#2377 - Carrot Top

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, checking out The Joe Rogan Experience.

Scott Thompson (0:06)

Shrain by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Jamie (0:13)

Good to see you, my man.

Scott Thompson (0:15)

Well, thanks for having me back.

SPEAKER_6 (0:16)

Very, very good.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

It's very funny.

You brought a box of your stuff, and one of them immediately started going off like it's an alarm. What is that? It was a FedEx box?

Scott Thompson (0:24)

Yeah.

It's that commercial that runs for late night, Viagra Cialis. It says, hey, we'll send you your Cialis and Viagra, and unmarked white envelopes. I would say, fuck that. I went just the opposite. I want my neighbors to know I'm getting laid. I want my neighbors to know I have a hard dick. So it's got sirens and whistles. My dick's hard.

SPEAKER_8 (0:44)

My dick is, yeah.

Scott Thompson (0:48)

It's engineering.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

We were just talking about you the other night at the comedy club. We were like, he owns props. Like you can't do props now. When I was a kid, when I first started doing stand-up, and I'm sure you too, there were prop comics.

Scott Thompson (1:00)

Sure.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

There was a bunch of guys.

Scott Thompson (1:02)

Yeah, the WID.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

The WID. Yeah, there was quite a few guys that were really good. They were prop com. But you became so successful as a prop comic, you stole the market.

Scott Thompson (1:11)

Oh.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

Yeah. There's no young comics coming up.

Scott Thompson (1:14)

Nobody wants to be a Carrot Top, I think.

I don't think that's it. I think that's what it is. You know what shit I still get? Well, you got shit for a long time.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

I don't think you get shit anymore.

Scott Thompson (1:23)

No, not as much. No. But you still get the aftermath of it. Like just on the plane today, some people are like, I don't care. What are you doing? I'm doing Rogan. They say, oh, man, I don't care what everybody else says. You're funny. I'm like, who is everybody else? Yeah. Well, I get that a lot. You know, all the people that you know. Hey, I personally think you're funny, that kind of stuff.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Oh, yeah. I'm one of the rare ones that thinks you're good.

Scott Thompson (1:47)

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I can't. You know, I had to beg my mom to come. She did not want to come.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

Yeah.

Jamie (1:53)

It's such a we get a lot of that, right?

Joe Rogan (1:54)

Well, we talked about that the last time. I think you took way too much shit from comedians and I never understood it. I did the weird thing the comedians do where they hate on other comedians. Like, good Lord, we live in a world that is filled with war and famine and disease and pollution and garbage and chaos and corruption and you want to concentrate on a prop comic? Is that really what the problem is in this world?

Scott Thompson (2:23)

Isn't that true?

Joe Rogan (2:24)

Yeah, and it's almost always comics that are doing better than you.

Scott Thompson (2:28)

I think we tried breaking it down last time as to why and I think it was only because I think one, I did get successful and it wasn't quick quick but it was quicker than maybe most because I hit the scene right at the right time. I had the act that was, you know, it was perfect for television, right? Because it's visuals. It's there and I got a little success and I think people were like, you know, why they would ask Jay, you know, why do you have Carrot Top on like every month? And Jamie was like, you know, he brings the guns, he doesn't tell you, he doesn't tell you. He did a good job.

But I do remember the comedy, the evening at the Improv, and I, you know, I played mostly that in the other one, Laugh at the Cheesecake Factory, where it was, and then the comedy store was more, admits he loved me, but I never really played there a lot. So, Bud loved me. One night he, I came in, I said, you know, I had my little back button. Bud Friedman from Improv. Improv, sorry. Yeah. And I had my box of stuff. And he always loved me. You know, he says, oh man, you know, there's no spots tonight. And I said, well, I drug it all the way, you know, fuck. And he's like, let me, I'll see if I get you in somewhere. So, The Tonight Show, Bookers were there that night. They were, Jim McCauley and these people were there to pick, watch comics and pick them for The Tonight Show. So he's like, hey, you know what? I'm going to slide you in. They're going to love you. So I go up and I had the best set ever I've ever had. It was just a magical night. And I don't know if I was just, I knew they were there. Every comic was coming and going, Jesus, dude, fuck. I mean, leveled it, right? And Jim McCauley walks up and he says, that was amazing. And I said, oh, thanks. I say, you booked The Tonight Show. You think that maybe I could get on? And he said, not a chance in hell. And I was like, I had just killed. I go, why? He says, Johnny would never book you. And I said, why? I said, you booked the show, right? Because he would never allow it. And I said, why? Johnny Carson. Yeah. And I said, why? He says, he hates variety.