Carnac should’ve been an astronaut. His presence is outer space material. A legend.

🌹💙 Ed’s laughter cracks me up as much as the jokes! 😆 Miss both of these legends! 🙂

All-knowing, all-seeing...yet never could tell where that first step onto the stage was. Rest in peace, Mr. Carson.

@marshamariner7897

2 жыл бұрын

After all the yrs he was there ud think he'd know the step??!!!🤣😂😅🇺🇲💖🌹

@lukethedrifter3149

2 жыл бұрын

At least one time they replaced the desk with a fake one that collapsed when he fell into it.

@robertgordon5232

Жыл бұрын

Remember the time the desk fell apart??

I love Johnny Carson he's the best

The crack about "Saturday Night Live" being dead was a reference to the short-lived "Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell," a prime-time show on ABC. It premiered in September of 1975 and was cancelled in January of 1976 after only 18 episodes. The NBC late night show also premiered in September of '75 but was known originally as "NBC's Saturday Night" in order to avoid confusion with the ABC show, which owned the rights to the "Saturday Night Live" name. In 1977, with the ABC show long gone, NBC acquired the "Saturday Night Live" name for it's show, which still runs to this day and is now in it's 46th season.

@garyc39

3 жыл бұрын

I never knew that,thanks.I was wondering why they always say, Live from New York its Saturday night.

@mikestevenson576

2 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate this, Larry. My first reaction was it was the first shot fired in his insult war with SNL, which got pretty intense.

@user-wm3bf7pi3u

Ай бұрын

I almost thought there was a "NBC's Saturday Night" variety show that was also short-lived and retooled into SNL.

From an era when late night talk show hosts did not feel like their personal politics were any of our business, and did not wear their politics on their sleeves. My favorite Carnac was the one in which the crew swapped in a desk made of balsa wood, so that when Carson came out and did his usual trip on the step up and went to "steady" himself on the desk, he went right through it, and the desk disintegrated in a couple hundred pieces.

@berwick777

9 ай бұрын

I’ve been waiting for years for that one to be on KZread.

Those were happy days for me. I used to sneak out of my bedroom to watch THE JOHNNY CARSON show! 📺 "May a bull elephant mate with your pet Yorkie" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Liked how he always tripped over the stairs on his way to do the routine

@bsmith9506

11 ай бұрын

A testament to his acrobatic ability 🙂

Is it just me or are Johnny and Ed having way more fun than the job calls for?

@stephenwoehr6500

2 жыл бұрын

They were certainly having more fun than the audience. These jokes just fell straight flat.

@met9072

Жыл бұрын

The jokes 'fell flat'? Was it in the first joke that played too close to home for you?

@CALLAHAN19

Жыл бұрын

No, you're right

It was always a tradition that the biggest applause was for “I hold in my hand, the LAST envelope.”

@billolsen4360

3 жыл бұрын

Then getting "May a love starved yak become infatuated with your blue jeans" from Johnny

@chrisarseneault5617

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@markflemmer1326

2 жыл бұрын

@@billolsen4360 Another good one I remember: "May a crazed pole vaulter run under your sister's hoop skirt". 😆

@billolsen4360

2 жыл бұрын

@@markflemmer1326 Don't think I ever heard that one before...that's for the golden gift!

@gocygo63

2 жыл бұрын

..."...may a toothless yak gum your mother's wheat thins..."...

A: Peter Pan Q: What do you fry a peter in? When Carnak did this one, Johnny and Ed giggled uncontrollably like schoolboys for at least a full minute before getting back on track. I would love to see that again.

@markflemmer1326

2 жыл бұрын

A: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Q: What do you say to someone when their Doo-Dah is open? 😆

@wmbrown6

5 ай бұрын

@@markflemmer1326 - A: Inka Dinka Doo. Q: What do you look for when tracking an inka dinka? But one I suspect he might've done in his last months . . . A: Black or White. Q: What is Michael Jackson?

@markflemmer1326

5 ай бұрын

​@@wmbrown6HA 😂

A hipster would pay thousands of dollars for that chair Ed is sitting on. Pure funk.

I should point out the "Saturday Night Live" Johnny was referring to was Howard Cosell's short lived and terrible ABC Saturday night variety show. The one we're now familiar with was originally called "NBC'S Saturday Night".

The good ol’ days.😊👍🏾👍🏾

I think my favorite was Shish Boom Bah... What's the sound an exploding sheep makes? Not because it was terribly funny but because Ed cracked up laughing for so long.

@suzycreamcheesez4371

3 жыл бұрын

sis

@LynxSouth

2 жыл бұрын

It's devilishly clever. That makes it hilarious.

@otiscampbell2194

2 жыл бұрын

Sis boom baaaaaa !🍺🍺🍺🍺❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍😝😜😝😜😝😜❤🍺🍺🍺🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪😛🤪😛🤪❤

@markflemmer1326

2 жыл бұрын

A: Venus De Milo, broccoli and Anita Bryant Q: Name a nude, a food and a prude. 😂

@anonygent

2 жыл бұрын

@@markflemmer1326 Too crude, dude.

The crowd aren't laughing because when the punchlines are Sargent Shriver and Wilt Chamberlain they're thinking, "in 40 years nobody's going to know who that is!"

Not one of the better Carnac's, oh well. I cryed when I read Carson died, 05 was not a good year. Now there's no such thing as a good year in THE UNITED STATES OF BICKERING AND COMPLAINING!!

@chrishebditch654

3 жыл бұрын

Jeffery O'Bryan thank you I agree 100%!

@PrincessofBuckhead

2 жыл бұрын

I cried too when passed.

Carson was the best

His insults were classic

This is classic Carson!

Prime time for us ... us being me and my new bride. Young enough to still stay up late for the monologue and following comedy bit but still get up for work in the morning.

"May your Avon lady be a transvestite in heat".....LMAO 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

I love it when they say someone's name and then describe how it sounds.

The crack about Saturday night live was funny as it holds true today in 2020.

@joebradio

2 жыл бұрын

He referring to the short lived Saturday show hosted by Howard Cosell

@GayRocker81

2 жыл бұрын

IDK...SNL has been dead for quite a long time

I remember watching him with my grandmom or i called her Nan

How sadly politically correct things are--- the pc police would hate a 'transvestite joke today--- the world sucks now RIP Johnny & Ed

@pickeljarsforhillary102

3 жыл бұрын

Dont forget about just having the character of Carnac the Magnificent in the first place.

@DMS-pq8

2 жыл бұрын

@@pickeljarsforhillary102 CULTERAL APPROPRIATION! CULTERAL APPROPRIATION!

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

@@DMS-pq8 That better be sarcasm.

@DMS-pq8

2 жыл бұрын

@@russs7574 Possibly

Thanks for upload

This is great! I thought I'd seen all these.

WOW, THIS WENT STRAIGHT TO THE VIDEO WITHOUT ME HAVING TO WATCH 3 ADS FIRST?!?!?😮

Ka-REEM Abdul Jibar :-P

I love Ed's Haw Haw Haw

Gilligan, the Skipper, and Chief WIggum. Name three castaways. Heeyoo.

I swear there waz one time Carnac crashed thru the desk

@MrEsMysteriesMagicks

3 жыл бұрын

There was. I remember watching it, but I have no idea when they did that. They brought in a breakaway desk just for the occasion. I'd love to see the video of that.

@jeffreygranger6913

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrEsMysteriesMagicks Me too! And the way Carson looked right in the camera when something was suggestive.

@jeffmontville2689

3 жыл бұрын

There is

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite Carnacs. The stage crew swapped out the real desk for one made of balsa wood while Carson was backstage getting into his Carnac get up. According to Ed McMahon (I forget where the interview was), Johnny was not told about the gag, so his reaction was genuine.

@josephambrose2852

10 ай бұрын

I remember that I'm guessing it was a prop 😂

Different Saturday Night Live than you are thinking of. This article is about the short-lived ABC show. For the NBC sketch comedy show, see Saturday Night Live. Genre Variety show Presented by Howard Cosell Starring Bill Murray. Brian Doyle-Murray. Christopher Guest Country of origin United States No. of seasons 1. No. of episodes 18 Executive producer(s) Roone Arledge Running time 48 minutes Production company(s) ABC Original network ABC Original release September 20, 1975 -January 17, 1976 Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell is an American television variety show that aired on ABC from September 20, 1975, to January 17, 1976, hosted by Howard Cosell and executive-produced by Roone Arledge. The series ran for 18 episodes before being cancelled.

@davyhall6886

3 жыл бұрын

The NBC show used to be called "NBC's Saturday Night"

@elijahbarber1829

2 жыл бұрын

ABC'S Saturday Night Live was cancelled mainly because nobody could stand having to put up with Howard Cosell twice in the same week.

“I bring you tidings from the West”

Funk and Wagnell

@jeffreygranger6913

3 жыл бұрын

Dictionary.

@yankeeland1

3 жыл бұрын

✝️

@anonygent

11 ай бұрын

Front porch... in a mayonnaise jar... since noon today...

Hermetically sealed.

@DextersLab13

2 жыл бұрын

Kept in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall's porch since noon today.

@quizmaster85

2 жыл бұрын

@@DextersLab13 *NO-ONE (!)*

Proof that Carnac (Johnny Carson) did have mental powers: he saw 45 years into the future at the soon to start current season of Saturday Night Live...

@captmurdock

4 жыл бұрын

FTR, at the time the joke might have referred to Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. Never heard of it? There's a reason for that...

@Panwere36

4 жыл бұрын

@@captmurdock , perhaps it did.. but still... lol

@Panwere36

4 жыл бұрын

@@captmurdock , actually, looking at the date... SNL has premiered on NBC in October of that year.. so it was most likely about them.

@captmurdock

4 жыл бұрын

@@Panwere36 True but the Cosell show premiered three weeks earlier, and in prime time. (And take my word for it, it was a stinkburger). For most of its first season, the show we now call SNL was called NBC'S Saturday Night

@Panwere36

4 жыл бұрын

@@captmurdock , got you. And considering how Cosell came off outside of his job, I can imagine.

I was a bit baffled by the Saturday night live comment and then after thinking about it I recalled that Howard cosell actually had a show called Saturday night live it was on in prime time and it did not do well. The other show of course was only called Saturday night. I think it officially became SNL 30 or more years later

Carnac predicted SNL today!

@christopherdunne7848

2 жыл бұрын

Actually I believe it was a reference to ABC’s variety show in ‘75 called “Saturday Night Live” with Howard Cosell, which didn’t last. NBC’s show at that time was called “NBC Saturday Night”. They changed it to “SNL” shortly afterward.

Saturday Night Live: Name something dead. How prescient of Johnny.

@hankkingsley2976

3 жыл бұрын

Actually I believe that was referring to the Howard Cosell show of the same name that was on at that time that's why it originally was just called Saturday night on NBC

@DesertScorpionKSA

3 жыл бұрын

@@hankkingsley2976 Well duh! I'm guessing you don't know what prescient means.

@hankkingsley2976

3 жыл бұрын

@@DesertScorpionKSA apparently you don't either

Siss-Boom-bah was my favorite.

Mostly corny jokes but so funny, thanks to the delivery and presentation. And a lot of stuff the "woke" puritans would freak out about, for no good reason.

How y’all like huh yeah lol humorous yeah

Can't have a transvestite joke like that today

Sis boom bashh

A lot of the jokes are topical. Unless you lived though this era you won't get them. I did but some flew over my head, like the CIA joke.

May a bull elephant mate with your pet yorkie.

6:07

I remember one of the biggest laughs Carson got doing Carnac was when the answer was “Abba Eben”. Anyone know if there’s a video of it?

@deguyjay5408

3 жыл бұрын

I looked for that one too! I saw it before but I think it was removed.

@joeylawn36111

3 жыл бұрын

@@pnpracing4688 don't know - that's one reason why I wanted to see that video

@gocygo63

2 жыл бұрын

...well...what was the question?!!!

@joeylawn36111

2 жыл бұрын

@@gocygo63 I THINK it was something like "What is the sound that Golda Meir makes when putting on panty hose" -could be wrong - that was a LONG time ago

@gocygo63

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeylawn36111 ...Oh Gawd!

Johnny would be nothing without Ed.

Till this day I still laugh when Ed says I hold in my hand the last envelope and the audience goes crazy. 😂

Even back then Saturday night live was dead

@spongevee1

Жыл бұрын

Different show. It starred Howard Cosell!

A minimum of 4 of these jokes couldn't be done today...humor wrecked by woke culture. Sad.

@CanadaMatt

Жыл бұрын

Wow...who's the snowflake now?

@robertgordon5232

Жыл бұрын

Which 4??

6:05 Carnac could truly look into the future!

This show was probably from early 1976 and the joke about SNL being dead was funny, considering they are still around 45 years later

@joegordon2915

2 жыл бұрын

Snl wasn’t called that then. It was called Saturday Night because Saturday Night Live was a Howard Cosell show that didn’t last long and that’s probably why he’s saying it’s dead

Question - body builders answer - what do you call legos sold in playboy

SNL is now actually dead, but not in 1975.

@spongevee1

Жыл бұрын

Nope, he meant a different show by that name. Back then SNL was called NBC's Saturday Night.

Before late night comedy became a communist sewer.

@ArmyJames

3 жыл бұрын

Communist?

@rubyparchment5523

Жыл бұрын

What comedy? I get nothing from it.