Las Vegas Weekly

August 17, 2009 · 7:04 AM

Forty-eight atypical hours in the life of Luxor headliner Carrot Top

By Robin Leach

Carrot Top at CHI Theater in Planet Hollywood.

Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/www.erikkabikphoto.com

While Mr. Vegas DeLuxe Robin Leach is on vacation and attempting to work as little as possible from afar, Vegas DeLuxe will be featuring celebrity guest columnists for the first half of this month until Robin’s return. If you’re knowledgeable about Las Vegas, the names should be familiar. Today, it’s zany comic and Luxor headliner Carrot Top.

By Carrot Top

Hey, everyone, it’s your good friend Carrot Top reporting. I’m filling in for the very verbose Robin Leach. I hope I’m up to the challenge. I would try to write like Robin, but the vocabulary of a prop comic isn’t quite up to par.

I want to talk about my last 48 hours because they have been a bit crazier than normal. I had a reporter from Details magazine following me around for two days for a feature in their October issue, so be sure to look for that. If it’s not a good story, you can blame my PR guy.

Anyway, he definitely got his money’s worth because the last couple of days have included my brother, a human cock fight, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Peepshow and painting an act of animal love on Holly Madison’s dressing room wall.

Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/www.erikkabikphoto.com

Holly Madison and Carrot Top keep it casual, it being their clothing.

Wednesday started like any normal day. My butler woke me up just after noon, and I got a call from my brother who told me he was coming to town. My brother is a pilot in the Air Force. Figure that out. He flies F-16s, and I build things with

duct tape for a laugh. Always good to see the family, though. He came to the show that night, along with my mom, who lives here in Vegas.

After the show Wednesday, we went to Tacos and Tequila (TNT) at Luxor, where Iwas hosting. And by hosting, I mean being the guest emcee for a guy in a rooster costume and a girl in a chicken suit fighting to pop balloons that are taped to each other’s feet ... or claws ... whatever. Turns out the girl won, but I’m honestly still not sure what the hell that was all about. TNT is a great restaurant. Very good food!

Photo: Courtesy

Carrot Top with the girls of Fantasy.

Thursday really wasn’t any more normal because Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife Beth were at my show. I’ve been friends with Dog for a few years now, so he always comes to see my show when he’s not busy spraying perps with mace. What I

don’t get about Dog’s show is the criminals. How can you not see Dog coming? It’s not like he blends in anywhere. Plus, when he runs, he sounds like a human yard sale with all the clinking and clanking. It seems like he would be easy to elude.

So after the show, Dog and Beth and my friends in the country band Little Texas came back to say hi and have a drink. I love Little Texas. The coolest thing about having a show in Vegas is that all of my friends eventually come and visit. Whether they are stopping in Vegas for their tour or they are here because of all the gambling and prostitution, everyone comes to visit. I love hanging in my dressing room after the show. The Luxor has really become home for me.

Photo: TVT

Carrot Top with Peepshow cast members.

We got out of the Luxor and headed over to Planet Hollywood to see my buddy Holly Madison in Peepshow. If you haven’t seen it yet, you need to go. There’s a ton of topless hot girls ... which is how I gauge how good anything is ... how many topless hot girls are there. Holly is awesome in the show, and the singer, Josh Strickland, is crazy good. I’m not sure there is a better singer on the Strip.

Holly plays Bo Peep in the show, so she has started a tradition in her dressing room. Everyone that visits her has to paint a sheep on the wall and sign it for her. Some of the sheep are a little strange looking. One of them is even gray with a human face. It looks more like Snoopy than a sheep. Anyway, being Carrot Top, I painted something very sweet. I would show you a picture of it, but I would violate all sorts of FCC laws. I don’t want Robin to lose his license.

Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/www.erikkabikphoto.com

Carrot Top and Criss Angel share a pose.

That’s it, a very full two days. And I had a reporter following me the whole time, so if you don’t believe me, you can read all about it in the October issue of Details. I want to thank Robin for the chance to talk about myself. It plays right into my wheelhouse. Come see my show at Luxor soon ... or not ... I just signed an extension that has me there through 2015, so you’ve got time.

Tomorrow is our final celebrity guest columnist, nightlife queen and our Las Vegas Weekly colleague Xania Woodman, as Robin returns to work Wednesday.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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