Becoming a pop culture icon is a difficult thing to achieve but Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson has done just that. With over two decades of comedic performance in his rear view mirror, Carrot Top is one of the most popular, recognizable and successful comedians in America. After years of playing to sold-out shows throughout the country, he has now become a Las Vegas icon as well, recently inking a long-term deal with the Luxor Resort and Casino through 2015.

It all started when he was a student at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. His freshman year he went to a club and saw live stand-up comedy for the first time. A couple of months later the campus bulletin board announced an open mic night, and this second attempt brought his first prop to the stage. After building a following on the comedy circuit that had him making people laugh nearly every weekend, his first television appearance was on Comic Strip Live in 1991. Things changed for Carrot Top forever in 1992 with his first appearance on The Tonight Show, the first of more than 30 appearances on that show. In short order, he went from working small clubs in the late 1980’s to becoming the highest grossing touring comedian in America by the late 1990’s. Carrot Top’s other credits include hundreds of TV programs including Live with Regis and Kelly, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Late Night With Conan O’Brien, Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels, Chelsea Lately, Last Comic Standing, Criss Angel - Mindfreak, ESPN commercials, as well as the American Movie Classics’ presentation of Three Stooges shorts.

He also began to dabble in movies, television production, commercials and writing. Carrot Top has starred in his own movie, Chairman Of The Board, and has made numerous appearances in other films including Dennis The Menace Strikes Again and The Hangover. He produced Carrot Top’s A.M. Mayhem on the Cartoon Network. His ad campaign for 1-800-CALL ATT ran for over three years and only further helped to keep his face on televisions across America. In 1996, his Simon and Schuster book Junk In The Trunk: Some Assembly Required was a retrospective of Carrot Top inventions. Six years ago came the move that every comic hopes to make, a regular gig on the Strip in Las Vegas. After headlining at MGM Grand for 15 weeks a year, he signed a very lucrative and long-term deal with the Luxor Hotel and Casino. He performs almost 300 shows a year in the Atrium Theatre.