Carrot Top Leaves the Hospital With Oct. 19 Already Booked

Scott Thompson left a Las Vegas hospital on Sept. 26, eight days after a suicide attempt, with his next Luxor show already dated Oct. 19. The comic who performs as Carrot Top is 61. His publicist, Jami Schlicher, said he was home with family, doing well, and focused on getting back to work.

The date went up on Sept. 24, while he was still a patient. That is the Strip habit in one line: keep the 8 p.m. slot warm, then ask for privacy.

The Luxor Already Has Oct. 19 on Sale

MGM Resorts International pulled his Friday and Saturday shows on Sept. 18, then cut more dates as the hospital stay stretched. On Sept. 24 the hotel and Ticketmaster put a new first night on sale, a Monday at 8 p.m. in the Atrium Showroom. Should that night hold, it lands 31 days after the attempt.

Schlicher’s Sept. 26 update was short. She did not describe his injuries, his treatment, or whether he had signed off on the calendar. She asked again that his family be left alone. MGM had already spoken in the first hours, calling him “a beloved member of the Luxor and MGM Resorts family” and saying the company was relieved he was recovering.

He has not been quoted announcing the comeback himself. The listing did the talking. Anyone who wants a seat can see October dates already in the ticket queue for the same room he has used since 2005.

THE NUMBERS ON THE MARQUEE

• His age: 61, born Feb. 25, 1965, in Rockledge, Florida.
• Hospital span: admitted the afternoon of Sept. 18, released Sept. 26, eight days later.
• First listed show: Oct. 19, 2026, at 8 p.m. in Luxor’s Atrium Showroom.
• Walk-up price: $49.00 plus an $8.72 service fee, $57.72 before taxes.

The return date is not a medical clearance. It is a box-office date. Those are different things, and only one of them is public.

What the Florida Court File Contains

The Florida file is a civil fight between Thompson’s lawyers and Brian Evans, a singer who once opened for him. Thompson’s side calls the emails extortion. Evans calls them a settlement offer. No court has found that Evans caused the Sept. 18 attempt.

Evans sued in Broward County Circuit Court on Aug. 6, 2026, case CACE26012570, trying to unwind a 2024 settlement. He has said psychiatric injuries after the 2023 Maui wildfires left him unable to consent to that deal, and he has alleged Thompson once sent him explicit footage. Thompson’s lawyers, led by Ronnie Bitman, put a different story on the docket: years of payment demands tied to a claimed sexually explicit recording, with the press used as leverage.

THE BROWARD COUNTY PAPER TRAIL

The Sept. 14 declaration is an allegation, not a verdict. Evans has cited it as a pattern. Thompson’s lawyers have called the surrounding claims false and the explicit material a weapon. Evans, representing himself in the Broward case, has also sued Bitman and another lawyer, Alice Ferot, over how the $500,000 offer was described. A Broward judge, Shari Africk Olefson, has already scolded him for marking ordinary papers as emergencies.

This is now an emergency in the most human sense. A public filing can become national news almost immediately.

Ronnie Bitman, attorney for Scott Thompson, Sept. 20 emergency motion

Two days before that motion, Thompson was in a hospital bed. The docket did not wait for him to come home.

Eight Days Between the Pool and Home

Police and court records described in later accounts place the attempt at his Las Vegas house on Friday afternoon, Sept. 18. He was found near the pool in the backyard after a distressed call to someone on his team. A welfare check followed. He reached the hospital in critical condition. Schlicher’s first statement that day said he was receiving care and that the family wanted privacy.

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THE WEEK AFTER SEPT. 18

1. Sept. 18, 2026: Is found near the pool at his Las Vegas home and hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Friday and Saturday Luxor shows come off the board.
2. Sept. 20, 2026: Schlicher says he is awake, breathing on his own, joking with medical staff, and reading fan notes, including stories from people who say his act got them through hard stretches.
3. Sept. 21, 2026: MGM cuts more dates through the weekend. At that point the earliest show still listed is Sept. 28.
4. Sept. 24, 2026: Luxor and Ticketmaster post Oct. 19 as the new first night, six days after the attempt, while he is still hospitalized.
5. Sept. 26, 2026: Schlicher confirms he is out, home with family, recovering well, and focused on a return to comedy. The family again asks for privacy.

The cheerful-comic mask is the oldest line in the trade, and it fit him too well. People who had actually been around him described a decent man who still had to walk onstage six nights a week as a walking punchline. That reading had a short life once the Broward PDFs moved.

Luxor Has Booked Him Through 2030

The Atrium Showroom job started in November 2005 as a three-year deal after shorter runs at Bally’s and MGM Grand. He has said he turned the residency down at first because he was a road comic, then gave it a year, hated it, and still signed again once the groove showed up. MGM later called the show the longest-running comedy production in company history when executives walked onstage in 2019 to extend him through 2025. A later deal runs through 2030. The 21st anniversary of that first Luxor night is due in November.

He told one interviewer the first year felt like a trap, and that if he could talk to himself on night one he would say to run away. He stayed. The room is on Luxor’s second floor. The show runs about 75 minutes. Guests must be 16, and anyone 18 or younger needs an adult.

THE LUXOR CONTRACT IN PLAIN TERMS

• The cadence: Six nights a week, 8 p.m., Mondays through Saturdays, with Sundays usually dark.
• The kit: A dozen trunks and about 200 props, plus a video wall, fog, and streamer cannons.
• The claim he made: Looking toward his 19th year in 2024, he put his own count at more than 10,000 shows in that room.
• The current ask: $49.00 plus $8.72 in fees, $57.72 before taxes, with a separate meet-and-greet sold on its own.

A nightly residency is a factory with a famous name on the door. There is no understudy for Carrot Top. When he is dark, the marquee still says Carrot Top. That is the bargain he described for years as the only job he had.

He Joked That He Dreaded the Job

He has never been shy about the cost of the wig, except it is not a wig. On Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast he said the hair was all his, and that it had gone to dreads for a reason he turned into a gag.

It’s dreaded because I dread every day of my life being Carrot Top. So, I dread it. That’s actually funny.

Scott Thompson, comedian, on Club Random with Bill Maher

In 2015 he gave the same idea without the hair joke. “If you read what people say about you, it will kill you,” he said. “I’ve always been love or hate. That’s fine. Thank God I’ve had more love than hate.” He told another host that fame was silly, and that he was not famous so much as “recognizable in a lineup.”

On NPR in 2022 he was asked what came next and said, “Probably a nap.” Then he described the job as the whole of him: “This is all I know. I don’t have anything else. I’m just this. When this is it, I’ll just go sit somewhere and ponder how much fun I had.” He also told that interviewer he liked being Carrot Top and did not want the hair stuffed under a hat. The two statements sat next to each other for years without anyone having to choose.

He is a loner offstage, by his own account, a man who goes home, writes, and does the same night again. That loop is what a 21-year residency is. It is also a lot of hours to be the joke.

The Court File Stays Open Anyway

Luxor’s own entertainment page now lists dark dates through Oct. 18, then the regular Monday-through-Saturday 8 p.m. clock, plus an extra Sunday on Nov. 15. Oct. 19 is the first night after that dark block. The hotel did not name a replacement act. It named him.

Bitman’s emergency motion is still the live legal fact. He wants the court to stop Evans from dropping explicit exhibits into a public file that national desks already watch. Evans wants money, a reversed settlement, and a chance to put his evidence in front of a judge. None of that paused when Thompson went home. A privacy request from a publicist is not a sealing order.

The family can ask to be left alone. The Atrium can still sell the seat. Those two facts are both true on the same calendar. The next listed show is Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. The Broward file is still live.

Disclaimer: This article is news reporting on a public figure’s hospital stay, a scheduled comedy residency, and civil court filings. It is informational only and is not medical, mental-health, or legal advice, and it is not a finding that any allegation in the Florida cases is true or false. Readers who are in crisis should contact a qualified mental-health professional or use 988; anyone with a legal question about the filings should consult a licensed attorney. Names, dates, ticket prices, and case status reflect the statements, listings, and papers described here and can change.