Joy, a Podcast. Hosted by Craig Ferguson - Carrot Top

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

Meet Carrot Top, the recognizable comedian, actor, and prominent figure in pop culture for the past 30 years. He has had a residency comedy show at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas since 2005, where you can witness the comedic spectacle of the King of Props, who seamlessly blends pop culture, music, and the day's headlines into an ever-evolving, laughter-filled show. I hope you enJOY!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Pants on fire tour in your region. Tickets are on sale now and we'll be adding more as the tour continues throughout 2025 and beyond. For a full list of dates, go to the Craig Ferguson show.com. See you on the road, my dears. My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of this podcast is Joy. I talk to interesting people about what brings them happiness. My guest today is one of my favorite comedians. For my money, I think maybe the best live show I've ever seen one person do comedically. He's a one-off, an American treasure. He's carrot top.

Enjoy. Do you know what I thought, first of all, can I just say how delighted I'm. See, I haven't seen you in such a long time. I haven't been in Vegas. I haven't been out west. How are you? I'm great. And I think it's funny.

We talk about you all the time, literally not, I mean, just all the time. We say, because there's a clip in my show right before the show starts with you. I'm on your show and you're, I'm doing this to you. I don't know what I'm doing. We talk about Mike Tyson, and I'm going like this and you're going like this. And it was, it's hilarious. Just visually, it's hilarious. Right.

You're in my thoughts every night. You're in the show. Well, you know, I always like to talk about what a great show you put on. Because I remember going to see, I've seen you. few times. But I remember one night when you were doing the, you were doing a show in Hooters for a while. Is that right? No, I might have just been out of Hooters. No. No, it was the Hooters, the Hooters casino for a while. No, MGM Grand. No, MGM Grand. Across from Hooters. You were at Hooters. I was at the MGM car. No, I remember now, we went to Hooters. We went to the show. We went to, we went to Hooters.

Just for wings. We went. For wings. Yeah, yeah. No, we went to Hooters. I remember. Because you mean Ron White, do you remember? Yes. Yeah, I just saw Ron. I just saw Ron. My God, I just saw him a couple days ago. One of the greatest comedians who've ever left. Just amazing comic.

So Ron White comes to my show. And you know, Ron, he's a character. So he comes back. He says, hey, man, you guys, smoke some. He can't smoke weed back here. He says, what's your dresser? Ron, smoke some weed. I said, no, no, we can't smoke weed back here.

So he says, let's go to the, just really nice, posh, you know, upscale, bar me and my friend him and his girlfriend and we're sitting and we haven't even more drinks yet i hear i i smell weed but i'm like god i said someone's smoking weed and ron's like well no shit sherlock and i'm like run you you can't smoke weed in here and he's like well what are they gonna do throw one white and carrot up out of a fucking bar and within seconds they threw us out and i said I said, yes, you can't do it. Ron just, you know, around those guys, he's like,

I'm Ron White. I'm just going to do how you don't know. You can't smoke dope. Yes, who he is, man. But how have you been is what I'm saying? I haven't seen you in a long time. I haven't seen it before COVID died since I've seen it. I think that's right.

I think, yeah, COVID, that was about the time. It's been that many years, yeah. I've been doing good. We're still doing it every night at the Luxor. And, uh, yeah, not not Hooters. at the Luxor every night no I remember now

we went to Hooters afterwards I remember because I said I've never been to Hooters and you were like I'll walk over and walk through it

I think we walked across the casino floor once and I was like this is the most depressive fucking place in my life and then we went

to somewhere else that I remember now when I saw you in Vegas yeah was the last time I saw you the act was

insanely energetic and very very very funny oh thank you is it still as physical as it was And you still like, bomb, bomb, bum, bum, pulling all this stuff through it. It's definitely not as funny.

But it's, uh, well, that's good. Yeah. You came on a good night. Uh, no, it's, it's always fast paced. And it kind of started, it started when I got working Vegas, which is strange. Because when I'd work on the road, I felt like the crowd would, would want to, I know, the pacing of it was, uh, was different than in Vegas. It was like a, like, last night we had a show and it was just, it's like they, they want to,

they want to get out. They want to go somewhere. So they're there. They're excited to see you. And then they're like, you know, how long is it going to go? So I kind of, I go so fast. People last night were saying to me after the show, like, how many jokes do you do per minute? I said, I never added it.

But it said, my God, it's just one after another. I said, well, I'm always worried about one not working. So I go into the next one. But it's very fast-paced. It's almost too fast-paced. It is. How long is the show you do? About an hour in 25.

Wow. I mean, that's a, that's a regular. your little land show. Do you have an opener? I have an opener. He eats the crowd going. And then I come up and I do my little thing. And yeah, then we all go home.

How long have you been there? It's like nearly 20 years, maybe. Yeah, this Thanksgiving will be 20 years. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, 20 years. Wow. That's nuts. Who's coming to see, you know, people have seen you before.

Do you have to keep changing it? We have a lot of regulars that come. In fact, I would always say, you know, how many people have seen the show before? and it's unbelievable how many people have seen the show before. I always say the same thing. I'm like, you came back? Like, it's weird.

But they do, like, a lot of return videos. And that's why you've got to write so much. You know, the jokes, they, even though Vegas feel always vague, you can probably get away with doing the same show for 10 years because it's always new audiences. And I'm like, it's not. You get the crowds are savvy. And they know a new bit.

And they know that you're on top of something, whether it's political or whether it's pop culture. You know, they talk about the back. boys were just here last night and I see do a joke about, you know, Beyonce was just, you know, so you kind of add in something with what's, what's happening in the world, too. How is Vegas now over the last 20, well, particularly since school. I haven't been since before COVID, I think. Is it changed a lot? I mean, I mean, there's still, that's crazy. Yeah, it's the, if they keep building, my joke in my show is, you know, how many hotels they need you, you go to check in,

they say, your room's not ready. Oh, you're cleaning it? No, we're building it. I mean, literally, It's just incredible. Now they want to build a baseball stadium. But, I mean, it's Vegas. It's a crazy town that's still, you know, it's doing, it's doing great. Summer is always a little bit, you know, 180 degrees out. Yeah, it's Vegas. But what is it right now?

People come. It's amazing. They come here and 200 degrees and they're just walking around outside. Like, I don't know where they're going. But then they get our room. They get air conditioning. It's interesting to me, Vegas, because it kind of like, you know, You can go to casinos anywhere in America now.

It's not like you don't have to go to Vegas to gamble and stuff, but people still go. But I'm there. Yeah, but you could tour like a regular comedian instead of just sitting in your ass one time. Right. No, I think we talk about that all time. You know, you're right.

You can gamble anywhere. Gamble where you are right now. You probably have a blackjack table in front of you right now. I do. I have a casino. know, and I, and we have a brothel on the property, too. I mean, it's, it's everything to jam. But I think that's, I think they're, so they try to keep Vegas kind of a special place.

It's not just because of gaming. They have the most incredible restaurants and, and, um, they do. All this celebrity chefs and, you know, it's like, we're not even the, the main drawing one. You drive down the, you know, the road, the billboards are chefs and, you know, the pool at Aria and, you know, you still see some shows for comedians, but it's, you know, the restaurants. Yeah, and injury lawyers, you know. Yeah.

The accidentes guy. Yeah, I mean, but they're all in Vegas. I mean, it's a weird place to have them, but. I don't know. It's kind of like what drew? I feel like I've talked to you about this before, but I don't know if it was actually just us talking or if it was on TV or something, but when you went there and started doing that,

it's because you were tired of touring, right? And it's just like you were sick of doing it. I don't think it was sick of touring it. They just offered me, they offered me, I had the MGM grand for about 10 years, but it was an in-and-out kind of thing. It wasn't a full-time residency. I would do like two weeks,

then I'd go on the road and do shows and come back and do two weeks before. Oh, right, okay. So I think it was there five times a year, but for two weeks at a time. So it was still a, they would call it. It was not a residency. Now, the one I have now is every night,

six nights a week for 240 shows. shows. So that's an actual residency. But it happened, I was doing the Vegas one and then David Cobfield wanted the room full time. And of course, you know, Copfield Caratops. So I said, well, there I go. I think I had said something to the paper like, yeah, why'd you leave the MGM? I said David Cofield maybe disappear. And then he read it. Why didn't make you just like, Jesus, it's a joke. So I, they offered me the room at the Luxor and there was nobody there. I was the only show at the Luxor. It was me and the buffet, and I said, well, this is a cool little room.

And so we did it on a whim for like a year. And then I was thinking, now I want to go back on the road. And then I said, well, I'll do another year. And then it finally turned into, you know, where we are now, 20. So it's been an incredible run. I've known you quite a long time. We kind of, we worked together a little bit.

You did bets on the show. I come and see you invent. Vegas, stuff like that. But I know really nothing about your life. And so I thought, I mean, I know you're from Florida and I know that your dad worked in NASA. That's all I know. So today I thought, well, it's all you remember. But it was interesting. So today I thought, you know, I should find out more about Scott's personal life. Just, not to ask about it, but just to know about it. And then I go on the internet and there's nothing. Yeah. Nothing. So what I'm going to say, I'm not going to ask you any about your personal life. I just want to know how you

manage to keep it off the internet. It's unbelievable. Are you very kind of like, are you very reclusive in when you're in Vegas? Do you kind of go around to disguise or something? No, I'm definitely not. I just go out, but I don't, I am one of those people. I try to stay out trouble i don't do i don't go out and do anything crazy um i don't i'm never in the news for doing something i don't i don't go party and i don't put myself in the situations um but it's true yeah there's really not anything out there um which i think is well except you know just people that will come up with crazy crap you know and yeah yeah but it's it's kind of interesting because i think that now the you know with social media

being what it is, because you and I both predate social media. Do you have a policy with phones in the show and stuff like that? Do people not allowed to use them? I mean, they say not to, but people use them. You know, they say put your stuff away, but I see people all the night filming and kind of guy, and I don't mind it. I mean, you know, why not, you know? Well, it takes the gag away, though, if nothing else.

I mean, they blow a gag for you. Or if you're doing a joke, which is, which, you know, you know, people would get annoyed at if it wasn't in the context of being in a comedy show. Right, right. Well, that's true. That part is definitely true. Or you get one with this, there's just on a rant, like poor, I forget who it was. It might have been George Lopez.

He was just, he had lost it, told the crowd, you know, and someone's filming him the whole time, like, you know, F you and get out. And, you know, and I was like, God, that sucks. So you always got to keep that in the back of your head, though. Yeah, no. Someone's got a phone somewhere. I kind of try and remember not to run to the audience. You know, and again, I probably have done it. But it's kind of, it's a weird, it's a weird thing, though,

because it never, now do you remember, I remember Michael Richards is the one I remember. Remember he got, he did it all that crazy stuff. Like, yeah, that was that's the first cancellation from that kind of thing is I remember. I remember too. That was the first one I remember where it was just, yeah. horrible it was pretty bad

it was pretty bad but it's kind of like with prop comedy and what is this I don't even think it's fair to call it prop comedy what you do because it's not just prop comedy

I mean you're right stuff there's material there and over the years particularly a while ago I think now I can't I don't see much of it now but you took a lot of heat back in the day

for using props and stuff like that like angry, you know, alcoholic comedians would be mean about you all the time. It's terrible. Did that get you down about it? Oh, absolutely. Everyone's human, you know, so it would bother me. And then I would go, you know, and then I would hear like a George Carlin or, you know, someone that I respected, you know, you, I'd go on your show and it would be awesome and it

would be validating, you know, what I do, you know. And so, but it hurt my feelings to a degree unless it would, my mind. Mom would say, consider the source. So if it was coming from somewhere, like I consider it, an angry comedian somewhere and living in a basement in Nebraska that's never done a show, as opposed to a stand-up comic that I respect and appreciate as a comic. But I'd always, you know, I got into the prop thing in the beginning to literally be unique and be genuine.

That's why I did it. Yeah, something different. Right. I didn't want to be the guy that was like, oh, he's taking, you know, being another so-and-so. And so I thought I would get more respect and more love like, wow, this guy's doing something different. And then it turned out it would backfire because I was doing not only doing props, but I was doing well.

You know, I was doing I was doing big colleges. And everybody's like, how is this guy getting college? How is this guy getting on Regis and Kathy Lee? And I'm like, I don't know. I was just doing, I was just doing what I wanted to do. Yeah. But did get to a point where like almost like, you know, your parents are they just so, you know,

I really don't give a shit anymore. And, you know, I kind of hit that a long time ago where I just kind of was like, I could care less what people think. I always want what the audience care is to think and what, you know, my friend, outside of that, you know, it's my audience. If people stop coming, then, you know,

then you got to worry about it. But the people that come to the show love the show. I have fans that love me and the people that don't love me don't come to the shows, you know. No, it's the funniest thing. I mean, you see people chase the tale with that. I've never seen an interview with Chris Martin from Coldplay.

Because Copplay get a lot of hate for the music they do from people who don't like coplay, obviously. I think a lot of people who love Kobe. And he said, well, I don't write songs for people who don't like Coplay. I write songs from people who like Coldplay. And then you go, of course you do. That makes perfect sense. Exactly right.

That's a great answer, isn't it? Great answer. Yeah, I don't write songs for people that don't like Copeland. I write for Copeland. Yeah, I'm the singer in Copely. I write the songs for Copely. Why would I try and, yeah, that's brilliant. He said, and that's kind of, yeah, what I do.

I write, I mean, I do have a lot of stand-up now on the show, which is kind of surprising to people, unless they see the show live. You know, we've been talking about this for, since Jay Leno days, where I would say, I want to do a, I want to come out and do a set with no props. And Jay was fine with it. He'd be like, yeah, that's great. But the people that. But the people that would, you know, the producers were like, you know, freak out. Like, no, your keratop. You have to do.

you're a, you know, what you're known for. And I said, well, wouldn't it be fun? So anyway, they never let me do it. So I thought maybe, it didn't even have to be a whole special like Netflix, but just something, maybe on YouTube, it's going to be, you know, carrot propolis. And I literally come out and I'm just, for 20 minutes, I just tell these stories. And I think people would be like, I sit on a stool and just be funny. And people would be like, what?

Because the live show has that element because it's, you can't do. It does. I remember. Yeah. Well, yeah, you've seen the show. It's even been years. but you can't do that rapid fire prop stuff for an hour and a half. You just can't. No, no, you go crazy.

You have to come into, like, you. And you start telling stories about your father at NASA. And you start telling stories about your idols in comedy and how you met them. And, you know, people love that. They just, they get dead silent. They can't wait to hear, you know, Don Rickles told me to, you know, get away from him. You know, it was just. He said that to everybody.

Well, I was in a movie with him and, and, Betty White and I mean it was unbelievable right and I had to get in these prosthetics every morning and I mean early morning at 4 o'clock in the morning I'd get there and they put on all these prosthetics and get me ready for the day of the movie and Rickles would come in around you know eight and I've already been there four years four hours in the chair getting on my makeup on and he would come in every morning every morning and he'd get into the walk in the trailer and look over and he go you still in this and I for a month and a half every day you're still in this thing And, you know, like, yeah, I'm still in it.

So I just saw him at a restaurant when I decided, I don't want to bother you. And he says, you are, you are bothering me. Get away from me. And I said, oh, I'm sorry. And he says, no, get over here. And he was just so, he was just so gracious and nice. And, you know, on the set of course. It was lovely.

I became quite friendly with Dawn. The last few years, I got friendly with Don. And he was a remarkable guy. A real, the real kind of the opposite of what you think. And I feel like that happens. so much in show business that late night did that to me. And you get that as well. You get people that you meet.

Like, you're one of those guys. Like when I met you, I was like, this is the nicest guy. And then I get you to see your show. And I'm like, this is a great show. But it's kind of like, you know, the, I remember one of the big ones I had was Larry King. I used to make fun of Larry King all the time. And then I met Larry King at the White House Correspondents dinner. And we became like really close friends.

For the last like 10, 15 years of his life, it was just like friends. And he was a wonderful guy and all this stuff that I'd like jokes and stuff. I tried to like get them expunged from history they wouldn't see them. Do you ever do a joke about someone and then meet them and regret it?

Oh yeah, yeah. I don't, but I try not to get too mean and personal, but I have done. No, you don't. No, that's true. But I bet still like you would do a joke, But Larry King, but I've done some about people, and then I meet him and I feel horrible that, you know, I made fun of them. And they were, like you said, lovely people.

Yeah. But I never picked on anyone to the point where they were like, like, I really just went after them in a mean way. I would, you know, something stupid. I can call her bed, Beth and Beyonce. And then I meet her, and she's like, did you call me Bedbeth and Beyonce? Yes, but, you know, it wasn't a... That's not bad. No, but, I mean, it wasn't right.

because I saw you in the show and you called me, and I say, oh, yeah, yeah, you know, but I don't think I've ever, the only time I did do one, Mike Tyson, but I did, and I think I told this story. That was the one I told you on your show.

Oh, is that when we were doing that? I had done this, this prop, and it ended up on everything, USA Today and the cover of LA Times and ESPN everywhere. Everywhere, everyone saw it. And it was so topical, it was a rubber headgear with ears on it

so his opponents could chew on them instead of his and thing. And so I'm sitting at an award show and Dennis Hopper sits down next to me. And Dennis Hopper, I'm like, oh, my God. I remember Dennis, yeah. And I'd say, and he's like me, self-guess the first thing he says to me, I'm sorry you had to sit next to me, right?

And I'm like, that's what I would say to you. You know, he's so nice. I said, I can't believe, you know, Dennis Hopper, my God. He goes, yeah, I'm sorry. I have all the people. I mean, you got me. I'm sorry. And I'm like, how sweet.

All of a sudden, Mike Tyson walks up. And he goes, Mike, and he says to me, you know, Mike? And I said, no. jokes about him. He comes off, they hug. He says, you know, Caratop? He looks right, he gets right in my face this close. And he says, you think that's funny? And I said, what? That's the thing you do it. That's the thing you do it's funny with me. He said, that made me my feeling. And I said, no, it was just a joke. And he said, what's not a joke? And he started screaming at me, like Mike Tyson was screaming. Oh, no. You know, everyone has feelings, the personal feeling,

and that was really mean and disrespectful. You should never do that somebody. And I said, it was just a joke. I apologize. Then he goes, I'm just kidding. And he punched me. And he punched me so hard. I mean, it's like that, and I'm still sore from it. I was like, nine years ago, 12 years ago. Yeah. So that was scary to me because I thought, oh, God, of all things, don't, don't, you know, don't pick on Ron White.

I mean, Tyson. I did, but with Hulk Hogan, not, Hulk Hogan just passed away. He did, yeah. And he was a really close friend of mine. I mean, I never met him. I never met him at all. But it is great. So I do a show in Tampa.

He lived in Florida. So I'm doing the show in Tampa. It's like a double-decker, beautiful theater. And the show's going great. There's some guy yelling out, just yelling. It wasn't heckling necessarily. He was just like, you know, they just try to, you know, hey, you're commenting. You know, I do a joke.

And, yeah, right. That's a great joke. Keep going. Yeah, that kind of thing. Yeah, I like that one. All right, thanks. So it was just weird. The show got over and I had said something.

I said something like, I'm never mean, but I said, can you, I, you know, I wrote this without you. I need your help. If I need you, I'll call on you, but thanks. And everybody's dead silent. I kind of thought the crowd turned on me, right? So anyway, it shows over. We go backstage. And they said, hey, you have some people here. And I said, okay. And they said, Hulk Hogan's here. And I'm like, Hulk Hogan's here. And I'm like, Hulk Hogan. And he comes walking. He's like, I was trying to yell at you the whole show to get your attention. I'm like, that was you. I said, I wonder why the crowd got quiet. The whole crowd looked back. And it's like, oh, shit, I'm not telling Hulk Hogan to shut the fuck up. And El Crow's like, I'm not telling him. And I'm like, just shut up. He dumped in his Hulk Hogan. So he thought he was helping. He's like, I was trying to get your attention.

I was trying to say, Scott, Scott. See, I think that's the worst type of heckling. No people are heckling and saying mean things to you. You can deal with that. You learn that on your first day. Right, right. But it's when people who just don't have any clue about what you actually do, they're like going, that was great.

And where did you get that prop? And I mean, it's like, wait, did you make that? Yeah, they always, yeah, I don't know. And I did I always just go right on. Okay. But there was a guy last night and there's white in the front road. He just kept saying, I got married. I said, oh, right on to her.

I said, oh, okay. And I said, when? And they're like, you know, yesterday. I'm like, well, great. I don't know what they wanted me to do for, but it was that. So the whole show is involved around that. I'm like, so we have any. So you guys just, well, you're still together.

That's good. You know, you get married. You get married today. and you come to a keratop show. What is wrong with you? Yeah, well, you know, it's a good show, but I got to say if I was getting, you know, it's a good show.

I don't want to be negative about your show. It's a good show. And you know what? If I ever get married again, that's going to be my honeymoon treat. Yes. It's going to come and say, yeah. Yeah.

That's why I was going to say that's why I'll never get married again. But that's actually a mean thing to say. That's a mean thing to say. That's why I'm never going to get married. Yeah. No, have you ever been married? I can't find out on the internet. No, no, no.

Okay. No, I mean, I just, I didn't, I just never, it's not in my cards. I mean, I just, I, my whole life, I was just, I don't know, it's just, you live for that long in Las Vegas. If I lived in Las Vegas for 20 years, I'd be married like 20 times. I just, probably. It's nuts. Smart guy, smart guy.

See, I, I, I kind of, I kind of, I kind of, I kind of, I kind of go the Bill Mar kind of you know people always ask him and he gets kind of testy they'll say well you're 70 and you've never had kids and you're single you know what's wrong with you what's wrong with you and he says absolutely nothing i'm smart like it's like you know everyone doesn't have to get the house with the with the kid absolutely agree and that's always you're like to live the life you want to live absolutely that's always been my thing i i just i wasn't really against marriage i was just against uh just the i'm so i'm not i'm not a and you too probably you're not a you were when you had your show more you're more structured because you had to be at your show every day and

yeah yeah yeah structure also and a stand-up comic maybe here i'm more structured because of the show i have here you have to be ready for it every night at a certain time right comics in general there aren't like structure we just go we get in the car we go the next gig we go here we go eat we go with comics we go out to dinner and then we go to the next show we go home go to sleep get up and do it again. And girlfriend's like, where are you? I'm at fucking work. What even? Where am I? So that would always annoy me. Like, where are you? I'm getting

ready to go at the show, you know? And the show's over. Where are you? I'm just, God done. I mean, it's like, that would be annoying to me. I'd like just, I would like to have, I just like yes, man. I like people just, just, I think that, I think that also, I think this, it's

true. And I think I've been guilty of this in my life. So I will say to someone, you know, why wouldn't you do this? Why wouldn't you do that? But the truth is, and I really do believe this, you're allowed to live the life you want to live. I mean, I don't have to.

I will say the one thing about when you said Bill gets testy when people ask him. To be fair, I know Bill pretty well, and he was testy before they asked him. He was testing when he woke up. But he's another interest in stand-up, Bill Maher, actually. I don't think people realize how. he's really good.

He's really interesting. Oh, yeah. Like a live show with Bill is an interesting thing to see. I just saw him at the MGM where I played back in not even a month ago or so. It was phenomenal. I mean, he's a great stand-up, and he said it was his last. That's what he invited me. He said, for his last stand, so I think, no, you're not.

You know, like your final farewell tour, you'll be back. He said, no, this is it. So, yeah, like, he just wanted to not do stand-up anymore. So I was like, I had to go see it, you know, to say this last one. But it was great. I've given up a couple of times. Didn't Ron White retire a couple of times as well? Ron White retired a couple of times.

Yeah, and came back again. Have you ever retired? Only in the early days when I just couldn't get it together, couldn't get, you know, gigs lined up. So I quit, got back again. So you did the retirement first. I didn't get any work. Hello, this is Craig Ferguson.

And I want to let you know I have a brand new stand-up comedy special out now on YouTube. It's called I'm So Happy. And I would be so happy if you checked it out. To watch the special, just go to my YouTube channel at the Craig Ferguson show. And it's right there. Just click it and play it. it's free. I can't, look, I'm not going to come around your house and show you how to do it. If you can't do it, then you can't have it. But if you can figure it out, it's yours.

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when I was doing stand-up in clubs and stuff, for me, it was in the UK. But the kind of, the wildness of it was kind of different. to the way it is now. I think that, you know, younger comics, they do a lot of their work online and they do a lot of their work, I mean, which is just a different way of doing.

It's not better or worse, but I feel like maybe they don't get quite the wild nights that maybe people of our generation go, the wind. You go and do a show like at two o'clock in the morning somewhere and stuff, it'd be nuts. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know about these young comics.

Do they get a chance to have, like a lot of them, like internet, like you would say, that social internet, stars of today. There's a lot of them. Yeah. And I was wonder, like, if I went to go see them, like, how would that be differently? Like, have they had, have they done shows and clubs where they got there, you know, or they just, they're just talking to a camera? I mean, it's a different, probably a different thing, I think. It's a different skill for sure. I think some of them, some of them do and some of them don't.

I mean, I've talked to, a lot of the guys that I've talked to, you know, younger guys, not necessarily super young, but younger. They do podcasts like, Are You Garbage or Being Ian with Jordan and those podcasts that these, they're people maybe in their 30s, mid to late 30s, and they're real comics. They're good at, but they, you know, they'll do the Village Underground or, you know, comedy seller or they do clubs and stuff. They're real comics and they're really good. But I think some of the real younger ones, all they want to do is the social media stuff. Right, why go to the club, right?

Yeah, I guess. I mean, do you do it? I mean, I don't really, I have, I mean, obviously, people put stuff on Instagram and Twitter and stuff for me, but I pay them to do it. I don't do it. Do you have, uh, I have people do it, but I also, if I, if I come up with something like, just like I was just in home in Orlando a week ago, if something happens funny, like on my so, in my day, personal day, I'll post it. And people can always tell the ones that I do from me and the ones that my people post. Yeah, I bet it's one.

But, you know, I was just on a plane. I thought this was great. We, we, the lady comes on. She says, um, um, morning everybody, welcome aboard. Um, we have, we have someone with the peanut allergy on the airplane. So we were, we were wondering if everyone could be so nice as to if you have anything with peanuts.

Um, we would appreciate you not opening him. And, uh, the person with the peanut allergy would really, appreciate it. It was kind of a weird quiet over the, over the plane. And this guy next to me, and I'm going to say just for references, literally the cable guy kind of guy. He, he, you know, just him. Big guy was bearded and his hat. He reached down and grabbed a bag of peanut M&Ms, and he ripped it open. He looked over and he looked right over at me. He goes, it'll be all right. And I just thought, and I just started laughing. I said, that's hilarious. So I get my book out and I start writing. He says, is that going in your show?

And I said, yeah, that's great. And he says, you're not going to, you're not going to tell him as me, right? And I say, no. So I got my phone. I said, well, now I can get your picture. I'll put at it. It was just so funny. This guy was just, that was just brilliant, you know, it's like, they'll be all right. It'll be all right. It's funny, though, there with social media, I kind of, like, I used to do what you do. Like, I'd go in it and I, you know, but I'd also, I'd do it personally, I had other people do it, but I found out that if I have the Instagram app, I'm so addictive as a person, I'm in it.

I'm just, I just go in it. Yeah. Or, so I'm too addictive for all of that. So I just can't do it. There's only one addiction that I've never felt never kind of grabbed me. And it was weirdly enough gambling. I have no interest in gambling. Never, never touched it.

Same. Same. Same. Isn't that strange? all the years that you and I both have worked in casinos. I mean, my life is vagueness. People always say, how do you do that? I'm like, what do you mean?

I said, I don't gamble. I'm like, you don't ever. I'm like, never. I don't want to be on smoke. I don't want to be around people. I don't like, I don't like counting under pressure. Yeah, I do. It's funny.

I've tried it a couple of times. Is that, you know, I used to, nine and five. I hate that. They're all like, you know, hit that. I'm like, am I supposed to? And like, you don't know how to. You don't know how to. play? I'm like, no, you know, no, can't do it. I tried it a couple of times and I, it bores me.

It just bores me. Yeah, I don't want to do it. I got other ways to live money. I agreed. Yeah, and I feel like as well, if you are a performer, look, the truth is if you're anybody, but I think performer you're very aware of it, there's enough gamble just being a person. You know, that's not. Just being a person. Just being a person. alive. Yeah, you know, just like walking around. It's all that. So you got in Vegas, I guess it would have happened in the last way. You get super into like going to the gym. You changed your body a lot, didn't you? I mean, I see you like you're really ripped and you have been for a long time. Was that a thing that because you were in Vegas and because you were free during the day

and stuff like that? Kind of two things. I started working out when I was 12, the 13 years old. I was on the wrestling. Really? I didn't know it was a young. I was a swimmer, and I got on the wrestling team at like 14, and we had to lift weights, and I was like, I'll lift weights. And swimming and wrestling, and then, so I was always an athlete to a degree. And then when I got into comedy, I just started, when I was on the road, really, I started bringing my own weights. All my opening acts that remember, I did this. I'd bring my own little weights and put them in my truck when I drove. So I get to the gig, I would sit in the park a lot and do, like, just some little workout. And I've always I mean, go back, looked from 1985, whatever it was. And then when I got to Vegas, I was, I was, I literally had all day. And it was nothing. So I'm not going to just sit in my, but so I started going to the gym a little bit more. And I probably put on maybe, I got a little crazy into it.

And then it was like a year of it. And I was like, yeah, this is, what am I doing? I'm not a workout guy. I mean, I'm a workout guy, but I'm not a bodybuilder. So I completely stopped again. And so, you know, people always thought you were bigger. You know, I'm always been the same. pretty much, I weigh 158.

People think I won't, people think I weigh 200 pounds because I have a huge car. But other than that, it's just, well, that, that, I mean, that's, but you take it off. I do. It's, it's a strap on. It's part of the show. Right. It's part of the show. They don't know that.

They don't know that. They don't know that it's a 50 pound strap on, penis. Oh, man. I mean, eventually, no. And that's, how could I just still be simple? Well, let me ask you this. You keep it, I can't remember it. I don't remember being offended by a single thing you did,

but is it clean the show? I can't remember. I mean, mostly, yeah. I mean, it really is. I mean, it's all silly. I mean, there's a couple things that can be innuendo it, I think, but no, it's not, it's a clean show, absolutely. I mean, really is.

I talk about flying, talk about, you know, It's, no, I'm trying to think the dirtiest joke I have. I don't even know if I have like the dirtiest joke I have. I had one, I had one, well, I had one, I thought, I might have done on your show. And I think when I did it, you guys let me do it. I'll tell you the joke. So, when I did the tonight show, it was a podium for, it had the presidential seal on it and it had these bells like true, false.

And I'd have buttons that would control it. And I would do, it was Clinton back then. So I'd say, I would do that. I did not happen to go, eh, I did not, eh, and then, you know, Hillary, ding, ding, it killed. So at the end, though, I need to have a, you know, a punchline, because that was funny, but it needed a big bang in. So I would do the whole Clinton, and it was a good Clinton, it was good, and then all of a sudden, I hit a foot pedal, and this Monica Wynski head would come up, just, just, just, just below the, you know, and I go, not now, and I'd go back to the bit. Well, that was the end that, you know, killed. So I go on the Leno, and this is great because I'm rehearsing it.

I show the whole lady, the standards and practices lady who loved me and also hated me. She gets up, we get done with the whole thing, and she walks over, and she's like, you're good. And I'm like, honestly, she goes, yes, even the podium? She goes, yeah. So I'm all excited. I'm back in the dressing room, I'm getting ready. And she comes in like a minute before the show starts. And she goes, everything's good, but you can't, you know, you can't do with the podium.

you can't you can't put her head down do do the head thing yeah right what the heck could come up i did i just i just couldn't put my hand and put it down oh it can you come up but it can't go down yeah so i said so i go to the prop guys i'm like can you make it can you make it where it can get when i when i push it up it'll go back down and they're like oh they looked at it i mean i made it myself and it it wouldn't work so i i go on and i'm you know just don't use your hand to push it down so i'm doing the joke It's fucking killing. The whole thing.

The head comes up. The crowd goes nuts. And I just used my elbow. Because it had to go down. I couldn't just. It was like, I laugh, but where's the big laugh? So I went like that. Not now.

And then, you know, it killed. And I get over and she comes. But now I'm in trouble, not trouble. But she said, we had to, we have to edit it now on the East Coast because I'm like, I told you not. I told you not. I said, well, I didn't have an ending. Yeah, I just, I used my elbow.

You got to be clever. You can't use your hand. You know? Yeah. It's hard sometimes. The glove don't fit, you know. You must acquit. Well, if the glove don't fit, you must have quit.

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Listen to therapy for black girls on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Did you ever meet O.J. Simpson? He was at Vegas a lot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I knew him really well. Yeah. I mean, it was one of those interesting things, though, because for the longest time, everyone would say, like, you know, I see O.J. every day. And I'm like, I'm out. I never seen O.J. ever. And I'm like, how come I have not seen O.J? You know, not that I wanted to see him. I was just, why have I not seen him? He's everywhere I'm at, you know.

So I go to this restaurant, he's always at one day, and I sit down, and sure enough, I just sit down, and I look over, and I'm like, God, dang, if it's not OJ, right, I mean, right next to me. And so I'm, I'm like, get my phone out. He's talking to somebody, and I, he's playing his next murder. And I'm, I see this, like, this knife, you know, on my thing. So it's like a hack joke, right? Everybody does this.

So I have my camera, and I go, uh, I see this. I said, I'm sitting next, okay. So I'm going to book this away. And I put it on my Instagram, right? And it was really funny. Five minutes after I posted, right? I'm like, only in Vegas, fucking OJ. This guy comes in who's his best friend.

His name is Scott, like me. He says, he's a, hey, a juice, Joe, OJ. And he sees me. He's like, Scott. And he's like, you know, OJ, you know Caratob? And I go, no. And he goes, oh, how are you doing? And I say, great.

He says, you got to watch, you got to follow his Instagram. His stuff is so good. And I'm like, oh, fuck, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete. Did you fucking delete it? I mean, seconds after I did, I'm like, oh, fuck. Jesus, you got to follow his Instagram. Take that one off real quick. Do you have a lot of followers on Instagram?

Do you have a lot of people following you? A billion people. A billion. That's great. Congratulations. I'm the best. No, I have, I don't, yeah, I follow it. I have a lot.

I mean, compared to some, no, I don't have millions because I don't, I don't show my boobies. But if I started showing my boobs, I think we can get that number up. Well, you know, that's your only fans account. I also have people that do that for me too. I do have that. I do have that. I do, I don't do my own only fans anymore. There was a, I remember, God, who was it used to do this?

it um bernie mack used to do the bernie used to do that this great baby so i'm tired of fucking tired of fucking do you remember that no but it's a good already fucking fucking hilarious he was great yeah no did you ever run in at bernie yeah a few times yeah he he was fabulous i'm just trying to think of the guys that i remember from playing in vegas back in the day bernie was up there he was amazing yeah bernie max who's who's playing there now apart from you obviously You're like, you're like the Celine Dion, except you're, you're not a Celine Dion. But you know what I mean? You're like a vaguest thing now.

I like that. I'm like the Celine Dion of the, yeah. No, because you know, I think it's the longevity. I've been here right. Yeah, yeah. There's not a lot of stand-up comics here anymore, which is interesting. You know, a lot of the shows or besides the Cirque shows and what they used to be like Amazing Jonathan, there's not.

Yeah, Penn and Teller is still here. Okay. comedy magic there's not I don't think there's another actual stand-up comedian

no probably no I mean I can think of it I can think of it you got yeah there used to be

George Wallace used to be these stand-ups that were there George Wallace that was a great best 10 PM show that was a great show

I used to love I would love telling George that I said George it's only it's only the best time because it's the only 10 p.m. It's not the best show

it's not the best show. It's like He was on all the bus ads and stuff, best 10 p.m. show. I remember saying at the time, are there a lot of shows on at 10 p.m? There's no other shows at 10. It was the only show. That's why it's good. How long did George run?

That was a long time, right? He was there for a long time. Yeah, he was there for a good 10 years, maybe. Yeah, I think. Are you the record told her then, 20 years? For a comedian, it's got to be close. I think for a comedian at the same hotel. Right.

Apart from that time, you worked in Hooters for a little. little bit. And Hooters, and then after that. So that should still, that should still count. I can't believe I remembered it as you were being in Hooters. And I'm like, oh, no, wait. No, we went to Hooters. That's what it was.

Yeah. It was right across the street. And you couldn't. It was so convenient. It was the Hooters Casino. That's right. Because I remember, I was like, we have to go and look at this place. We have to go.

Yes. Yeah. And it was sad. It was a sad place. It's not there anymore, is it? I don't. God, you know what? I don't think so.

I think it's called something else now. Knockers or, you know. Do you have your own, like, when Wayne and Newton was, who did a long time in Vegas, he had his, he had his own little railway or something or Liberace or something, a little railway from his house all the way to his dressing room. You should get that. They did. Yeah, it was like, yeah, I think it was either Liberacee or Wayne Newton,

somebody that you could get, he could get on a little rail car. and go straight to under his dressing room. Oh, wow. I got to get on this. Yeah. I think you have to. Yeah. Because I don't know where your place is in Vegas, but if it's a long way from,

I imagine it's a healthy enough distance from the MGM ground. You might want to get yourself a little, you know, underground railway to go together. I think a little railway. I love that. Yeah. Now you've got to get you, now I'm going to like look into this because not for me, but I got to see if what you're saying is true because that's just, just amazing. I feel like because you make so much of your own props and stuff, I think that you could

probably put together an underground railway. I think you've got the. Yeah, I got it. Yeah, you got this. Yeah. Do you have any like penguins and stuff? Wayne, you didn't have penguins. Do you have any penguins? Do you have any penguins? You know, no. What the fuck, Scott? You got to have some kind of eccentricity. You got to have penguins or a llama or something. Yeah. There was a guy who They used to have a llama, you know, at his house. Yeah. Yeah, the guy that owns the shoe guy, whatever it was. He owned, he had, he had a, it was like Michael Jackson.

Yeah, what the hell was that name of that, you know, all the big, the Zappos. Jimmy Choo? Jimmy Choo, the shoe guy. The shoe guy. Do you eat a llama, but you don't have, you don't have a llama, you don't have penguins, you don't, you know, you don't go crazy, you just work. I've got this one horrible wig and that's all I have. Is that a way? That's not a way.

No, it's not a way. Yeah. It's long. Yeah, it's a lot of it. Yeah, it's long. Yeah, it's long. Yeah. I was going to say, though, like, usually red-haired guys go gray.

You don't see me have a single gray hair in your head. I've got a few. I can see. Yeah, they're in the back. Yeah. They're on my nuts. Yeah. Well, I was going to say, I don't know if you notice.

I, I've gone a little gray. I didn't want to say anything. I didn't want to say anything. Right, right when you, when we first started, you popped up, I went, oh, God. It's like, it's been a while. It's been a while. It's been a while. I was going to say, I don't mind having snow on the roof. It's the snow in the basement that causes me the problem.

Exactly. No, you have a bit, you have a very, now this is, I'm seriously complimenting you on this. So there's people that great, like, like they call that what, pepper, peppered, right, tear? Sal pepper, yeah, yep. But there's a lot of guys I'll see in the news and whatnot. They don't get that. Some people have just great salt pepper, but it looks great on them.

And then you get that one that's like yellowy gray. Yeah. It doesn't look good. You have a very nice. It looks like... Do you know a secret? I'll tell you the secret. What is it?

Wait, let me zoom in. It's brook cream. Oh. Bro cream. Brook cream. It's like this old tiny hairst thing. The old fucks put it in, yeah. Yeah, that's brokering.

You look like Michael Douglas, and I mean that in a complimentary way. You, Michael Douglas is like 85 years old. No, like a younger Michael Douglas. Oh, like little Mikey Douglas. Is that what you mean? The Mikey Douglas, yeah. When he was on, yeah, Streets to San Francisco. The Street to San Francisco.

That was a great show. Him and Carl Maldon. I remember that show. Yeah, Carl Maldon. Yeah. Yeah, he was, he was hilarious. It was hilarious. Yeah.

I don't know. I don't know. All right. Listen, Scott, we're out of time. But I do want to say this. And I want to say this to anyone who's listening. And I always say this when I'm talking about, you have to see this guy like. You are one of the best live comics, the live shows I have ever seen and will ever see, I think.

I cannot. I challenge anyone to go to your show and no laugh. I just challenge it. fucking hilarious. I don't, it's what you, because I went and I think as well, when I first way I went in with a little bit of resistance. I'm sure they all. And I think that that helps because then your expectations are like, he's not going to make me laugh. Then you feel better when you do laugh. And then when you give into it, it's like, oh. It's so true though. You know, how many times people say that to me like every night. Oh. If I have a meat reader before or before the show,

if there's a meat before they say things that are odd, right? And you just laugh at it. Yeah. But if it's after, they'll always say, and you know what, I got to be honest, we did not want to, we didn't want to come, did we? No, we did not want to come. We didn't, he really didn't want it, right? And you're like, oh, thank. Yeah.

And I got to be honest. We thought, we've never been a fan of years ever, but that was really, that was good. I'm like, oh, thanks. Well, I get it to be in Greece. I don't, I don't like you, but my mother, his dad, and I love you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

My mother loved you. So I thought, to honor her memory, I would come and see you. I don't really care. I'm not a fan. My mom loved you, but I'm not really in honor of my mom.

I'm not going to see. Yeah, you get all that. I have it on the point of this thing. He says, man, you look good now. I'm like, what do you mean now? What does that? What does that mean? You look good now?

Do you that look good now? What did you look like that? Well, I didn't know what I said, but what reference point are you talking about? You know, you were just, you look good. You look healthy. You didn't look good.

You do look good. You do look good. You do look healthy. You do look good. I had more power to you. I really wish I could be in Vegas to see you, but I've got a feeling you'll be there for another 20 years, so I'll get around to it.

Yeah, I hope so, and I wish I could be there in New England to put the bril cream in your hair. Oh, my God, New England, brook cream, the sun is shining, it's beautiful. It's like Vegas, but with moisture at no casino. Yeah, yeah. You live there. I spend a lot of time here, yeah, New England. Yeah, I love it.

You're not good. So one of your homes? It's one of my many homes. One of your many homes, yes. One of my many homes up down the eastern seaboard of the United States. I love that. I love when you see a neighbor in Florida. He's a billionaire.

And he's building his house. It's like 50,000 square feet, literally. Biggest house in Florida. And people say, you know them, right? And I said, yeah. I said, they're really nice people. And they said, why would they spend all that money on one house? And I said, because they have nine of them.

Yeah. And they go, they do? And I go, yeah, they have one aspect. that's twice that size. They have one in Hawaii. They got one in France. They got one in Rome. They got one in Paris.

I'm like, they're like, what? I'm like, yeah. So it's just another home to them. Yeah, just to that. I'm not like that. That's what's happening here. Why would you have a Lamborghini? You could get 10 cars of that.

He has 30 of them. He has a thousand cars. Yeah, you can get a, you know, it must be like 10 Ford Explorers for a Lamborghini. Oh, no. I just love that. How is that? I used to do that when I was a kid

because our neighbor had a Mercedes and like, I just think you could buy four cutlasses or five cutlasses Supreme. Why would you just get five cutlass Supremes instead of one stupid car? You know, it's a fair point. Get out of here. More power to you. It's great to talk to you. I am

and remain a fan and your friend. Thanks, pal. Look after your lips. There you go. No, I'm giving you a big wet kiss. Okay. Thank you. I love you, Bubby. Thanks. Stay in touch. Stay in touch. Bye.

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