# Who The Heck Is "Carrot Top"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535 "2003-03-19T14:03:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/1 "2003-03-19T14:03:34Z")
I was wondering if the ANNOYING dude in the AT&T Call Collect ads - the “just dial down the center” promos - on the radio these days is a real persona, or what? Is he supposed to be funny? He is _so_ **ANNOYING!!!** Maybe he’s just a self-made legend in his own mind? Say, that reminds me! Where’s my carrot peeler? - Jinx :little devil: ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/2 "2003-03-19T14:21:06Z")
He used to be an asinine prop comic. Now he’s an asinine AT&T spokesman. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/3 "2003-03-19T14:27:19Z")
As I must always add when Carrot Top is mentioned; he is also the most famous alumni of my college, Florida Atlantic University. Sad, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/4 "2003-03-19T14:28:45Z")
Why, he’s [Scott Thompson](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Thompson,+Scott+%27Carrot+Top%27), of course! ---
**Author:** ![CNDKARAOKE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@CNDKARAOKE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CNDKARAOKE)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/5 "2003-03-19T14:50:33Z")
Look to the red headed comedy man now doing phone commercials , Can’t miss that hair , Your friend Carol ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/6 "2003-03-19T15:06:53Z")
He’ the personification of all that is not funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/7 "2003-03-19T15:07:25Z")
He’s the personification of all that is not funny. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/8 "2003-03-19T15:17:45Z")
**Mockingbird** , I don’t know if that was intentional or not, but it certainly deserved to be said twice. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/9 "2003-03-19T16:28:33Z")
He’s what happened when Malachi from Children of the Corn grew up. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/10 "2003-03-19T17:03:56Z")
Ah, [http://www.carrottop.com/](http://www.carrottop.com/) “He is so ANNOYING!!!” I guess im lucky they don’t caption his ads? ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/11 "2003-03-19T17:06:26Z")
He’s not nearly as funny as Bobby Hill’s favorite comic, CeleryHead. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/12 "2003-03-19T17:09:10Z")
I haven’t seen him do his stand up for a long time, but for what it’s worth, I saw him once on stage and he cracked me up. I’m guessing it was over 10 years ago now. I think that those annoying phone commercials are the last stop on the entertainment trail before you are booted out of Hollywood completely. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/13 "2003-03-19T17:10:59Z")
"Who The Heck Is “Carrot Top”? A waste of oxygen, more annoying than Oprah. Smite him, Oh Lord! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/14 "2003-03-19T17:27:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*I think that those annoying phone commercials are the last stop on the entertainment trail before you are booted out of Hollywood completely. \*\* No – actually it’s the second-to-last stop: He’s currently involved in the last stop, a (second) week on “Hollywood Squares.” ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/15 "2003-03-19T17:37:51Z")
The Onion had an article headlined: “No one at AT&T recalls hiring Carrot Top”. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/16 "2003-03-19T17:39:26Z")
I’m thinking he’s Satan incarnate. Think about it…the red hair, the fact that he has a job, and have you ever noticed _that you can’t stare directly at his face for too long??_ ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/17 "2003-03-19T18:03:10Z")
Man is he buff. Did you check out all his pictures from IMDB? He has a very cut chest and his arms look strong too. His standup was either completely hilarious or completely off. He had no middle ground. He was often the brunt of late night talk show jokes about unfunny comedians which I always thought was odd because late night talk show hosts are typically not nearly as funny as he was nor as consistently. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/18 "2003-03-19T18:17:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dorkusmalorkusmafia \* > \*\*Man is he buff. Did you check out all his pictures from IMDB? He has a very cut chest and his arms look strong too. \*\* You’re frightening me… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/19 "2003-03-19T18:48:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Why, he’s [Scott Thompson](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Thompson,+Scott+%27Carrot+Top%27), of course! \*\* But not to be confused with the _better_ [Scott Thompson](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/9323/scott.htm) [sub]\*“Mom, Dad told me this teddy bears’ picnic story that sounds like utter bullshit to me.” \*[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535/20 "2003-03-19T20:14:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\*Ah, [http://www.carrottop.com/](http://www.carrottop.com/) > > “He is so ANNOYING!!!” > > I guess im lucky they don’t caption his ads? \*\* Ow! I knew I shouldn’t have clicked on that. **handy** , his AT&T commercials are to ears what his website is to eyes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-heck-is-carrot-top/162535.md?page=2)