It’s got to be tough to have a comedy show in Las Vegas, especially with a fast-paced act like Carrot Top’s. Six nights a week, Carrot Top runs back and forth across the stage while pulling wacky props out of big black trunks, cracking wise about them before moving on to the next one, at a pace that’s got to count as the day’s cardio workout. That’s just in the first part of the act.

And the frenetic energy with which Carrot Top has to deliver each visual gag and punchline isn’t just limited to his onstage motions, because his mind must be going a mile a minute. Carrot Top (the nom de hair, if you will, of prop comic Scott Thompson) has to connect with a different audience each night and tailor his act and material accordingly. A few audience members from Canada? Hockey and maple syrup it is. NASCAR fans in the house? You can bet there’s going to be plenty of NASCAR jokes, with some loosely related redneck props to boot: Ever heard of the “redneck lure?” It’s a SWAT assault rifle that fires a can of light beer attached to a fishing reel and line—something which might’ve come in handy on so many episodes of Cops.

Other props range from brilliantly obvious in retrospect to the kind that have you asking yourself, “Is it OK to laugh at that?” while you’re probably already chuckling. Thompson has been performing onstage since the mid-1980s and he’s come a long way from his oft-cited first prop gag at his college’s amateur night, a stolen Neighborhood Watch sign that made a pretty good point: “It takes 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.” Since then, he’s been constantly adding and changing his prop load out, so they’ve become more topical, more complex and more outlandish.

But for a comedian that’s known as a “prop comic,” Carrot Top intersperses a surprising amount of jokes, one-liners and even impressions in his act as well. Thompson keeps things topical, dirty and unfiltered, whether he’s considering a name change from Carrot Top should he ever end up in prison or mocking popular music acts like Mumford & Sons. Even fellow Vegas headliners like Criss Angel, Blue Man Group and Shania Twain get a little ribbing—or in Angel’s case, a lot.

But he can take it about as well as he dishes it out. Thompson has appeared as himself (in varying degrees of exaggeration and self-deprecation) in TV shows and films as varied as CSI, The Aristocrats, Family Guy and Reno 911!, so he’s long had a knack for poking fun at everything from his distinctive hairstyle to an early appearance on the 1980s TV show Star Search. Even his bodybuilding phase a few years ago is scrutinized and made into a punchline.

That willingness to make anything into a punchline—and his adeptness at doing it quickly—is precisely why his prop act continues to thrive, two decades after he created it.

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