Episode 280 - Carrot Top

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Arts, Food

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Today Carrot Top joins us at the table! We have a comedy legend among us - Carrot Top shares stories of running into the most famous and beloved comedians of all time - Buddy Hackett, Phyllis Diller, Geroge Carlin, and more! He also shares about living and performing in Vegas for nearly 30 years! Enjoy! Wildgrain is offering our listeners $30 off the first box - PLUS free Croissants in every box - when you go to Wildgrain.com/PAPA to start your subscription. Get 50% off 1 month of Trade at drinktrade.com/papa. -------------------- 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:46 TomPapa.com Shoutout 0:01:40 Patreon Shoutout 0:02:12 Wildgrain Ad 0:02:57 Hecklers 0:04:05 Meeting Phyllis Diller and Elton John 0:08:55 Running 0:11:12 Becoming an institution in Vegas, being in Hacks 0:17:20 Touring and finding audience in Vegas 0:20:58 George Carlin's advice 0:24:30 Bread 0:26:40 WildGrain Ad 0:28:59 Trade Coffee Ad 0:31:01 Shows evolvement 0:41:30 NASA dad and going to college 0:47:07 Seeing Gallagher for the first time 0:50:15 Meeting Buddy Hackett and getting his advice 0:52:45 Seeing George Carlin backstage 0:57:45 Bill Hicks story 1:03:39 Terror of everyone laughing at you 1:07:32 Uncomfortable moment 1:10:11 Meeting Milton Burrow in LA 1:12:11 Queen, Sting coming to shows 1:17:00 Being a diva, rider 1:21:10 Longevity of career -------------------- Tom Papa is a celebrated stand-up comedian with over 20 years in the industry. Watch Tom's new special "Home Free" out NOW on Netflix! Patreon - Patreon.com/BreakingBreadwithTomPapa Radio, Podcasts and more: https://linktr.ee/tompapa/ Website - http://tompapa.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tompapa Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tompapa Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/comediantompapa Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/tompapa #tompapa #breakingbread #comedy #standup #standupcomedy #bread #carrottop #hacks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, George Carlin, God bless him.
0:01.8	I'd said to him one time after a show, he was at the MGM where I was coming in a week
0:07.2	prior after him.
0:09.6	And I said to him, what's it like to be like where you got it?
0:15.1	Like, and he looked right at me and says, what do you mean God?
0:18.8	I said, I mean, you're George Carlin, you got it down.
0:22.2	You got it.
0:22.8	You just go up now and you just do it.
0:24.7	He goes, I never got it.
0:26.2	And he was serious.
0:27.2	He said, well, the day you think you got it, you ain't got it.
0:30.3	And I was like, that's interesting.
0:32.4	Amazing.
0:33.4	It's true.
0:34.0	I'm never happy with everything at a certain show.
0:38.1	No, completely.
0:39.1	So you have to get to a point where you kind of go up now and have fun and enjoy every moment.
0:45.6	It's breaking bread.
0:47.2	Hey kids, I'm out on tour and going pretty heavy this fall, winter, up pretty much straight through until next June. We just announced a whole bunch of new
0:56.8	dates. We're going to San Francisco, NJ. Pack, Philadelphia. We're going to just a whole bunch of
1:04.2	places. We're going to Austin, Texas is on. We're going to a whole run in Florida. We've got some
1:09.2	Canadian dates.
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