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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2377 - Carrot Top' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-10. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2377 - Carrot Top

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hey, what's up, man?
Good to see you, my man.
Good to see you as well.
Thanks for having me back.
What's happening?
Very, very good.
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?
And that's hell, isn't it?
It was a FedEx box?
Yeah.
It's that commercial that runs for late night Viagra Cialis, and it says, hey,
we'll
send you your Cialis and Viagra in unmarked white envelopes.
And I would say, fuck that.
I want just the opposite.
I want my neighbors to know I'm getting laid.
I want my neighbors to know I have a dick, a hard dick.
So it's got sirens and whistles.
My dick's hard.
My dick is, yeah.
So, you know, it's engineering.
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.
Sure.
There was a bunch of guys.
Yeah, the WID.
The WID.
Yeah, there was quite a few guys that were really good.
They were prop comics.
But you became so successful as a prop comic, you kind of stole the market.
Oh.
Yeah, I guess.
There's no young comics coming up.
Nobody wants to be a Kara Tom, I think.
I don't think that's it.
I think that's what it is.
Like, you know what, shit I still get?
Well, you got shit for a long time.
I don't think you get shit anymore.
No, not as much.
No, but you still get the aftermath of it.
Like, just on the plane today, somebody's like, I don't care what...
No, what are you doing?
I said, I'm doing Rogan.
They say, oh, man, I don't care what everybody else says.
You're funny.
I'm like, who's everybody...
Oh, what the fuck kind of compliment is that?
Yeah.
Well, they get that.
I get that a lot.
The backhanded, shitty compliments.
Hey, I personally think you're funny, that kind of stuff.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I'm one of the rare.
Yeah.
I'm one of the rare ones who thinks you're good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I had to beg my mom to come.
She did not want to come.
Yeah, it's such a weird thing.
We get a lot of that, right?
Well, we talked about that the last time.
I think you took way too much shit from comedians, and I never understood it.
The weird thing that comedians do, or 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?
Right.
Isn't that true?
Yeah, and it's almost always comics that are doing better than you.
Yeah.
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, you know, because I hit the scene right at the right time.
I had the act that was, you know.
It was a good act.
It was perfect for television, right, because it's visuals.
Yeah.
And I got a little success, and I think people were like, you know what?
They would ask Jay, you know, why do you have carrot top on, like, every month?
And Jay would be like, you know, he brings the guns.
He did a good job.
He did a good job.
But I do remember the comedy, the evening at the improv, and, you know, I
played mostly
that in the other one, 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, I came in, I said, you know, I had my little back box.
Bud Friedman from the improv?
Bud Friedman, 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 can get you in somewhere.
So the Tonight Show bookers were there that night.
They were, the 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, I'm 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, you're not, you're, Johnny would never book you.
And I said, why?
I said, you booked the show, right?
He goes, he would never, he would never allow it.
I said, why?
Johnny Carson.
Yeah.
I said, why?
He says, he hates variety.
What a weird thing to hate.
And I stopped in the middle of my, and I'm like, the whole fucking Tonight Show
is variety.
Karnak, throwing the hatchets, every fucking thing.
They do.
Ed McMahon's a fucking prop, right?
The whole thing is variety.
They bring on animals.
Animals.
You think I'm kidding, right?
So I'm like, well, okay.
And then finally, I mean, I'm talking like two weeks after Johnny left, I was
on with Jay.
And it was just like, literally.
But the weird part about it was it still was the same studio.
You know, they had the blue, you know, the gold star.
So you're standing right where Johnny was.
And the same, like, Ed de Cordova was still in the booth.
And everyone was still, like, there.
Yeah.
So you felt like it was the Tonight Show.
But how weird is that?
Like, no, I don't like variety.
And then I would get, you know, singled out because I would do Leno so many
times.
I'd ask if I could do Letterman.
They said, no, you're Team Leno.
I'm like, oh.
It's like that Twilight movie.
I'm like Team fucking whatever.
There's two teams.
Thank God that doesn't exist in podcasts.
That disgusting fucking thing where if you were on one person's side, you're
the enemy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ugh.
Team Leno.
How stupid is that?
That's what I was, I guess.
Well, it was such famine thinking back then because, you know, there was only a
certain amount of shows.
Now, you know, it's not a wig.
It's on there.
Well, I never thought it was a wig.
No, people have.
Is that thing on straight?
Isn't it weird that, like, women can wear wigs no problem at all?
A man wears a wig.
It's pretty pathetic.
Oh, yeah.
You're a loser.
Absolutely.
A man with a hairpiece.
Nice hairpiece.
Yeah.
Or implants.
You know, I lived in L.A.
This is true.
I lived in L.A.
I'd go to Gold's Gym.
And my hair was even more out of control.
I had big ass hair.
Yeah, you had a giant fro at one point.
I had big fucking arms.
And these ladies were behind me.
And they're like, oh, my God.
Look at that woman's arms, right?
Seriously.
I had makeup and into the whole nine yards.
And they were just amazed.
And they came over.
They said, how do you get your arms that big?
And I turned around.
I said, I don't know.
You know, arm workout.
And she's like, oh.
And I could see their face turn.
Like, oh, it's a dude.
But I was kind of, you know, pretty then.
You know, it's like, you know, the younger, a lot of hair, makeup.
And then that same gym one day, I'm working out.
And this guy says, nice arms.
And I said, thanks.
He's like, who did the work, right?
And I thought he's making it.
I said, I put in the fucking work.
You know, like, who works out for me?
He's like, no, no, no.
I mean, implants, right?
I'm like, only in L.A. would you have someone in the gym walk up and say, oh,
yeah, implants?
Yeah, I have implants.
You fucking go to the gym and you do curls.
At the gym, lifting out, assuming that someone has implants is pretty wild.
But I don't have that big of a...
I mean, this guy thought I...
Well, that's how gross L.A. is.
Yeah, it is.
That's like the default assumption is that everything's fake.
Yeah, no matter what.
Where'd you get your butt?
Who did your butt?
Who did your butt?
Where'd you get your nose done?
Yeah.
It's always something.
No, it's true.
No one wants to believe...
Who does your plugs?
Yeah.
No one wants to believe that you're natural.
Another thing I got, too, weird.
I just had a guy today at the airport.
He said, hey, you still working out?
And I'm like, you're supposed to say, I see you're still working out, right?
You don't ask him if you're still working out.
That means you don't look like you're working out.
Well, I think he's probably just trying to start a conversation with you.
He doesn't know how to get about it.
No, I did.
I said, you mean, I see you're still...
And he goes, yeah, what did I say?
I said, you said, do you still work out?
Yeah.
And what's the answer to that?
You just say, yes?
I say, no, no.
I said, I'm not feeling well.
I'm dying.
I'm dying, yeah.
Oh, you didn't hear?
Like, whoa.
Yeah.
It's radiation poisoning.
Yeah.
Something happened.
One of my toys.
They always say you lift light.
I hate that, too.
I'm in the gym.
I'm like, you always lift light.
What does that mean?
I guess it means I don't lift...
I do weights.
I don't do heavy weights.
I don't have spotters.
I just do cables and do some dumbbells.
But people always say that.
You always work light.
I'm like, fuck.
People are silly.
I'm heavy for me.
People are silly.
There's a lot of people that just don't know what to say.
You know, they meet someone famous like you and they don't know what to say.
They just get weird.
They do.
And then afterwards, they probably leave and go, why the fuck did I say that?
Did I say that?
Jesus Christ.
I feel so stupid.
I've done that before.
Meet famous people, act like an idiot, and they're like, what?
Shit.
So I try to give people a little grace.
I'm so true of that.
If I see celebrity, I'm like, oh, I'm not going to fuck it up, really, right?
Do you get a lot of people coming to your shows that are famous?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We had a guy here, Chris Jericho was at the show this night, and he was at the
side of you.
The wrestler?
Yeah.
Oh, cool.
Real nice guy.
You've been at the Luxor for how long now?
19, coming up on 20.
That's crazy.
Yeah, November 20.
You probably have the longest residency of anybody in Vegas.
I think they were just talking, but they don't count because one only talks.
They've been there forever.
They've been there forever, yeah.
I remember I saw them there in 94.
94?
98.
98.
I saw them there in 98.
Yeah, they're still...
At the Rio.
Back when the Rio was nice.
Yeah, right?
Now it's like, you've got to wear a bulletproof vest to watch this.
They should just light it up, shit hole.
It's a weird place.
It's weird how some of those places, they just fall off.
They just get tired, and they don't want to go there anymore.
But then if they last long enough, then they become like Circus Circus, where
they're fun.
Right, right.
It's fun to go there.
No, it is.
And in Luxor, they just did a whole big revamp on it, and it's a beautiful
hotel.
Every time I walk in, it's spectacular to see how they made that.
Well, I'm obsessed by Egypt.
So for me, it's like, I wish the Luxor was the best hotel.
I'd stay there every time.
Because, you know, it's a fucking giant pyramid.
We actually did a Fear Factor stunt.
It is the best hotel.
Oh, yeah, for you.
Thank you.
For you.
We did a Fear Factor stunt where people had to slide down the Luxor once.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
They had to, like, grab flags on the way down.
They had to slide down.
All right, see, I'm not doing that.
Yeah, it was.
Jesus.
It was pretty crazy.
Pretty ridiculous.
Back in the day.
That is crazy.
Yeah.
20 fucking years, man.
That's a long-ass time to be doing a residency.
So before that, you were doing colleges, and you were touring, and, you know,
do you miss
any of that?
You do a little touring every now.
We do a little touring now and then, but it's only when I get the off time.
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