Im Watching Carson Right Now

Agreed.

Funny, I was just watching old videos of Joan Rivers on Carson.

I heard he was heavily into S&M. Anyone know for sure?

r3 No, that was Bob Crane.

R3 If so that’s hot. He was so hot. I would drink his cum all night long. Reminds me of the is cop I used to fuck.

I always thought he looked like a monkey

What could be more timeless than that jacket?

Thanks for shitting on the thread already, Teacunt.

Really?

When I watch him on old videos I see him already as a relic from another era.

I watched him but never got the appeal. Kids in high school would "stay up for the monologue" before going to bed. I heard that many times. To me that was the worst part of the show.

High functioning, but mean, alcoholic

I loved Johnny. That mid 60s-mid 70s was such a cool, freewheeling time in entertainment.

My two favorite Johnny moments were the Ed Ames ax misfire, and this one: Bob Hope, Dean Martin, and George Gobel.

One of THE funniest segments in talk show history. Ya gotta be patient as the thing develops, but what a payoff!

I love watching it silently

I find his humor, like most, does not translate well.

I didn't watch him very often. I was a child and he came on at 11:30. Later, when I would catch an episode, he always seemed sleazy to me, even kind of evil. Eventually I realized I didn't like any talk shows. I only watched one if someone I was interested in was a guest. I haven't watched any of them at all since Conan left NBC.

He raped Tina Louise.

Often imitated, never duplicated. The standard-bearer of a more vibrant, less feckless culture.

I would watch as a little kid if my mother let me stay up or my parents left me home alone. I always loved the Joan Rivers-hosted episodes. As I grew into my teens, Carson seemed kind of mean-spirited, but David Letterman also seemed misanthropic to me.

r16 doubtful

According to Truman Capote, who had a lot of credible gossip tucked in his shirt pocket, Carson was a mean man. I often get misogyny vibes from him when watching the old re-runs. And I don't find him funny at all.

Quite a bit before my time, but he seems pretty funny in those clips - funny for 70s/80s stuff.

My parents didn't like Carson. And when I watched videos of him in later years, because so many comedians revered him, I was completely mystified. There was no there there. I didn't find him funny. He seemed odd to me. I liked David Letterman.Conan was ok. Can't stand Fallon, Seth Myers is boring, Kimmel in small doses, Colbert is God to me.

r22 a talk show host is god to you?

"There was no there there"

I found him quite sexy, at least through the 1970s. I always loved when he did a sketch where he'd be shirtless. There's a funny one out there online somewhere of Johnny, almost nude, getting a massage from two Asian girls and then Don Rickles sneaks in and jumps on him and tickles him that used to get me quite hard.

R23, only in the context of talk show hosts on late night. Try to keep up.

r16 Who hasnt?

R25 Perfect retort for such an idiotic comment. I think Carson is great host, funny and sexy but in your opinion you don’t. The God Joke because someone disagrees with you failed miserably.

R27, Why so combative. It is hardly warranted.

His outfit, alas, was not timeless.

Not a fan!

He was the greatest, SO talented. Such a piece of the fabric of American pop culture for so long.w He is missed.

It was funny when the guy with the animals would bring one on.

What made Carson so revered among comics is because he gave a lot of fledgling comedians their first big break. He had such high ratings that being on Carson could jump start your career.

Of course in Joan's case there was a limit to what he would do. Sadly I watched the Carson Episode with Joan coming on to tout her first book, and they reminisced about how she first was on his show so long ago, and she actually dedicated her book to him.

I'm so old I can remember my mother kvetching about what a come-down Johnny was from Jack Paar, who my parents revered and watched nightly. I think that was the general opinion from critics and audiences at the time, at least in Johnny's first year when The Tonight Show was still coming from NY.

Jack wasn't a comedian but was a brilliant conversationalist, a keen observer of human foibles (and show biz shenanigans and politics) and he had incredible taste in choosing guests, many of whom were mostly famous for their sophisticated and not so sophisticated wit. Everyone from Peter Ustinov to Zsa Zsa Gabor to Charley Weaver to Dody Goodman were at their funniest simply chatting up Jack Paar. Guests didn't come on his show to plug a movie or TV show, they came to talk.

It took Johnny awhile to find his own groove.

How embarrassing for you r25

Johnny almost never told political jokes in the monologue. His attitude was simple: "Why piss off half the audience before the show starts?"

Steve Allen, whose "Tonight With Steve Allen" show preceded both Paar and Carson had a better theme song: "This Could Be the Start of Something" which he wrote.

I would imagine anyone under 40 (and maybe many under 50) wouldn't know or care who Johnny Carson was.

My first (very vague) memory of an “outside” event is - as a not yet 3-year old - of Jack Paar walking off the Tonight Show.

[quote]I'm so old I can remember my mother kvetching about what a come-down Johnny was from Jack Paar, who my parents revered and watched nightly. I think that was the general opinion from critics and audiences at the time, at least in Johnny's first year when The Tonight Show was still coming from NY.

Paar had his regular guests. One of which was Jonathan Winters.

I was maybe 8 years old, but I remember watching this. Hilarious: "They know in the forest!"

My grandfather (long before I was born and when my mother was young) always said to my mother, that Johnny Carson was the foremost trendsetter in men's formalwear - especially neckties. If Carson wore a thick '70s necktie, everyone went out and got one like his. Only later on in the 1970s he would introduce his very own and somewhat successful Johnny Carson formalwear line.

As a child I loved the segments with quirky guests…Jack Hanna, the bird callers, and the potato chip lady!

Does anyone remember Jay Leno and the Fruit Cake Lady? She was something.

I disliked him when he was on in the 1970s, when he was on - he vacationed a week or TWO every month and there were guest hosts. But I watched anyway unless Cavett had someone interesting on. Now I appreciate Carson because the successors were/are so lame.

Jack Parr was the best.

Here you go. Tom Cruise and the Fruitcake Lady. Her other segments were outrageously funny. she was a regular. She cursed a lot when she was giving advice.

When there was a guest he'd like, he'd have them on often, no matter how obscure. He had this plant lady on from Boston named Thalassa Cruso whose show was only one in one market but she was always so crusty that the audiences loved her.

Kressley? Daley?? You need to be more specific, OP.

[quote]Jack Parr was the best.

Don't think so, granny.

R38 No