# Is Carrot Top a comedy genius? Is anti-comedy the true existential comedy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552 "2003-05-07T00:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/1 "2003-05-07T00:12:58Z")
In reading this MSNBC article - [Carrot Top:Better dead than red](http://msnbc.com/news/910121.asp?0cv=CB20) I’m starting to think that Carrot Top might be a _comedy genuis_. His comedy is so annoying it is subversive to all that is decent and right. With this in mind maybe he’s not on the final _edge_ of his 15 minutes, but is on the _verge_ of a whole new thing. But what…possibly a form of existential _anti-comedy_ for the cynical new age? Anti-laughs for the new anti-comedy. The sound of one hand not clapping. His comedy is so deep I can’t hear the waves. It’s naptime. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/2 "2003-05-07T00:46:09Z")
I think you are reading far too much into this. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/3 "2003-05-07T00:49:04Z")
It’s wayyyyyyy beyond naptime. It’s Call-the-white-cloaked-fellows, get-a-padded-room, and-fill-up-on-Lithium time. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/4 "2003-05-07T00:54:18Z")
What a frightening thread title. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/5 "2003-05-07T00:55:25Z")
Whatever happened to dick-and-fart © jokes? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/6 "2003-05-07T02:24:18Z")
If not being funny means BEING funny, then Colin Quinn is an effing GOD. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/7 "2003-05-07T02:44:25Z")
!A implying A presents a contradiction. If Carrot Top is funny through being not funny, then he is not not funny. Since this would mean that Carrot Top is funny, !A obviously cannot imply A. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/8 "2003-05-07T03:01:24Z")
::shudders:: Carrot Top. ::retch:: Not even remotely funny. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/9 "2003-05-07T04:17:45Z")
And off we go to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/10 "2003-05-07T04:27:39Z")
I agree Carrot Top epitomizes anti-comedy. I also agree that the AT&T ads are sufficiently annoying to be memorable. But the American “Meritocracy” was always a sham, and to see Carrot Top is a genius is to say that Ray Jay Johnson was one too. Go to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/11 "2003-05-07T04:46:33Z")
Nope. Next question. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/12 "2003-05-07T04:55:10Z")
Yes. If yes means “absolutely positively not, not ever, even remotely, in a million billion kajillion years.” ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/13 "2003-05-07T04:59:24Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![The\_MacDairmuid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_MacDairmuid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_MacDairmuid)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/14 "2003-05-07T06:52:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*If not being funny means BEING funny, then Colin Quinn is an effing GOD. \*\* And Norm Mac Donald, Jerry Seinfeld and Adam Sandler complete the quadrality. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/15 "2003-05-07T07:03:43Z")
Ahem…Norm McDonald is hilarious. Carrot Top? I don’t understand what people have against the guy. One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life was when he handed Shaq a basketball with a scope on it. ---
**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/16 "2003-05-07T11:30:05Z")
If comedy is pain, then can we make Carrot Top really really funny, please? ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/17 "2003-05-07T13:41:03Z")
Let’s not forget the Anti-Comedy Patron Saint: Andy Kaufman. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/18 "2003-05-07T14:03:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr\_Paprika \* > \*\* to see Carrot Top is a genius is to say that Ray Jay Johnson was one too \*\* He wasn’t? And now I suppose you’ll say the unknown comic wasn’t a genius either. ---
**Author:** ![Balduran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Balduran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balduran)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/19 "2003-05-07T14:59:55Z")
I’ve always found Carrot Top’s prop comedy and annoying guy persona hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552/20 "2003-05-07T15:04:53Z")
“His comedy is so annoying it is subversive to all that is decent and right.” What a way to sell long distance phone service…not! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-carrot-top-a-comedy-genius-is-anti-comedy-the-true-existential-comedy/173552.md?page=2)