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February 25, 1965

Scott Thompson

Self-deprecation, American Culture

Actor

2010 Cubed (TV series)

2007 Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular (TV movie)

2005 Tugger: The Jeep 4x4 Who Wanted to Fly (video) (voice)

2003 ComiXspotlight (TV series)

2000 N.Y.U.K (TV series)

1998 Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! (video)

1998 Chairman of the Board

1997 The Larry Sanders Show (TV series)

1996 Pure Danger (video)

1996 Hourglass (video)

Writer

2001 Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians (video) (writer)

Appearances

2011 Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld (TV series)

2011 CSI (TV series)

2011 The Soup (TV series)

2010 New Year's Eve Live! (TV movie)

1993-2011 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)

2010 Holly's World (TV series)

2009-2010 The Jay Leno Show (TV series)

2010 I Am Comic (documentary)

2010 Close But No Cigar: Bob Zany (documentary)

2009 Super Dave's Spike Tacular (TV series)

2009 The Girls Next Door (TV series)

2006-2009 Criss Angel Mindfreak (TV series)

2006-2011 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV series)

2009 The Hangover (uncredited)

2009 Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (TV series) (uncredited)

2009 The Bad Girls Club (TV series)

2004-2011 Live with Regis and Kelly (TV series)

2007-2008 Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (TV series)

2008 Who the F#ck Is Chip Seinfeld?

2007 Heckler (documentary)

2004-2007 Last Comic Standing (TV series)

2007 Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav (TV movie)

2007 Howard Stern on Demand (TV series)

2007 Smiley Face

2007 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV series)

2006 Reno 911! (TV series)

2006 I've Got a Secret (TV series)

2006 Family Guy (TV series) (voice)

2006 The Bros.

2005 MADtv (TV series)

2004-2005 The Tony Danza Show (TV series)

2005 Cold Pizza (TV series)

2005 Just for Laughs (TV series)

2005 The Aristocrats (documentary)

2004 George Lopez (TV series)

2004 Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (TV series)

2002-2004 Hollywood Squares (TV series)

2003 Howard Stern (TV series)

2003 Carrot Top Rocks Las Vegas (video)

2003 The Wayne Brady Show (TV series)

2003 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)

2003 Pauly Shore Is Dead

2002 I Love the '80s (TV series documentary)

2002 The Daily Buzz (TV series)

2002 CMT Flame Worthy Video Music Awards (TV movie)

2001-2002 Politically Incorrect (TV series)

2002 Scrubs (TV series)

2001 The Teen Choice Awards 2001 (TV special)

2001 Weakest Link (TV series)

2001 The Man Show (TV series) (uncredited)

1999 Happy Hour (TV series)

1999 Donny & Marie (TV series)

1999 Sin City Spectacular (TV series)

1998 The Daily Show (TV series)

1997 The Chris Rock Show (TV series)

1996 Caesars Palace 30th Anniversary Celebration (TV documentary)

1996 Space Ghost Coast to Coast (TV series)

1996 1996 Billboard Music Awards (TV movie)

1992 Spaced Out! (TV movie)

1990 America's Funniest People (TV series)

American Comedy Awards

1994 Won American Comedy Award Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic

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Scott Thompson (born February 25, 1965), better known by his stage name Carrot Top, is an American comedian known for his bright red hair, prop comedy and self-deprecating humor.
Thompson lived in Cocoa, Florida during part of his youth. In 1983, he graduated from Cocoa High School and enrolled later that year at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. While still a freshman at Florida Atlantic, he appeared in his first stand-up comedy routine with Josh Abelson. Two months later, he performed on campus at an open-mic night.

Career

Carrot Top has appeared in the television programs: Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular , Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, Criss Angel Mindfreak, Scrubs (2006), and Tugger: The Jeep 4x4 Who Wanted to Fly (2005). His movie roles include the 1998 film Chairman of The Board, and he also served as a spokesman in commercials for 1-800-CALL-ATT. In 2002, he recorded a commentary track for the Roger Avary film The Rules of Attraction. In 2006, Carrot Top appeared in the Reno 911! episode "Weigel's Pregnant" as an enraged version of himself who trashed his hotel room, resisted arrest and stole a police car. In 2008, he was a guest judge for NBC's Last Comic Standing in a contest where the participants had to perform prop comedy at a Bed, Bath and Beyond, using store items with only an hour to prepare.

From 1995 to 1999, Carrot Top was the continuity announcer for Cartoon Network, for which he also produced and starred in an early morning show on called Carrot Top's AM Mayhem for two years (1994–96).

Carrot Top has also been frequently parodied. Such examples include Mr. Show (in which David Cross appears as "Blueberry Head"), King of the Hill ("Celery Head"), Family Guy ("Carrot Scalp"; he also made a guest appearance on the show as himself in the episode "Petergeist"), South Park ("Carrot Ass") and MADtv ("Broccoli Top").

As of 2010 he headlines at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, and performs various comedy gigs when his show is not playing. The hotel proclaims him as "Comedian of the Year." His comedy routine incorporates dozens of props stored in large trunks on stage; his prop jokes commonly consist simply of him pulling out a prop, describing it in a one-liner, and tossing it away. Many of his props are specially built objects, such as a miniature grandfather clock necklace he used to poke fun at Flavor Flav's age.

On January 16, 2010, Carrot Top appeared on the Fox reality game show Don't Forget The Lyrics! where he assisted illusionists Penn & Teller in their quest for the million-dollar grand prize. He was also one of the roasters at the Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav and Gene Simmons Roast. He appeared on an episode in Season Two of Mind Freak and has been a regular guest on the show every season since. He also appeared in an episode of the reality series The Bad Girls Club.

Carrot Top has appeared on numerous nighttime television talk shows. On February 8, 2010, he appeared on an episode of The Jay Leno Show, where he had pies thrown at him by Leno and guest Emma Roberts.

Biography courtesy of Wikipedia

"Younger in life I was always kind of quiet and shy and I think I kind of grew into myself as I got older, I became more of a class clown as I got to junior high. My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh. I wasn't the jock (I know, it's hard to tell) or the good-lookin' stud. I was just a very skinny red-headed freckled guy. My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh."

Carrot Top's father, Larry Thompson, was a rocket scientist that worked on the Gemini and Apollo missions.