He sucked. Craig Ferguson is the best ever

@@stevehorn646 I like Craig too....but he's not in Carson's league

@@weirdshibainu Carson is so overated

@@weirdshibainu Carson is so overated

He was a class act!

In the early-to -mid 70s, Steve Martin actually caused me to roll on the floor laughing in an appearance on the Tonight Show. Literally, another comedian responsible for the acronym ROFL.

Same thing happened at Dallas Fair Park Music Hall in 1978. After the show he was driving out in his limo and there was a McDs right across the street.......He yelled out the window "Who want some free FRIES?" And everybody starting screaming and laughing and he had his driver go up to to the window and he dropped $200 on the drive thru dude and said "Give everybody that walks up for the next hour a large bag of fries." It was awesome..........Best dude ever.

Well put. 🙏

Carson and Conan, class acts!!

Conan is the only other late show host I feel great about. He has a very inclusive attitude

Bang on. Conan had the mastery.

I agree 100%. Carson and Conan, when it comes to their interviews and their sense of the dynamic and flow of comedy, they're two peas in a pod. So fantastic.

I only got to see him on Fri nites- but even during the week I remember hearing it from my room when I couldn’t sleep- my mom had it on every nite

Me too

Jason Glover and all, I was watching two Carson skits last night on another channel. I was allowed to stay up late so I could watch him and Ed McMahon. I was 15 years old. I've been watching the reruns off and on and have come to the conclusion that we found the shows so entertaining was in part from having little to no political correctness or censorship. We know that now. I haven't seen any negative comments about the Johnny Carson show. not one, not even a troll ! Its just amazing how many people watched and miss him. Including myself. The two skits I spoke of are, Ed Ames ( an American Indian actor) about to show Johnny Carson how to throw a tomahawk ! The other is with carnack, Sis, Boom, Bah! Both are hilarious, both are number 1 and 2 on a list of 10. Edit: There's a little set up by Ed McMahon. Look for, Ed McMahon on the most popular carnac line on the Carson show. It's in the same thumbnail grouping as sis boom bah.

@@puzzlefactory6447 Smoking cigarettes on the set during the show- and yes- no PC bullsh*t back then- Rickles was a good example of that- it’s just the way it was back then and no one got their panties in a bunch! Also I loved when Jim Fowler came on with animals- some of those were golden! Carson tried to be a trooper and play along but he was usually freaked out... Man...the good ol days of tv....

@@dkwoodsy2082 I had the similar experience when I was way younger before being in school. My parents would watch the Alfred Hitchcock show and I could hear it but wasn't allowed to watch it. The show was for adults and to scary! Finally I begged and pleaded. I was watching it on a regular basis. No nightmares!! But I am a psycho killer weirdo. LOL

And handsome.

Looks like huggy bear from starsky and hutch in his commercial...

Mine too. I loved staying up and watching with them when I was a teen. they're both gone now ..

@@catherinecrow5662 The talks shows were different back then, of course they picked on politicians and celebrities but it was across the board with no meanness and hatred like today. There is little on TV now days that interests me, this so called reality programing is nonsense to me, a little news and I am done.

If this was staged, Johnny did an excellent job of acting surprised when Martin ordered dinner...and then had the plate put on Johnny's desk. Acting like he and Johnny were at a restaurant instead of a TV studio in the middle of a broadcast.

@@ApartmentKing66 Of course it was, but the fact that he would go along with that is the point. He didn’t have to be the center of it all. He knew it would still be good for the show and the viewers.

Johnny is rather famous for his ego you dolt.

@@drdre4397 Perhaps off-stage but he had no ego on the air when it came to letting his guests shine. Dolt? Really???

Oh man Albert Brooks ventriloquist bit and the talk like Burt Lancaster with the potato bit were killer.

👍.

Reruns? It’s KZfaq boomer

@@ironmike5812 The boomer meme died months ago, get with the times

I can still remember Al Bendova and Ginny Statutory.

i love jimmy kimmel, way funnier than carson was. the reason people are watching this is because of steve martin.

I think Johnny seemed sluggish during this particular show.

Brilliant and super original.

I'm still looking for the FULL segment he did wherein he got all upset about having to leave, cried about it only to have Johnny tell him it was alright, and then the NEXT guest (whose name I forget, but had a serious tone to him typically relative to Steve), pulled the same thing leaving Steve on the floor in hysterics. It's that part specifically I'd like to see, as the first part is already easily found on here.

Agreed. He made Tommy Newsome funny!

That's so true. He knew when to go for a laugh, and when to play straight man for the guest.

The real one and only!

I will regret not valuing the show.

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Benny would have bitched more about it, which would have detracted a little more. Johnny was a serious pro about the whole gag. I think the only host now who would have played it on a similar level would be Conan, and maybe Colbert.

I think Johnny may have gotten some of his reactions from Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life (such as the way Groucho would look at the camera when something silly would happen). Comic greats all!!

still is. he’s not dead. 😉

Considering that was the name of the skit...wasn't hard to find: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eruPesdnl5mseqM.html

"Don't put your lips on it!"

“Oh, I know what that is”

@@Gardner0871public omg right !!

So was Steve Martin

Pretty sure I wore out a needle listening to that album lol

Cat Handcuffs!!!!

Same

We all do

As were the seventies. People had backbones back then and a sense of humor. Glad I grew up in those days

It really looks like its origin...

It's just a smoother Festrunk Brother.

Johnny was just that good!

still is!

It was like a blanket

Really? I meet a girl, take her hand and shove it down my pants, then cinch the belt and jump up and down? I thought it was funny, but the premise was he forces girls to give him a hand job. This an many other things would make MANY today consider this too "profane and nasty" to be aired. What you REALLY mean, is that they didn't say any words that offend YOU! This was not "clean" humor at all, and I am fine with that.

@@pdoylemi Good point, but I guess you don’t watch TV in 2021!

@@TC-dw6wg Yes, I do - what is your point? This was not "clean comedy" - it just didn't use words that offend you.

I remember when it was common to see people put out their cigarettes on the floors of public buildings. No one thought anything of it. Also doctors smoking cigarettes in hospital rooms while visiting their patients. My father was military and on payday was given two cartons of cigarettes along with his check. A lot of kids smoked back (I did) then and not many people cared. The world has changed.

@@MikeNaples I remember smoking in the hospital when going to visit someone who was ill. Crazy!

They can't do as he did, so they went to be political toadies instead. Requires no talent and yields the same bucks.

Their all little puppets now, just repeating what their told to say. Zero brain cells!

Yeah, and the hacks aren't even funny.

Truth

Oh nice, this comment again. At least you put it in all caps, that makes it even better!

@@ejflor1313 OK KAREN

I get (I'm born in the early 60s) that many say that ---- but honestly --- NONE of the 2020 talk-show hosts are bad at all. They're all stand-up people, kind hosts who watched and worshipped Johnny Carson. We all know and will remember he's #1. Letterman and all will always say so. But to call the (4-5) hosts of various tonight shows "hacks" ----- is just wrong. My $0.02.

For the girlfriend or the mother? LOL

I didn't know Steve did comedy as a young boy

I agree Liz. Today their just puppets for the networks. Haven’t watched in many years!

He was a despicable man

Sure let the tail wag the dog. Maybe start with the politics first, if you want to blame.

There were politics too. The thing is - it was funny.

Trumpster and his right wing fascism, plus his LUNACY, plus his mendacity--all calls for comedy... and that is the tragedy,

@@StevenTorrey It's not that comedy shows shouldn't do political commentary, but that's ALL they do at this point, like a sad one-trick pony.

@@julianhermanubis6800 right there with you, comedy should be an escape

I kept looking at that guy; and said that's Huggy Bear. Was looking for someone to mention it and your comment proved me right. Thanks for that!!