New Year's Eve Show - December 31st, 1982 | Carson Tonight Show 

41 years ago is hard to believe, but then that I'm turning 65 in the new year is hard to believe too! I miss Johnny's Tonight Show, as the show has never been as good since his departure. THANK YOU for bringing it back to life and have a great new year!

It's 5:30 p.m. on December 31st 2023 I'm watching Johnny Carson

I was 17 years old and a huge fan of this - i was a high school senior looking forward to the future. Johnny Carson/the Tonight Show still holds uo. I miss Johnny and his top notch performances. ☮️💟

Happy New Year to all! - especially those who were around in 1982. Time flies but the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson never gets old.

Thank you! Love Johnny!

Forever watching!!!

How the heck was this 40 years ago??? It seems like yesterday. 😊

Johnny was a jewel. I was around in 1982 and have missed Johnny since he went off the air. There will never be anyone like him again. He even made the failed jokes funny. He was the best, and I'm sure all the talk show hosts will agree, even to this day and many years hence.

Always watched his show!! Love the spontaneity of comedy!! Johnny was the best!!

I was 3 years old. Love watching

I was 22 when this one aired (which made Bill Maher 27). I always loved watching Johnny and Ed through the years! Happy New Year!

R.I.H Roy Batty, 1946-1982.

The routine about going over to the model of Times Square was partly down to viewers knowing in previous years when they did this, Johnny's New Year's Eve show wasn't live, and when they did "go over" to Times Square it was never live. This was a nice way of being truthful on this bit of the show I believe.

I was 22, and oh boy and girls ❤

I was 3 months and a week when this aired

🎉 I was around in 82

funny how i'm only ten minutes of the time of the video. and yep i was fourteen the first time this was on. lol thanks.

This is what we had.. the best! Not the dimwitted host seen on late night these days... Johnny was a true people's enterainer.

Wow!! Tina can really strut her stuff!

2000

Oobi 😢

2026

Inflation, no jobs, unemployment was high, Reagan wasn't great at his job, but he did surpass Jimmy Carter on getting American Iranian hostages home, no one in the middle class got big bucks jobs or wealthy, that's a myth. Times were hard. Reagan also cut VA benefits and caused our current homelessness because Reagan deemed big Pharma cured mental illnesses and closed federally subsidized mental health facilities across all 50 states. Hope this helps you understand 1982 and now. My pleasure. I turn 60 in April/ I witnessed it with fooked POTUS leadership in our country. God bless you for asking, ❤ u. Happy 2024.

Maherr wasn't even funny all those years ago either.

This Tonight Show program from 1982 is far better than anything that is being broadcast tonight!

I was a college boy then and a near-retiree now. Crazy. Johnny is aces in a tux. Thanks Johnny Carson channel for using the original show intros, too.

Happy New Year everyone from Rome, Italy. Wish it was still 1982.

I was a freshman in high school at the time this show aired, now I’m a blessed new grandmother to a darling grandson. If someone could tell me where the years went, I’d appreciate it. I still miss the Tonight Show, and that simpler, saner time. Happy New Year everyone.

As always, thank you for the (timeless) uploads!

I was 22, and I am sure I was partying somewhere that late December day in 1982. Happy New Year!

When New Years and late night television were anticipated.

Goodbye 2023, Happy New Year 1983!

You are greatly missed Johnny ❤

What a show! The legend Tina Turner whom we sadly lost this year, before Politically Incorrect Bill Maher and Joey D Auria who played Bozo the Clown in Chicago during the 80s and 90s.

Happy new year 🎇🎆🎊🎉💖

Miss em. Happy Heavenly New Year to Johnny, Ed and Tommy and all staff and band members and the many guests doing the show amongst the angels and the clouds. ❤

Johnny Carson was my favorite bedtime show. my mom would come in and say yes, you need to go to sleep. You gotta get-app-and-go to school and I'm like but mom, I'm watching Johnny Carson. I love this man but he went off the air. I was so upset. Happy New Year, everybody.

Rest in Peace Tina Turner.

On 01.01.2024, @exactly 00:30 AM, 40yrs down the line (& up the years!!)...Johny C still brings out a chuckle!! ...🎉🎉🎉 Happy New Year 2024 all Viewers!!

Doc is the only one left. He’s 96.

I was born 7 weeks before this episode 😂. ❤

This was my parents favorite show and .mine. I feel blessed to still see it

I graduated high school in 82. This is wild, he is so young.

Happy New Year to everybody,it's been 60 years but The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson has stood the test of time.

Happy New Year! watching this on RU-vid and on my phone is certainly wonderful.

31:43 They should have kept the mike off. 🐵

Happy New Year to one and all

It's been great spending New Years with Johnny, Ed, Tina and the rest. Sure wish I could go back to 82'.

That Year 2002 skit timeline was 20 years after 1982 and is now 21 years after 2002. Where did the time go?

More than 1/2 of America would have to look up what he jokes about to get it.

For a second Seeing that thumbnail Call Mom "to don't forget 11:30" I miss her and Johnny C. Happy New Year everyone 🍀 Next year will hopefully be better.

Good looking tux.

I bet anything that Tina Turner was out of there into a waiting limousine to a private airport and off to Vegas for a midnight show.

The one and only Tina Turner. No one even comes close.

Feliz Ano Novo para todos. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Happy New Year Everyone !!! 🎉🎈🎈🎈🎊🥳🎆

18 years old when this aired. 41 years went by so fast. I miss those days.

This is a wonderful New Years gift. I grew up watching The Tonight Show in the 70s in Canada's far north in the Yukon. The cable system was weird there in Whitehorse, Yukon and comprised of what was seen 1 week earlier in Vancouver and Seattle shown on tape exactly 1 week later. This was before the days of satellite. As a kid, I used to get up out of bed around 11:35pm and sneak out to the TV and turn it on to watch (once the tube TV warmed up). Years later as an adult, I spent a week lining up for free tickets at the NBC studios in Burbank to see the show taped at 5:30pm and then going back to my hotel room to watch it at 11:30. It was the highlight of each night. I'm glad I grew up with this and remember it like it was yesterday. It's not like today's 500 channel TV universe. Everyone who was awake at night watched Johnny back in those days. Thanks for the memories....you older folks will remember.

Happy 1983 to everybody!

"First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil." Fr. Dwight Longenecker “In the Last Days, Good will be called Evil and Evil will be called Good.” Are We There YET ?

I watched this when it first aired, and last night I put it on to watch it again. And promptly fell asleep. 😂😂😂 Not the first time I fell asleep watching Johnny Carson, but it's been a while. Thanks for the memories and Happy New Year!

Wow Tina was just as rockin as she was HOT! Never realized Beyonce rips her off to the T

🎉Happy New Year 2024🎊🙃

A different era, and a much better one. Ed, Johnny, Doc. HAPPY NEW YEAR

Timeless ! Happy New Year 🎆 !🎈 🎆🥳🎉

I was camping out on Orange Blvd on this night in 1982 for the Rose Parade…my first New Year’s in LA! It was freaking freezing!!!

Bill Maher? Cool

Watching Johnny is sooooo refreshing after all of the other late nite crap that's on now. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I was 24 years old, 65 now...and back then it was in the 60's and warm for xmas time, I heated my old farm house with wood, cutting wood all through the winter when I was laid off. two years prior on 12/08/1980 John Lennon was shot and I heard it on the radio at said farm house.

Bill Maher used to be a comedian? I never would have guessed.

Here in his final New Year's Eve goodbye to 1982, Johnny thanked Ed for 25 years together. If they were working together in 1957, it wouldn't be on the Tonight Show, that was Jack Paar's gig; his first season.

I am 6 months old when this aired. I love Carson and this so much fun to watch. Happy New Years everyone. May 2024 be your best year.

Where's Johnny this is when we had a country I don't know what we call it now so pray for us and have a good year

I’m surprised these are in mono, wasn’t the tonight show broadcast in stereo starting 1981 ?

Thanks for posting. Ronald Regan was actually still alive that year. It's interesting to see what actually happened in 2002. No more Donahue show by then. Liberace was dead.

It never "trickled down" Johnny.

Hard to believe Johnny’s been gone almost 19 years 😢😢

I was 6 months old when this aired. Carson was the 🐐

That guy 100% burnt his hand.

WHOA what a performance by Tina Turner!!!! Happy 2024 everyone!

I was a senior in HS in 1982❤

That was enjoyable... Thanks! Never saw that episode before. 😃

41 years ago?!!!!!!!! I am old!!!! And my how time flies!!!!!

A very unique entertainer. NO one has even come near this late night show. Since he left late night I just have not watched. Sure wish there was something worth watching.

johnie made it normal lots of laughs

Happy new year!!; love watching tina

1982....I was 19...

Appreciate you uploading and sharing with us 😊.

Tina's Awesome ❤

Fantastic show! Tina Turner tore up that stage! 👩🏾‍🎤

I switch to reruns of Johnny Carson at 11 PM in NJ - hard to watch late nigh with all the sick Far Left Politics - and although a conservative, I do not like to watch Greg Gutfeld on Fox - seems so childish with some goofy comedians although most others on the show are fine - am no prude but I do not like all the sexual innuendos

2:00 - Everyone laughs because in February of 1982, Johnny was caught drink driving in Los Angeles. In October 1982 he was fined, placed on three years probation, ordered to attend the driver's education alcohol program and restricted his license for 90 days to trips to and from work and those classes.

I remember new years of 82. Nothing compares to johnny Carson on todays television. Thanks for sharing.

Watching the White House correspondence dinner tonight Joe Biden is telling jokes and seeing this im thinking those people in Johnnys audience think they have a ancient president wait for 38 years later Joe will make Ronald look like a kid.

Bill Mahar - "I kid because I love!" remember when that was a catchphrase? I think Richard Belzer used it a lot.

Ya’ know, Bill Mahr used to be funny. What happened? He’s as funny as a crutch!

I think this just confirms that Tina Turner was the sexiest woman to ever rock a stage, and will never be equalled.

Their depiction of December 31st 2002 is hilarious.

i watched this im sure .. i was earlier in the year from high school to college but the biggest change was saying bye to home with family do to ncident cops etc so dad was left behind not to be seen again for many years us girls my mom looking for home to stay what a year

Sooo miss Johnny!