Carrot Top (Scott Thompson)

Carrot Top, born Scott Thompson on February 25, 1965 is a prop comedian well known for his various comedy appearances as colleges, his curly red hair, and his frequent appearances on TV shows and in commercials. Carrot Top spends fifteen weeks a year doing live performances in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Casino and does over 100 shows a year on tour.

I actually saw Carrot Top's act when he visited my college in the mid-late 1990s. I don't remember if it was funny, although I concede that it may have been because I don't have negative memories of it. Back then, Carrot Top was very skinny and, of course, had his fruity curly red hairdo.




Carrot Top is unique among comedians in that his comedic material is focused almost entirely on the use of various props. His financial success had bred much jealous and dislike among fellow comedians, many of whom frequently trash him as being hack. Craig Kilborn, for example, was apparently very mean to Carrot Top during a 1999 appearance on The Daily Show. (It's strange that Craig Kilborn of all people would make fun of Carrot Top, because Kilborn's late night talk show totally sucked.)

In 1998 Carrot Top starred in the critically panned box office flop Chairman of the Board. The movie reportedly cost over $10 million to make, but only garnered $306,000 in box office receipts.

In 2001 Carrot Top took up bodybuilding and morphed from a scrawny little dork into a brawny effeminate fruit. Rumors abound that Carrot Top has been "juicing" his body with steroids. It really would not surprise me to find out that he is all juiced up on steroids, and possibly also on Human Growth Hormone (HGH), which causes one's entire skeletal structure to expand. Look at these pictures of a buff Carrot Top - something about his face looks very abnormal, and it's not just because he was ugly to begin with.

It is possible that Carrot Top isn't on HGH, but that bad plastic surgery is the source of his odd look. Rumors do abound about Carrot Top's alleged plastic surgery. There are also many rumors that Carrot Top is gay or bisexual. Based on the amount of mascara and eyeliner that Carrot Top is wearing in the picture below, I have to believe that Carrot Top does "play for the other team." Moreover, the unofficial Carrot Top message forum appears to be run by openly gay fans of Carrot Top.

Unlike many of the washed-up celebrities profiled on this website, Carrot Top has been very successful at what he does and claims to make $10 million per year. However, Carrot Top became washed up once he decided to become a body builder a few years ago. Therefore, for the reasons discussed above, Carrot Top is one washed up celebrity!

*** Update - September 27, 2007 ***

TMZ.com had this recent picture of Carrot Top posted on its website today. Carrot Top must be taking some crazy steroids or HGH, because his deltoids look very unnatural. I have been in many gyms over the years, yet I have never seen anyone with shoulder muscles that bulged out laterally like Carrot Top's:


*** Update - March 29, 2012 ***

I recently discovered this video clip of Carrot Top that was posted by TMZ in February 2012. In this clip Carrot Top looks much smaller and no longer has the physique of a bodybuilder. Carrot Top claimed that he stopped lifting and currently only does cardio workouts. One has to wonder whether Carrot Top had a health scare that forced him to give up weightlifting "supplements"...