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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 02:56 PM
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What's wrong with Carrot Top?
Someone polled him as to be the Anti-Christ.

Granted, I haven't seen him on TV for a couple of years, but I saw him on Leno years ago and thought he was pretty funny.

Hawkeye-X
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:03 PM
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1. I think he's just obnoxious enough to get under a lot of people's skin.
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Superfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:04 PM
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2. Sorry, that was me...
He just really creeps me out.

Can't sleep, Carrot Top will eat me...
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_NorCal_D_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 06:56 PM
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20. LOL.
I was just joking around when I voted.
:)
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:05 PM
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3. He just looks odd
I get the same vibes from Conan O'Brien..

Maybe it's the tall, pasty whiteness, and all that garishly red hair..:shrug:

But then I don't care much for Gallagher either.. :shrug:
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-03 09:38 AM
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33. Thank you for adding to my son`s anxiety
My oldest son has orange-red hair, Only a few light freckles though.

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Japhy_Ryder Donating Member (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:06 PM
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4. I know a woman who dated Carrot Top
She described the date as "weird" and that the stand up persona is more like a personality rather than a persona.
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zekeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:09 PM
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5. I think maybe that is it
He was funny. Once. After that the schtick gets old, then jsut kinda creepy dumb. My take.

:shrug:
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 08:58 PM
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32. Maybe he can redefine his act and come back as Kumquat.
Kumquats are funnier than tomatos which are funnier than carrots.
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:10 PM
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6. All prop comics are anti-christs
Just look at Gallagher.
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Supply Side Jesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:34 PM
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11. AMEN
Prop comedians are the worst! Nothing sadder and yet disgustingly magnetic than watching a prop comedian bomb, which is all the time.
Oh, notice how is biceps got larger when he started pushing for AT&T? :puke:
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skip fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 05:23 PM
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17. Welcome to DU Supply Side Jesus!
:toast:
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 07:05 PM
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23. Hey, don't be dissing Gallagher!!!
He wasn't JUST a prop comic. He made realistic social commentary on American life. And I thought he was really funny, too. You have to watch a lot of his old shows to truely appreciate his work.

And to those who thought he was a Repuke: He hated Reagan with a passion, and he dissed EVERY president since the 60's. From Kennedy on up. He really hated Nixon, and he thought that the Clinton BJ fiasco was a waste of time.
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Paragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:12 PM
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7. He won the Best New Comic award the year Bill Hicks died.
That's what's wrong.
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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:34 PM
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10. Damn right
Prop comedy is the second lowest form of comedy known to man, second only to bloopers/practical joke shows.

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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:13 PM
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8. Ick.
Perhaps because he...
- is a talentless hack?
- stole the ACA award from Bill Hicks in 1993?
- has repackaged Gallagher's act for the even more witless?
- almost makes Jay Leno seem amusing?
- can only find an audience in US television?
- puts the memory of Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor to shame?
- is a corporate whore and phone company shill?

Or were you looking for unbiased answers? ;) Sorry, I can't stand the little tosser.
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skip fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 05:24 PM
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18. Wow, Ignus, great (biting) post! And . . .
welcome to DU!

:toast:
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 07:47 PM
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30. Cheers, Skip.
But that was pretty defanged, I'd say. I'm trying to be civilised.
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Qutzupalotl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:31 PM
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9. He's a concept comic.
The concept is, he's a comedian who's not funny.
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mojowork_n Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:38 PM
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13. Everything
He's so phony, it's immediately painful, in an agonizingly stressful sort of way.
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:42 PM
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14. Truly.
And thank you for pointing out one way in which he's amazingly successful.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 03:37 PM
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12. I.....................................ER..................................
I'M F***ING SPEECHLESS.
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paradisiac Donating Member (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 04:02 PM
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15. I like Carrot Top
Edited on Wed Sep-24-03 04:05 PM by paradisiac
He's insane. He's absurd. I like him even when he's on those 1-800-collect (or whatever they are) commercials.
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skip fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 05:21 PM
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16. Not a THING wrong with him if
this is 1982 and you just had a lobotomy. Otherwise . . .
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ploppy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 05:49 PM
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19. It's the eyebrows.
He needs a new eyebrow designer. They make him look really weird.
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 06:59 PM
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21. it's all the makeup
:shrug: what's up with THAT?
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 07:01 PM
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22. He's just an unfunny attention boy.
That's all. I don't think he's evil, just not funny.
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WWW Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 07:13 PM
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24. me too n/t
Sorry, I am trying to boost my post numbers,...I can't seem to get beyond double digits.
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Mass_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 07:16 PM
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25. for one
he's like nails on a chalk board. I for one would like every candidate to have an opinion on carrot top on his issues page.
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 07:29 PM
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26. He is a nice guy
I`ve been wakeboarding on his lake and he was in my boat riding and hanging with pros and scrubs alike.

He is allot of fun to be around, I thought. :shrug:
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 07:33 PM
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27. The dude works out in the same YMCA as I do...
in Winter Park, FL... I've gotta say he's the weirdest looking human being I've ever seen.... It's almost as if he had cosmetic surgery....
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 07:42 PM
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28. he does seem strangely
michealjacksonesque to me :shrug:
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 07:47 PM
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29. Wakeboarding, yes.
Perhaps you can suggest that he turn wakeboarding into a full-time hobby? As in, the sort of all-consuming passion that prevents him from ever, ever, ever, ever trying to be funny in public again.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-03 08:44 PM
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31. I think he needs to paint some eyebrows on.
It bothers me.
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