Carrot-topped comedian Carrot Top apologized publicly for a misguided attempt at humor at the recent American Music Awards. After late songstress Aaliyah was named winner of the Best R&B/Soul Female Artist award, Carrot Top bounded to the stage out of nowhere and accepted the award "for" her.

"I got tired of seeing nobody here accept their awards," Top said during the show, "so I figured I'd take one of these for myself." He looked to the audience with a big grin and held the trophy over his head, saying, "Hey, at least I can appreciate this thing!" The joke was apparently a misguided attempt to emulate Steve martin's similar bit at the Emmys. The key difference was that Martin accepted an award for a living person who nobody cared about, and was funny about it.

As the stunned crowd booed, Top tried to turn things around with some of his patented prop humor. However, this, too, backfired, as the crowd was unamused when the comedian pulled a mangled toy airplane out of a bag and said it was "Air Aaliyah." The stunned silence quickly turned to heated booing and jeering.

Top issued his public apology at a press conference in Madison, Wisconsin, where he was preparing to do a show. After insisting that kids on college campuses love him, he said, "I apologize if my attempts to inject humor into the ceremony offended anyone." He also apologized to Ja Rule, who reportedly gave him the black eye he now sports during the melee that resulted in Carrot Top fleeing the stage.

Although his words seemed sincere to most onlookers, Carrot Top still seemed frustrated. "Everyone thinks it's great when Steve Martin does stuff like that," he said. "Well, let me tell you, Mr. Witty started out with props. That's right, props!" He shed further doubt on his intentions when he pulled a tombstone out that was made up to look like a movie marquee and mumbled a joke about Aaliyah's upcoming microphone before his microphone seemed to go dead.

Why Carrot Top was at the American Music Awards in the first place remains a mystery. Nobody associated with the event would admit to having invited him. Executive Producer Dick Clark declined comment, as did Steve Martin, who referred instead to his upcoming "short humor piece" about the incident in an issue of The New Yorker.

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