Carrot Top comes to Trump Marina
8/11/2007 at 9:00 PM
Grand Cayman
One of the most popular and successful comedians in America today, Carrot Top, will return to Trump Marina’s Grand Cayman on Saturday, August 11 at 9 p.m. Tickets, priced at $40 and $30 plus tax.
Comedians have always used props. However, before Carrot Top, no comic had ever actually created props as humorous inventions. Carrot Top is a comedian unlike any other – ever! “Nobody can steal my act,” says Carrot Top (a.k.a. Scott Thompson). “I have to write my own material and make my own props because no one sells what I do – like the paper cup and string telephone with a third cup for call waiting. I’m happy not only that I have my own style, but I’ve been an original from the very start.” The road to becoming a pop culture reference (from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and MAD Magazine to Celery Head, a comedian who plays a guitar with a slice of cheese on “King Of The Hill”) had its early rocky moments. A college graduate son of a NASA scientist, Carrot Top didn’t grow up in show business. Even worse, when he began his steady climb upward in 1990, many clubs wouldn’t book him because he didn’t fit into the mold of contemporary stand-up comedy. However, his brand of comedy became a hit on college campuses across the country. He remains the only person named both Entertainer of the Year, and Comedian of the Year in the same year (1993) by the National Association of Campus Activities. In 1994, he took home the American Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-Up.
Each year, Carrot Top headlines in Las Vegas and in various concerts across the country, as well as making dozens of television appearances. He’s become a celebrity TV spokesman for 1-800-CALL-ATT, now featuring his commercials for the third year and has become a household name. Carrot Top was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida, where his father worked at nearby Cape Canaveral teaching moon-bound astronauts how to drive the lunar module. “My dad is very funny, with a dry sense of humor. I’d remember his jokes and tell them to my friends. I was always the class clown, but I never got in trouble. I wanted to make people laugh, not be a troublemaker.” Although he thought about becoming an astronaut, he went to a club during his freshman year at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and saw live stand-up comedy for the first time, and participated in an open mic night. After getting his degree in marketing, Carrot Top worked many different jobs while honing his comedy act. In 1990, he had his first booking outside Florida. He made his first television appearance on “Comic Strip Live,” and in 1992, he did “The Tonight Show” for the first time. No comedian has ever presented a show like Carrot Top. His concerts are filled with lights, lasers, loud music, fog machines and flame cannons. Carrot Top’s 1996 book, Junk In The Trunk: Some Assembly Required (Simon and Schuster) is a retrospective of his top inventions. Audiences have seen only the manic part of Carrot Top on hundreds of TV programs. He’s shown this side of himself on programs from “Regis And…” and “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher” to Comedy Central’s “Strip Mall,” “Carrot Top’s A.M. Mayhem,” the Cartoon network, ESPN commercials and the American Movie Classics presentation of Three Stooges shorts, as well as the movies Chairman Of The Board, and Dennis The Menace Strikes Again. “I’m pretty quiet when I’m not Carrot Top,” he admits. “I stay to myself, go the gym, watch sports, surf and jet-ski, or work at home. I like what I do. I like to make people good about themselves. So I tell jokes in public.” “Everyone has a gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop,” he says. In the end, Carrot Top is his ultimate invention, his ultimate prop.
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