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| re: 'Johnny Carson: King of Late Night' takes an in-depth look: 5/14 Forgot it started at 8, not 9. How was the first 30 min? Reply • Back to Top |
| Drew Carey was balling trying to recall his time on the show. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Carson's rating were slipping. But this Leno mystique is bull shite. Had he wanted to, Carson could have stayed until he died on the set. NBC would never have the balls to axe him. Reply • Back to Top |
Show kicks arse  Unfortunately I missed out on Carson but this doc is helping me understand the man the legend. Reply • Back to Top |
Like a Boss.  Reply • Back to Top |
| What a great show. For those of you who didn't grow up with watching Johnny Carson, you really missed something special. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: This. I remember begging to stay up to watch. There'll never be another as good. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Leno (or his manager) leaked to the press that NBC wanted to move Johnny out and replace him with Leno. That kind of shite probably had something to do with Johnny getting tired of the show. Any way you look at it, Leno is an ass. Thanks to the OP for this thread reminder. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Yes they did. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: I was the same way. Everyone else are just imitators. Reply • Back to Top |
| I grew up in a pretty rural area as a kid. When I was in college back in the seventies I worked for an 81 year old Jewish man from New York. We talked nearly every day about who was on with Carson and what was said the night before. I learned a great deal about being a good salesman from him and really loved him for how he enjoyed mentoring. I always thought him staying up watching Caron was such a cool thing for an old guy to do. Reply • Back to Top |
| If anyone missed this, it replays in 30 min...its fantastic. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Amen Reply • Back to Top |
| I got to watch the firs thour, I DVRd the second hour to watch later. Forgot how much I had grown up with him. Some of the funniest things I remember on TV as a kid was on Carson. Reply • Back to Top |
| I'm watching this now on the PBS site and it's bringing back such great memories. I just now had to pause to laugh, though--just as funny as it ever was! "You were dangling a participle..." Without missing a beat, "I'll wear a long coat and no one will notice!"   ETA: had to pause it again for the hatchet thrower. Johnny's expressions were priceless, then, "I didn't even know you were Jewish!" This post was edited on 5/15 at 10:00 am Reply • Back to Top |
| I stayed up until two watching the replay. I had the DVR recording but didn't want to stop watching it. The way he got pissed and just quit on them made me mad. Not at him but at his bosses. TV executives must be very much like the way movies portray them (as A-holes). I guess most new "suits" in any job situation are wanting to make changes or stir things up just to give the appearance of working. I would have loved a few more years of him. His divorce was so freaking public. The coverage of that was like O.J. and Michael Jackson sans the people standing in the streets. Now anyone in the public eye gets that treatment but it was pretty outrageous for back then. Him making jokes about endeared him to many. He really did make so many of today's comedy stars. They know it and readily acknowledged it. I remembered that night that Drew Carey was on there. I was laughing my arse off just like Johnny. I wanted Letterman to replace him. I related to his silliness and spontaneity more than Leno's joke telling. I really never gave Leno a chance. Never watched his show at all. Haven't watched any of those shows in the probably the last 15 years. Too many other things to watch with cable in every room. Reply • Back to Top |
| Johnny Carson Confronts Don Rickles LINK Mr. Warmth and the Chairman LINK Reply • Back to Top |
| The great thing about the Tonight Show back then was that Carson was a bigger celeb than his guests so he could get away with so much more. Johnny was the only game in town. Today, late night hosts are a dime a dozen so it's hard to really grasp how big of a staple Johnny was. He really was a national father figure and that is what made his retirement so sad. It was bigger than Bob Barker, Regis, Larry King, Brokaw, etc. Its really hard to explain how big of a deal his retirement was. The guy was in your home every night and was arguably the biggest comedian in the country....then he just disappeared. Letterman described it best by saying that it was like watching a family member die when Johnny retired. It's shocking (and sad) to think that he was around for over a decade before he passed away and didn't conduct a single interview. His last appearance was in 1994. It was very odd watching the first Tonight Show with Leno. The producers and Leno made a decision to barely acknowledge Carson. It was like Johnny never existed. This post was edited on 5/15 at 5:31 pm Reply • Back to Top |
| I got to watching Tonight show clips last night and that led to watching the Dean Martin Roast's. All those memories came flooding back. My 30th HS reunion is this year and I been reminiscing with old friends and we came to the conclusion that growing up in that era was fricking awsome and wouldn't trade it for the world. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: I remember seeing Eddie Murphy, Roseanne Barr(Arnold), Ellen Degeneress, Drew Carey, Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Wright, Louie Anderson, Sam Kinison, and George Wallace all make their comedy debuts on the Tonight Show. I'm pretty sure that Johnny called most if not all of them over to sit on the couch after the performance. If Johnny called you over to sit on the couch, you got THE seal of approval, and you were on your way. I think the funniest debut I remember was Roseanne. She fricking killed. Reply • Back to Top • Refresh |
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