-- was when i hosted the "tonight show" for a week and the first time anyby had done that with johnny carson that week were bobbynd dr. king and both men said ings that were most revealing and interesting to the audience only to find that it was a matter of months later both were murdered and that what they said that night on the johnny carson show became archival. >> rose: president obama. assess what you expected and what you have seen. (audience reacts) >> what i expected was not really quite that evident. i made assumptions that with his inordinate intellectual capacity in his harvard cdentials and law school and first writing editor for the law journal and for his work as a community... >> rose: organizer. >> yes. he promised. he gave the image. and when he caught the fancy of young people i worked for him... not i worked for him, i contributeto his campaign wn he ran for the senate in illinois and i met him through sargent shriver, a foundatio that we worked together on and i met him and when i met his wife i really felt that here resided promise. the civil rights movement and everythi

. >> johnny carson, remember him? the biggest winner of 2011 the arab street. long dismissed as an implement if not a mythcal force. 2011 was the year when arab street rose unpassed from tunisia to egypt, from yemen to libya. the arab street brought to life the arab spring. the biggest winner of 2011. "biggest loser," pat? >> penn state and joe paterno, sadly. >> elmore. >> >> john corzine, who has become a symbol of everything wrong with the political and financial elite. >> it's one thing to lose $1.2 billion in the market. it's another thing to lose it and you don't know where it went. >> how can you possibly trace that volume of money? >> how can you possibly lose that volume of money? >> corzine is a nice guy. you know him at all? >> he trashed new jersey and then trashed this firm. >> so many losers this year, john. i gave a tie to anthony weiner and the news of the world newspaper. >> the biggest loser of 2011, the early obama economic team. geithner, goolsbee, bernstein, they will all be associated with a plan that led to 9% unemployment, to anemic econ

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c-span: what about coffee with johnny carson? >> guest: that was tremendous.e days of their mentor -- remember right the tonight show was taped in burbank and the tapes were flown back overnight to be broadcast from new york. it sounds archaic and some of -- but i think that is how it was done and i got very friendly with the fellow responsible for taking the tapes to the airplane every night. he sort of let me in on the green room and said you should meet johnny carson. johnny carson took a brief shot and didn't have me on the show but he said, and have a cup of coffee. c-span: what were you trying to do? and what was the for, where you buy yourself? >> guest: yes i was. c-span: in other words where did you get this wanderlust? >> guest: i'm not entirely sure but my parents were not at all, and i was the only child, my parents really didn't travel a great deal. it all went back to this deep disappointment. i sat next to a boy in school called raw low reid, whose father built cranes and lived in america and i thought living in america, this remember i was disa

there was you and johnny carson. >> i wrote for first jack parra then johnny in that order on "the tonightic person to work with and the most thrilling on-screen personality. the british said when jack is on screen with somebody else, you never see the other person. you're afraid to take your eye off jack because you're afraid you'll miss a nervous live breakdown. he had that danger quality. >> you actually met johnny carson back in nebraska. >> how do you know this? >> you just told me. >> as a kid, my friends and i went to a magic show in the basement of westminster church in lincoln, nebraska. back stage a tall young man sitting up his apparatus and the moment that a magician hates anybody to come in while they are consealing the doff. i said, mr. carson? he was nice to us. 35 years later, i said, mr. carson? he was hosting a game show. i met you in lincoln. he said was that you? >> talk shows are very today than they used to be. do you watch any of them? which ones do you like? >> i'm not addicted to talk shows any more. but i do watch. probably the big difference is there's more nonta

but the gold standard, johnny carson, he wasn't a great joke teller.camera. but carson night after night stayed out of the way and yet everybody worships johnny carson. >> and think about that. right now we do -- what do we do? an hour show? i'm trying to think -- i think we do an hour and a half -- no, an hour show, but johnny carson did an hour and a half every night. so by -- do we -- when you see the ed ames throw, remember when they threw between the cowboys? you see eddie ames go to pull it out, and he grabs it, oh, no, we're going to milk this one. he's like, please, stand back, the crowd's going nuts, i didn't know you were jewish. >> oh, my goodness. >> that was his line. so quick, he's brilliant. >> how long didç it take you o did it take you very long at all to allow yourself to allow others to be funny? you know to, hey, he's on a roll, i'm going to let him go. >> when you have the first comedian on or something like that, i think artie lang took over and was funny. any time you have a comedian on or someone who is comfortable, you know, w

before "saturday night live," we had johnny carson. he told jokes about politics but certainly wasn't a political satirist. even "saturday night live," chevy chase falling down like gerald ford. that was hardly real political satire. for the past several years, jon stewart has been doing real essays. most of his show was about politics. he's got evidence and clips, and he's got attitude. and maybe that's what journalists are afraid to do is to cop the attitude that he's got. but frankly, i think reporters should be doing in the journalistic idiom a lot more of the kind of thing that jon stewart does four nights a week in the comic idiom, which is really bringing these sort of essays together and giving us the evidence of what he's talking about. >> showing the clips helps hole politicians and others accountable. rachel, a lot of what stewart does, which is why journalists love him, but also sometimes cringe, when they see themselves or their colleagues on the screen, is to mock our superficiality and sometimes silliness. >> yep. that's

one of which by the way was signaled by a code phrase uttered by daisy when he was appearing on johnny carson's late-night show, the tonight show. how they use tactics like these to try to pressure the government to listen to them. it shows how they stay the first air traffic control strike in 1970 under the guise of a sickout under the cover of a sickout, they called in sick for three weeks, about 3000 or traffic controllers that tried to get the government to listen to some of their concerns. it shows how in the aftermath of the conflict they cut a secret deal with the nixon administration that afforded controllers losing their jobs permanently for basically striking against the government in 1970, and, in fact, even one recognition for patco within a couple of years of that job action. it showed how the union grew over the course of the 1970s under a pretty remarkable union leader named john ladin was able to balance various factions within the union and to protect just enough militancy to try to get the government to respond to patco's concerns without endangering the union. but the book go

johnny carson married two women. joanne and joanna, very closely.to stick to a type. >> 5'8", 5'9", 5'10", small gnu nose, blue eyes. >> how you would you feel if you were in a relationship, your girlfriend's ex could pass for your twin. >> i would say i'm lucky. i'm there in the current situation. >> reporter: now, if you're ever wondering if there's happy ending to you serial doppelganger daters out there, i'm living proof. that's right. i was known for dating a certain type before i met my beautiful wife, vanessa. the woman i dated right before vanessa bears a striking resemblance to her and even has the same birthday. but the guy that vanessa dated before we got together, bore a striking resemblance to me. we could have been brothers. >> true confessions from cam. >> but -- almost ten years of mampbl later, two beautiful kids, there are happy endings out there, guys. >> we hit then this month as well. and ali broke type for me. >> she did? >> she did. >> thus the success. all right. good for you. yeah. you know, either way. >>en and i think we'r

it's like the sold johnny carson show, whom do you hate more. whom do you trust more.ree on both levels it's a democrat-leaning state. and frankly ... in terms of registration. the larger point is let's go back to the sentiment it's not the clinging part of it, it, the bitter part. the frustrated part. they want to see a president who hasn't been in touch enough with that frustration and anger because they are -- people in my town in allentown, they are devastated. the economy has been going bad for a long time. we lost steel to over -- steel to overseas. they want to rebuild the me to work for working people. >> i'm notr not sure. the other side of this is simple. western pennsylvania. a place, they keep flipping the government over. they love to hate people and hate taxes. it's a great place to hate. >> i thought we were the keystone state. >> that libertarian streak. i testified in pennsylvania, four different organizations. state legislative meetings. small government, and they don't like the fact that they are being told how to live their lives. you insult indepen

. >>> johnny carson's boyhood home in nebraska has major structural damage.a man who lost control of his car. he is in serious condition. four people inside the house, including two children, were not injured. >>> and now for a look at what is trending today, our quick round-up of what has you talking online. trending on google are search searches for anything having to do with hanukkah. the hanukkah me nora was hit last night that kicked off the jewish holiday known as the festival of lights. >>> and pictures of an italian member of the european parliament cradling her baby daughter at work. fittingly, the parliament was debating proposal to improve women's employment rights. >>> and barney frank's casual outfit for a speech on monday on the house floor is attracting some attention on yahoo. quite a lot of attention. massachusetts congressman wore a t-shirt that he was able to apparently pull over his bandaged hand after the surgery. offhand surgery, apparently. >>> it's now 8:04. let's go back outside to ann and carl. >> thanks, natalie. by the way, amelia

johnny carson married two women.identical names. joanne and joanna. celebs are not the only ones who like to stick to a type. >> 5'8", 5'9", 5'10", small nose, blue eyes. >> i like red heads right now. >> how you would you feel if you were in a relationship, your girlfriend's ex could pass for your twin? >> i would say i was lucky. >> reporter: you would? >> i'm the one that's there in the current situation. >> reporter: now, if you're ever wondering if there's happy endings for you serial doppelganger daters out there, i'm living proof. that the answer to that question is yes. that's right. i have a confession to make. i was known for dating a certain type before i met my beautiful wife, vanessa. the woman i dated right before vanessa bears a striking resemblance to her and even has the same birthday. but the guy that vanessa dated before we got together, bore a striking resemblance to me. we could have been brothers. so we both had the doppelganger thing going before we got together. i know. it's true but -- >> alm

all joking aside, johnny carson asked me one time, did you get a letter? a letter from the coach asking not to come back but i got -- >> basketball. >> i really am grateful for that. like i say, it would have been hard for mom and dad to do it. they're in a bowl game. hail, cougars! i'm sorry they lost the ballgame last week but i'm rooting for my cugs. >> that was the team that ran up the score from time to time. >> well, we did. we had to get attention. >> and you did. >> and we did. >> a little known fact about larry gatlin because you've become so much more famous for your singing than your football prowess. >> well, i sing a lot better than i play football. >> we're going to hear larry. >> you're going to play a hannity on me. throw me the football. >> and larry is going to sing at the conclusion of today's telecast. in the meantime, if you're wondering where it is wintry feeling today, the answer is, as you can see, down in larry's beloved home state of texas. we have a big storm scooting through portions of texas and new mexico just getting out of a

. >>> johnny carson's boyhood home in nebraska has major structural damage.n who lost control of his car. he is in serious condition. four people inside the house, including two children, were not injured. >>> and now for a look at what is trending today, our quick round-up of what has you talking online. trending on google are search searches for anything having to do with hanukkah. the hanukkah me nora was hit last night that kicked off the jewish holiday known as the festival of lights. >>> and pictures of an italian member of the european parliament cradling her baby daughter at work. fittingly, the parliament was debating proposal to improve women's employment rights. >>> and barney frank's casual outfit for a speech on monday on the house floor is attracting some attention on yahoo. quite a lot of attention. massachusetts congressman wore a t-shirt that he was able to apparently pull over his bandaged hand after the surgery. offhand surgery, apparently. >>> it's now 8:04. let's go back outside to ann and carl. >> thanks, natalie. by the way, amelia is t