Buddy Hackett Tells A Story He Promised Not to Tell on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Airdate: 08/27/1987 Part 2 - • Buddy Hackett's Duck J... #johnnycarson #thetonightshow #buddyhackett
Lived in north Hollywood in the 70’s several times a month went down to watch the show at the studio..5:30 pm..free to get in...saw Buddy once...never laughed so hard in my life....memories!, Bring back good ole days
NATO Begins Bombing Yugoslavia. ... Columbine Tragedy. ... Earthquake in Turkey Kills 13,000. ... Egypt Air crashes off the coast of Nantucket ,Y2K Scare,Wedgewood Baptist Church Shooting,JFK Jr. plane crash, Bomb and Shooting in Texas Church Kill 22, Extremist bombings in England .....etc etc Yea what a Joy 🥳🤣 ⚰️
While in high school, I watched Carson every night. To ths day, my 83 year old mother has no idea why I couldn't wake up in the morning. That was 45 years ago.
in hollywood on a saturday and driving slowly through hollywood, met him coming my way riding a bicycle. I jumped out and called his name,,,,he stopped and visited for about 30 min....What a nice guy,,,very cordial and open. I never forgot that morning,,,,
Amazing, almost 30 years since Carson has been on and it never gets old. Oh I wish we could turn back time, not to be younger, but to go back to the days of great tv like Johnny Carson!
I finally get to watch what got me busted for laughing at when I was supposed to be in bed,and not setting at the top of the stairs listening to Jonny's monologue.
I had the immense pleasure of sitting at the same bench on Aspen mtn. along with Buddy Hackett. He acted the same there as with Johnny Carson show. What a great memory !!!!!
Political correctness started in the 80s. These people were working the circuit in the 50s 60s he's in the thirties and forties. I should say political correctness has been around forever but they did a movie I believe in the late 80s called PCU.
Grew up watching this show...loved it. Miss Johnny Carson and all the real talented stars like Hackett. The talk shows today are garbage like the View. Many movie stars not talented.
To the person who runs this channel- It must infuriate you how there are no longer tapes of the Tonight Show from the 60's. I know I'm curious of seeing Richard Harris' appearances in the late 60's and I would have liked to see Robert Kennedy's appearance as well.
Yes, we definitely lost of a lot of material! We don't have full episodes but we do have some clips during that timeframe and we'll make sure to get it posted.
I was at the taping of very this show! (I think)... If the musical guest was The Cowboy Junkies... This was a great night. During the commercial breaks, the Tonight Show Band would usually just play on through till they would come back from commercial break. This night, as soon as we cut to commercial, Johnny had the band stop playing, and had Buddy tell some of the "bluest" jokes ever. Hilarious!
I used to have saturday meetings in the office across from the Tonight Show stage at KNBC in Burbank in the years while Jay Leno was hosting the show. And I'd sneak into the stage (which meant walking through the curtain the guests came through) and remember what it must have been like when Jonny was there. You could feel the magic and the energy of the place, and I'd occasionally sneak a squat in the chair behind the desk and remember my mom and I watching Johnny and the biggest names in Hollywood. And every once in a while I'd go in there and Jay Leno would have come in to do the exact same thing. Just feeling the magic.
The story that follows is even better. Both videos should have been together. You can view it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aww4HT5g7ig.html
There is a story about a gambler named Abe Bernstein (IIRC) who may or may not have been the same man who was a gangster, a member of the purple gang. There was also I think a poker player with the same name or again, it was the gangster. Anyway, gangster or not there was definitely a gambler who played poker in the 1950s and 1960s who had a system for blackjack before Thorpe's book -- he counted aces which gave him an advantage and I think he was barred from playing even though supposedly casino management did not believe in systems and one manager said, we will send a private plane to pick up system players. He told an old friend he was broke and the friend loaned him money to pay rent and/or feed his family. Later for some reason he went to Bernstein's room where Bernstein may have accidentally revealed or simply shown the friend a suitcase that held half a million. In those days when 1000 dollar bills and even 10k bills were still in circulation, such a suitcase may not have been huge or heavy, perhaps only 10 pounds. His friend was a little angry but mainly surprised: You told me you were broke -- why did you borrow money from me. Bernstein took some money out of the suitcase in preparation for playing poker or blackjack -- he did not repay the loan. He said, Oh, I can't pay rent with that money: it's for gambling. I really wonder if there is any truth to that story. Some gamblers may really think that way, feel poor despite having the equivalent, if this was even in the late 60s (Bernstein the gangster (and suitcases with that kind of money are sort of gangster things, honest folks usually can use banks) died in 1968 and if this story really happened and even at the latest date possible, that money was easily 2 million or more, possibly even 5 million when make 20k a year was decent money and houses could be bought also for 20k or 30k in many cities, even very nice areas. One thing that indicates how much that was is some famous payroll robbery yielded the robbers way more than expected. The robbers decided (in the early 1950s) to take 100k each and the remaining money? They burnt it -- no one felt they need more than 100k for the rest of their lives and the balance of the money only increased the odds of their being caught. I find the robbery story a little incredible since maximum inflation adjustment is multiplying by 30 or so: during the worst of the Great Depression, when you could buy a meal for like a dime. So even then, 100k would have been a few million, which I guess today 3 million is very nice but not enough to retired in luxury.
I can’t love Buddy Hackett OBM enough. My Father OBM favored Buddy in looks, but my Mother OBM always said my Father was almost as funny but better looking.😊 I miss this era.
Buddy Hackett was like -- our Scuttle bird to me. Sad to hear that Buddy Hackett passed away in 2003, which we were a year old, making process towards preschool and to kindergarten. There'll *_never_* be another comedian like Buddy Hackett anymore, he's gone making jokes to the Heavens above. Rest in Paradise, my Scuttle bird. August 31 1924 - June 30 2003.
Oh, and my parents let us watch Disney's the Little Mermaid since we were young. And Buddy Hackett was in there. I will never forget when Scuttle shouted: "Mermaid off the port bow!"