Carrot Top

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By Evelio Contreras · August 4, 2009 · 2:00 a.m.

Emily Gimmel hangs out with Carrot Top before a weeknight performance at the Luxor.

By Leila Navidi · January 30, 2009 · 2:05 p.m.

Carrot Top and Holly Madison at "CSI: The Experience's" second anniversary at MGM Grand on Nov. 3, 2011.

Photos: Carrot Top, Holly Madison celebrate ‘CSI’ anniversary at MGM: Friday, November 4, 2011; By Don Chareunsy; In honor of the anniversary, “CSI: The Experience” is donating $1 of each ticket sold to Madison’s charity of choice, The Lili Claire Foundation, and ...

Carrot Top, with fellow Luxor headliner Criss Angel, celebrates his fifth anniversary at the Luxor on Dec. 20, 2010.

Photos: Carrot Top celebrates a triumphant five years at the Luxor: Tuesday, December 21, 2010; By Robin Leach; “I never thought it would last this long,” said an ecstatic Carrot Top last night at his private VIP party celebrating his fifth anniversary headlining ...

Carrot Top, Sisqo and the Fantasy Girls at the Luxor.

Carrot Top celebrates fifth anniversary at the Luxor tonight: Monday, December 20, 2010; By Robin Leach; For five years, outrageous comic Carrot Top has dazzled audiences with his crazy zany props, and audiences have always left asking if there’s ...

"The Girls Next Door" reality television star Holly Madison was among those who walked the red carpet at the CineVegas film festival's premiere of "Saint John of Las Vegas" Wednesday night at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.

Stars align for CineVegas: FILM FESTIVAL: Dennis Hopper, Jon Voight, Willem Dafoe, Sam Rockwell among those expected; Thursday, June 11, 2009; By Melissa Arseniuk; While the celebrities might not be exactly lining up for this year’s CineVegas film festival, Las Vegas’ miniature version of Sundance is attracting a decent number of stars both big and small.

Carrot Top impersonates Michael Jackson at the Atrium Theatre in the Luxor. Carrot Top's comedy may be (intentionally) dumb, but it's not stupid. His act has a transgenerational appeal and it's impressively up to the minute.

Carrot Top: Anything for a laugh, and his frenetic formula works: REVIEW: He can be juvenile, yes, but also smart and topical; Monday, February 2, 2009; By Joe Brown; Bratty, juvenile, sophomoric — and oddly lovable — Carrot Top’s got you even before you can get used to that face, with more jokes compressed into the first five minutes than most other comics could hope to find in a whole set.

Leno to Luxor: A day in the life of Carrot Top: Robin Leach: Luxe Life:; Tuesday, August 19, 2008; Carrot Top; Hey, it’s your old buddy, Carrot Top, the Understudy, filling in for my good friend Robin Leach for his Luxe Life column. I wish I could get someone to do my job so I could go away for a week or two.

The contemplation: What is the meaning of Carrot Top?: An inquiry into the weird, muscle-bound complexities of our most unusual comedian; Thursday, November 15, 2007; Greg Beato; Conventional wisdom says that there are dozens, maybe hundreds, possibly thousands of comics who are funnier than Carrot Top. Presumably, they think they’re the ones who should be selling out a 350-seat theater at the Luxor 240 nights a year, earning millions and entertaining Howard Stern’s listeners with tales of irrigating the professionally aroused faces of Moonlight Bunny Ranch whores with their frothy, creatine-flavored carrot juice. But they’re not. They’re doing Tuesday night sets at their local comedy traffic school and begging Dane Cook to give them a MySpace add. Meanwhile, Carrot Top is laughing—and flexing his realistic action-figure biceps—all ...

Give him props: Carrot Top still delivers: Monday, January 16, 2006; By Jerry Fink; What: Carrot Top When: 8 p.m. Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays through Fridays, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturdays. Dark Tuesdays. Where: The Luxor's Atrium Showroom Rating (out of five stars): 4.5 stars

Orange Appeal: Friday, April 8, 2005; By John Katsilometes; WEEKEND EDITION

That wacky Carrot guy starts a two-week run at the MGM Grand: Friday, April 4, 1997; Scott Dickensheets; No, wait, now we've got it. Lettuce now praise Carrot Top, the punk with the trunk full of comedy whatsits and laugh-riot whatnots, the walking bad red-hair day. He's brought his "Awesome Live" tour to the MGM Grand's Hollywood Theatre.

For a change, Carrot Top plays it straight

Comedian Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson poses during a cover shoot for Las Vegas Magazine, March 28, 2011.

Updated April 17, 2011 (11:47 p.m.) 10

Carrot Top has worn his orange hair in curls since he started his stand-up career 20 years ago, but for a Las Vegas Magazine shoot, he allowed it to be ironed flat. The results were astonishing.

Funny Face: Carrot Top's stage act a mask of contradictions

In his show at Atrium Showroom, Scott Thompson (known as Carrot Top onstage) refers to himself as a "mean clown." For his Las Vegas Weekly cover story, he sat for a photo session in which half his face was painted as a clown.

Updated November 20, 2009 (2:52 p.m.) 29

This all started with a kindly nun and a simple bell. Sister Benedict was her name, the principal at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Rockledge, Fla., a town of about 25,000 that sits on the state’s east coast, near Cape Canaveral. The town is heavily populated by NASA scientists and engineers who over the years sent American astronauts into orbit and onto the moon. The young son of one of those NASA engineers was Scott Thompson, a diminutive redheaded kid who kept to mostly kept to himself, uninterested in the other uniformed St. Mary’s students.

Carrot Top

Occupation: Comedian
Venue: Luxor Hotel's Atrium Showroom
Official Web page: www.carrottop.com
Born: Feb. 25, 1965 in Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Birth name: Scott Thompson
Early life: Father was a scientist at NASA during the space program's heyday in the 1960s. In 1983, as a freshman at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., he appeared in his first stand-up routine and also performed during open-mic nights on campus.
Early career: Built his comedy routine on zany stage props in the 1980s and 1990s and was named Entertainer of the Year and Comedian of the Year in 1993 by the National Association of Campus Activities. In 1994, he won the American Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-Up.
Career in Las Vegas: Limited engagements 1997 to 2006 at MGM's Hollywood Theatre. Began performing regularly at the Luxor in 2006.
Notable: Regularly appears on TV in guest appearances on "The Tonight Show" and "Live with Regis and Kelly." Was a spokesman in AT&T commercials. Had a TV show from 1994-1996 on the Cartoon Network called "Carrot Top's AM Mayhem." Starred in 1998 film, "Chairman of the Board."
Tickets: Vegas.com.

The Kats Report

With Carrot Top, Luxor's light takes on an orange hue

Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson is presented with an engraved wine decanter set after his performance at the Luxor on Wednesday.

Updated June 27, 2009 (4:12 a.m.) 3

An act loaded with Vegas-specific material has served Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson well, and the material will serve him well for another six years at the Luxor.