Posted on 01/23/2005 11:57:30 AM PST by gortklattu
Tony Snow just mentioned this thread! Way to go freepers!
A guest on the Tonight Show commenting on the marriage of Frank Sinatra to Mia Farrow, said: "I always knew that Frank would end up in bed with a boy".
Yes! I was only 9 years old at the time but I remember laughing till I nearly cried!
When Severinson was on vacation, Tommy Newsom took his place. Carson made hilarious fun of the somewhat dull bandleader. Remember?
It wasn't one of the ones on the Best of Carson videos.
I loved Dick Shawn. He has his immortality in two films:
Mel Brooks The Producers, where he played Lorenzo St. DuBois (L.S.D.), the actor who played Hitler in the musical play, Springtime for Hitler (great stoner part)
Sylvester Marcus in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (another stoner - do I detect a trend?)
lame
---- wrong....... the earliset tapes (about 10 years worth) are gonzo. Both stories ocurred, just alter a few words.
Saw them.
Snopes can't always cope with the truth!
I haven't read the whole thread so I don't know if anyone's already included these guys. Two of my favorite frequent guests on the Tonight show were George Segal and Robert Blake (yes, that Robert Blake). Johnny really outdid himself by making the audience laugh with him at Segal's astonishingly large ego and Blake's dark weirdness. I'm sorry that neither of these guests are on the Best of Carson videos.
When I was 12 years old in 1960, I would quietly crawl out of bed at 11;00, sneak into the living room, turn on the T.V.low and lie right in front of it so I could hear it. Every one else was asleep. I was watching Paar and it opened up a new world to me.Then came Carson who I'd been watching during the day on Who Do You Trust. It was a habit I kept for the next 30 years whenever possible. He was the very best.
You may have seen it in black and white ... I know I would have seen it in black and white ... but NBC started broadcasting in color in the late '50s, when Steve Allen still had the show.
Should have been. For sheer comedy, it was a gem. He had to have been trippin' when he did it. It was 10 minutes of free associating that was totally circular and ended up where it started. The last line being..."And that's why I like bananas."
Of course, the monolgue had very little to do with bananas.
I just discovered she drowned in 1985 at age 42. Given her assets, that just doesn't seem possible, does it?
It's possible if she went in head first.
Audience: "How hot was it?"
Johnny: "It was so hot, over at the Hollywood Wax Museum the best part of Raquel Welch was touching the floor."
My dog has firey red hair, so it fits.
That's funny. Just today I was to explaining to my brother about an air conditioning compressor and how it is hermetically sealed. He said, "hermetically sealed? I heard that on Johnny Carson."
If I remember correctly, Carol Wayne was said to have a PhD or something close.
The last show with Bette Midler was the GREATEST! Did't she WRITE a song for that show?
LOL!!!!!
Isn't it great that all these years later, it still makes us laugh? And that tens of millions of people know what it means? Another piece of Carson schtick that I loved was when a couple jokes in a row would bomb, and he would go into his "Tea For Two" dance to try to entertain the audience. God bless him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.