I'd sometimes sneak out of bed as a kid when I heard mom watching Carson in living room. Past my bedtime but I'd watch from the hallway in view of the TV. Sometimes my mother would yell for me to get to bed but those nights she said I could stay up aittle while and watch made me so happy as kid. Thank you Johnny. RIP 🙏 And thank you mom. RiP 🙏
Yeah even the kids loved Johnny, even if they didn't understand all of his more adult jokes. There was just something about him that made you want to watch.
My mom and I did too, Bruce, and others. That's why I am watching this. Greatest time of the day was when Carson came on. And we named a dog, Carnac! Thanks for the memories.
Oh yeah, some of the best bits are watching how they deal with it when they're bombing. Carson bombing was more entertaining than Fallon on his best night.
I loved Johnny as Carnac. The answers and the questions were spot on for the time. He and Ed were well suited for each other and made these sketches work. RIP Johnny and Ed.
Things were never the same again when Johnny left the tonight show, he is still missed so much so. Carnac the magnificent was one of the best part of his show from time to time, that's for damn sure. Thalk about the good old days when he was on that great show which is gone forever. RIP Johnny.
I'm too young to have seen Johnny, and am from the UK ( don't think they played his show over here). This is a thousand times better than any of the talk shows today. Johnny's delivery, the gags, the facial expressions....everything. Today we have fake laughing buffoons hosting these shows.
@@wmbrown6 it's a very specific brand of American comedy with many American references that no one would get outside of the country. If you're not from around hyar you would not know how big that show was it was it. A different world of different time when you only had three choices on TV
Many people were of the opinion that Ed was just sycophantic toady with a fake laugh, but those who knew the two of them said Ed only laughed because he thought something was genuinely funny. When one or the other was missing, the show wasn't the same. I still watch the reruns on Antenna TV and I still laugh out loud, same as in the '60s!
@@ekr66How do you get there? Let me tell you friends, how do you get there! You take the San Diego Freeway to the Ventura Freeway. You drive to the Slauson Cutoff, get out of your car, cut off your Slauson, get back in your car, then you drive six miles till you see the Giant Neon Vice-Squad Cop.
Ed said in an interview that those 30 years he worked with Johnny, he described that tenure with one word, and it was “class”. True class this show represented. And the sad part of it is is that we will never have this type of class ever duplicated again.
It was classier, it was funnier, it was smarter, it was more fun. The Tonght Show with Johnny Carson always felt like a bright party at the end of the day. Today's talk shows feel like smarmy, political funeral services. We never had any idea how good we had it. Thank God for these old tapes.
@@davidrosler5413 Whenever Johnny covered politicians it was always in a non-vicious manner, gently amusing, usually through mime. It wasn't the focus of his show. Real humor was.
Johnny was a rock for so many years, and he helped America through some tough times: the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, Watergate, the horrible Carter years, the space shuttle Discovery explosion, etc. Through it all, Johnny was there (along with Ed).
Thanks to RU-vid, we can watch the Great Carnac anytime for some cheering up in our lives. That 'sweet and low'...'how does Mickey Rooney like his women' answer was both clever and hilarious!
One time, when the studio audience booed one of Carnac’s jokes, he responded: “May the sewers of Rangoon run down your throat.” Another one was: “May a sick yak leave an unwanted ‘gift’ in the front seat of your dune buggy.”
Only late night show I watch anymore. These guys are actually funny. The ones these days are straight trash and aren't funny. I love the Carnac classics. They crack me up.
Does anyone remember the Great Carnac act when he blew on the open envelope that happened to contain flour? The audience must have laughed nonstop five minutes anyway. I have this silly grin on my face just recalling it all thous years ago.
My all time favorite: Answer: "Dippity Do". Question: "What do you find on your dippity in the morning?" If you remember Dippity Do, you are probably a baby boomer!
1:30 = "Fish and Chips" this was specially written as in 1982 the Tonight Show was airing highlights every week on British TV on their ITV network on a Saturday night, and in his monologue from this evening's edition Johnny also mentioned his show airing in Britain. Fish and Chips is of course a traditional dinner meal in Britain.
Not to mention "CHIPS"--California Highway Patrol, which was also depicted in the hit show of the same name. "Who'll be *patrolling* California's highways?" ;)
The crew of "Laugh In" used to have some real fun in The Sixties with The Encyclopedia Publisher Funk & Wagnalls as in the risque directive "Look that up in Your Funk & Wagnalls!"😂🤣😂😏🎤📙📺B.W.
Edward Leo Peter Ed McMahon, Jr. (Detroit, 6 de marzo de 1923 - Los Ángeles, 23 de junio de 2009) fue un comediante, presentador de programas de juegos, y locutor estadounidense. Fue famoso por su trabajo en la televisión como compañero de Johnny Carson (1925-2005) y locutor del programa The Tonight Show (entre 1962 y 1992). También presentó la versión original del show Star Search entre 1983 y 1995. Fue copresentador de TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes con Dick Clark entre 1982 y 1998. También presentó sorteos de la empresa de venta directa American Family Publishers (y no, como se cree comúnmente, de su principal rival Publishers Clearing House).
Moormah Gadafi...( when Cow loses Its lunch!...69 now bn watching TV in bro's room when young....😅GREAT !...then I got my own room...WOW fantastic!...CARSON & ED McMahon!
I agree with one of the other comments. The late night shows of today are horrendous. Not one has even come close to matching Johnny Carson's class. I can't name one late night show in the past 20 years that is worth watching. Not one.
