Does Colbert even claim to be a comedian? The giveaway is his audience so often applauds instead of laughs. It is my understanding that he is entirely an in-kind soft money contribution to the Democrat Party.
His response to why he didn't cover serious issues: " That's not why I'm there. Once you start to do that you feel a sense of self importance, you shouldn't. I don't feel you should try to sway people." EVERY current night time show host needs to hear those words and learn from Carson.
@Jack Jones . . . I suspect the advent of cable TV programming, and to do whatever it takes to draw in an audience for ratings, has shifted the topic landscape when it comes to night time talk shows. You have to consider that behind the TV talk show host, as the face of the show, there are executive producers behind-the-scenes that dictates the format, and direction, of the show . . . where the quality of the content takes a back seat to what draws in viewers. When it comes to commercial TV in the US, it's all about viewership numbers to attract advertisers. The salaciousness of the TV show hosted Jerry Springer, where he said, in a moment of candor when interviewed on another TV show, that he'd host a cooking show if it could bring in the same viewing numbers as his (then) current show had with its tawdry topics.
I like the way Johnny described his drinking issues, dead honest, no illusions about what the drink did to his personality, admirable to acknowledge one's flaws without flinching.
I loved Johnny. I use to stay up on school nights to watch his show. He was so loved and so funny! So classy! The last of the greatest. No one will ever come close!
Johnny knew the key to longevity on TV... Keep it light, don't be too serious. Today's late night talk show hosts are now political and stink up the place. Carson was the king and it has been all down hill after he retired.
Johnny was one of a kind! I especially loved his shows when he had animals on them, hilarious sometimes! A good interviewer, he brought out the best in a lot of those whom he chatted with on his show. Today's late-night shows are NOTHING compared to those in Johnny's era. We don't even have any interest in them and haven't for quite a while now. We watched some, but finally learned to just watch something worthwhile at that late hour!
This is probably the best interview of Johnny,....he seemed to trust Mike Wallace...and he was very, very shy….Ed McMahon once said that anybody who tells you they really know Johnny Carson is lying to you.Because I've been with him longer than anybody and I don't really know him..
Big Bill O'Reilly For instance: You're yet another unintelligent lout, and it'd serve you well to stifle yourself, so as to attenuate the unutterable gravitas of your profound idiocy. I'd implore that you practice explication before assertation, but it'd be an egregious perversion of the truth to errantly presume your capacity to do so. So, I'll just all-too cordially admonish that you relinquish yourself unto your ineluctable improvidence, until it inevitably induces your permanent cessation, thereby clensing the world's undertow of its panoply of dregs, as-per Darwin's natural selection, affording the space with which to environ a being actually worth its salt, as opposed to you.
Thanks for posting this clip! Johnny was a National Treasure and his Legacy lives on. As far as these Celebrity Talk Shows he was the Zenith at the top of the game. From about the mid-70's growing up in Los Angeles. There were like three things I would stay up and watch late at Night. The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, Love American Style and Get Smart. No wonder I didn't "Get Smart" in school...I use to dream of going to College, when I use to fall asleep in High School.
I loved watching Johnny so much! I heard that he was very depressed all the time and he hid it through his comical personality. I miss you and thought you were the greatest comedy late night tv host! Nobody could ever fill your shoes! RIP, Johnny!
Johnny the man may have had his issues (who doesn't), but Johnny the performer was pure class. He mentioned Benny, Skelton...he is right there with them.
Thank you for posting this (and Part 2)! I've never seen anything like this on Johnny Carson, and it was very enjoyable. Whatever Johnny was "really like" as a person, his class, greatness, and incomparable legacy entertainer can't be denied. :-)
Johnny and Mike Wallace both have “it”, absolutely simply a wonderful interview. Clever, honest and frankly goose pimples good 👍 thank you greatly for this post 😃
Great interview. I had forgotten how straight forward Mike Wallace was. I am probably among the few middle age people, who has never seen The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I have seen a few clips here, on youtube, but no one in my family ever watched the show. I find Johnny very interesting. He's so charming; I can see why people gravitated to him.
He was a class act, he lived quite modestly for who he was and what he was. When he retired he sure stayed out of the limelight. I caught that last television appearance he made on Letterman after he retired. It's on youtube here somewhere. Wow...The standing ovation he got was unreal(!!) I'd like to get the dvd collection "The Best of Carson". I could go back and watch some of those shows forever. The sketches were hillarious. Better than some of the stuff that's on now.
Emphysema probably got em all, it gets ANYONE who smoked for over 9 months. Even if you quit, after 9 months, you are toast. Horrible death from all accounts. The cruelest of diseases are the ones where you can't breath for years before the disease takes you. You just want to die.
As far as talk show hosts go, there were a litany of them. Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Steve Allen, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Ferguson have all entertained us this way. However, the one person that linked these guys together was Johnny Carson, because of the fact that he went head to head with Berle, Benny, and Allen in the ratings, and mentored Leno, Letterman, O'Brien, and Ferguson later in his career, which lasted over 30 years.
Back in the 80's we watched Johnny religously. Of couse,back in those days we stayed up all hours. Even when Johnny's monolgues were going south..he was always funny or sharp as hell. I haven't watched anyone since Letterman.
@@deluxentertainment3 I suspect that Carson, who was a genius at being a late night talk show host, had difficulties in his personal relationships, especially with women, as a result of his horrible relationship with his mother. He hated her and upon her death uttered, "The wicked witch is dead" and didn't attend her funeral.
@@RCGoetzke - Poor - poor Johnny Carson. He was just so intelligent and well spoken. Unlike the horrible late night idiots they have today. I'm just commenting about Johnny Carson's on air presence. Looks can be deceiving though, especially in dinosaur media.
@@RCGoetzke - I can assure you Mr. Robert G., I am absolutely certain that Johnny Carson did not resemble Mother Theresa. I don't think he was shooting for that brass ring. I can't really think of one comedian that did. Maybe they should.
That is because late-night TV was a 60's creation. Fathers and Mothers were raising the kids, so we went to bed while they watched. Eventually, Viet Nam, and other reality TV shows destroyed what was left.
King of late night 🌙 T.V. ...no rivals ...I don't owe Johnny nothing ...he just is the king 🤴 ...I do owe him something truly ...a huge thank you for entertaining folks 👏 helping to unite society 🎭 through the many great artists, who graced his stage
By far the best Talk show host ever. See, this interview shows he was just a man like us. As much money that he had he really did not live beyond his means. Then again 3 EX's can take a chunk but with all do respect. I LOVED JOHNNY!
That's one of the reasons why night show hosts suck now is they think we all want to hear their political views. I could give two shats in hell. Just make me laugh or even just smile before I go to bed at night. Carson was the Godfather.
@@RollingOrmond If we stick to the Constitution (you know... that document that is the foundation of our laws) and get back to treating others they way we would like to be treated (got that one from a VERY good book you might want to brush up on as well) and provide equity of opportunity for all (in a word "Capitalism") then what you're sighting as 'our slide' obviously can not and will not happen... But you just keep on blaming others, slandering and name calling and looking for fights... All the while living in the most equitable, richest, highest standard of living country in the history of mankind....
Darn right! I'd trade the whole lot...and throw in Ellen, Oprah, Arsenio, Rivers, all of 'em...to bring Johnny back. He was the true King of Comedy, bringing the torch over from Hope and Benny for television, and he is sorely missed.
Johnny Carson was one of a kind - he was funny - classy - and considerate. Privately why would anyone care - he was a public entertainer and he had the best laugh on television - RIP Johnny - Aloha
Grew up without a dad. Johnny was a surrogate, in a way. A familiar face, someone you knew you shouldn't mess with, but also someone to be respected. A little abstract, but I loved the guy
Sadly, today's late night narcissistic propaganda spouters for the Deep State - Democrats, believe their own press releases and wouldn't find themselves within 5 miles of learning anything from this.
The period from 1975 - 1980 seems to be, from what I can tell, the pinnacle of Johnny's stardom. I'm not talking about the quality or ratings of the show in that period, but the type and amount of coverage he received. This 60 Minutes segment was '79, I think, the year after a massive (and brilliant) profile piece in the New Yorker by Ken Tynan. All I can put it down to is that that was the period where Johnny's talent and coolness intersected with tenure.
This is true and scary, already thought of these things before but even more eerie that a late night host actually acknowledged it years ago yet here we are now 0_0
I'm a ex smoker and I use to watch Johnny smoke one after another.I don't miss it at all and wish I never started.Please if you don't smoke don't try it.
Bubba Still very true. When his contract at NBC was almost up, ABC offered to double his salary (without even knowing what it was), let him work 3 days a week AND own the show. That’s clout.
I am as big a Carson as anyone. And when the show ended I missed him and just wished they would show reruns at least. Now? Thanks to UA-cam and streaming services like Pluto I can watch him any time I want to. Which I do. I love him. I will always watch him. I love technology.
Leelo Haskin You lack a grasp so fundamental as that of the language by which you've spewed your crass exclamation, so stop masquerading as someone with even the slightest grasp of the political paradigm within the U.S.
@@FoolishLearner you think you're intelligent? Seriously you're about a s sharp as box of rocks, you're on the same level as Trump, so I said what I said what part of it do you not understand dummie? Padagrim? Yep you're high on the spectrum alright but it's not the IQ spectrum.
I told UK Music Fans about how Ed McMahon Hosted Star Search and the "Non-Winners" become Superstars and the Winners don't make it. I think him, and Dick Clark were very passionate about what they do.
Watching this reminds me of how dead on "The Larry Sanders Show" was in parodying a late- night show. When Ed McMahon walked in the producer's office pushing the cat on Johnny I immediately thought of Hank Kingsley.
He was a multi-millionaire and supposedly someone found some 16mm film(s) at his ex-wife's house showing them in action, turns out Johnny had some hidden equipment. He was the man about town in the 70's, the King of LA.
Although I was fairly young when Johnny was in his prime...MY “barometer” on his greatness, echos many of the same sentiments all of you have shared, & that is....NO ONE has ever been able to measure up to him, & the bar he set with his nonpareil talent. If you all recall, the only one to ever come reasonably close to him was Arsenio Hall. BUT, this occurred when Johnny’s retirement was imminent. Probably one of the most complex (& complicated) superstar entertainers to ever live. But no one can ever question his genius. We will ALL pass away before there is even the slightest chance of anyone being able to replicate Johnny and the master that he was at his craft!
My wife and I don't watch Colbert or Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel we turn to channel 9.2 and watch Johnny Carson reruns.
the latest jimmy night shows are pretty crap
johnny & dick!
@@general5886 are u still alive?
Does Colbert even claim to be a comedian? The giveaway is his audience so often applauds instead of laughs. It is my understanding that he is entirely an in-kind soft money contribution to the Democrat Party.
His response to why he didn't cover serious issues: " That's not why I'm there. Once you start to do that you feel a sense of self importance, you shouldn't. I don't feel you should try to sway people." EVERY current night time show host needs to hear those words and learn from Carson.
Your right on!
@Jack Jones . . . I suspect the advent of cable TV programming, and to do whatever it takes to draw in an audience for ratings, has shifted the topic landscape when it comes to night time talk shows.
You have to consider that behind the TV talk show host, as the face of the show, there are executive producers behind-the-scenes that dictates the format, and direction, of the show . . . where the quality of the content takes a back seat to what draws in viewers. When it comes to commercial TV in the US, it's all about viewership numbers to attract advertisers. The salaciousness of the TV show hosted Jerry Springer, where he said, in a moment of candor when interviewed on another TV show, that he'd host a cooking show if it could bring in the same viewing numbers as his (then) current show had with its tawdry topics.
So true! Mainly one sided
Jack Jones right on !!
Something tells me you wouldn't mind as long as it was democrats they were making fun of.
I like the way Johnny described his drinking issues, dead honest, no illusions about what the drink did to his personality, admirable to acknowledge one's flaws without flinching.
Johnny was pure class and that's what this generation would never understand.
He was a violent alcoholic who hit his wives.
this is a certified old fuck comment
I loved Johnny. I use to stay up on school nights to watch his show. He was so loved and so funny! So classy! The last of the greatest. No one will ever come close!
wonder if joan rivers thought he was classy he could be a ass at times but was still a huge fan
Johnny knew the key to longevity on TV... Keep it light, don't be too serious. Today's late night talk show hosts are now political and stink up the place. Carson was the king and it has been all down hill after he retired.
Yes. He was always smart to not alienate 1/2 the country like today's hosts do.
@@MrAitraining Yup!!!!!! Exactly!!!!!!! I Love Johnny Carson I Love The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson On Antenna TV!!!!!!
Johnny was one of a kind! I especially loved his shows when he had animals on them, hilarious sometimes! A good interviewer, he brought out the best in a lot of those whom he chatted with on his show.
Today's late-night shows are NOTHING compared to those in Johnny's era. We don't even have any interest in them and haven't for quite a while now. We watched some, but finally learned to just watch something worthwhile at that late hour!
God I miss him. he was a big part of my younger years. A class act in my opinion
I agree ..and Johnny was rocking a big screen tv back in 79 !
Scott Bastian nobody has been as good as him since. A lot of snark and smugness and partisanship. Carson had the gift of bringing everybody together.
@Eagle1 tell that to the average 15 million people that would watch him every night
Hi Scott- I've been enjoying the old 'Tonight' shows on 'Antenna TV' for the past 2 years. I'm sure you have too. Almost like Johnny is still with us.
Really?
This is probably the best interview of Johnny,....he seemed to trust Mike Wallace...and he was very, very shy….Ed McMahon once said that anybody who tells you they really know Johnny Carson is lying to you.Because I've been with him longer than anybody and I don't really know him..
These late night hosts today should watch the clip of him saying why he doesn't bring serious topics to his show.
He was so good. Johnny was very, very political (he imitated Reagan many times) but it was just fun criticism.It wasnt bitter or mean-spirited...
@Big Bill O'Reilly !
Big Bill O'Reilly Caps-lock is how the uneducated exclaim through text.
Big Bill O'Reilly Far from it.
Big Bill O'Reilly For instance: You're yet another unintelligent lout, and it'd serve you well to stifle yourself, so as to attenuate the unutterable gravitas of your profound idiocy.
I'd implore that you practice explication before assertation, but it'd be an egregious perversion of the truth to errantly presume your capacity to do so.
So, I'll just all-too cordially admonish that you relinquish yourself unto your ineluctable improvidence, until it inevitably induces your permanent cessation, thereby clensing the world's undertow of its panoply of dregs, as-per Darwin's natural selection, affording the space with which to environ a being actually worth its salt, as opposed to you.
Boy could today’s Hollywood elite take a lesson from Johnny when it comes to talking politics with their platforms!!
AHHH Johnny.....what a great show. Everybody in the nation watched.....Ten PM weeknights, the country lay in bed and watched Carson.
It was a great way to end the day.
On the east coast he came on at 11:30 till 1:00. Then they shortened it to one hour.
Thanks for posting this clip! Johnny was a National Treasure and his Legacy lives on. As far as these Celebrity Talk Shows he was the Zenith at the top of the game. From about the mid-70's growing up in Los Angeles. There were like three things I would stay up and watch late at Night. The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, Love American Style and Get Smart. No wonder I didn't "Get Smart" in school...I use to dream of going to College, when I use to fall asleep in High School.
I loved watching Johnny so much! I heard that he was very depressed all the time and he hid it through his comical personality. I miss you and thought you were the greatest comedy late night tv host! Nobody could ever fill your shoes! RIP, Johnny!
Johnny the man may have had his issues (who doesn't), but Johnny the performer was pure class. He mentioned Benny, Skelton...he is right there with them.
Robert Bacjand: Jack Benny was his idol. He soooooooo respect Benny.
It's hard to believe we've been without Johnny now for almost as long as he hosted "Tonight."
I assume you mean since he retired, (almost 30 years ago), rather than when he died? He died about 15 years ago.
So miss Johnny! Such a class act!
"Here's Johnny" ! Class Act
Thank you for posting this (and Part 2)! I've never seen anything like this on Johnny Carson, and it was very enjoyable. Whatever Johnny was "really like" as a person, his class, greatness, and incomparable legacy entertainer can't be denied. :-)
There is, and only, will be ONE Johnny! Nobody today even comes close!!!!!
Carson is so right about late night hosts staying away from serious issues. I wish it were like that today!
I loved that man
Johnny and Mike Wallace both have “it”, absolutely simply a wonderful interview. Clever, honest and frankly goose pimples good 👍 thank you greatly for this post 😃
Johnny was the best. Today's hosts are horrible
T Porchia I wonder how he felt when John Delorean got busted in The Cocaine Scandal
I know it sucks out there!
Hell yes they are!!!
Today's host are not good, but neither was Jonny, he was an asshole
Totally agree. Only one tonight show.
Great interview. I had forgotten how straight forward Mike Wallace was. I am probably among the few middle age people, who has never seen The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I have seen a few clips here, on youtube, but no one in my family ever watched the show. I find Johnny very interesting. He's so charming; I can see why people gravitated to him.
Leno wasn't 1/10 the comedian Carson was. The current comedians aren't 1/100 the comedian Leno was.
Rodney Dangerfield was great
Johnny at 5:45 is why I don't watch late night talk shows now. We miss you, Johnny!
I agree. And at 5:15 is why I don't watch any late night shows since Letterman retired.
He was a class act, he lived quite modestly for who he was and what he was. When he retired he sure stayed out of the limelight. I caught that last television appearance he made on Letterman after he retired. It's on youtube here somewhere. Wow...The standing ovation he got was unreal(!!) I'd like to get the dvd collection "The Best of Carson". I could go back and watch some of those shows forever. The sketches were hillarious. Better than some of the stuff that's on now.
Brown Bag Lunch. I don't know about everyone else, but that was downright sexy. RIP Sweet guy.
Johnny, Ed, Fred De Cordova and Mike Wallace are all dead now, only Doc is left and he is 90. R. I. P. Johnny, Ed, Fred and Mike.
I didn't know that Freddy DeCordova also directed the Jack Benny progran
Gone with the wind. Very sad.
You guys and your Good ol Days . geesh...their is always greatness...but you CANT DUPLICATE.
TRY watchin differant venues....so negative
Emphysema probably got em all, it gets ANYONE who smoked for over 9 months. Even if you quit, after 9 months, you are toast. Horrible death from all accounts. The cruelest of diseases are the ones where you can't breath for years before the disease takes you. You just want to die.
@@harpoon_bakery162 GRIM Bringer
GREAT MAN!!!!
Carson was great entertainer, but he hardly was a great man.
Not Really!!!
one of a kind RIP
As far as talk show hosts go, there were a litany of them. Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Steve Allen, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Ferguson have all entertained us this way. However, the one person that linked these guys together was Johnny Carson, because of the fact that he went head to head with Berle, Benny, and Allen in the ratings, and mentored Leno, Letterman, O'Brien, and Ferguson later in his career, which lasted over 30 years.
Loved him
It’s so so sad this amazing man is no longer with us 😢😢😢😢
Johnny Carson makes me proud to be a Nebraskan.
Nebraska has a mean drunk problem?
@Eagle1 he was shy, not cold
@@tombryan1 try not to be forgotten when you die
@@tombryan1 LOL!!!
@@tombryan1Just as your home state apparently has an education problem.
A fantastic interview of the great Johnny Carson. His thoughtfulness really shown through.
What a pure class act. Very rare quality these days..it’s all gone down hill since he left
Boy, do we ALL miss this true talent!
5:35 jimmy, seth, jimmie and stephen need ro watch this!!!!
I miss Johnny & his sjow. I am glad i was alive and old enough to experience, understand & enjoy his wonderful talent. RIP Johnny 💟
There will never be another Johnny Carson. A late night legend. A class act.
Johnny Carson's fake laugh sounds like "I can have you killed"
Saturday Night Live could learn from this extraordinary entertainer. So could many of the other two bit comedians around these days.
Carson heard all that before, He was a national treasure. I'm forty four, My opinion, nobody will ever be like him. He reminds me of my dad.
I miss both these guys, from the good ol' days of television...
And it has all gone down the toilet since he left.
EXACTLY!!! He wasn't called, "The king of late night" for nothing!
And in a big way!!!
Back in the 80's we watched Johnny religously. Of couse,back in those days we stayed up all hours. Even when Johnny's monolgues were going south..he was always funny or sharp as hell. I haven't watched anyone since Letterman.
@Jeffrey Hinkel Oprah was not late night dummy
Knew it then know it now.It was never gonna be the same. And to me, Jay Leno was painful, Good grief. Why did they hire him???
The man has perfect musical taste! Miss you Johnny!
Johnny on drums is classy..Carson was class incarnate.
Jimmy kimmel should watch this.
and colbert
My wife and I don't watch Kimmel and a guy on Channel 5 Fallon and the guy on Channel 2 we watch 9.2 Johnny Carson reruns they're better
Jimmy is a jerk, no talented and most of all - NOT FUNNY!
Jimmy Fallon is a show off.
Kümmel, Colbert or Fallon would make a pimple on Carson’s ass.
5:32. Late night hosts now should be like this.
he beat his kids
John was King!! And will always be!!!!
I just love Johnny Carson. He's so giving.
He gave the shaft to quite a few people, many of whom had been family or friends.
@@RCGoetzke - I'm sure you're right. I'm only talking about his on air presence. Thanks for the insights.
@@deluxentertainment3 I suspect that Carson, who was a genius at being a late night talk show host, had difficulties in his personal relationships, especially with women, as a result of his horrible relationship with his mother. He hated her and upon her death uttered, "The wicked witch is dead" and didn't attend her funeral.
@@RCGoetzke - Poor - poor Johnny Carson. He was just so intelligent and well spoken. Unlike the horrible late night idiots they have today. I'm just commenting about Johnny Carson's on air presence. Looks can be deceiving though, especially in dinosaur media.
@@RCGoetzke - I can assure you Mr. Robert G., I am absolutely certain that Johnny Carson did not resemble Mother Theresa. I don't think he was shooting for that brass ring. I can't really think of one comedian that did. Maybe they should.
The irony of time: all the famous people in this clip are deceased.
That is because late-night TV was a 60's creation. Fathers and Mothers were raising the kids, so we went to bed while they watched. Eventually, Viet Nam, and other reality TV shows destroyed what was left.
People die.
King of late night 🌙 T.V. ...no rivals ...I don't owe Johnny nothing ...he just is the king 🤴 ...I do owe him something truly ...a huge thank you for entertaining folks 👏 helping to unite society 🎭 through the many great artists, who graced his stage
They were great, watched johnnies every night, it was sad that the show ended, I watch the last show, I cried way back then,
I watch the re runs.
❤️
The only king of late night . Kimmel and that wimp Colbert need to watch and learn !
So true!
Steve Allen invented Late Night and he was good at it. Jack Parr succeeded Allen and he was good at it.
For a man who had a net worth in the Hundreds of Millions, he was very modest. He had such a calm and polite demeanor.
By far the best Talk show host ever. See, this interview shows he was just a man like us. As much money that he had he really did not live beyond his means. Then again 3 EX's can take a chunk but with all do respect. I LOVED JOHNNY!
That's one of the reasons why night show hosts suck now is they think we all want to hear their political views. I could give two shats in hell. Just make me laugh or even just smile before I go to bed at night. Carson was the Godfather.
+moncorp1 the other thing is that unlike myself and others, is that more often than not, he listened AND helped the guests look good and shine.
Amen!
Yeah, just smile and watch the country slide into fascism and racism without comment. Have a good sleep, sheep :)
@@RollingOrmond If we stick to the Constitution (you know... that document that is the foundation of our laws) and get back to treating others they way we would like to be treated (got that one from a VERY good book you might want to brush up on as well) and provide equity of opportunity for all (in a word "Capitalism") then what you're sighting as 'our slide' obviously can not and will not happen... But you just keep on blaming others, slandering and name calling and looking for fights... All the while living in the most equitable, richest, highest standard of living country in the history of mankind....
Rolling Ormond I'd venture to assert that you don't even know what Fascism is. Also, would you care to define your terms and provide a citation?
Darn right! I'd trade the whole lot...and throw in Ellen, Oprah, Arsenio, Rivers, all of 'em...to bring Johnny back. He was the true King of Comedy, bringing the torch over from Hope and Benny for television, and he is sorely missed.
Johnny was one of a kind ...none these current night show host could hold his water ...
He used his show to provide entertainment, not serious issues. Too bad Cobert, Fallon and Kimmel don't do the same!
Big Bill O'Reilly o thanks for the offer but unlike you I don’t offer sex to guys!
@Big Bill O'Reilly yeah keep talkin been going on for a little over two years now just keep talking.
Back then we had Cronkite, not Hannity, Tucker (because he tucks), etc.
Amen !
@@theforemostauthority2806
"The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine."
Mike Wallace, a hero made by tearing apart other people, how sad
Johnny Carson: The best damn late-night host of all time.
If today's late night hosts had this outlook it might not be shit to watch. I miss you, Mr. Carson.
Johnny Carson was THE Late Night Host. No one, today, comes close to this mans class and talent. R.I.P. Mr. Carson.
5:48 He was watching the broken cigarette box clip. 😂
Johnny Carson was one of a kind - he was funny - classy - and considerate. Privately why would anyone care - he was a public entertainer and he had the best laugh on television - RIP Johnny - Aloha
really before his time when he used statement "go hard on em".. lol
Yes, at 5:30, he explains why it is wrong to discuss serious issues as a talk show host.
Grew up without a dad. Johnny was a surrogate, in a way. A familiar face, someone you knew you shouldn't mess with, but also someone to be respected. A little abstract, but I loved the guy
ICON - In the real meaning of it. ............Thanks for the ..His SOUL is around. Thanks
The blueprint.
Johnny Carson was the G. O. A. T.
Today's garbage that call themselves late night comics could learn a lot from this interview.
Sadly, today's late night narcissistic propaganda spouters for the Deep State - Democrats, believe their own press releases and wouldn't find themselves within 5 miles of learning anything from this.
Funny how you can get to know and like a person you never met I really liked and cared for Johnny !
Wow! Brilliant!
The period from 1975 - 1980 seems to be, from what I can tell, the pinnacle of Johnny's stardom. I'm not talking about the quality or ratings of the show in that period, but the type and amount of coverage he received. This 60 Minutes segment was '79, I think, the year after a massive (and brilliant) profile piece in the New Yorker by Ken Tynan.
All I can put it down to is that that was the period where Johnny's talent and coolness intersected with tenure.
Continuous tone of sarcasm and underhanded rudeness from them BOTH!!
Love the realness and mind games they pla!! ;D
I say Carson won. He has that look in his eyes like a cat playing with a mouse.
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This is true and scary, already thought of these things before but even more eerie that a late night host actually acknowledged it years ago yet here we are now 0_0
I'm a ex smoker and I use to watch Johnny smoke one after another.I don't miss it at all and wish I never started.Please if you don't smoke don't try it.
Damned good advice. It goes for anything addictive too, in my opinion.
@@jimreily7538 Agree 100%
Nothing like a cup of coffee and a smoke to start the day, you just have to limit them like all vices.
Two masters of their respective crafts/rest in peace Mike & Johnny
I loved the fact that then,he had a whole network over a barrel.A tribute to his massive talent......
Bubba Still very true. When his contract at NBC was almost up, ABC offered to double his salary (without even knowing what it was), let him work 3 days a week AND own the show. That’s clout.
I am as big a Carson as anyone. And when the show ended I missed him and just wished they would show reruns at least. Now? Thanks to UA-cam and streaming services like Pluto I can watch him any time I want to. Which I do. I love him. I will always watch him. I love technology.
In this interview THE Johnny Carson from the grave rips Colbert, Kimmel, et al who use their shows to promote their political beliefs.
Can't ignore the world but yeah that is a solid critique.
@reignman2112 fuck trump
Leelo Haskin You lack a grasp so fundamental as that of the language by which you've spewed your crass exclamation, so stop masquerading as someone with even the slightest grasp of the political paradigm within the U.S.
@@FoolishLearner you think you're intelligent? Seriously you're about a s sharp as box of rocks, you're on the same level as Trump, so I said what I said what part of it do you not understand dummie?
Padagrim? Yep you're high on the spectrum alright but it's not the IQ spectrum.
Leelo Haskin You can't even manage to type a tangential aspersion in proper grammatical English. 😂😂😂
What he says at 5:20 is so spot on. Modern celebs should take note!
I told UK Music Fans about how Ed McMahon Hosted Star Search and the "Non-Winners" become Superstars and the Winners don't make it. I think him, and Dick Clark were very passionate about what they do.
Dick Clark had more surgeries than Joan Rivers ever had.
I'll put a pound to the penny that Johnny Carson was an #INFJ He was for sure an Introvert,,, and he was brillant..
I agree.
When Carson talked about Wilber Mills shows how much class he had. Something that Kimmel and Colbert will never have.
Watching this reminds me of how dead on "The Larry Sanders Show" was in parodying a late- night show. When Ed McMahon walked in the producer's office pushing the cat on Johnny I immediately thought of Hank Kingsley.
I'm amazed Mike Wallace looked in the mirror after dying his hair like that and said "I look good enough to go on national tv "....lol
National treasure? Yep!
Super super guy he was
He was a multi-millionaire and supposedly someone found some 16mm film(s) at his ex-wife's house showing them in action, turns out Johnny had some hidden equipment. He was the man about town in the 70's, the King of LA.
Class.
Listen @ 5:07....every entertainer should listen to that ..Best 20 seconds EVER!!!!!
Such a class human person...
Johnny Carson. The Tonight Show. Part of my early years.
There will never be another like him. He set the bar too high.
Although I was fairly young when Johnny was in his prime...MY “barometer” on his greatness, echos many of the same sentiments all of you have shared, & that is....NO ONE has ever been able to measure up to him, & the bar he set with his nonpareil talent. If you all recall, the only one to ever come reasonably close to him was Arsenio Hall. BUT, this occurred when Johnny’s retirement was imminent. Probably one of the most complex (& complicated) superstar entertainers to ever live. But no one can ever question his genius. We will ALL pass away before there is even the slightest chance of anyone being able to replicate Johnny and the master that he was at his craft!