used to, when he would tell his jokes in the cul-de-sac with all our neighbors, I would go back to school the next day and try to recreate what he told and remember. And, of course, some weren't, you know, weren't bad jokes and I get in trouble.

Like, did you tell the school this joke? I'm like, mm. But I remember my first joke that I wrote when I was, I wouldn't say first joke, but it was one of the very first things that I came up with, I was probably 10 or 11, and we were having a campfire on the beach in Jacksonville, Florida. And it was like 20 kids and me, and I was the oldest one. And this police officers came out and they said, you can't have a fire on the beach.

You got to put this out. And I said, why? We're next to two things that put fires out, water and sand. Where is a safer place to have a fire? And they just looked at me like, are you like, he's really funny? And I'm like, well, I'm not, but all my friends are like, that's pretty clever. Like, you're right?

Like, where else would you want to take in the woods? We just know where to put a fire out? This was on the beach. water and sand there's nothing that can possibly go wrong right and so i started thinking of those kind of observational uh jokes and in a sense of joke uh storytelling and then uh and that's what i always admired comics that had that kind of material where you it's like when you watch show you're like oh my god that happened to me or oh my god i i see that too so observational things yeah you know Gallagher was always great about that he'd have jokes like you know what do they

call it a parkway why they call it parkway and you park on the driveway and drive on the parkway and what are they called them buildings when they're done building and they should be called built and he had all these all these really great like uh smart stuff and then i wrote it i wrote him one it was a it was probably 14 and it was here in Vegas actually and we were going to he was performing and there was a big door a big like a backstage door and it said this door must remain closed at all times and he was banging on it trying to get into to do the show and i said why why is there even a door if it's supposed to remain closed at all times. Well, I have a door there.

And he looked at me and he says, that's a great joke. Is that yours? I said, well, yeah, and I just wrote it. I just thought of it. But so that's always kind of like the process of how I try to do, where it's a little clever. It's a little, most of the stuff. I mean, there's other stuff that takes a different path. But, yeah, always it's funny.

Funny's funny. It's good. But there's also a lot of your, I think everyone thinks that you're just a prop comment. Right. And then they come to your show and they go, oh, my gosh. There's a lot of stage. A lot of stand-up, yeah. There's more than there ever has been right now, yeah.

Is there one guy in the back who's like, bring out a prop? No, I don't think so, because there's enough of that going on. I mean, there's still props, but no. I think I'll find out, but I think I've got it all kind of laid out where there's props and there's some props and there's some stand-up, there's some stuff, there's that, and then there's music at the end and people hopefully have fun.

I think it takes a lot of balls to get on stage. for the first time. Oh, yeah. So when you went, like, how did you convince yourself? I'm funny enough that I'm going to be able

to get up in front of a room of people and I'm going to make them laugh with my stories. I really don't know. I mean, it's been that long. I remember the day I did. It was in my college and I went to

the dorm or the rat scale it was called. It was like a bar where we had lunch and whatever. And they had an open mic night. And I didn't know what that was. And my neighbors, my roommates came back with this flyer and said, hey, we should go to this. And my neighbor, my roommate said, go to it. You should be in it.

I was like, be in it. What am I going to, I don't know how to, what am I going to, what am I going to, I don't play an instrument. I was saying, tell poetry. He's no, tell jokes. And I was like, I don't, I don't have, you see all the jokes you tell us. Go up into it. So I said, oh, I could just go up and tell, like my dad did, old jokes.

Yeah. So I just went up and I said, these are my, you know, the guy walks in a bar, a rooster and a hand, whatever the jokes were. And it did great. I felt comfortable up there doing it. And then the next year, every semester, or whatever, they'd have another one. And so I kept getting into it. And like the third time, I thought, you know, I should probably write my own jokes for this instead of do old jokes.

Yeah. So I might have done a few and then ended on an old joke just so I had an ending. And so that's what I did. I made fun of the school and I made fun of the parking and I made fun of one of our teachers. That was, everyone knew. joke about books, everything that we had to do in college and killed. And then I went to the local comedy club and they had an open mic there. So I went and I auditioned and the lady was like, you were funny, but I don't think,

what you're talking about college? I don't think, you know, this is a diverse crowd. We're not going to, I don't think your college jokes are going to, like talking about parking at your college is not going to get a, and she had a good point, though, right? Sure. Yeah. So I said, I got to, you know, you're on and you have to widen your, your audience and what you're going to talk about. And so that's when the props came in. I had a neighborhood crime watch

sign that I had stolen. It was on my dorm and I was in my dorm room and I was I actually had drawn a logo. I already had care top logo drawn and my roommate said, what's that? It says my logo. He said, oh, is that for one of your classes? That's a good logo. I said, no, it's from when I'm a comedian. He said, what? I said, yeah, I already have the logo. The hard part's done. I mean, now I just got write an act. I got the logo. That's the heart. Yeah. I mean, the art part's the logo. So I told Oprah this. She literally was some, she said, I had a logo

before I had an act, which was true. But then I thought the crime watch sign would might be a funny opening. So I walked on stage and I said, sorry, I'm late. I was in the neighborhood and it killed. And I said, how good is there a crime watch? You're not watching your signs. I mean, the house takes 20 seconds to break into. It took me three days to get this sign. So it was

the first prop and then it was really good. And then the lady said, could you do more of that. And I said, what, steal more signs? She goes, yeah, and I said, okay, I can steal more signs. So I started going around town stealing more signs, and I came up with like 10 different signs, and that was my whole, it was almost like a slide show. One was Buts Road. It was right through the town I lived, and I said, all the assholes live. And it killed, it's killed, and then she's like, this is great. And that's how the props came in. Yeah, her name's Colin McGar. And then I started

come up with like, you know, a boot with a kickstand for Rednex don't fall down when they're drunk. And I had an ice tray with a level on it. And I just started coming up with all these props. I had like a whole and the more props that I could come up with and and you know, the more time I could do. And so, uh, the key was to kind of get, you know, all good in there. I'm not having, you know, like four good ones and seven crappy ones. So it took a long time to get, you know, a solid enough time where I could open up for, for, you know, for other comics. And then that's what I started doing in other opening for like comics and bands. And then I had Brooks and done and whatnot. So. But you knew pretty early on.

that you were going to do this for a living. Well, I wanted to do when I was a kid. I definitely thought, like, even on the beach, but I didn't think there was such thing as just, I'm going to be a comic. Yeah, I'm just going to tell jokes for a movie. Yeah, I mean, you know, and my parents even were like, you're doing what?

And I'm a comedian. They're like, you're not funny. I'm like, I know, but you got to come see the show. And my dad came down to the college and was like, where did this come? Because I'm really kind of shy and quiet. And all of a sudden hit the stage, it's a whole different kind of, you know,

it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, man, but he was like, that's, you're really good. You know, you wrote all this stuff yourself. And I said, yeah. So then I had, you know, I just had hundreds of hundreds of thousands now of different props. Some, of course, have been retired to the warehouse. You know, there's shelf lives to props, you know. Sure, you can't be telling a Bill Clinton.

I had some great Bill Clinton jokes. I remember seeing that. The podium with the podium with the Monaco, it came up. Not now. It was great. That was one of my favorite tonight shows because the lady that was in charge of standards and practices said, you know, you can't put your hand, physically put your hand on a woman, like force her down, you know. Sure.

And I said, well, there's no joke then. I mean, the joke is she pops up. He's like, I did not have, not yet. And it would kill, right? So he said, you can't use your hand. And this is the last joke on the tonight show. I'm killing and I get to that joke and I'm thinking, and what do I do so I didn't, I used my elbow and not my hand.

And they yelled at your hand. I said, you said, don't use your hand. She said, I said, don't physically put her. I said, well, anyway, and it killed. And I got out of there alive, but I got in trouble. Was the Tonight Show and Jay Leno what really brought you to that next level with your career? Well, he gave me a lot of opportunity. I mean, he was very, very, very.

You were on the show. How many times? Oh, 30-something, yeah. I mean, I was always, they loved me there and I love them. In fact, I didn't even have to, I would just call them and say, I have a spot, I have a set. And this is back when people watch TV. Right. A lot more frequently.

No, I mean, you could probably, if a young comic now could do the Tonight Show 75 times and they're not going to know who you are. And I got lucky at the end of that bubble. I mean, prior to that, prior to when I was doing all those shows, you know, Regis and tonight shows and whatever, there was still a lot of, a lot of people watching those shows. Whereas now, I don't even know, I don't, I haven't, I don't even watch television anymore. I don't, I haven't seen the Tonight Show or literally. Oh, it's changed so much. I just don't, I don't, I don't tune in much involved, but, um. Have you been on it at all since Jimmy Fallon's on there?

No. Oh, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know all of them. I mean, of course. They're all comedians. Jimmy Kimmel. We're all friends. All comedians seem to know each other. Yeah, I mean, there's a small, is a small, yeah.

I mean, it's a fraternity for sure. And, and usually a lot of times is, uh, it's, uh, it's, is because of, especially back when I lived in L.A., you know, that's where you, everyone knew everybody from. Yeah, they can hear us out there, by the way. I like it. I'm getting a little thigh act. You are definitely are. Okay.

And this is in the middle of the day. All right. There you go. What happened if we were recording a night? Jesus. We should meet back here in a couple hours. I guess so. After your show.

Yeah, my show. But it's usually a guy. Thank God was a woman this time. It's usually a guy showing me his booth. Okay, Bill. But going back to that, so there's a camarader because in the clubs, the club scene, they knew there's, at one night, it could be, you know, 75 to 100 comics, and at the comic strip or the comedy, you know, the improv.

And so everyone knows everybody. You know, it's definitely like a little fraternity. Yeah. In fact, just the day, someone was asking me about, you know, new up-and-coming comers. And I'm like, I don't, I'm not the scene anymore. Like, I have my show in Vegas, so I go into the show and I go home, and then I don't, I don't, like, I used to go to the comedy club, sit in the back and watch all these new, you know, newcomers, new comics and just be, wow, these guys are really good, you know, they craft watching young,

I love watching, of course, I'm like a young comic that's funny and new and on the scene. Oh, I'm trying to find one that I could mentor, you know, I need a, there's no, there's no more prop comics. I think I'm the last dying breed of a prop comic. Oh, look, yeah, see, right. Now I'm going on the ground. Everybody loves Caratop. There needs to be the next Caratop.

I know. I say that all the time. There's no new Caratop on the scene that I know. That's because you've mastered the other. Is that what it is? Yeah. Come on. Come on.

How could somebody possibly top what you've done? I don't even mean to do that with Top. It would be fun to see. It would be fun to see somebody. But the style of props, too, is different. So I never went the pun route. I never said everything has kind of a, an underlining

cleverness to it as opposed to a play on words like one of my favorite props George Carlin came up to me and said that's funny was a paper cups and string phone you know the kids have the cups

yeah yeah so I said this is about 20 years ago I said they should make a new version of the cups and string for nowadays for an hour you know for 2000 whatever was and it was a second cup that came out for call waiting and then another cup for conference calling and it was a clear cut for caller ID and it was it was really it was like my

closing bit forever and ever killed and george cron was like that's funny shit man and you know they say that's fucking clever so it's always like that's i always try to make something i mean it's usually has to have a little bit of a cleverness to the yeah the prop as opposed to saying and it's a shoehorn or it's a i don't do the the seesaw yeah see that's yeah i was very okay so i thought that the family guy thing they called me up and they said uh You want to be on the family? We had this thing and we're going to do you want to do the voice for it. I said, well, why would you have someone else do my voice?

I said, let me be me. Yeah. So they sent me the script and I remember going into a studio here in Vegas and I just, I was so, um, just, I hated it. And so they get on the phone with me and he's like, thanks for doing it. And I said, I can we do another line? I don't, the seesaw is really just not my, that's not my, it's not my thing. And he's like, they're all, you get.

can hear like literally a whole room full of people like what do you mean your thing i'm like and you're telling you to south macfarlane oh yeah said they're farland everybody there's like 10 of the people they're on the on the on the thing and i said well can we just do like one of my props like even the cups and string phone thing and he's like okay but this is really good everyone loves it i said i know but it's like it's a pun it's seesaw it's like that's that's like that's like legendary wood stuff it's not let me do one of my props yeah that you know and he said well i think you know, one, we already made the animation and two, so I'm fucked.

And then the second thing was, it was, you know, they really wanted it. They said, this is, that's what makes it funny is so stupid. I said, okay, oh, let's just do it. So we did it. And then I went back to L.A., and we redid it again with him in the studio.

And they were so jazzed about it. Like, he's like, trust me, this is, it's not making it look like an idiot. It's going to be, and did. It was great. People loved it. People still walk up to me. seesaw. So, but I was, I was definitely not digging it at the time. I was like, let me do something when George Carlin tells you that that's a great joke, how could you possibly ever take

that out of your act? Yeah, well, no, you, you, you, actually, I should put it back in. It's been out for a while, you know, I should. I mean, when George Carlin says it's good, it's good. Yeah, that's true. Right. And there's the, those are the, going back, digressing to the beginning the interview about people when they've been so make funny it's like you know george carlin thought it was funny so i really don't care if if jimbo from arkansas thinks i i saw seriously i mean you know so who inspires you still who inspires you now what to do in the in the in the profession everybody i mean you know longevity is one of those things i find uh because people every day i mean literally every day will say to me how long

you're going to do this and i always think well i'm young and they go but how long do you think And I'm like, you know, tomorrow is probably it. And they're like, really? I'm like, no, I don't have a, I still have five years left in my deal here. Which is amazing, by the way. Yeah. What a deal. But I don't look at it like, I don't even, I don't even, I don't feel like I'm, I don't feel like I'm even near retirement age. I don't know what I would do.

This is all I know how to do. I could do this or guess people's way at the fair probably. That's all I could do. I guess what a great job. That is, right? You go 190 and they go two. Okay, next. $16.

No, great day today. It's a good work. But, yeah, I don't have any, I desire to, you know, and I think the answer to that question is, you know, when are you going to, how long are you to do this is, everyone knows the answer to that. It's when you're no longer enjoying it and no one else is enjoying it. If someone's showing up anymore and you're not digging it, it's probably time to, you know. But we're lucky in that regard, because I've been watching all this, I've been really into this Formula One racing, which I found out by accident on Netflix, which it's a special. I started watching it. I mean, I remember as a kid watching, you know,

Jack is still, and all those, but I never really dug it and got into it. It was on a NASCAR, you know. And then all of a sudden I've been watching this thing. And I'm looking at like the longevity of something like that. I'm lucky and blessed that in comedy, you know, I might lose some of my senses of things and timing and memory, but not like in that where there's such a short period of time

where they can be the best driver at 2 in a miles an hour and have the reflexes. And there's a day where they, there's a day where they just, they just, you know, I lost it in turn two and I don't know, I can't,

you know, I have to retire. I see my football and, you know, the sports ones. Oh, yeah, like when someone's age begins with a three

in baseball. Yeah, you're, like, oh, he's a real veteran. Like, Jesus Christ,

he should be napping at halftime, but, but yeah, we're lucky in comedy in that sense. But there is, you know, I look at some of my, my idols in comedy

that, that have gone on. until they the the the the the the the the the the the the the way before they you know like don rickles was performing up until the very very end I mean uh and had his wits I I was in a movie with him I'm very lucky to be in a movie with him Dennis the Menace and uh I was in LA this is not too long before he passed away and I was my agent my agent says you got to go say how to Don Rickles and I was where's done I looked over and he's sitting right there and I said well you should come because he's his agent too as he's

He said, no, this isn't an agent thing. You could go over and say hi to him. And you should. And I said, well, of course I should and I will. So I got up and I walked over. And he was a whole bunch of people. It was like 20 people at his table. He's at the head of the table.

And he was just staring at his potatoes or whatever. And I walked up next to him and I said, Don, I said, hey, Caratot. I don't want to bother you. Carrotope. And he's so, he's like 90-something. And I said, hey, I don't want to bother you. I just want to say hi, he's Caratop. He says, really?

You're Caratop? Like, I couldn't see you coming from Ventura Highway. And I said, I don't want to bother you. He's not want to bother me. That's a little late, isn't it? And I said, oh, well, I'll leave you alone. Will you? And I said, yeah.

And I said, I just want to know if you remember working with me in a movie. And he said, I've tried to forget everything you and I've ever done together. And it happened so fast. It was the most beautiful, just rip. And then he gave me a big hug and did, you know, my cheeks. How am my name is still a hat in Vegas? I said, of course you are. My name is still big.

I said, you're, you are, you are, come on, you're Don Rickles. You're the best thing. But that was right up in like maybe three weeks after that he had passed. So he was still doing his schick and still performing. And so I think of that, you know, when I, when people ask me how long I'm going to do this. I'm like, well, I hope I can go until, you know, I can go until I don't want to go. Yeah. I just don't know.

I watch these shows and I always think, what do people do when they retire? Well, you're still really passionate about this. Right. And you can tell that when you're on stage. age. But when I watch other people when they retire in certain things when they're like, that's what I'll go back to Formula One or sports or whatnot, I'm like, how, what must be going through their brain because they're still young. Let's say like a Peyton Manning. He's still young, but he can't play the game anymore. Does he lose half of his, his, his, his self

being his thing? What's his identity? Right. Like he would go to the stadium every day. That's what he did he'd follow films and he would and then on sunday he was everyone's cheering so i think i get scared to death when i think i don't like just when i i step off the stage and i just say that's my last show i'm going to go sit on my boat in florida yeah um it scares me to think that there'll be a day where i i wouldn't be on stage i don't know what else i would i don't i need that yeah well when the difference between you and peyton manning is they know they know they can only play till their 30 or late 30s early 40s but i think it probably sneaks up in them as well where they just realized oh crap. And that's their entire identity.

Right. It's what I mean. We only see them in their, if we're going to use football as an example, in their NFL career, but they've been playing football since they were like four. That's what I mean. It's their whole thing. That's what's crazy about it. Jeff Gordon is a friend of mine. So let's say Jeff Gordon. He started when he was same. Four year, five years in go-carts.

And then he becomes maybe one of the biggest NASCAR drivers in the world. In that last race, I remember watching it. And I remember thinking, what's going through his brain? He's still young. He's sitting there with his wife and he's looking. He's like, this is the last I'm going to climate in a car and and be cheered on and and it's just and then then they get they move up to the urn hard they move up into the booth and maybe the maybe they they are content they're still in the sport in some capacity but they must miss getting behind the wheel on that oh my god and you know

me like that met where you know me i have a show tonight so i look forward to that that that getting miced up and the music going and the crowds there and jazzed and trying a new joke yeah what's your ritual before you step on stage. You have one? Lots of drugs. Free basing and, you know, no, I, I do, yeah. It's not, there's the mound of cocaine. It's not a, it's not really, interestingly enough.

There's not a lot of, I mean, some shows are different, like road shows or TV shows. There's a different mindset. The Vegas show I do every night. So there's, the ritual basically is I get there early. I never been there. I've always at the show two hours early because just you've got to get into the boom, get the music going. get sound check.

Rehears maybe a new joke. And then you have a meet and then you have a, yeah, you do a little shot of espresso and a little shot of crown. And cheers the, all my old crew come together. We kind of say, all right, let's don't lock this up. And just do the best we can, yeah. I see people, I get so excited when they meet you. And I think when people are in Vegas and they get to see us,

Celebrity, they're like, oh my God. So who was the last person that you were super excited to meet? Oh, wow. Well, there's a lot. I'm like a little child. I'm always starstruck. People like, you've met everybody. I know, but it's still, you know, it's still, there's moments we just like, okay, that's cool.

Like we had Queen came to the show. Now, that's pretty cool. So my buddy and I were talking about last night, you know, we're sitting there and they said, you know, Queens, you know, they're bringing Queen backstage. And they have, you know, security. And then all of a sudden, you can, you can smell them from, like, down the hallway. That's royalty. Did they smell pleasant? Yeah.

They smell beyond, they smell like rock stars. They have the, you know, the velvet jack and the thing. And they're just, they're quaffed perfectly. And they're like, English, they're like, skull. It's a great show. And you're just like, holy shit, I'm talking a queen. And they are blown away. They're like, how did you do that?

That's amazing. It's so good. I'm like, you do know your queen, right? Like, you are queen. but they're so humble and they were so great. But yeah, I mean, I met a lot of people, but that was a moment of pretty coolness. I think one time I was in, well, I don't think it was happening.

I was in Aspen and I had gone to the gym and I was coming back from the gym and I was, there was no one out. It was like, it was like 7.30 in the morning or something. I had gone to the gym and then I was going to go snowboarding. With Sean White. With Sean White. Yeah. And, and I'm, I'm, I'm,

crossing the street, it's kind of foggy out, and I'm looking, and the night prior, people said, you know, Jack Nicholson lives in Aspen, and he's in town, and da-da-da. So I'm looking across the street, and literally, I think that's Jack Nicholson. And so we start walking towards each other, and he says, top. And I said, Jack. And he said, and everyone was saying he's not a nice guy. Like at that dinner then, I think, as you see him, you know. And he's like, top.

top or topper and I said jack and he says uh Jesus Christ what are you doing I said Jimmy says you're not I'm wait you just came from the gym and I said yeah you're not sweating and I said what he said I just walked from my my front door right there and I'm he was he was he was he's like I'm I'm completely covered in sweat and you just came from the gym and you don't have any sweat I said well he goes just because you're you kept saying that's because you're young and I said no he says I'm fucking old top he kept saying it right I'm fucking old I said you're not old and he goes no I'm fucking old and uh he says you tell that j leno to go fuck himself and i said what wait wait wait why jays

jays great to me like as we talking about jays one of the best people in the world to me yeah and he says i don't like the way he talks to you you do you do your you do your thing and you're and he knew my act he's like you do your you know thing and the ice tray whatever the fuck and then he and then you come sit down and he goes to commercial break he doesn't talk to you that's bullshit and i said no he's actually a really good guy he says well you tell him to go fuck him so we had this really really awesome conversation in the middle of Aspen, this middle of the street. And then that was prior to having cell phones, I was trying to call my friend

like, I just talked to Jack Nicholson for like 20 minutes in the middle of the street. Man, so that was kind of cool. That's very cool. Yeah, it was cool. What's the best advice you have for someone who's trying to be a comedian, especially in this, it's not easy to get, it wasn't easy to get on a stage of the last year. Well, that's

true. That would be the most challenging thing in the world. It would be a young comic last year. Unless they do a lot of these Zoom things, which I mean, I guess people taken over you know I would say the vice that I would give a young comic is the time on stage you have to find

as much time as you can to to hone what it is you're going to be talking about when they call your name and on an actual stage not in front of mom and grandma I know an actual stage in front of strangers that write that do not like you and you hit

the stage and they're like already judging you and you've got to be not only funny but you got to be on it but you got to know what you're going to do for that, whether it's five minutes or ten minutes, what it is. And so I think, you know, a lot of people say, I'm going to be a comedian. I always like, okay, what's going to be your thing? What do you mean? I'm going to be famous. I'm like, well, you don't just become famous. What's your craft? Are you going to do political humor? Are you going to do observational? Are you going to do props? You're going to do music. You're going to dance. You're going to juggle,

magic. So it's important to figure out what it is that your, your schicks is going to be. And I was kind of lucky in the fact that I rolled right into what I did. You know, what I did. did. Like I wasn't originally a prop guy. I just was telling jokes. And then all of a sudden I realized, I think I've got something with visuals. And I just started making it that my thing. Not that it was easier, but it helped that I had what I wanted to do in my head. I was going to be the prop guy. And so I just started, you know, doing that and honing it. So I got to say, no, trust me, I had a lot of shows that I didn't do so well at. That's part of being a comic or part of being anybody. I don't care what job you are with your mechanic or you're a rock star or a rock assigned. You're going to have bad days and bad shows and bad days at work. I think a key thing there you said was is you're going to get judged. Like from the second you walk on stage, people are already in seconds. They judge me even now.

They're already looking like, oh, he looks like he's lost weight. Oh, his hair. Different. Kind of green hair. You know, they're already making thousands of assumptions in their own brain or whether If they're new, whether they're even going to like me right away, they might not like my voice. They might not. I look.

I mean, you know. They're not to have these shoes. They're not having these shoes. All they kept talking about was my stupid shoes, though, right? So they like, I like, you're Belenciagas. And I was like, what's that? And she's like, you're Blentziagas. And I said, okay, you're a definitely shoe guy because no one knows what Balenciagas are.

There's a brand. But then she goes, I like, I like him. And finally said, okay, are we going to talk about my fucking shoes the whole time? I mean, I have other things planned than just, just, walking around in my shoes. So it was kind of, kind of got old after a while. And finally, I just took my shoe off. And I said, let's just pass the goddamn thing around. And everybody can hear. And they look at it. It's a great shoe. It is a great shoe. Yeah. They are, I'm not going to lie. It's bedazzled too. Yeah. I don't know. I mess around. You bedazzled it?

Or it came like that. No, I have a friend that did these. I usually do mine, but these were so, these were so, these were so expensive. I didn't want to mess up. So I told my guy that's a So you got a bedazzle guy. I have a professional bedazzler guy that did him form. me. But I normally do them myself if they're just crap shoes, but these were these were a little pricey, so I said, I don't want to mess these things up. I didn't have to have them done right.

I think the best thing about you, especially with you taking off your shoe and showing us your bedazzled shoe, is that you... I'll take my pants off too. I don't care. I mean, that's up to you. At least the shot ends right here. The thing I love about you is you embrace who you are, and you

don't seem to care what other people think about you. That I never have. That goes back to being a kid, because I got picked on all the time and I used to say you know what I don't honestly yeah no I dress like I do I wear makeup I got I paint my nails I mean I do everything but I don't do it for anybody else it I just me like why are your nails painted I'm like I like I like to paint my nails. Hmm. Why am I because it's it's it's not painted right now no they're not now but I'm saying like I just I just don't I don't think about it just that's part of my yeah it's part of my thing

I don't I don't yeah I definitely don't care I really don't And people always stare, you know, that comes with the job too. I just, that, that is a difficult quality for people to learn. Or to be yourself and anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm definitely, you have embraced being who I, like, yeah, I don't hide. I just be my, like my crazy self, but I just do it to be my crazy self. I don't try to be crazy, you know, to be like, I get away with it because I'm probably who I am.

Yeah, I love it. They expect me to have, you know, like, why do you not have, why do you not have, why do you not have some shit in your hair? Why do you not have painted nails? Why do you, you know, why don't you? Yeah. So. But I can, I can feel this. Like in our conversation here, I feel your energy because it's so authentic. Feeling yours too. This is getting creepy. Okay. And your pants are. Yeah. I, yeah. I just did a thing the day. They're like, ESPN, they're like, you look like Stephen Tyler. And I'm like, I do look like Stephen Tyler. Oh, yeah. But I got, I, that was one of those guys, that was one of those guys, um,

that, uh, I remember. well, I've known now friends, but I was walking through the airport in, it was either Los Angeles or Las Vegas. It was a flight to, one of the two. And I was walking through the airport and I look up and I see this guy that literally looks like Stephen Tyler. But I mean like, not just looks like I'm like he's in a video, music video. He's got scarves and things and shit. And he's, you know, it's like, it's Stephen Tyler. And I'm like, dude.

And everyone's, you know, I go, Stephen, he was a character. And I said, are you shooting a video? And he goes, no. And I was like, that's so awesome that you just walk to the airport like that. Like, you think that's like just a stage thing. No, that's how he walks through bonds, you know, and CVS. Like, that's just, and that's what I, I never forgot that. I said, that's, I want to be that guy.

You know, what I were, how I were on stage is how I go off stage. I don't, I don't turn into Caratop. I just, you know. But I always loved that. I was dug the fact that he was just walking through Walgreens like Stephen Tyler. He's well, I am Stephen Tyler. So it's not a facade. That's really him on stage.

Like he's a nut. Yeah. I want to be super respectful of your time because you've got your show tonight. But this has been great. Yeah, thanks. This has been fun. Yeah. I love being able to talk about this kind of stuff.

Yeah, you don't get a chance to talk about your career much, you know. So I end every interview with the same question because I, start and end every day saying out loud three things that I'm grateful for. So what are three things in your life right now that you're grateful for? Well, definitely grateful for my health. I'm lucky that I have my health because that's the most important thing in the world. My hair, definitely I'm lucky I have hair. I have my health and your hair. And I've got family. You know, my family lives here in, uh, in, in Las Vegas. So I get to see my family. Uh, I got my little dog that goes to work every night with me. It's my little princess. She comes to the every show. What's her name?

Bubert. She comes to the show every night. She's 17. So she's still runs up to the stage every night for sound check. And I'm grateful definitely for the longevity of my career. I mean, like I said, we've talked about. It's amazing to have people, fans that let me do this many years, you know? Because you don't think about it until people ask, you know, like this, my

16th year come up just at the Luxor. People were like, what? And I'm like, yeah, well, I started in 1985, so it's like 35 years, total. So you think about that a lot more as you get older. Like I remember, I remember being in my dorm room, literally drawing that logo. Like it was yesterday, it was 1985. Wow.

You know, and going up on stage that night and doing, I think I ended the, I think I ended the show I took my shirt off and I played the Rocky music and I drank an egg and it made no sense. I just said, we got to leave this on something fun so hit it. I had a hit the cassette thing. I didn't have anybody play it.

I hit it dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun and I just an egg and I swalled the egg. I remember I drank it and everybody went what? And I'm going, what are you crazy? crazy. And then I walked off with, like, you know, yeah, with oil, I had a head shirt off, rubbed oil, because it was right when Rocky came out. So it was, it made sense now. Yeah. Yeah. But it was like, what? And, and it killed. And then that, and then forever, not ever, but for a while, that would, that would be my ending. I would do the Rocky thing. And then it

ended up becoming a bit in my show. I'd bring up somebody, this is way later. I would invite somebody up in the audience. And I would say, uh, who wants to? drink a beer with me or challenge you slam a beer and there's always a thousand people that want to do that so i'd bring some guy up and i give him his beer and i say we're going to do an egg we're going to slam an egg together and then we'll drink we'll slam the beer and used to be don't don't don't do anything because it was in my acro salon but i couldn't do the take the shirt off so i just did the bill through the egg looked each other in the eyes it's like just go boom when i every time i'd do it they would do it but then they would they were like like you could

see them just like and then I'd spit it out like and they'd swallow theirs like you what you know you cheated me so one time in iowa i was doing uh oh god was like a 3,000 seat like venue it's valentine's day and uh i said who wants to slam a beer with me and this guy comes up we do the whole thing boom he drinks the beer and right as he right as he slam the egg i see his face instantly turn white like like something bad white green blue yeah and and And all of a sudden, he projectile, I mean, I'm talking all over me, all over my rug, right? Oh. And the bucket that I had for our beers.

And I'm like, it's Valentine's Day, right? I mean, dude. So 3,000 people, probably 100 people started throwing up. Oh, my God. Chain react. Yeah. And you're going to. Oh, no.

And I said, you're just, now no one's going to get laid. And I am down on his day. Nobody, including myself. I was covered in his. vomit and I had to finish an hour left of the show with the covered his vomit. So I think the egg bit went away after that. Yeah, I would guess so. I am the egg man.

This has been such a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you so much. Likewise. Thank you for having me in. You have a nice staff here. Everyone's great here. And if anybody that's listening to this or watching this is in Vegas,

Caritas at the Luxor. Yeah, I'm going. Pretty much every day. Yeah, every day, but Sunday, same. Yeah. Amazing. Thank you so much. You got it.

Appreciate it. Thanks for listening. Well, there we go. Big thank you to Caratop for joining us live at the Blue Wire Studios at the Win, Las Vegas. Thank you to you for being with us. And if you live in Vegas, or if you're visiting Las Vegas anytime soon, you need to go to the wind to check out this studio. There's a big glass wall there like we mentioned during this interview so you can see inside. Hopefully I'm in there when you walk by.

Give me a wave or knock on the glass and we'll hang out. It'd be so cool to see you. Also, check. out Caratop's show at the Luxor. He performs six days a week there. Share this with somebody who you know will love this. Snap a screenshot, share it on social media, and tag us. Caratop is at Real Caratop on Twitter. He's at Carat Top Live on Instagram and I'm at Chris Van Vleet, so tag me as well. And we'll end with this quote from Jim Carrey that I love. He said, I learned many, many lessons from my father. But Not the least of which is that you can fail at something you don't want.

So you might as well take a chance doing what you love. So powerful. Be great. Be grateful. We'll see you on the next one for some more insight. Oh yeah. Jim Rome takes on sports. Why?

Because I have a job to do. With rapid fire takes. So I don't want to hear from you lava pigs on this notion today. No idea what you're talking about. complaining more than you like to breathe air. It's like you get up in the morning only to complain and cry and moan on social media about things that you don't even understand. He's the spitfire of sports smack. Ticket man job, but get up in here. The Jim Rome show podcast. What should be? Follow and listen on your favorite platform. You've been warned.