Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?
Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.
Almost every day, someone asks if I ever flat iron my hair. I say, 'No, because I'm afraid it wouldn't look good and wouldn't come back curly.'
I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.
I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.
On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.
I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.
I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.
Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.
I don't want to be known just as 'Carrot Top.' I don't always want to be this crazy, goofy guy.
I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.
The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.
I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.
It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.
I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default 'getaway' city.
I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'
My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.
Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.
I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good.' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not.'
When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.
