#1758 - Carrot Top

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Cheers, sir. Happy New Year.

Scott Thompson (0:15)

Happy New Year to you, too.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Very nice to officially meet you.

I follow you on the Instagram, watch your posts all the time. Okay, good. You're a big silly goose. You're having a good time.

Scott Thompson (0:26)

Yes, I've been doing these little, what do you call it, where you kind of reenact a scene for movies, and it's been really fun, and it's hard because you have to know the scene really well, so I've done the planes, trains and all, my fucking car, my fucking...

So it's been a new little gig. But yeah, I try to keep it fun, Instagram.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

No, you definitely do. And obviously you've done a lot of radio because you have one ear on, one ear off.

Scott Thompson (0:52)

Jim Norton always does that. No, I'm just retarded.

No, Jim Norton does that, too.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Yeah, a lot of people do that.

Scott Thompson (0:58)

I've done a lot of radio. Yeah, I've done a lot. Yeah, they want a little... Yeah, a little bit of... Yeah, a little, exactly.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

I don't understand that.

Scott Thompson (1:04)

I was looking at me like, put your headset on right.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

Yeah, we've been doing comedy for so fucking long and that we've never met. It's kind of funny.

Scott Thompson (1:11)

That is bizarre. I mean, you've been doing...

Joe Rogan (1:13)

30 plus years. Yeah, same.

Scott Thompson (1:15)

I started in 1985

Joe Rogan (1:17)

Yeah, I started in 88, so I had to reach out.

Scott Thompson (1:19)

All right, I got my three. I'm the veteran here, fuck.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

You're a funny guy, man. And you at least used to take a lot of shit.

And I never understood it.

Scott Thompson (1:29)

I never...

I don't either. I never have understood that. But it's mellowed out a little bit. It's kind of like, you know, you've done it so long. You're kind of like, okay, you can go to the barbecue now. You're part of the club.

But for years and years, I mean, from the very, very beginning, which is kind of funny, you being a comic, I started in Florida. One thing everybody worried about was, you know, was, you know, the fever, you know, you don't want to steal. You know, he stole his act. So I thought, you know, not only did I do my thing just because I wanted to do props, but I thought, wow, no one's going to hate me because I'm doing, I'm not doing anyone's, I mean, I'm stealing crime watch signs and shit and lugging them around the country. So if anything, they would say, you know, okay, he's not funny, or at least he's original, but he's not funny. But they would say, oh, no, he's, you know, everything. I just got, I would get shit for, like I was the shit, I was just filling the punch line.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

Yeah, you were a whippin boy.

You know what it's like, you're like the, it's like Nickelback. For whatever, Nickelback takes so much shit. It's like someone decides that that's a good punch line, you know, whether it's Carrot Top or Nickelback.

Scott Thompson (2:33)

And I've seen Nickelback, and they put on a pretty amazing show.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

They've got some good songs, man.

Scott Thompson (2:37)

And they do.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

They're pop songs, yeah, but so fucking what? It's like they're not hurting anybody.

Scott Thompson (2:43)

It was, you know, so let's say I would do a show, and we have a nice crowd, it was great. Standing ovation, we get on the bus, and we're driving to wherever, next gig, and we're all watching, you know, the TV, and then boom, there's a Carrot Top rip. And I'd be like, you know, what the fuck? Not only we just did a great show, we had a whole bunch of people laughing.

So this one guy is telling me, you know, that I said, whatever, you know, I've always been a guy that's considered the source. I mean, I was always picked on as a kid, but when I'd come home, my mom was, you know, what happened?

Another guy picked on me, who was it? It was this guy. Well, consider the source, right?

Joe Rogan (3:17)

Yeah.

Scott Thompson (3:17)

So it's always been that with comedy, too. Like when, you know, George Carlin said I was funny, that negated every asshole that said I sucked. I was like, George Carlin thought I was funny. No, you are funny, man.