Johnny Carson was about 55 years old at the time of this clip. At this point, Carson was already an institution and revered throughout the country and world. He had a gravitas that 55-year-old celebrities rarely do now. He seemed like an authority, someone to be trusted, a comforting presence. Other talk show hosts have become famous, rich and have their own fanbases and legacies, but no one touches Carson. Not only was he the template for all the rest, but he also effortlessly showed how to combine class, grace, humor and humility with peerless timing and touch.

@CarlosBronson

Жыл бұрын

I cannot imagine any talk show host being an authority that can be trustworthy and comforting. Sad how times have changed the way they have.

@rick3301958

Жыл бұрын

Best description I ever heard of the late night masters!

@victoriaquail9396

8 күн бұрын

I've read many comments on Johnny Carson and yours is the best commentary out of all of them. I was deeply touched when you mentioned that he was a comforting presence. He helped me get through a bad time in my life. So now, when I watch these clips, I laugh cause they're timelessly funny, but I also cry cause I miss him so much. He was a class act. Puts Fallon to shame in so many ways.

No one will ever replace Carson or the two of them together. Great team. Greatness.

None better than these two!

Gosh I miss this show. Shame they don’t run reruns at 11:30 pm I would start watching the late night again if they did.

@laurajardine3866

2 жыл бұрын

Miss Johnny n Ed n the band.

@madbrowniac7871

Жыл бұрын

10:00 Eastern, 9:00 Central. Antenna TV. Immense fun watching Johnny's Monologue and guessing what Topics were hot in The News at the time.🤔😂📺B.W.

@jennifersman7990

10 ай бұрын

If you have Antenna TV in your area they show reruns of his show at 10pm EST every night

Johnny had a great voice and sang very well. There's one of him singing with Dolly Parton and it is impressive indeed. Johnny always puts a smile on my face. A timeless legend.

I miss the real tonight show

@pgroove163

2 жыл бұрын

No longer exists

@laurajardine3866

2 жыл бұрын

But if the people that put on TV shows. Wanted Johnny. It would be freaking on.

@mH8675309

2 жыл бұрын

@@laurajardine3866 the people that put the shows on are not the people that watch them Big difference

@russboden5792

11 ай бұрын

No kidding

Great stuff

Much better picture (reception) than the other YT channel showing Carson.

@johnking5174

Жыл бұрын

It depended on where the person who recorded these editions lived. Also some had outdoor antennas on their roof which brought in a stable signal, and others had an indoor portable antenna which was much weaker.

Billy Martin's last words,,,,"there's my house"

Both are hammered 😢

4:00 where the real entertainment begins

I cannot help wonder what Johnny's last words were; knowing him, they had to be funny!

"The King of Comedy" was a bomb. It was filmed in 1981 but not released until 1983 .

@jennifersman7990

2 ай бұрын

Box office bomb, yes. But critically a hit and now regarded as one Scorsese’s best

Ed stepped on Johnny's W.C. Fields impression. There are many stories of Johnny laughing live, but backstage telling Ed, "You're the set-up. The punch lines are mine." I wonder if this was one of those moments when Johnny filed it away for after the show.

@johnking5174

Жыл бұрын

No, not by 1981. The first decade or so yes, but by 1981 Johnny knew how much he needed Ed, he didn't care if Ed got a big laugh now and then.

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She said that after she stepped on the executioners foot climbing the stairs to the gallows. 6:06.

Johnny n ex n doc n the band. Really comedy

Sadly, Johnny's real last words were not funny. According to his younger brother Dick Carson, as Johnny was dying from emphysema he kept repeating "those damned cigarettes" over and over.

@jennifersman7990

2 жыл бұрын

Not surprising, he knew he should’ve quit years ago and he regretted it

@nancyhowell4505

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully those last words may have influenced some smokers to quit. 🚭

This was five days after MTV debuted.

5:39 rehearsed or not only Ed could get away with stepping on that punchline

Funny that Erma Bombeck got top billing over John Travolta.

Why did the camera zoom into Johnny at 7:24

@johnedwards7400

2 жыл бұрын

It's a post-production digital zoom. Most likely a product of Zany doing something.

WHAT IS THY ETERNAL SOUL WORTH? OUR FATHER JESUS SAID!!!! BELIEVE YE NOT THAT I AM GOD & YE SHALL DIE IN YOUR SINS! BY FATHER JESUS CHRIST STRIPES WE ARE HEALED! REPENT & BE BAPTIZED EVERYONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST! ACTS 2 38 REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED ALL SOULS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS & YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST! ACTS 2 38! FOR BY HOLY JESUS BLOOD SHED ONLY IS REMITTED SIN ZEALED!! ONLY BY OUR FATHER JESUS BLOODSHED! DO NOT COMPROMISE HOLY JESUS FINISHED WORKS!:))

@ArmyJames

Жыл бұрын

How is that related to this video?

@user-wm3bf7pi3u

Ай бұрын

@@ArmyJames It's got a nice beat, you can dance to it.

At 7:32 no truer words were ever spoken. There won't be any republicans or trump supporters in Heaven. Tip O'Neil was right.

@gefloigle

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad you won’t be there either to find out.

@GermanShepherd1983

2 жыл бұрын

@@gefloigle As a good God Fearing Baptist I most certainly will be in Heaven. And trust me, there won't be any trump worshiping supporters there. They have their god and I have mine.

@debramaddox9898

2 жыл бұрын

@@GermanShepherd1983 Not so sure you'll be in Heaven either. Not with that overbearing judgmental attitude of yours. God is not a real fan of someone taking over His job of judging.

@paradiddlemcflam7167

2 жыл бұрын

Most likely there won't be any self-righteous religious assholes who think they know anything concerning who is or is not going to heaven as if they can read the will of God.

@vincenzo082

Жыл бұрын

@@GermanShepherd1983 read up on Matthew 21:31and rethink your hubris.