I had the privilege of seeing Rodney Dangerfield live twice. I got sick both times from laughing so hard. He was the type who could tell a clean joke and make you laugh 'til your sides hurt. RIP Rodney. You've brought a ton of laughs to this insane world.
@Zolar Czakl How about "Caddyshack" with the hat. "This is the worst looking hat I ever saw. Looks like something you get with a free bowl of soup......Oh, looks good on you though!"
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Carson was a master of featuring his guests to their highest potential. Of some, he asked the right questions, but with Rodney, he just stayed out of the way and let the magic happen. I miss both of these wonderful men!
I don't think I know a comedian who makes fun of himself more than any other, talking about having no ego. Don Rickles is the opposite, like a severe funny. Two different styles.
Johnny was the only host to allow his genius guests to shine while remaining the brightest light in the room. Just a talent on a level never to be equalled. Just watching him truly enjoy his guests, withholding that laser beam wit that he can wield at any moment, yet remaining confident and generous enough to set the stage. And charisma, my god, no superstar could steal a particle of his light without him gifting it willingly. Miss you Johnny.
He was the greatest "straight man" ever. That is the most difficult job in comedy. And he did it well with everybody, no matter what their style, timing, subject matter. And he genuinely enjoyed his guest's humor and laughed at their jokes. But it's very hard to be a good straight man for all the varied talent he had on his show: from Rickles to Dangerfield and everything in between.
The clip with Johnathan Winters and Robin Williams is some of the funniest TV I've ever seen. Johnny just let them go. Said it was the easiest show he'd ever done.
I think that is him laughing his ass off while he is doing his stand up, his laugh stands out, the "ha ha ha", so since he wasn't on TV i think he just loved it. I could be wrong, maybe was the audience
I actually remember watching this one! I cried like a baby on the last night of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. I grew up sneaking into the living room to watch this from under the couch where my parents were cuddling and laughing. Great memories of home.
Me too -as a child, I used to fall asleep watching "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" in my pjs at the top of the stairs leading down into our den - saw most of the legendary appearances by actors, celebrities and comedians. It was a fantastic era of TV that will never be repeated.
Great stories! I remember watching Johnny on a tiny (a 6 inch screen or so) black and white TV that a neighbor had thrown out. My mom let me keep it in my room because you couldn’t really see anything on the screen through all the snow. She figured I just used it for pretend, but at 11:30 I always dragged it out from under my bed to listen to Johnny and company (the TV audio still worked OK, just a lot of static). Rodney was always my fav guest.
@@RoyAnderson fun fact: when I was a kid (early to mid 80's) my older brother had a B&W TV in his bedroom and he would watch Doctor Who (the Tom Baker era) on it. For a good chunk of my life, until I was about 35 or so, I thought those episodes were strictly B&W...Last year I had a desire to revisit those classic episodes (I had never watched Doctor Who), and so my wife and I started watching the Tom Baker episodes, but the whole time I was watching it something seemed off. It didn't feel like the same show I remember my brother watching. About 20 episodes in I realized what was wrong...I was watching it in color...lol
Rodney had some more in depth interviews on Howard Stern. The last one was about a year before he died and he was very old and not quite the same but there are others from the mid 90’s which are great. Got to hear Rodney just talk instead of perform.
Today you can't make jokes about gay uncles. Or fat people. If you do people would be out protesting! Spreading a annoying virus. Can't beat the old days. People crowded out places to watch priceless comedians like Rodney Dangerfield. And Billy Connolly. Not having to worry about being infected.
To get Carson to almost fall out of his chair, THAT'S saying something. When Rodney tells Johnny to "bring out the next guest", I was done...and so was Johnny.😂 RIP to both🙏
@@Tom_Van_Zandt I know that you may be kidding but Rodney also died, 5th of October 2004, all the great ones are gone, all of them. All that remains is mediocracy in today’s nigh talk shows.
God, Johnny asked if Rodney wanted a commercial break, he THANKED the audience for "allowing him into their homes", etc. Very humble and respectful. End of an era
I'd give anything for all those guys to still be with us. I've watched these clips so damn many times, and I'll watch them again so damn many times. And some of my favorites are Rodney w/ Johnny. I love watching Johnny trying to hold it together, and then just busting out laughing. I never did see Rodney in person, and I regret the hell out of it. Comedy gold. RIP guys, thanks for the incredible memories. You were simply the best that there ever was.
Indeed,awesome, we can never forget one of the best of all time,up there with R Pryor & Robin Williams -- AKA -- Bill Hicks,he was always my ###1 next to G . Carlin. That song Maynard from Tool wrote about him is also awesome " the carrots know -tomorrow is the Harvest" lmao
Such good memories of the Tonight Show and Johnny Carson. As kids, we had to be in bed by nine but I would stay awake reading under the covers. Come ten thirty, I would hear my Dad begin to laugh and I knew Johnny Carson was on. Thanks for the memories!
Rodney Dangerfield’s comedy is timeless. Plus he has the best delivery in the business. Plus he must have a great memory to remember all the jokes he has in his routine.
I remember working 2nd shift as a Nurse and watching Johnny Carson show was the perfect thing to come home too. So funny and original. Those were the best days of Comedy. 😂😊
Rodney had an undeniable ability with one liners. It showed so well ANYTIME he appeared on Carson. Could be new or a classic. It always resounded with Carson.
I agree. Things are much better when it’s just straight, rich, white men telling jokes. These women and minorities need to stop talking about their lives and struggle and just take a page from straight, rich, white men - they have it figured out.
Impossible to explain the excitement and anticipation of watching Johnny work his magic with his guests, least of all Rodney - you never knew what was going to happen and when it did, it was funny, plain and simple - God, I miss The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson!
RU-vid may be filled with lots of nonsense, but thank goodness that videos like these are here so that people a hundred years from now can watch a comedy legend like Rodney and laugh.
I remember once at his comedy club in NY called Dangerfields he said “Anyone here from Queens” (and of course people in the audience yelled yes) and Rodney’s reply was “Yeah, well I’m from normal parents myself”
I really miss them!!! So glad that when life is too busy and stressful, seeing this brings back so many warm memories. Just hearing the theme song transports me back to that wonderful time. Johnny is the perfect straight man for Rodney. These are two masters of comedic timing. I love how Rodney's act continues when he's in the chair. He's just the greatest!!
Johnny always really appreciated his guests with talent, like Rodney. My favorite Rodney story: I went to the beach with my folks, and I got lost. I found a cop to help me find them. After a while I asked the cop "do you think we'll find them ?". He said, "I don't know kid, there's so many places to hide".
how about: " I went to the hardware store and ordered some rat poison. The clerk asked :are you going to eat it here or is that to go? I get no respect"
Jeez, I miss Johnny Carson. Easily the best host of a talk show ever IMO. His manner is so relaxed and friendly and he always gets the best out of the guests on his show. No talk show host on TV today can hold a candle to Carson. He is a marvelous entertainer.
indeed RIP, Dick Cavett was also very entertaining, one of his interviews with Groucho Marx was a classic, & when he hosted Woody Allan playing his clarinetist was insane,full orchestra awesome,.
@@astrzmbie9968 Solid list. Norm is somewhere top 20 for me. Eddie is probably the most talented. Carlin is the best. Pryor and Bruce the most innovative. Rodney is the king.
Seen a lot of the two of them together, but Rodney was on fire with that line of jokes. Hard to believe he could be any funnier than normal, but he killed it!
When a man that's been around comedians and he's a comedian too, like Carson was, if he laughs so unabashedly at your jokes there's no better validation or recognition. Dangerfield was born funny.
Thomas Falken I don't know if the man was an addict or not. I like to think he wasn't. His movements and apparently sweating, since he keeps wiping his face with a handkerchief is part of his schtick, an act. Remember he's portraying a man that's on the edge of a nervous breakdown, if not in one already, full of anxiety, frustration and stressed out to the max because for as long as he can remember everybody and everything around him does not fit, his entire life is a whole lot of misses and very few and too far apart hits that even then they turn around and bite him on the ass. Thus his famous line I get no respect, you know, no respect. Either way a very funny man indeed.
@@rogervallecillo292 The following passage recalls Dangerfield’s audition for Al Czervik (casting for Caddyshack): “He comes in wearing this aqua-blue leisure suit and takes out a plastic bag and does two lines of coke. He undoes his shirt and says, ‘Where’s the pussy?’ ” It was a hell of a first impression. Dangerfield would end up getting $35,000 for his role. And though he would always credit Caddyshack for launching his movie career, he would often do so while complaining that he actually lost $150,000 on the film, having given up a month of headlining in Vegas to shoot it. (Excerpt from a Sports Illustrated article on a book by Chris Nashawaty titled "Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story")
born funny but it took the rest of the world a long time to figure it out...selling aluminum siding...having failed as a comic..till his forties ...Rodney shall we say...was a late bloomer
God Bless Johnny Carson. He made everyone and everything better. the king of late night, bad jokes made funny and bringing the best out of everyone who graced his show. this is a classic with a classic comedian.
Cathy T: Craig Ferguson was the best. Only host to keep up with Robin Williams and with Dame Edna. Graham Norton in the UK is at least as good. But Carson was the King.
I am sorry for your loss, my Dad passed away in 1994 a couple of months before my fifth birthday. My Dad had a good sense of humor and we used to watch tv together too. I used to watch Married With Children with him
I used to watch The Rockford Files with my dad too. I remember seeing the first episode with him. Made me feel really grown up. I must have been about 7. Happy days.
That was the great thing about Carson. He could lay back and let the guest get all the laughs. He didn't try to one-up them. Today's crop of late night hosts could learn a lot from him.
“When my wife makes love to me there’s always a reason for it. One time she used me to time an egg.” Hahahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣What a genius. Miss you Rodney. You were great!
“I came from a tough neighborhood ya know. I asked a cop how long it took to get to the subway, he said he didn’t know, so far nobody made it that far yet”
Miss Johnny Carson. No one like him. His show was great....filled with real talented and interesting guests. Never political like the dopes on today......Rodney was a legend... The timing impeccable.
Two legends. I'm privileged to say I saw Rodney live once in the late part of his career. I was too young to appreciate him then, but I remember he was the surprise attraction and came on the stage wearing a bathrobe 🤣 who does that?
Legend has it that he used to wander downstairs in the big Las Vegas casinos in his bathrobe, with his junk hangin' out. Nobody minded. After all, it was Rodney.
His jokes were all 20 years old when we first heard them... and all these years later, we're STILL laughing at them. And Johnny never minded being upstaged by his guests.
Johnny was the king of Late Night, and nobody has come close to him since. He was genuine, and non-partisan. He was hilarious, yet he had a heart and truly cared about people.