29:50 - Letterman had a point here, because from 1980 onwards Johnny's deal with NBC was just fantastic ... for Johnny. He worked only three nights a week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On Monday there was a guest host (Joan Rivers, Jay Leno etc), and on Tuesday was The Best of Carson. The shows were also shortened to just 60 minutes each. Johnny would only work 37 weeks in the year, with 15 weeks off on vacation. And for this he was paid in today's money close to $25 million a year!
@@pronemanoldbutyoung5548 I think Johnny's 1980 contract called for "only" $5 million/year, which was astronomical for that time. But the contract point which most indicated the power he wielded was ownership of his show (and financial interest in whatever show aired at 12:30, which at that time was Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow"). It was also at this time that he was given additional days off and shortened working hours.
@@35diamondgirl I have read a bit about Johnny's typical work schedule from around 1982. He was hosting Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for 37 weeks of the year. He arrived at NBC Studios at Burbank around 2.00pm after lunch, and got ready for the show with taping done "as live" from 5.30pm - 6.30pm and then he got changed and left NBC by 8pm for dinner. Nice work!
@Preesi music is different. I'm 36 so by the time I was up watching Letterman he was a buzz cut old man. Turns out he was post-triple bypass by then too. I was unaware until recently about the cutting edge late late night show from the 80's. Thus video is the sharpest I've seen him anyhoo
Thanks so much for posting this classic Carson farewell show! I remember seeing it in 1992 during Johnny’s final farewell shows. As a kid I also still remember the early Dean Martin, George Goebel, Bob Hope, etc.. classic moments on Carson, but I think this show even topped those. The Letterman/Eastwood tie/socks spat is priceless!
1 min 56 : ( On the show ) : "David Letterman : He's going to plant himself at the desk and claim Squatter's Rights" .... Very good ! 🇬🇧☺️ ☺️🇬🇧💕🇺🇸🦉☺️🇬🇧
David corrected himself from "stewardess" to "flight attendant" quickly, acknowledging how forever into eternity we are an evolving culture, updating language and norms routinely. It's not just in the moment, folks.
@@rhoadnaroahs But that's not the case. Every era is "politically correct" compared to the one before it, especially in media. Don used language in this video that was "politically correct" compared to what would have been said in the 1940s or 1910s. I'm sure people born in 1904 watching this episode live were bemoaning the "PC" era of The Tonight Show. People, as they age, fail to recognize this shift, and therefore believe as they're older that things are "PC" now when it's simply riding the same wave we have for centuries.
aribam athoiba Well, bad money management basically. And the divorce also of course. Ed was in debt even and some show business friends had to bail him out so he could keep his bel air house. Really tragic, Ed was such a huge part of Johnnys success.
@@Bertiesghost Both McMahon and DeCordova suffered financial problems. Carson had hired Fred De Cordova because he had produced Johnny's idol, Jack Benny. De Cordova and wife Janet represented old Hollywood opulence and spent accordingly, and Janet was left in debt when Fred died. Carson sent a $100,000 check. (The Tonight Show actually had two executive producers--De Cordova and Peter Lassally. De Cordova was outgoing and funny, and he loved to schmooze the guests, especially the old Hollywood elite like Bob Hope, George Burns, Frank Sinatra, etc. While De Cordova was charming the guests, Lassally was doing the actual day-to-day grunt work of producing the show. Their system of co-producing the show worked very well for over 20 years.)
@@stacynels4He hated the company that took over NBC, GE (General Electric)...which is why he turned it down. He was certainly very candid about it when they took over too. He gave no fucks about bad mouthing the big bosses.
I remember watching, openly cringing, and being embarrassed for both Bob Hope and Johnny Carson. All of Hope's appearances in the late '80s/early '90s were scripted because he'd grown hard of hearing and unable to follow conversations or be spontaneous. This appearance was particularly hard to watch because Hope didn't seem to grasp that Johnny was retiring. Carson never rejected Hope's request to appear on the show, because he was Bob Hope, but his diminished capability influenced Carson's desire to retire while still sharp.
The ads are interesting. Never lived in Murrica, so have never seen any before. I assume some people were stupid enough to buy the crap they were selling.
@@uba51 Not the USA, which puts me somewhere in the more intelligent part of the world. How was the rally in Tulsa? Did you show your independence by not wearing a mask? Any chance of you keeping your disease in your own country, or will you continue to export it to the rest of the world?
JCO2002 Well, genius, for someone so very smart, you sure don’t know anything about me. I’m nowhere near Tulsa and wear a mask. And if your perfect country hasn’t received the virus yet - I think you’re lying. And you can thank China for this one, specially Wuhan. But, smart people know that’s where it originated from.
@@uba51 Yes, started in China, but your idiotic country, with your bible-thumpers and Luddites, have become the world's worst incubator. You should be placed under quarantine until you either all die or come to your senses.
Dammit, man... I miss those days, what great time to be alive
Always loved Letterman’s humor. One of the few that made me laugh. And he had class.
@@dappercanuck1852 you got a lot of time on your hands
Tell that to the women staff that he harassed and bullied.
He's as funny as a burning orphanage.
Carson’s eulogy had me in tears.
Even the ads were great back then.
The commercials are seriously a gem
hate that it cut off early. thanks for posting.
29:14 - Dave: Things ain't that great. Carson: Still Pissed, huh?
Carson is sooo witty with the one liners
29:50 - Letterman had a point here, because from 1980 onwards Johnny's deal with NBC was just fantastic ... for Johnny. He worked only three nights a week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On Monday there was a guest host (Joan Rivers, Jay Leno etc), and on Tuesday was The Best of Carson. The shows were also shortened to just 60 minutes each. Johnny would only work 37 weeks in the year, with 15 weeks off on vacation. And for this he was paid in today's money close to $25 million a year!
Alot of it went to his wife
He could have had $50 millions, the magic Johnny brought to hundred of millions of people all over the world have no price tag
@@pronemanoldbutyoung5548 I think Johnny's 1980 contract called for "only" $5 million/year, which was astronomical for that time. But the contract point which most indicated the power he wielded was ownership of his show (and financial interest in whatever show aired at 12:30, which at that time was Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow"). It was also at this time that he was given additional days off and shortened working hours.
@@35diamondgirl I have read a bit about Johnny's typical work schedule from around 1982. He was hosting Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for 37 weeks of the year. He arrived at NBC Studios at Burbank around 2.00pm after lunch, and got ready for the show with taping done "as live" from 5.30pm - 6.30pm and then he got changed and left NBC by 8pm for dinner. Nice work!
@@35diamondgirl ABC offered Johnny 25 million dollars per year and ownership with a 37 week work week and NBC matched.
This was a good show. They're all really good. But this one I enjoyed very much
God, I miss THAT Dave!
Pro trick : watch series on Flixzone. Been using them for watching loads of movies lately.
@Maddux Elian definitely, have been using Flixzone} for since november myself :D
I never understood the appeal of Letterman but seeing him as a guest here he is on fire.
Do you also not like Elton John?
@Preesi music is different. I'm 36 so by the time I was up watching Letterman he was a buzz cut old man. Turns out he was post-triple bypass by then too.
I was unaware until recently about the cutting edge late late night show from the 80's. Thus video is the sharpest I've seen him anyhoo
@@preesi1403can’t stand E. John
Letterman at his peak. Extremely funny.
''we love to fly and it shows''' peak dave
92 was a good year
AND WE'RE STILL WATCHING COMMERCIALS TODAY WITH FREE TV and we were so stupid back then loving it
Time keeps on slippin into the future
I know exactly what you mean. We're getting farther and farther away from those simpler times.
Duh, Patrick.
Ok Steve Miller 🙂
Still alive?
I wanna fly like an eagle... to the sea.
Thanks so much for posting this classic Carson farewell show! I remember seeing it in 1992 during Johnny’s final farewell shows. As a kid I also still remember the early Dean Martin, George Goebel, Bob Hope, etc.. classic moments on Carson, but I think this show even topped those. The Letterman/Eastwood tie/socks spat is priceless!
Letterman thought those white socks were stylish.. what a clown.
"Standing in line at the Sod Sizzler"... LMFAO!!!!
1 min 56 :
( On the show ) :
"David Letterman :
He's going to plant
himself at the desk
and claim
Squatter's Rights" ....
Very good ! 🇬🇧☺️
☺️🇬🇧💕🇺🇸🦉☺️🇬🇧
I miss the America of the 80s and 90s.
@@david2498 80s brought Magnum PI
We all loved Rowdy Yates!
Cool some 92 commercials..
At 38:44 the camera man missed an opportunity to cut to Eastwood's face for his reaction to letterman's story.
It is the director (Bobby Quinn here) who makes that decision.
He was lost in the moment
We are talking serious eye candy
Are you part of the audience that time while you're saying that?
Nothing can top the Monty Python dead parrot sketch but that was a pretty good variation on it
David corrected himself from "stewardess" to "flight attendant" quickly, acknowledging how forever into eternity we are an evolving culture, updating language and norms routinely. It's not just in the moment, folks.
Yeah, the dawn of political correctness.
@@rhoadnaroahs But that's not the case. Every era is "politically correct" compared to the one before it, especially in media. Don used language in this video that was "politically correct" compared to what would have been said in the 1940s or 1910s. I'm sure people born in 1904 watching this episode live were bemoaning the "PC" era of The Tonight Show. People, as they age, fail to recognize this shift, and therefore believe as they're older that things are "PC" now when it's simply riding the same wave we have for centuries.
Well back then the democrat party wasn't a communist socialist Marxist one. For starters
@@8corymix8 Grow up
It’s wasn’t that deep relax 😂
Heaviest scheduled guest lineup in talk show history?
Unfortunately, Ed didn't save his money.
What happened?
aribam athoiba Well, bad money management basically. And the divorce also of course. Ed was in debt even and some show business friends had to bail him out so he could keep his bel air house. Really tragic, Ed was such a huge part of Johnnys success.
I thought that was Fred de Corva the producer? Johnny bailed his widow out with $100k.
@@Bertiesghost Both McMahon and DeCordova suffered financial problems. Carson had hired Fred De Cordova because he had produced Johnny's idol, Jack Benny. De Cordova and wife Janet represented old Hollywood opulence and spent accordingly, and Janet was left in debt when Fred died. Carson sent a $100,000 check. (The Tonight Show actually had two executive producers--De Cordova and Peter Lassally. De Cordova was outgoing and funny, and he loved to schmooze the guests, especially the old Hollywood elite like Bob Hope, George Burns, Frank Sinatra, etc. While De Cordova was charming the guests, Lassally was doing the actual day-to-day grunt work of producing the show. Their system of co-producing the show worked very well for over 20 years.)
DAVID MICHAEL LETTERMAN
12 DE ABRIL DE 1947
75 AÑOS (76)
Dave was cut off!
Gotta get me one of them Ford Escorts. Stylin’
They were a 1,000 times more reliable than anything you can buy today. And that's a fact.
The opening joke was "What does Kevin Hart need to walk up a flight of stairs?
Ooo if Carson could've seen what LA has turned into.
32:01 That car was a Gran Torino.
Fabulous
Letterman at 26:00
Shaughnessy should've given Dave a huge hit with the "no answer" phone joke lmao
Wish I understood the joke :)
I guess it refered to the stalker that kept breaking into Dave‘s home
25:05 Damn, I want that piece of shitsubishi, as my dad would say. Would love to have that car right now, lol.
Letterman would have been the perfect choice to do the Tonight Show.
I thought Leno was perfect. Like Dave too, but Leno was a better fit.
Letterman Respectfully turned down the "offer"...
@@stacynels4He hated the company that took over NBC, GE (General Electric)...which is why he turned it down.
He was certainly very candid about it when they took over too. He gave no fucks about bad mouthing the big bosses.
now Clint talks to chairs.
chairs are better listeners than people
Alzheimers. It would be sad if he weren't a republican, but that's the bottom half of the bell curve to begin with, so no surprise.
@@JCO2002 Clint certainly has more sense in his 90s than Biden, the hair sniffing, incomprehensible, corn pop idiot.
Indeed, very sad when someone goes off the deep end
30:06 making fun of Ed for managing to blow all the money he made from being a sidekick for Carson..
JOHN WILLIAM CARSON
23 DE OCTUBRE DE 1925
23 DE ENERO DE 2005
98 AÑOS
79 AÑOS
19 AÑOS
letterman with white socks (plaster feet)
White socks to gray whoa thrifty guy ! !👍👍👍
“one night a week?”
Where's Bob Hope?
+Fabian Castillo Sorry, Fabian, but that's all that taped. I'd like to say that doesn't happen with my DVR, but the more things change...
You can see Bob Hope on this show if you watch the Rainy Day Vids video that says David Letterman and Clint Eastwood
I remember watching, openly cringing, and being embarrassed for both Bob Hope and Johnny Carson. All of Hope's appearances in the late '80s/early '90s were scripted because he'd grown hard of hearing and unable to follow conversations or be spontaneous. This appearance was particularly hard to watch because Hope didn't seem to grasp that Johnny was retiring. Carson never rejected Hope's request to appear on the show, because he was Bob Hope, but his diminished capability influenced Carson's desire to retire while still sharp.
@@35diamondgirl I agree. Mr. Hope could have called his Specials quits, 10 to 20 years prior to this time and had a great run.
@@35diamondgirl
then there's Rickles who kept working when he had one foot in the grave..
The ads are interesting. Never lived in Murrica, so have never seen any before. I assume some people were stupid enough to buy the crap they were selling.
Where do you live that everyone is just so smart, like you?
@@uba51 Not the USA, which puts me somewhere in the more intelligent part of the world. How was the rally in Tulsa? Did you show your independence by not wearing a mask? Any chance of you keeping your disease in your own country, or will you continue to export it to the rest of the world?
JCO2002 Well, genius, for someone so very smart, you sure don’t know anything about me. I’m nowhere near Tulsa and wear a mask. And if your perfect country hasn’t received the virus yet - I think you’re lying. And you can thank China for this one, specially Wuhan. But, smart people know that’s where it originated from.
@@uba51 Yes, started in China, but your idiotic country, with your bible-thumpers and Luddites, have become the world's worst incubator. You should be placed under quarantine until you either all die or come to your senses.
JCO2002 And yet you still won’t reveal what perfect country you’re from or writing this trash from...
Waited decades for Letterman to be funny
dont hold ur breath6