e the show, someone threw up. kimmel: william, i should ask you, why do they call the town "embarrass," minnesota? william: uh, i don't know why they call it. kimmel: alright. o'donnell: in the first months of the kimmel show it was a rough road. [making music with hands] carter: kimmel did not appeal to women, so he had struggles. but like most of these guys, he had to find his voice. braun: there were plenty of conversations about what changes should we make to the show to reach a broader demographic. kimmel: when on a rare occasion that i look at a bit of video from that first year, it just makes every hair on my body stand up. kimmel: alright, we are back with marilyn manson. uh... so, um... [audience cheering] kimmel: i was really hoping that abc would cancel the show because i felt like, "i can't do this anymore.

"i can't deal with this much stress." kimmel: have a good weekend, everybody! i'm getting the hell out of here. >> i can deal with this much stress good weekend, everybody. i'm hitting the hell out of here it's not necessary to salute, sir. >> just your hand over your heart. there's enough when we come on, he was plenty. >> the end, the aura about them may look at the killer whale we eat himself on your carpet who is the king of late night but he was still alive never occurred to me that there would be other talk shows they didn't reverend dr. matthew tension wonderful. are you really truly idiots or is it me but it was gonna be shocking because superbus about at 76 got to get to laugh. we're not even going to have sex that many times again it's one of the funny things ever and it's

really i'm sorry, we're experiencing technical doesn't lose. it's so revolutionary that completely changed my lif e my experience with late-night television was all about my relationship with my dad my dad was accommodating maven he would say alright, so you can stay up late to watch johnny because he knew how much it meant to me. >> he always say, well, just watch the monologue either then we have respectful group tonight, a little leave mothers here who brought a couple of old bats along they'd go to commercial and he'd say,

let's just see if they do karnak 100 yard dash, a 100 yard it was finally any was sharp he had this aura about him what happens after you eat 100 yard prune johnny carson was not black or white or asian or nothing. >> he was funny and funny. i think trumps everything he was just part of culture. >> i thought then johnny carson came with the tv set. >> der, these rituals every now and then that americans all gather around and johnny carson was the guy the lights were bright. the curtains, they were allow the ban doc seven and there was ed mcmann who was fine, and johnny carson who was even more brought all this energy into your little room

the happiest place in america was sitting at the foot of year bed well, let's get right into the newest nothing could be funnier than that johnny carson was the one that made late night tv important. he's the one that changed the model log two reactions to what happened that day. >> and it looks guarding the papers low, president nixon has brought an end to the war. and i hope i have only one question. >> who won jonny krever, the system where he took each joke and put it on a board that went across the length of the studio so that way he could add it while he was performing that coolness is unmatched did you know today is the anniversary of customers last stand? >> is that right right. >> guys uploading a massacre and this is a monologue. this is carson's last stand, right

in johnny's monologues, when he would bomb, that was always the funniest joke one march, shopping the individual bits karnak, the magnificently teatime met may well the arctic wonder you'll never have to worry about electrical failure because everything is built in this wonderful little freeze right? right you have. >> to remember there was no i'll watch it in the morning. if you missed it, you missed it they've got a woman in the late news at 11. >> i told my wife what i'm getting ready for bed. i don't want to turn on a woman. and she said, don't worry, floyd, you never had wanted to see who was popular and entertainment tonight show starring johnny carson back then was the only game in town. >> my age i want to girls at once, you know, if i fall

asleep, they got each other to talk to this is a little marmoset. marmoset you know, if there are gaps that usually got cut because of the animals and that's probably a pretty tough pill to swallow it. >> that's how popular they were. >> killed spontaneously jumped from my hand to gi carson's arm and then to his shoulder that's it. at the highest point i played was he spinning was that saliva urinated on his head and i said, well, he's marked here territory. he said, well, i'm glad you didn't bring a baby elephant along one of the keys was when he would turn directly into the camera and

stare so we'd felt like he was doing the take tu at home. i have never had a marmoset relieved himself on my head that was the beauty of johnny carson you know, this is a grown man who had a a boyish twinkle he was the most popular performer on television but he was still a loner but i got the job writing for the tonight show. >> i used to watch johnny standing in the wings right after the theme music johnny just came alive journey is only happy for that one hour of his de he had a presence and it wasn't friendly. >> it it was aloof people might say, oh, he's conceded, he's aloof. actually that was more shy. when i'm in front of an

audience because it's a different thing. if i'm in front of an audience, i can feel comfortable. >> why i'm in control. my wife didn't want to sit next to johnny at the dinner table because 70 would just sit there and i want to make any compensation. and they said, please don't put play next to john johnny. >> johnny was a very complicated person he admired things that mattered to him and it wasn't just comedy off screen. he had his political point of views and they tended to be quite liberal, quite progressive. but by watching his show, you wouldn't be able to figure that out. >> i think it's real simple why offend any part of the artist he made 25% of the network revenue for nbc at one point, let's just not to be believed and dairy is in the eye of the storm in the 60s in new york city civil rights

movement, the anti-vietnam war movement then society begins to change what is the actual technique of your meditation? >> swami actual stick with finding the right single word to meditate on any program that didn't embrace the counterculture that didn't embrace all of this change, ran the serious risk of looking incredibly erupt hello. and that word was loved. >> the actual word is money it would have been easy for the flame of the tonight show to go out in 1968. it's the most dangerous moment in the johnny carson regime of the tonight show as. >> long as flower power riyadh says new album is breaking

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comedy show in a time where the culture is changing welcome to i like luck. >> he had to walk this fine line between keeping his older more traditional audience members numbers happy and at the same time constantly trying to keep that show relevant in enough to seem like they're not completely out of touch with reality. >> but we're going to show you mrs. hotchkiss, that even from a distance of 50 feet, you will be able to tell the blair wash, may we have the two washes please, mr. hotchkiss, if you just look over here now this is hotchkiss. we have two grand kliger from the clan carson was sort of an equal opportunity light jab guy. i think grant legal usa grant kliger. a. looks the widest grant legally. are you the widest? >> well, now, wait a minute people say he'll never take a serious controversy.

>> tell me the last time that jack benny red skeleton comedian, used his show to do serious issues. that's not what i learned. four can't they see that? >> but johnny was aware of all the civil rights stuff going on and it was painful for him but jonny new, if you let his personal view show that the tonight show audience, it would be cut in half he was in this bind carson was a political person and i think the best illustration of this is that when he went to invite a substitute for him in 1968, he chose harry belafonte who was known to be a progressive activists, who was interested in racial and social justice. >> do boom, that it is possible to maintain the war in vietnam. him to address ourselves fully, to our domestic difficulty. when not i think if i'm not without any question, we're not

johnny carson used all kinds of guest hosts frequently. >> they booked guests that jonny would not have when he was there. usually because they were too controversial belafonte stack the show full of african american arkin guests, activist, liberal politicians who didn't mean gentleman, the reverend dr. martin luther king constantly is making a statement without him personally making the statement, but he made the statement and a big way well, i'm delighted to be here, howard berrada, washington this afternoon and as soon as we started out, they notified of the plane had mechanical difficulties and whenever our land after mechanical different i'm already happened. i don't want to give you an impression that as a baptist preacher i don't have faith in god and it's simply that i've had more experience with them on

the ground person wants to watching this week as harry belafonte said, a lot of things. >> johnny wish he could have said it was a bold thing to do because it was a volatile time. >> he lost the whole southern audience because he did that cause it was so popular as soon as he came back, the audience came flooding back to him. >> two of the guests that belafonte had interviewed would be assassinated. >> dr. martin luther king has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee and then two months later, robert kennedy when there are terrible events, late night is a wonderful thing to have because these are people who have a talent to say the right thing at the right time. >> if we cannot learn to live together in this country i don't know how and how safe we are ever going to learn to live with anybody else in the world. it's almost as if they're

speaking only to you and that stays with us, especially when it comes from someone who had been with in those quiet hours on the phone doesn't ring when the kids are embed when you're less likely to be fiddling with the remote control when bobby kennedy was assassinated it was really hard for johnny he was friends with kennedy johnny carson did something that he had never done before. >> and i don't know that he ever did again. good evening. and thank you for joining us tonight as i think no explanation is necessary. we don't plan to do the usual tonight show format deceiving. >> you finally got a glimpse of who johnny carson actually was behind the sort of show business veneer. >> the people, the land been assassinated like the kennedys michael to express definite opinion change and they touch people emotionally much more than i think a person's greatest gift was the ability

to talk to a wide range of people and get just about everybody in the room on his side. carson was kind of a glue during some really harsh times in this country that's not lew and i don't think there's country has a priority on assassination was are on hate. somehow, johnny carson is walk this tight rope and managed to stay relevant on either side of the late 1960s, where everything changed. and that's what made him the king of late night. >> or i can say, is that die hope robert kennedy would have liked his program good night. >> erin burnett outfront week nights. its seven odd cnn lows notes. when you need a new appliance, you wanted at the right price that's why this memorial then we have huge savings on premium kitchen aid applies get everything you need to make a statement in the kitchen hand on the table, shop lows now for great memorial day

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strange showed is always the fluke is still watch. >> now we on yes the reason i ask is because it's going so slow joey was often in bad mood board for ago, don't soap for rehearsals, you short talk a lot well cbs. meanwhile, hires merv griffin, who had been doing a great syndicated black and white and talk show for westinghouse griffin was just light and fun and fluffy. what do you get when you fall he loved everybody and he had the funniest people on. here's woody allen i'm too cowardly to be a protest. >> i'm in favor of all those things that we've come. no one hate about griffin, despite almost a milk toast reputation

was always more willing to have people on that represented aspects of the counterculture. dr. timothy leary has been described as being either a profit or a female how many times have you taken lsd? >> i've taken us the 311 times in 1969 when the merv griffin show debuted on cbs for the first time ever you have what you would now call the late night wars mirv versus joey versus johnny there's been much discussion in the papers and in magazines about the three-way competition. >> and i want to set the record straight. i think carson does a great job. bishop does a great job. we're going to try to entertain you and there's room for everybody. and may the best man win? >> the merv griffin show really cut into jelly bishops audience in a big way and then when joey bishop didn't work, let go.

let's go a little younger animal, maybe a little more new york ladies and gentlemen dick cabot cabinet was her first intellectual on television i'm dick cabot funnier than chet huntley, taller than mickey rooney, and his pure and honest as newark, new jersey johnny was awfully nice to me when i started doing a show. he gave me advice when i'd call him and i realized then that johnny does not as they say graham rode up, is asked what does carson not have? that maybe a competing talk show could use to draw viewers away? >> well, abc thought the answer was a combination of entertainment and thinking. welcome please. salvador dali i can't help noticing thing that you have an anteater with you, mr. doe dick cabot was one of the last great unscripted shows

where anything could happen. >> now, i want to ask only as something, are you really all truly idiots or is it me oh, that was the easy answer. >> come on in tension wonderful in that studio. why don't you apologize to the people calling people lead up my admires vigorously. >> i remember one show where lester maddox, the segregationist governor of georgia he's on with jim brown. >> if i called any of your admirers, bigots, who were not big, it's i apologize. got exciting and offended the guests. >> wait a minute. wait a minute. there's more time. nice what i have doing a talk show. >> i never thought much about what happens if there's some spectacular events going on in the world. >> the democratic national committee is trying to solve. i was mystery five intruders were captured by police in by the offices of the committee in

washington. >> i will do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice. i was so in enchanted with watergate. i don't know that i missed any of the hearings and i realized i like it when the ice gets thin hello, i'm bit cabinet and i can't believe where i am at this moment. maybe you can either. i'm seated now, i guess in what has been called the hottest chair in the country dicamba was doing shows from the watergate hearings in the room. >> what do you say to the people who say? this whole fast? what's it all about every, every administration has lied, every administration is tap wire cheated, so-and-so why are they this one just had the bad luck to get caught? >> every i'm told that i'm on the nixon tapes 26 times they

later found out that he are just hated my staff by the way, when i was sitting in that witness chair, i felt guilty it's a very strange feeling. so you might hear the first one dicamba was doing things that carson wasn't in ways that carson wasn't. i get used as a stick to beat jonny somebody made this smarter. that's remark we can count on cabinet to have somebody from water later on while johnny has charro but more people liked carson and kavak could never crack that tangled up in your wires there? oh. oh would it be like right back can. >> one.

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the assignment with audie cornish. listen wherever you get your podcasts in the late 60s, television was so monochromatic, literally there was just no color johnny carson was kinda generic. and i think being generic is part of the appeal my uncle ellis hayes lips saw the model that was set for late night and said, well, we need a place of our own because we don't see ourselves on television. >> and he did that with a show called soul good evening i'm

always pays that and i welcome you due to another soul episodes lsa slip was a host. >> he was hip, he was smart, he was unapologetically gay. >> let's have a real soul locking for barbara is on public health mission, which is completely different from what's happening on abc, nbc, and cbs. >> sitting with me now, his brother bill withers in james ball billy preston, the masters chao. >> you're seeing african american artists, an icons being themselves what, what advice would you like to offer the young? >> young, guys coming up that are interested in sports use their brains and not the fifth, if they have anything to do with the box and be the manager because usually they get all the money after almost 130 episodes. so was gorgeous and

all but in the end, when pbs announced its fall lineup for 1973, soul was not renewed for the funding historically, a show like the soul is very important without so you maybe don't have and arsenio hall at the same time. it's never going to have the same impact as tonight show because the money behind it and the circumstances behind it just are not equal carson starts in 1962. he's a huge success by 1972 in 1972, peter lu, sally, who is then the producer of the tonight show, felt it was time to move the show to the west coast you could get better guess and it was just. easier than me are. >> and johnny, of course loved the lifestyle of california, so

that helped convince jonny that it was the right move to move the show to bourbon you all last night while i was on creating my piano, i didn't see anybody helped me unpack his royalty at this point persons here, even got sort of more of a, of a silver corona that's a new picture view over there is an island is humble, humble, little touching. >> the melody there carson was the most important star and nbc, but he wanted to work fewer days of the week. >> and in a weird way, johnny carson is responsible for snl in the early 70s, they would show the best of the tonight show on saturday night on nbc and carson was like what if we take the best of carson? and instead of having it on saturday night, we'll put it on monday night. i can take monday off, play tennis, relaxed early july of 19 1974.

i was a full-time employee of sports and the ceo of nbc said to me, i'd like you to come here and help us build a new late night franchise on saturday night it was crazy. i mean, i knew nothing about entertainment or comedy and i can read more and michaels i'd been in la for almost four years i've done a lily tomlin show earlier and every time i worked on a pilot of some sort, it would always be you can't do this, you can't do that television becomes so not fossilized, but a lot of restrictions i don't understand what's bothering you. well, i'll tell you what's bothering me. i'm a grown man. you got me all dressed up in his silly bunny out. >> a meeting, a setup for lori hi, johnny. it was more courtesy than anything else is very welcoming. okay. boys

telling me about the show and it was funny because he kept saying 90 minutes one time a week he was doing five five dots and 90 minutes and we were so pressure some thoughtful about what we were going to do in our won the concept was regular programming has stopped at 11:30, and these young kids have taken over the network i think we were by definition the disruptive the thing about live for me was the network will see at the same time that the audience does and i thought if i could just get through to the audience was interested in music and politics and films and all that was happening in 19 and 75, that will be a hit but that's about 76 is the tool that lets you use the

whole basket with no fist waste without scaling, cutting her gutting it's just the way you like it. it's so revolutionary it's so anything goes it says that if you listen to the euro really shows, you're always going to hear it was me trying to start laughter on sketches at the audience had no idea what the hell we were doing hello telegram. >> telegram just love that energy and the danger of it being live and it just felt very cool, felt like, hey, when i get older, i want him i want to move to new york city. >> welcome to the first of three televised presidential debates between president gerald r ford and his

challenger governor jimmy carter of gejonny did not like saturday night live. >> it did a few jokes about him and jonny thought that they were mean-spirited the tonight's show starring johnny carson will be broadcast live on the nbc tv network. >> carson, who has been doing the show, did for the past not explain how he was i'm going to make that transition so not live did not change my opinion of johnny carson this is sophistication there. he's wearing a tie and then suddenly i'm certain it live you have burt reynolds looked like he was just walking into a seven 11 to buy some beef jerky i know i know i have to live with it every day the big revolution is senate live. it's very hard to explain two people today because they'd, nobody is

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so of guilt.com today you know there's. no greater thrill for me. firstly, they have somebody commodity or who's, who's unknown. and stand up in front of an audience and absolutely wiped mouth of first appearance coast-to-coast. that's great. >> tonight show with steve allen and width jackpot war had broken comedians. but johnny carson kinda took it to a different level in the early 70s. if you didn't have the tonight show, you did not have a career in comedy? jim mccauley at the time, was that talent coordinator tonight show and he would periodically come into the club's a colleague was at that time the most powerful person in comedy because he had the ear to johnny carson when he was in the club, i would get nervous just seeing them in the club if jim believed in a comma key booked him, i think johnny had such faith and his choices i still during the day job. i was delivering food time and mecole

came into a club one night. >> battalions were telling me tell ions here not too many there's more there's a whole bunch here but just there on the witness protection program he told my manager, let's get them on. let's get them on. >> they sit all johnny carson wants you to do the show and i was like, really like yeah, i was like, okay, i call my mother and i say cats. she said what i'm doing data gaza. she said i remember the first time i went on that was just like losing your virginity. >> once you go through that wall, then you're forever on that side. people who've done the tonight show, you know, i always say i have two birthdays the day i was born, april 22, 1961, and the day i did the tonight show with johnny carson. >> now we originally offered by iran a shot on the tonight show last february and he turned it down. he said he couldn't make it that night for the end to his homework. true story 18 i

remember thinking what i do in the next five minutes will change my life forever. a back behind the curtain, my hands literally like seized up. what is this a cab move my hands. bell so paralyzed with fear, but it's almost like skydiving. you don't want to go. but once you're out of that plane you can't not go i've been incarcerated. i don't think anything's been as frightening as walking through that curtain. other tonight show this is his first time. >> would you welcome ray romano great. >> then you're walking it looks like it's his casual is hell and in your head years, you're screaming like you're jumping out of a plane first time on the tonight show i'm still a bit nervous. >> i'll be honest with you and maybe you are too let me ask you honestly, how many of you would really rather skip this and go for coffee? anybody don't hello to you, right?

>> and see johnny carson city there and not a body experience. i'm an only child and being latino, i know you guys are thinking that's ethnically impossible and a microphone and a spotlight because i have a real hip teacher gives us problems. we can relate to. >> it's like if bob as hundred hostess twinkies eats at 7:00 a.m. how many joints did he smoke went into my son who's gone really well. my son and i were out fishing in a motorboat. he's five years old. i'm driving along he goes dad, can i drive and i'm like, sure. >> i hit this joke in a boom, it doesn't even dawned on me. >> it might be dangerous. i'm just thinking, oh boy, i get to sit up front he exploded. it was being cared jonny la fin like to two so great drew blank forgot my next joke. i can. remember the panic running up my spine was like man, things

are crazy, crazy, and ever monday, may the next job, sooner or later, they're gonna make a phone into a little a little microchip that everyone will just have surgically implanted in the rear. and that'll be the end of it wherever you go. oh, i'm going to call and say i'm doing jahari. what's up i got put you on hold it's my gold medal but a high point in my career, i'm talking to joe here. >> i'll put john conference got to talk to each other. >> it went exactly the way i thought it would go. i'll never forget that moment i'm finished, john and gave me one of these he walked off like an athlete wins the super bowl i mean i was like. >> you got to be kidding me next day offers stack to the sky stack to the sky? >> and never looked back outside of my kids be important

and i'm only saying that because you're supposed to of course, moment of my life. it was great there's a great night everybody loves carson and considers them to be this really important figure in their lives who made their careers of course, we don't hear from the female performers who struggled and comedy in general, who might not have gotten that chance. every time i went on for the bookers, they'd saved not that he's not going to like it. no. so i never got on the tonight show for ever unbeknownst to me, i'm helen ready was going to guest host helens have should i put elaine boost the run? >> i hear she's great. >> put her on. will you please welcome a brand new comedy talent, elaine, boost law residents very confusing because you do what you have to do. you come out, there's an attendant there but the tip is person. i have never figured out 15% of what i got 13

applause breaks it was unheard of of. thank you. >> so are you excited? >> the night before he did the tonight show. i couldn't buy a piece of carrot cake. tonight's after the tonight show. i bought a car, has some nice to hear somebody talking about all the things that make women laugh everybody got it so the road to fame and fortune is through studio one in burbank, where they now take the tonight show starring johnny carson david letterman. he goes to la to get on the tonight show, will get jay leno is from boston, new york. he goes daily and suddenly the great comedy migration was on when the competition is a nuclear competition, spying is extraordinarily important the

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warning, but all of that and he had a chest driven now in like an orange red pickup truck because he didn't think he was gonna make it is dream was to someday hosted tonight show my best friend says to me because i want you to see this young comedian named david letterman. he says this guy's going to be the next journey. >> before three, the enquirer david, silly stories in here like last week out to lose weight without diet or exercise. >> pretty much leaves disease okay. and i said, i honestly don't see the carson thing. >> would you welcome david letterman? david it was fascinating watching and letterman du his first tonight's show. >> how to lose weight without diet or exercise pretty much leaves disease doesn't write down. >> he was moving ready. he was

just letterman i have a new shot on this show tonight you're gonna be working a lot outside the comedy star. >> thank you. i'll be come back with us. i love to the bank let him in. >> got chances because johnny carson for some of the most powerful man in television, was behind him, there was a fire and laurel canyon it along evoking and i lost like an entire set additions well, you know, paper burns he does stand up twice and then they asked him to guest host the show. >> it's quite remarkable david he always looked like a talk show i could see that he had that that hosting thing he's the host, theist. >> your time is interesting. it looks like there was a big remnant sailed on a carpet city i've not seen that out of the blue he suddenly gets a morning show it's the david letterman

show line with it was wildly inappropriate for the morning, wildly inappropriate. he had to take the show because he wanted to be on television. >> good morning. good morning. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. welcome. i could i could i as the ladder i thought doing a morning shell didn't make any sense because it didn't seem to be an time of day that i would watch a show from here. >> we had to change a ball yesterday and since no one else was available, i said what the heck? but to me and i'll do it in here. is that pesky little? this is an a6 the morning show was largely an on the air audition because we had many obstacles to overcome, not the least, it was written with merrill marco, who was his girlfriend that morning shall was a crash course and how to write. >> dave letterman talk show merrill marco was a genius. >> she understood what, how important foolishness was merrill marco was the soul of

our show excuse me. >> gentlemen, i'm sorry, we're experiencing technical difficult lives huge thankful eliminate and what it looks like minnows are things she. came up with stupid pet tricks and viewer mail. >> like to introduce now our first pet and his owner in stupid pet tricks, ladies and gentlemen, history as being made here today all the remote it is can be eating their cab, a truck, or a show is all from her mind if anybody had watched the show from the first day, i think they would have seen a really strange kind of experimental evolution either. good morning and welcome to the david letterman show. my name of course is david letterman were coming du i remember very clearly it's my senior year in high school. i'm rushing out the door my sister kate yells

out. you got get back here get back here. you got see this get ready to enjoy that david letterman show everything was off and i was hooked this morning. we seem to be building a cult following of sorts. >> lot easier by the ratings didn't seem to be that good we came to that show thinking we had all of the answers and we realized we didn't have hardly aclu i would just make you a brief announcement here and then we'll move on a week from friday is our last show we've been canceled october 24. that's in an and i think that cancellation probably changed him. it was a great period of anxiety for me. >> i was worried that i'd never get another shot he was not