Why this page is shorter

Honesty first: comedy is the hardest Las Vegas genre to film. Clubs ban recording, so beloved rooms — Brad Garrett's Comedy Club at MGM Grand and the Comedy Cellar at the Rio, both running on current schedules — have essentially no long-form coverage to show you. What exists, and what this page carries, is the residency end of comedy plus the big-room stand-up nights. Six videos, every one a real verdict.

Watch THIS Before Seeing CARROT TOP at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas!

MikeTheVegasGuy

MikeTheVegasGuy's 'Watch THIS Before Seeing CARROT TOP' (May 2025): prices, seating and the full verdict on the Luxor residency — the prop trunk, the machine-gun one-liners, and why this show, of all the Strip's comedy rooms, has run for two decades in the same theater. Filmed months before the health break that paused the show later that year.

Key takeaways
  • Prices + seating + verdict, May 2025
  • The prop-comedy machine explained
  • 20 years in the same Luxor theater

Is he worth it? An Honest Review of Tape Face at MGM Grand in Las Vegas 5/23/26

Joe In Vegas Reviews

Joe In Vegas Reviews' honest review of Tape Face at MGM Grand (May 2026) — a pan delivered with respect: Joe admires the performer's creativity since his TV talent-show run, but found the silent, vaudeville-style act played more like kids' entertainment than an adult night out, and steers viewers toward Mat Franco or a Cirque show at the same money. The show plays The Underground at MGM Grand, the room Brad Garrett's Comedy Club used to occupy downstairs.

Key takeaways
  • An honest pan: creative performer, show judged kids' fare
  • Silent physical comedy at The Underground, MGM Grand
  • Reviewer would spend the same money on Mat Franco or Cirque

I Was There! Carrot Top Returns To The Stage in Vegas!

MikeTheVegasGuy

MikeTheVegasGuy was there for Carrot Top's official reopening night at Luxor (October 2026) after the month-long health break: 'Carrot Top has officially reopened his show… and I was there. I'm going to tell you everything there is to report that happened that night.' The return-night report — the crowd, the emotion, and whether the show came back at full strength. (English track recovered; the first pull served an Arabic auto-translation.)

Key takeaways
  • Return-night report, Oct 2026
  • The reopening after a month's recovery
  • Crowd and atmosphere on night one

The residency end

Carrot Top anchors the page twice: the May 2025 buyer's guide (prices, seating, the prop trunk, 20 years in the same Luxor theater) and the return-night report from October 2026, when he reopened after a health break to a full, emotional room. Piff the Magic Dragon — filed here as much as under magic — gets his honest review (the dragon suit, the deadpan, the chihuahua) and a full Vegas PBS interview marking ten years at the Flamingo, Fringe-to-Flamingo origin story included. Tape Face at The Underground at MGM Grand (the room Brad Garrett's club used to occupy downstairs) gets the page's honest pan (May 2026): a respected reviewer admires the silent performer's creativity and still judges the act kids' fare at adult prices, steering the same money toward Mat Franco or Cirque. It's kept because a guide that only raves is an ad.

The big-room nights

The podcast era turned club comics into arena draws, and casinos book them alongside the residencies: the Resorts World night (September 2024) — Bert Kreischer headlining, Bobby Lee opening — earns a rave ('as good as it gets' for stand-up) with one caveat, that Lee deserved more stage time. Between the residencies' verdicts, the return story, the pan and the rave, this page is the honest state of filmed Vegas comedy: thin supply, real signal.

Sources: the six videos on this page — a buyer's guide and a return-night report (Carrot Top), an honest pan (Tape Face), a tour-stop rave (Kreischer/Lee), an honest review and a PBS interview (Piff) — summarized from their entries in our catalog.

Watch: Las Vegas Comedy Shows Guide, guided

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

An HONEST Review of Bert Kreischer + Bobby Lee Stand Up Comedy Live Las Vegas Resorts World 9/27/24

Joe In Vegas Reviews

Joe In Vegas Reviews catches a one-night stand-up stop at Resorts World (September 2024): Bert Kreischer headlining with Bobby Lee opening, both riding the podcast-era boom that turned club comics into arena draws. Joe's verdict is a rave — 'as good as it gets' for a stand-up show — with the single caveat that Bobby Lee deserved more stage time. A document of the big-room stand-up nights Las Vegas casinos book alongside their standing residencies.

Key takeaways
  • Tour-stop stand-up at Resorts World, reviewed Sep 2024
  • Kreischer headlines, Bobby Lee opens
  • Verdict: 'as good as it gets' for stand-up

Is PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON Worth the Money? THIS Vegas Show Expert gives an HONEST Review!!

MikeTheVegasGuy

MikeTheVegasGuy's honest Piff review (June 2024): the self-proclaimed loser of America's Got Talent, in a dragon suit, in the big room at the Flamingo — Mike explains the act (deadpan British comedy, real sleight of hand, a chihuahua in a dragon costume) and judges whether the joke sustains a full Vegas show. It is the page's anchor verdict.

Key takeaways
  • Full honest verdict, Jun 2024
  • The act explained: comedy + real magic + Mr Piffles
  • Flamingo's big showroom

Nevada Week In Person | Piff the Magic Dragon

Vegas PBS

Vegas PBS' Nevada Week In Person interviews Piff the Magic Dragon (October 2025) — 'the chief wizard of lizards,' celebrating ten years on the Las Vegas Strip. A full-length conversation on the act's unlikely arc from Edinburgh Fringe and AGT rejection to a Flamingo residency, in character and out of it.

Key takeaways
  • Ten years on the Strip, interviewed
  • Fringe-to-Flamingo origin story
  • In character and out

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