A Lucy Retro Moment: Lucille Ball Guests The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson 

Wow!!! Lucy’s ensemble is lovely!!

one thing you have to give ol lucy credit for is she got plenty of guest stars to come on her show...these folks must have really like n respected her.

THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER, LOVE YOU & MISS YOU!

I've always wanted to see Mae West on tv more often as well as Lucy

Johnny and Ed appeared on an episode (as themselves) of "Here's Lucy" around this same time.

Thanks for posting this. Never saw it. I LOVE the way Lucy looks in this video

Love Lucy and love the clip. Thanks for posting!

thanks for that, glad you enjoyed it-Lucy was something else :D

WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY TALENTED LADY!

Thank you for posting. So many of her tv appearances like these, are nowhere to be found on youtube. She always said she wasn't funny--and certainly in her older years, she was a very very serious person, all business, and a little gruff--but this amazing woman could really tell a story. I like this Carson appearance; she usually didn't go over well on Carson. Her timing is great, her double takes. I wish we had more long form interviews with her about the business itself. She was there from almost the very beginning, 1933. Like that TV Museum archive that's so great here on You Tube, I wish she had lived to do one of those four or five hours long serious interviews. A bit long and boring for some, but a treasure trove of stories and information. I feel like Lucy passed away, and most of her history went with her. She remains an enigma in many ways, so different from the icon we loved. Like for example, she was really very conservative, personally. Politically also. I've heard from others who knew her that she was at her core a very small town person, and attributed her whole career to plain hard work and the American Dream. She hated complainers. You have to wonder if in today's world, she could be as beloved as she was. I mean, I think Lucille Ball is God and I adored her. But would we really allow a Republican gal who wanted her kids to avoid 1960s colleges, a hero? Not sure about that. And she was really very Republican. one of the few. Like many, she shifted from Democrats in the 40s to Republicans in the 50s. Very supportive of Ike, and Nixon, and later Reagan. One of the great jokes of all time was that she once registered Communist to please her far Socialist Grandfather. Like Lucy was a Red--as if! In fact, she was as classic a Republican as there was, living in a very Republican Hollywood crowd. (So were Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart.) She was close with Hedda Hopper, even, who was severely right wing. Anyway, I'm running on... ;-)

LUCILLE BALL was the BEST!

Her eighth wedding anniversary, so this was November 1969.

She's tough on her kids when he compliments them. "They're getting better."

Thanks for post ! What a lady!

💝💖💖💖💖💖💖💛💛❣RIP

This is awesome ....thanks for posting.

0:11 - 0:16 An idea just popped into my head. You ready? Here it is. Ed says in response, "You'll think of something." Hopefully, it would've gotten a big laugh.

wonderful

Didn't Johnny and Ed return the favor by appearing on Lucy's show? I seem to recall an episode where they were all getting drunk together.

Is this the earliest footage we still have of her on The Tonight Show?

Wow! black and white

Air date: Nov. 18, 1969.

She kissed them on the lips!

Lucy sometimes embroidered. There were no letters of complaint because no one on "I Love Lucy" ever said the word "pregnant."

6:57 Obvious edit before which they must have discussed Johnny and Ed appearing on “Here’s Lucy” 13 days later.

Thanks for uploading this marvelous interview of Lucille ball. I'm stressing out to know the title of the song when Lucille comes out to the curtain. Do you know the tittle of the song? Thanks again.

This was in '70. Great video but the quality is the poorest and in b&w. What happened? I had seen this on RU-vid before, in COLOR, as they used to say.

your welcome. Ditto, what a lady :)

This looks like it may have been shot in LA, even though the Tonight Show was still based in New York? At that time, I heard that they took the show to LA for a few weeks a year prior to moving it permanently in 72.

WHERE CAN YOU GET A COPY OF THIS VIDEO ? i HOPE IT WASN'T BURNED IN THE NBC FIRE.....ANYBODY OUT THERE KNOW?

I believe its 1968-1969

Y i tne hell would you have a testimonial or any other kind of event where u have someone sit in one place for 4.5hrs without getting up to take a break.

What did she mean by the college now days?

Lucy was a bit more open to affection at this time. She subsequently became more reserved as she aged, and became more agoraphobic and afraid to leave her house. She comes across as reserved in subsequent years due to her fear of appearing in public, because she saw herself as being too old to be on television. She wanted to be remembered as the Lucy of "I Love Lucy", and not the older version of herself that appeared on "Here's Lucy.