Carrot Top is a classic clown

The Las Vegas Sun website is carrying a long, serious profile of Carrot Top, whom writer John Katsilometes takes pains to refer to by his given name, Scott Thompson, a member of the Las Vegas Strip Laugh Pack. The article is an appreciation and a keeper for all comedy fans, and the accompanying photo places Carrot Top squarely in the tradition of underappreciated comic talents, in the manner of the Clash using London Calling to stake its lineage to Elvis.

Leach says Caliendo is the new Danny Gans

"There was little doubt
that the man of many voices
also had inherited the mantle
of the late Danny Gans
as the newest
comedy impressionist
in the entertainment capital
of the world."

That's tabloid journo Robin Leach's verdict after TV impressionist Frank Caliendo opened his longterm engagement at the Monte Carlo Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip officially on Friday night. Caliendo's big show is al;so being hailed as a Vegas milestone because it featured cameo appearances from fellow Strip headliners and competitors Carrot Top, Terry Fator and Louis Anderson.

ALSO: It took more than a month, but our copy of the Danny Gans autobiography, The Voices In My Head, finally arrived from Amazon.com. We've finished reading it and the book's first review is on the way.

Who will be the new Danny Gans?

The Las Vegas Review-Journal posts a blurry photo of two contenders for Danny Gans' "Mr. Vegas" title (and pretenders to Danny Gans' throne?), Carrot Top and Criss Angel, at Danny Gans' memorial in what was his showroom.