it's so hot, i poured mcdonald's coffee in my lap to cool off. ( chuckling ) johnny carson said it. (h. ( belching ) ( coughing ) ( laughing ) lightweights. oh, wait, chlorine.

not quite johnny carson but it's gruffer. duh, winning! adonis dna. >> is he winning?of what's happening with charlie winning, do you think? >> no. i don't know. i feel bad for him because i know he's funny. i know he's smart. so i don't know what's going on. if he's on drugs or pills or what's happening. i hope he gets off it. i hope he ends p up winning in the end. maybe he will off this, but i -- i i felt a little bit bad because it got out of control for me. i mean, the first couple of things were genius, especially as a comedian. you can make fun of it and do the "winning." then it got crazy for a while. i hope he figures it out. i think he's a great comedian. >> have you had a moment in your life, not charlie sheen-esque, but have you gotten into boozing, drugs any other pitfalls that follow comedians, entertainers? >> drinking is probably the closest i've come to doing anything, but this show, i can't drink as much as i'd like to because it's 9:00 to 5:00. >> you want to start drinking on a regular basis? do a nightly show. especially a news show. >> you're scre

. >> and this is the studio where johnny carson did the first ten years of his tonight show run. s desk was there. >> reporter: rockefeller center has always been mecca for fallon. he grew up two hours away in upstate new york. when he wasn't playing the guitar, he was watching a certainty vee show. >> live from new york, it's saturday night. >> reporter: is it fair to say you were obsessed with saturday night live as a kid? >> very fair to say. i used to get paper plates and fall down my steps of my childhood home and then say live from new york, it's saturday night. you know. >> reporter: he would tape record saturday night live and lip sync routines by richard prior and steve martin. >> my sister and i would do, we are two wild and crazy guys. we do a sketch in front of our grandparents. we have to go to the statue of liberty to get birth control devices not knowing what was that. i thought it was a remote control device. >> reporter: right, right. what did your grandparents think about that? >> they almost walked out. that was probably my first walkout of the nightclub. they d

it was almost like when johnny carson said there was going to be a shortage of toilet paper, everybody went out and bought toilet paper and there was a shortage of toilet paper. [laughter] that's kind of what happened immediately. we sold all of our freezer inventories. and then we were closed because of the impending oil. noaa, i want to compliment dr. lubchenko. they did a fabulous job. the government's response to this was above and beyond responses i've seen to other events in the gulf in my 40 years in this business. they did an excellent job of being on the ground, helping us to understand what the challenges were, and then acting on resolving those challenges. the oyster community took a challenges. the oyster community took a hit during the event because the governor opened fresh water diversions. we have floods in national about two weeks before the event and that water was coming down the mississippi river. it was to push the oil offshore. we have 7,500 miles of coastline in louisiana. only about 400 miles were oiled. >> all that fresh water was also welcomed by the oysters.

was coming to the beach and they would not get seafood for a period of time so it was like when johnny carson said there was a shortage of toilet paper, everybody ran out and bought it, and then there was a shortage of toilet paper. [laughter] that's what happened immediately. we sold all of our freezer inventories, and then we were closed because of the impending oil. the noaa, i want to complement, they did a fabulous job to this and the government's response was above and beyond to other events in the gulf that i've seen in 40 years of being in the business. they did an excellent job being on the ground helping us understand the challenges and acting on resolving the challenges. the oyster took a hit because they opened fresh water diversions. we had floods in nashville two weeks before the event, and that water was coming down the mississippi river similar to this year, and it was to push the oil out of shore and keep it offshore. we have 7500 miles of coastline in louisiana. if you go in age out every bay and around every lake, only lookout 400 miles were oiled. now, you can get to them

so it was almost like when johnny carson said there was going to be a shortage of toilet paper, everybodyan out and bought toilet paper and there was a shortage of toilet paper. we sold our freezer inventories and then we were closed because of the impending oil. noaa, i want to compliment dr. lubchenco. they did a fabulous job. the government's response to this was above and beyond what responses i've seen in other events in the gulf, in my 40 years in this business and they did an excellent job of being on the ground and helping us with those challenges. the oyster community took a real hit during the event because the governor of louisiana decided to open some freshwater diversions. we had floods in nashville about two weeks before the event and that water was coming down the mississippi river similar to this year. and it was to push the oil offshore. and to keep it offshore. now, we have 7500 miles of coastline in louisiana. if you go in and out every day and around every lake, only about 400 miles were oil. now, you could get to them with cameras and you saw a lot of them down at gra

it was almost like when johnny carson said there was going to be a shortage of toilet paper and everybody ran out and bought toilet paper and there was a shortage of toilet paper. [laughter] that is kind of what happened immediately. we sold all of our freezer inventories. we were closed because of the impending oil. i want to compliment the doctor. the government's response was above and beyond what i have seen in my 40 years. they did an excellent job of being on the ground and helping us understand challenges and helping to resolve those challenges. the oyster community took a hit during the event because the governor opened fresh water diversions. we have floods in national about two weeks before the event and that water was coming down the mississippi river. it was to push the oil offshore. we have 7,500 miles of coastline in louisiana. only about 400 miles were oiled. >> all that fresh water was also welcomed by the oysters. >> we had about 50% of our oysters die. we were down to 50% production. this year, probably another 50%, or about 25% of our traditional production. we are kind