Johnny Carson would have turned 100 today (10/23)

This is mildly interesting.

“The GOAT”

Very true,I used to watch him every night”.

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Very true,I used to watch him every night”.

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I still do .

Im in my 40s, but im an old soul, im like an 85 year old guy mentally- and i remember the tail end of Johnny’s run.. so most nights as im getting ready to sleep i put on one of those retro tv channels, or one of the streaming sites like Tubi or Pluto where they play Johnny on a constant loop.. it’s a trip to see interviews from 40 and 50 years back.. also sobering to occasionally remind urself that when Johnny’s interviewing people like Dom Deluise and Burt Reynolds , and Ed’s sitting there on the couch- or even more ‘recent’ interviews from the early 90s like Garry Shandling or Bob Saget- and realizing that every last one of them is now dead.. i believe Doc Severinson is the last remaining regular from that show .

My grandpa always told me that Johnny Carson purchased land new at the I-10/12/59 split in Louisiana because it was the only place in the country where three interstates intersected like they do right there.

Johnny had such a quick wit. The only other talk show host who comes close in Conan.

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Carson had a massive ego and could be a real jerk but he was great TV

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You should watch videos of what Carson or Carson’s people did to Joan Rivers. As she started to outshine Carson, he slowly shrunk her appearances and at the end waited too long on a contract renewal in which she left for the upstart Fox network because they were willing to pay her. She never was able to talk with Carson directly or his people again once she left. Was it business or was it his ego that was bruised in that conundrum.

Even if he lived to be100, he would still be more talented than these new guys.
I still watch reels about him. I love when animals were brought to the show

I honestly thought he was older.

Happy birthday to tGOAT