It’s a testament to her talent that people thought she was like “Lucy”. In reality she wasn’t. She was honest & straightforward & didn’t suffer fools. She also had to be tough being the president of a studio at a time when women weren’t. She was quite a dame & I say that with all respect due.
@@TravelinBand747 This is like saying someone can replicate Malcolm X or MLK Jr. You can’t. You just cannot. There is good comedy, but it’s not coming from mainstream Hollywood. The 1970’s was a time when Hollywood personalities like Lucille Ball, Jimmy Stewart and Red Skelton were still around. Younger generations don’t know Johnny Carson or even Lucille Ball, and they probably never will. They’re too busy being obsessed with Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. Proving that all you need is good looks and a good body, instead of talent. Modern talk shows are just fluff that generally disregard their audience and guests. The good stuff now is from the indie stuff. Plenty of good content from small creators that offer drama, comedy and everything else in between. The days of Hollywood offering genuine entertainment like this are long over.
Yep. The time of studio executives wrecking the economy for shitty product placement and endless merchandise (Disney makes majority of revenue from streaming and toys) it’s pretty visible at this point too. Bob Igor will forever go down as dream killer.
@@rancidcrawfish It’s not a strange comparison, it’s what’s been going on. Johnny and Lucy are inimitable and therefore irreplaceable. The replacement? A bunch of whiny entitled Millennials and Zoomers with zero talent who have no passion for the industry they work in, especially if they’re in show business. Anyone old enough to have seen these old recordings first hand of The Tonight Show should feel very grateful.
What I like about this is it actually shows that Lucille Ball had a great sense of humor. She is often been sent to have not been funny and her personal life, but this shows that she could be funny outside of character.
Lucy herself would say she was not a funny person. By that she meant she wasn't witty. Funny comments did not spring forth out of her brain. However, she wss known to enjoy pulling pranks on people, sometimes elaborate ones that she might plan for a dinner party. So she could be funny in that way. The bit here with the teeth is an example of her prankster nature.
I had the pleasure of meeting Lucille Ball in 1986 at the launch party for her new “Life with Lucy” series. I was terrified of approaching her because after all this was LUCY!!!! But to my surprise, she was warm, welcoming and surprisingly humble. As we were saying our goodbyes, I casually wished her well on the new series and again to my surprise, she said “thanks I’m gonna need it”. I couldn’t believe that at this stage in her career she was STILL actually nervous about the premiere of her new show. But she was. And sadly once again, her instincts didn’t fail her…ABC canceled the series after only 8 of the 13 episodes aired. She deserved far better treatment from ABC. And three years later she was gone. Meeting this great lady was clearly one of the highlights of my life.
God, if I ever have the opportunity to host a Late Night Talk Show, I hope to be as charming, charismatic, and talented as Johnny Carson, and to interview legendary people like Lucille Ball. Rest In Peace to the both of them, and Ed as well.
My Late Mom was a great fan & admirer of Late.Lucille Ball's " I love lucy "show. Though my mom was doesn't understand a single word of english, she just loved reruns " lucy show" on india's national T.V. in 80's.
Johnny Carson served on USS Pennsylvania with my father at end of WWII. I have a picture of them together with others in their grouping of officers for their division. our father would tell us of it but until we saw the picture many years later we did not believe him.
I was born in 1970. I was introduced to the REAL Tonight Show with Johnny Carson by my grandparents when I'd go over and stay the night. By '78 or '79 I'd stay up late to watch Johnny every night and as I got older I started to realize that there will be a day when Johnny retires and how great he really is. Kind of like watching Michael Jordan. You know you're watching greatness and will be sad when it's gone. Look at the set. Vintage 70s. Man today sucks.
Because the Young people of today don't care about the past or how much better things were and people were in the 60s, 70s and the 1980s, it's horrible that they aren't interested in changing their views or even want to know about great people like these three and the worse part is they couldn't care less! Its not only horrible but unforgivable as well PERIOD!!!!!
@@scottmiller6495 Of course the younger generation don't care about the past. They never have?! The 60s was literally 60 years ago. During the 1960s you'd be hard pressed to find any teens listening to music or consuming content from 1905. The younger generation will always gravitate to what's popular at the time.That's why they listened to The Beatles despite their parents telling them to listen to Crosby or Sinatra...
@@toddfee9251 A lot of the older generation who grew up watching Steve Allen and Jack Paar host the Tonight Show in the 50s didn't like Johnny's take on the show. Sex was a frequent topic and the older generations hated that. Not only that but the man was an alcoholic so yeah...
2 Legends who forever will be within our hearts..I grew up during the 80’s and would watch I love Lucy and I didn’t Understand why it was in black and white until years later I found out it was filmed during the 50’s
It's good thing Ball and her husband at the time, Desi Arnaz, had the foresight and wisdom to insist, regardless of the additional expense involved, that the show be recorded on _film_ (quality stock no less) as opposed to the cheaper, less durable alternative available.
That's just luck. They did not plan to film the show. The only reason it was filmed was because CBS expected them to do the show live from New York, as they did not yrt have broadcast facilities in Los Angeles, but they didn't want to move to New York. So they came up with the idea of filming the show in Los Angeles like a few other CBS shows were doing (e.g , The Gene Autry Shiw). But comedy shows at the time normally were performed in front of a studio audience (but live), so Desi and his team then came up with the then-novel concept of filming in front of a studio audience.
To be truthful I love Lucy - always have since age 6 in 1951 - still do, it is now 2022. I love her tv roles, her movies - 10 especially A++. I know that she is generally not comfortable in interviews and often fidgets. She is not playing Lucy, she is being Lucille Ball. I have read her book, Love Lucy, and several books about her (Laughing with Lucy by Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll Jr) and at least 5-6 others. Seen Lucy Desi Home Movie; Lucy Desi movie by Amy Poehler; interviews by stars who knew her - Wonderful people themselves. She is great - had a very difficult childhood, always hard working even as a child; helped support her mother, mgf, brother and cousin early on. Supported her mother and mgf till they died. Lucy Ball gave they entire world laughter with I Love Lucy which seen in over 60 or more countries, with reruns somewhere in the world everyday. I thank her for her gift of laughter. In her 77 years of life, I think she worked 70 of them.
She’s the greatest woman comedian that ever walked on this planet. And to put up with Desi Arnez all those years she should get the trophy for that. But with all due respect, he was a genius and his own right.
Garry Marshall (creator of Happy Days) used to write jokes for Lucille Ball, and he was good at it and it kept him in business as a comedy writer early in his career. But she was a very harsh critic and known to get cranky at times. If she didn't like a joke, she would return it with a note attached. One day he wrote a joke for her and she returned it with a note simply saying "This joke is bull****"
Lucille Désirée Ball (Jamestown, Nueva York, 6 de agosto de 1911-Los Ángeles, California, 26 de abril de 1989) fue una comediante, actriz, modelo y productora ejecutiva estadounidense, famosa por protagonizar los programas I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy y Life with Lucy. Fue una de las estrellas más populares e influyentes en su país, con una de las carreras más largas de Hollywood,[2] especialmente en la televisión, donde Ball comenzó a actuar en la década de 1930. Llegó a convertirse en actriz de radio y estrella de películas clase B en los años 1940. Entre las décadas de 1960 y 1970, aún continuaba grabando películas.
Her Lucy character was more physical comedy. Lucille’s comedy is sarcastic. It’s sad that people don’t understand sarcasm anymore. Lucy was and will always be a gem.
I think this is the year she did ‘mame’ which was not a success as it came at the end of the big musical era. It was a good movie that can be enjoyed anytime.
@@phillipgrieshaber338 I agree about Mame - have seen it 3x: -1st time, 1 thought it was good, 2nd time thought it was very good, 3x thought it was great. Also I loved the Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell and loved and her too. However, one was a musical and one was not - they were different but really loved both. Rex Harrison talk/sang his part in the movie "My Fair Lady", nobody complained and he won an award for his role. Lucille Ball talked/sang her part in Mame and there were endless criticisms that she did such. Did not bother me a bit, neither did Rex Harrison's did not bother me, and I don't like Rex Harrison. Audrey Hepburn practiced her being able to sing in the same movie, but the powers that be insisted on dubbing her which lost her the Oscar in the same movie.
The king of late night interviewing the queen of comedy. RIP Johnny, Lucille and Ed.
1:30 RIP Bonnie
Is Ed dead? Quick question, who is Ed?
@@FrankIsAlwaysRight isn't it Ed McMahon?
@@ashleelarsen5002 Amen
@@FrankIsAlwaysRight Ed McMahon
What an absolute jewel of a person, Lucille is. Busting out those teeth is a wild ass move. What a legend.
Might want to ask her kids...
One of the greatest and most brilliant lady of all time, she was a beautiful and extremely talented icon of all time !!!!!
It’s a testament to her talent that people thought she was like “Lucy”. In reality she wasn’t. She was honest & straightforward & didn’t suffer fools. She also had to be tough being the president of a studio at a time when women weren’t. She was quite a dame & I say that with all respect due.
😊
She'd had made a great president
One of a kind, Lucy was amazing, she was professional and classy. RIP Lucy and thank you for the memories.
This is the most relaxed I’ve even seen Lucy Ball
Not only is there no Johnny Carson, but there are no guests like Johnny had. America doesn’t know what it’s lost. And probably never will. So sad…
While I loved Johnny, we survived his retirement. Life goes on. Just cherish the memories. Plenty of laughs to be found out there today.
@@TravelinBand747 This is like saying someone can replicate Malcolm X or MLK Jr. You can’t. You just cannot.
There is good comedy, but it’s not coming from mainstream Hollywood. The 1970’s was a time when Hollywood personalities like Lucille Ball, Jimmy Stewart and Red Skelton were still around.
Younger generations don’t know Johnny Carson or even Lucille Ball, and they probably never will. They’re too busy being obsessed with Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. Proving that all you need is good looks and a good body, instead of talent.
Modern talk shows are just fluff that generally disregard their audience and guests.
The good stuff now is from the indie stuff. Plenty of good content from small creators that offer drama, comedy and everything else in between.
The days of Hollywood offering genuine entertainment like this are long over.
Yep. The time of studio executives wrecking the economy for shitty product placement and endless merchandise (Disney makes majority of revenue from streaming and toys) it’s pretty visible at this point too. Bob Igor will forever go down as dream killer.
@@KratostheThird strange comparison
@@rancidcrawfish It’s not a strange comparison, it’s what’s been going on.
Johnny and Lucy are inimitable and therefore irreplaceable. The replacement? A bunch of whiny entitled Millennials and Zoomers with zero talent who have no passion for the industry they work in, especially if they’re in show business.
Anyone old enough to have seen these old recordings first hand of The Tonight Show should feel very grateful.
What I like about this is it actually shows that Lucille Ball had a great sense of humor. She is often been sent to have not been funny and her personal life, but this shows that she could be funny outside of character.
Lucy herself would say she was not a funny person. By that she meant she wasn't witty. Funny comments did not spring forth out of her brain. However, she wss known to enjoy pulling pranks on people, sometimes elaborate ones that she might plan for a dinner party. So she could be funny in that way. The bit here with the teeth is an example of her prankster nature.
Great lady and a wonderful business Woman. So ahead of her time! Never trashy.
Awesome! Lucille is beautiful, Johnny is amazing!🔥
I had the pleasure of meeting Lucille Ball in 1986 at the launch party for her new “Life with Lucy” series. I was terrified of approaching her because after all this was LUCY!!!! But to my surprise, she was warm, welcoming and surprisingly humble. As we were saying our goodbyes, I casually wished her well on the new series and again to my surprise, she said “thanks I’m gonna need it”. I couldn’t believe that at this stage in her career she was STILL actually nervous about the premiere of her new show. But she was. And sadly once again, her instincts didn’t fail her…ABC canceled the series after only 8 of the 13 episodes aired. She deserved far better treatment from ABC. And three years later she was gone.
Meeting this great lady was clearly one of the highlights of my life.
Great experience and well told, thanks for sharing
@@mattlaramie5400 thank you my friend👍🏼👍🏼
I wish I met her
@@UNITEDNATIONZSOUND I hear you, it really was a treat.
A true grand Dame of show business, and one hell of a broad!
Lucille Ball is a class act.
God, if I ever have the opportunity to host a Late Night Talk Show, I hope to be as charming, charismatic, and talented as Johnny Carson, and to interview legendary people like Lucille Ball. Rest In Peace to the both of them, and Ed as well.
The Best of the Best nothing like it ever again Period!!!!!
It cost him his family ..
We all LOVE Lucy. Such a gift to us all. Johnny too.
Great chemistry, Lucy and Johnny.
There stands a star. And as much as I love her outfit & jewelry, she is the true gem.
Damn, that necklace is non-stop blazing away. Stunning.
My Late Mom was a great fan & admirer of Late.Lucille Ball's " I love lucy "show. Though my mom was doesn't understand a single word of english, she just loved reruns " lucy show" on india's national T.V. in 80's.
I love how the King treats the Queen.
I just love Lucy!❤
This is priceless, thanks for this.
Sure loved seeing Lucy! Thank you so much. ❤
Johnny Carson served on USS Pennsylvania with my father at end of WWII. I have a picture of them together with others in their grouping of officers for their division. our father would tell us of it but until we saw the picture many years later we did not believe him.
Ew
I will loved her and I got to meet her when she was named Dame in Hollywood. She is so kind and funny. Johnny was the most adored.
She reminds me of my grandma; such a bad ass
Thank for posting this jam and sharing w the world! I LIVE for new Lucy interviews!! Thank you again!! 🧡💜🧡
I was born in 1970. I was introduced to the REAL Tonight Show with Johnny Carson by my grandparents when I'd go over and stay the night. By '78 or '79 I'd stay up late to watch Johnny every night and as I got older I started to realize that there will be a day when Johnny retires and how great he really is. Kind of like watching Michael Jordan. You know you're watching greatness and will be sad when it's gone. Look at the set. Vintage 70s. Man today sucks.
Same way you think today sucks I'm sure some of the older generation watching Johnny thought he "sucked"
@@KingpinTBM considering that previous generation had radio and not TV, I humbly disagree with you sir
Because the Young people of today don't care about the past or how much better things were and people were in the 60s, 70s and the 1980s, it's horrible that they aren't interested in changing their views or even want to know about great people like these three and the worse part is they couldn't care less! Its not only horrible but unforgivable as well PERIOD!!!!!
@@scottmiller6495 Of course the younger generation don't care about the past. They never have?! The 60s was literally 60 years ago. During the 1960s you'd be hard pressed to find any teens listening to music or consuming content from 1905. The younger generation will always gravitate to what's popular at the time.That's why they listened to The Beatles despite their parents telling them to listen to Crosby or Sinatra...
@@toddfee9251 A lot of the older generation who grew up watching Steve Allen and Jack Paar host the Tonight Show in the 50s didn't like Johnny's take on the show. Sex was a frequent topic and the older generations hated that. Not only that but the man was an alcoholic so yeah...
I could watch this clip over and over for a long time
Johnny and Lucy were great friends💗
2 Legends who forever will be within our hearts..I grew up during the 80’s and would watch I love Lucy and I didn’t Understand why it was in black and white until years later I found out it was filmed during the 50’s
It's good thing Ball and her husband at the time, Desi Arnaz, had the foresight and wisdom to insist, regardless of the additional expense involved, that the show be recorded on _film_ (quality stock no less) as opposed to the cheaper, less durable alternative available.
That's just luck. They did not plan to film the show. The only reason it was filmed was because CBS expected them to do the show live from New York, as they did not yrt have broadcast facilities in Los Angeles, but they didn't want to move to New York. So they came up with the idea of filming the show in Los Angeles like a few other CBS shows were doing (e.g , The Gene Autry Shiw). But comedy shows at the time normally were performed in front of a studio audience (but live), so Desi and his team then came up with the then-novel concept of filming in front of a studio audience.
Never a doubt. Lucy was, and always will be the greatest. ♡♡♡
God, she is amazing. Not afraid of anything except failure.
I was 11m-3days old when this aired
They don't make people like this anymore! 😪
Priceless interview
Another wonderful episode!
To be truthful I love Lucy - always have since age 6 in 1951 - still do, it is now 2022. I love her tv roles, her movies - 10 especially A++. I know that she is generally not comfortable in interviews and often fidgets. She is not playing Lucy, she is being Lucille Ball. I have read her book, Love Lucy, and several books about her (Laughing with Lucy by Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll Jr) and at least 5-6 others. Seen Lucy Desi Home Movie; Lucy Desi movie by Amy Poehler; interviews by stars who knew her - Wonderful people themselves. She is great - had a very difficult childhood, always hard working even as a child; helped support her mother, mgf, brother and cousin early on. Supported her mother and mgf till they died. Lucy Ball gave they entire world laughter with I Love Lucy which seen in over 60 or more countries, with reruns somewhere in the world everyday. I thank her for her gift of laughter. In her 77 years of life, I think she worked 70 of them.
I’ve never seen her interviewed!! Nothing like Lucy!! Wow
Classy Woman. 😊❤ Miss her.
My mom loved Lucy . Absolutely loved her.
There will never be female comedians like Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett!
We all love Lucy! I do and will watch I love Lucy until my time is up! This is so funny!
She’s beautiful
I just adore Lucille ball
They don’t make them anymore, king of late night and queen of comedy
She was a gem and I miss her.
Back when TV talk show hosts had more class than any of those today. This episode aired when I was 1 year old.
She’s the greatest woman comedian that ever walked on this planet. And to put up with Desi Arnez all those years she should get the trophy for that. But with all due respect, he was a genius and his own right.
She is so funny😂
She was very direct. I like that
He got Lucy good, with the "Ricky" imitation. 😂
she is epic
Idk if anyone noticed it but Johnny is impersonating Desi Arnaz here 11:35 😆
Yeah and it was funny
Infidelity was nothing to joke about with Lucille.
Exactly my thought
Lucy appears as an office secretary in a 1936 Three Stooges short. Hair was blonde.
She was GORGEOUS in those old movies🩷
Lucy was always very fidgety whilst appearing on talk shows!
I loved them both so much.🥰🥰
Lucy looked great in light purple
“Somebody just flew over us”
“ It was probably General Brown Leaving The Country” 😂
That was halarious 😂❤
Lucy the queen 👸 of comedy.
LUCILLE!
I've never seen this interview with Lucille Ball. I've never seen her do an interview.
Lucy from western upstate NY-Jamestown.😁😁😁😁
the Huge BLING BLING and on both hands are tremendous!
When the stars recognized their fans humbly.
Watch Johnny’s hand go up and down in a stroking movement and Lucy turns to him like pardon me? 😭 @5:45
Watch your language loll
I find her EXTREMELY difficult while being interviewed! 😮
That’s what I thought but Johnny handled her expertly.
Wondering what would have happened if Don Rickles was a guest the same day!
RIP Lucille Ball 😔 - Johnny Carson and ED 😔
I love Lucy
Remember
She was Responsible for
Star Trek &
Mission:Impossible
"Lucy!"
"WHAAa"
"You hit her pretty hard there Rick!"
Can we have the second part?
Is there a second part?
Can we have an ALL LUCY and DESI section?
Jack & Coke. Lucy's relaxer of choice.
I ❤ Lucy
There will never be another female comedian as funny as Lucille Ball.
Lace is given on 13th Wedding Anniversary.
Was 1 yr old 😊
I Love Lucy
Garry Marshall (creator of Happy Days) used to write jokes for Lucille Ball, and he was good at it and it kept him in business as a comedy writer early in his career. But she was a very harsh critic and known to get cranky at times. If she didn't like a joke, she would return it with a note attached. One day he wrote a joke for her and she returned it with a note simply saying "This joke is bull****"
I have heard that if someone like Gleason said that - all ok, but a woman, not okay.
I knew she was up to something when she put her hand in her purse...they were masters at being comedic witty.Genious.
Ha ha ha! Brilliant!!! 🌼
Lucille Désirée Ball (Jamestown, Nueva York, 6 de agosto de 1911-Los Ángeles, California, 26 de abril de 1989) fue una comediante, actriz, modelo y productora ejecutiva estadounidense, famosa por protagonizar los programas I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy y Life with Lucy. Fue una de las estrellas más populares e influyentes en su país, con una de las carreras más largas de Hollywood,[2] especialmente en la televisión, donde Ball comenzó a actuar en la década de 1930. Llegó a convertirse en actriz de radio y estrella de películas clase B en los años 1940. Entre las décadas de 1960 y 1970, aún continuaba grabando películas.
She was born same year as Ronald Reagan
1:32 she mentions crazy ass Robert Blake
They were both heavy smokers so I kept thinking she was reaching in her purse for a cigarette.
❤❤❤
The greatest woman comedian of all time! Carol Burnett is a very close second.
Her Lucy character was more physical comedy. Lucille’s comedy is sarcastic.
It’s sad that people don’t understand sarcasm anymore. Lucy was and will always be a gem.
I love how everyone didn’t get the jp m0rgan joke. 1:55 ifykyk
Can you explain
I believe this is 1974
Typo in the title, her name is spelled wrong
💜
Those false teeth Lucy put on remind me of Winifred Sanderson.
I think we are more money hungry than in those years ago. Guests want sooo much more than they need. So glad money is not that important to me.
Does anyone know what year this was ?
1974
@@yamil.343 thank you so much . Gosh , I wish we were living in that time still .
Its SO corny , it's great!❤
I was wondering why she had her hand in her purse.
Me, too! I was hoping someone had an answer!
@@quackaduck4395
Fake teeth she put on as a gag toward the end of the clip
Ugh I love her. Lucielle ball can do no wrong😭🩷🩷🩷
she seems kinda grumpy
I think this is the year she did ‘mame’ which was not a success as it came at the end of the big musical era. It was a good movie that can be enjoyed anytime.
@@phillipgrieshaber338 I agree about Mame - have seen it 3x: -1st time, 1 thought it was good, 2nd time thought it was very good, 3x thought it was great. Also I loved the Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell and loved and her too. However, one was a musical and one was not - they were different but really loved both. Rex Harrison talk/sang his part in the movie "My Fair Lady", nobody complained and he won an award for his role. Lucille Ball talked/sang her part in Mame and there were endless criticisms that she did such. Did not bother me a bit, neither did Rex Harrison's did not bother me, and I don't like Rex Harrison. Audrey Hepburn practiced her being able to sing in the same movie, but the powers that be insisted on dubbing her which lost her the Oscar in the same movie.