it's agony. >> jack paar invented the late night television talk show. >> you feel confident?as liberace. >> jack had in his corner his personality. his fabulously, interesting, complex, frightening, neurotic, but in other cases enthusiastic and informed personality. it made for great television. >> how much time have i done? i don't have a watch either. how much? has it been charming? i'll quit now, then. >> here's johnny! >> johnny carson inherited "the tonight show," but he made it his own. >> it is going to be wild tonight. i can always tell. >> he hosted a nightly party. >> oh. >> are you married? >> oh. >> and if his buddies came, and they started playing together, you felt like what it must have felt like to go to vegas at 3:00 in the morning and have the rat pack come out. >> no, but where is the guy you talk to? >> it was a beautiful thing to watch a guy working at his best. >> okay, bingo. get your ax and let's go. ♪ >> if you watch it closely, he is gauging how much longer he can wait to let the laugh die before what he says will be irrelevant to what happened. and