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. >> 1985, roseanne went on johnny carson which is every comics dream. she killed. on the couch. she got validation from the king. that can never be taken away from you. [ applause ] and i just want to say that, roseanne, you were my johnny carson. and thank you for the thumbs up. and thank you for allowing me to sit on your couch for a little bit. good night. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that was very nice. did you talk to her after the show? >> i did. as soon as i said that -- i talked to, kind of getting emotional. i want to man up on this stuff. i turned around to leave really quick that went well. i'm out of here. oh, god, i have to shake her hand or something. then i went backstage. i hear, tom, tom, she said some nice things. >> jimmy: did you make love? when you come back, tom arnold. we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪[music plays]♪ ♪[music plays] ♪[music plays] [ male announcer ] start with a simple idea. think. drink coffee. design something totally original. do it again. that'. call in the engineers. call in the car guys. call in the nerd

not only was he a novelist and screenwriter, very trenchant he was on television, even johnny carson. >> he was a distinguished man from a distinguished family. his grandfather when a senator. he shared relations with -- he shared the stage with jackie kennedy. he published his first novel to critical and popular acclaim. his third novel caused a scandal for the openly gay story line. america's once supportive critics turned on him. he found success he said that the pass was the only interesting thing about the united states. evidence suggests that he was captivated by contemporary america. >> i do not think i need your sycophantic laughter. i have some on tape. >> his singular and thoughtful voice will be much mess. and as will he. >> you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, britain strikes gold, and bradley wiggins, just two weeks after he won the tour de france. right now all eyes are on london for the olympic games. after coming in second in the 400 needed -- foreign readers sprint, and packer considered going shopping. luckily she traded in for gold leapt -- gold

johnny carson was mount everest for a stand-up comedian. i did a 500 shows a year. every night, sometimes two or three different places to get the chance for that six minutes. he did not come back and say hello. the first, walked through the curtain, there he is. you do your six minutes and you're scared to look. if he didn't like you, he would clap. if he liked you, he would give you this. if you get to the end of 6 minutes, you are scared to look because it is like caesar deciding if you are going to live or die. he called me over. i have a black-and-white photo, i am in the chair talking to him and he is laughing. that is all i ever wanted to do. i was laying in bed said, i have no plan. that is all i ever wanted to do. now you have 700 tv channels, but back then, that was it. and of john a. like you, you were made. i won the american comedy award. i had a showtime special. it was off to the races because of johnnie. tavis: i was reading the other day, probly the new york times. there was a big piece that i did with chris rock and he was asked by this reporter wh

has it been that long since johnny carson was off? time flies. >> stock futures are higher this morning as wall street waits to hear what the fed chairman has to say today. >> i hope i got your name right ines, >> he totally did, thank you. >> how the stock market moves today could depend on what ben bernanke says. he is expected to give his assessment of the struggling u.s. economy during a meeting of bankers in wyoming. investors will be looking for signs the fed could take action to boost the struggling economy. wall street trading is expected to be light into the weekend. the dow dropped nearly 107 points and the nasdaq fell 32. soon you may notice more tweets related to our particular interests. twitter announced it would target advertisements to users based on content of twitter. companies will be able to pay for advertisements, 1¢ per tweet, targeted at users. amazon says the kindle fire is sold out. it says it has captured about 22 percent of the u.s. tablet sales. amazon is expected to announce a new model for the holiday sea

jack paar gave her first break and johnny carson, mike douglas and affidavit frost. she just went nonstop to 95 years of age. >> shep: unbelievable. she played every supper club in this nation and celebrated 35 years in the industry to a career that didn't begin when she was 37 years old sheevph was a late bloomer. first lady to play vegas, first headliner in a male dominated world when back then, you had jack carter, sheblg can i green, danny thomas. fil us broke through. phyllis broke through. she was on the famous show when tiny tim got married. >> she made no secret of the fact she had a plastic surgery. recently the american academy cosmetic surgery for taking plastic surgery out of something not to be ashamed of. >> absolutely. everybody kept it on the hush, hush. she got it in 1972 after watching herself on the sonny and cher show. she said, i need a facelift. she did that. she was the first celebrity really to embrace plastic surgery. again a true pioneer. >> shep: many may not realize she was a piano soloist with a hundred symphony orchestras including perfo

she was on "the tonight show" with johnny carson, as a guest, where johnny actually bumped burst crabo let ayn rand keep talking. really, buster crab. she talked to johnny about being an atheist, and she said this to mike wallace. >> you are out to destroy almost every edifice in the contemporary american way of life, our judeo-christian religion, our modified government-related capitalism, our rule by the majority will. other reviews have said that you scorn churches and the concept of god. are these accurate criticisms? >> uh, yes. >> you would have to be pretty dense to be an ayn rand fan and not know that ayn rand was an atheist, as ryan is now pretending. now, like ryan, i read ayn rand when i was in high school. in fact, she was assigned reading in my catholic high school, where none of the priests were afraid of exposing us to atheist writers and mor e philosophers, including some they and i agreed with. i enjoyed reading her novels then too, but unlike ryan, i didn't believe she was a better moral or political philosopher than jesus christ. and by the way, most atheists i know

those are "johnny carson show" curtains. did any of you see the new "spider-man" movie this weekend [ cheers and applause ] "the amazing spider-man" was the number one movie at the box office. had a huge opening. grossed more than $338 million. narrowly edging out mitt romney. [ laughter ] last weekend, a movie about a violent teddy bear was number one. this weekend "spider-man." next weekend "batman." it's a very good time to be 8 years old. it really is. some people complained that this new spider-man movie was too similar to the first one which how different do you expect a spider-man movie to be? he's spider-man. he got bit by a spider, he swings around and beats bad guys. what do you want him to do? go to dental school? the big success of the spider-man movie means a big boost for out our local hollywood boulevard spidermen. there are characters outside the studio who you probably met on the way in. they take pictures for tips. hi, spidey, how are you? >> hey, i'm fine. how are you doing? >> jimmy: why do you have a gun

leno replaced johnny carson and the network is trying to reduce production costs. >>> checking stories 20 minutes past the hour. rescuers pulled a man from a rural well in little rock last night. horse riders heard his calls for help and he had been in the well for 24 hours in the desert heat. he was wedged tight, and firefighters had to chip concrete to get him, and he had apparently dropped something in the well and trying to recover it. >>> people in michigan may get a fascinating and frightening force of nature. this is a waterspout, and nine of them formed on the lake yesterday and forecasters say could be triggered today. and winds from the water spouts can apparently hit 60 miles per hour. >>> in chicago, a small monument now marks the spot where president obama and first lady michelle obama first kiss ed which stands outside of what was once a ice cream shop in hyde park. the monument was commissioned by owner s owners of a nearby shopping center. >>> muslims around the world are celebrating the end of ramadan, and we will tell you how one community in the south is marking the

and by 51 she was on tv and became -- you know, a -- a pop icon in the mode of johnny carson, kermit frog, oprah winfrey. i mean, that kind of beloved pop icon in just a short -- but at the age of 50. it was just a great adventure. >> tv careers are ending at that time. >> exactly right. >> she was on tv, she was on pbs and it's rather startling. you write about the fact that in very many ways she helped make pbs, certainly helped save it. >> she launched it. pbs before it was called net, national educational television, and it was only a local situation. they showed local community college professors talking on tv, maybe a symphony orchestra. julia was the very first star on national educational television and she was syndicated. no one had ever done that. this was before sesame street, mr. rojers. because of julia the network took off. she was the backbone of pbs. >> there is so much to say and talk about. we're out of time. it is interesting to me and you will have to come back sometime because i'm fascinated by the fact that between the beatles book and this book you take on subj

and he had made himself into a most public man of letters and opinions, regularly appearing with johnny carsonmously sparring with william f. buckely in a series of televised debates. >> i should say to that first to correct mr. buckley's spontaneous inaccuracy, you have almost a stalinist desire to revise history. >> it wasn't spontaneous, it was planned. >> ha. your calculated desire. >> reporter: into his later life, in essays and on television he offered barbed commentary on the state of american politics and life, here in 2000. >> i see the world having been raised in a political family, i know the mixture that people are. harry truman did more harm to the united states than any president in our history and was one of the nicest and most honorable of men. but he replaced the old republic with a national security state, with a cold war, as charles beard the historian said we are now set for perpetual war for perpetual peace and we've had 50 years of that. >> brown: at times, his quips offended, as here on oklahoma city bomber timothy mcveigh. >> he was trying to balance what he considered

. >> gretchen: she visited us here in fox news when johnnie carson passed away. >> we are all sad andt do you think it means he's gone. >> it means he's dead, john. >> i know that philis. >> even in death she can make us laugh . >> she was 95 years old and i heard that her husband, they didn't have money and her husband said try comedy and she did. >> and her husband's name was not fang. >> no. >> steve: just a joke. >> sure. >> steve: what a life. >> new signs say the monday blus don't stop on monday. we'll tell you the worst day of the week. >> brian: president obama economic advisor said republicans should give it up. a mauler - smaller government is not. judge napolitano has an opposing view. i peeked at the card. ♪ i bit off more than i could chew. [ pilot ] now when you build an aircraft, you want to make sure it goes up and stays up. [ chirp ] with android apps, you get better quality control. so our test flights are less stressful. i've got a lot of paperwork, and time is everything here. that's why i upgraded to the new sprint direct connect. [ chirp ] and the fastest push-to

vince johnny carson in may night is the launching pad. but is the market about to get pounded? stand-up comedy specials each year now setting up shop online. bryan, abc moving jimmy kimmel live will he expand the market or steal viewers? >> hello. thank you for having me here. it is great. in that slot it is a phenomenal move abc. basically jimmy kimmel is a hardworking canadian and post and with competition it makes it better for everybody. so they will have a hard working committee and so everybody will up their game. dennis: you are a thriving supplier news start to sell things on itunes day repurchase after tv? >> the way the world moves so quickly it will be viewed that is have everybody watches tv if we go to comedy central or itunes being in their bedroom it will not make much of a difference. for those that get to work with the comedians, there will be a lot of changes. more options and better options. then it will be good for everybody. dennis: tell us about the knit can and special. >> he was a special personal project for myself. we've teamed up with nick we shot som

her one-liners would make johnny carson smile and delight female viewers who saw all of the laughter of their own lives. >> ugliest baby. when i was born, the doctors slapped everybody. >> reporter: phyllis diller died in her sleep on monday, at the age of 95. for "good morning america," chris connelly, abc news, new york. >> sam said it best. she's still funny. >> yeah. haven't heard the voice in so long. but it cuts right through. >> and that great laugh she had. that cackle. >> great to see her. >>> got a little weather for us, sam? >> we do. all eyes will be on this, the pulsing circle of concern on the board is isaac soon. with this big of a storm system moving, and the center of that circulation that has the storm for the hurricane center to label it what they have, about 1,000 miles away from puerto rico. it has a little shear over the next 24 hours. here are the forecast models we look at. and every one of them is closely knit by the time it gets to puerto rico and cuba. turning it towards maybe south florida in some form. all eyes in the southern part of the u.s. should be w

she made numerous appearances on "the tonight show with johnny carson."famous phrases, good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. >> god bless her soul. i think of the covers of coss month ever happen to pass one and kind of just read what's inside that magazine, sometimes as a guy, and it's like -- it changed. >> revolutionized the entire industry. >> when you were young, would you read "penthouse" letters. >> oh, my god. are you talking about "penthouse on the air? >> when i was 14. did you know there were 32 different ways to do some of this stuff? >> i'm trying to learn. >> every month there was 32 different ways to do something else. and it was like oh, my god. they are talking about this. i don't know it was directly helen that revolutionized that, but it's an uncomfortable -- that's not a men's magazine to rell pick up casually and start going through. >> but it's interesting. interesting reading. the producers are telling us we have to get no a commercial immediately. comments, questions, anything you see on a squawk" shoot us an e-mail. co

i'm like johnnie carson. i'm leaving again. but it's summer.summer, you take your time off in the summer and in the headlines this morning yahoo! looking for a chief operating officer to serve as the number two to marisa. to concentrate on day-to-day business issues. another carriage fee dispute involving a big cable company. cablevision customers are without tribune broadcasting educations. tribune is working its way out of bankruptcy. it's not -- these are -- cablevision has always been the one. comcast -- >> comcast. time warner. >> wall street bonuses will rise less than previously expected. johnson associates says bonuses will be flat to 5% higher compared to 5% to 15% increase that was forecast three months ago. cites weaker than expected revenue at big banks for the reduced forecast. i'm not the first one eradication of mosquitoes. they thin the herd of the human population. now it turns out that there's certain mosquitos that are predators of disease carrying mosquitos. so you end up killing the mosquitos that kill the mosquitos that ca

. >> mcfadden is johnny on the spot but also, carson in his first full season was thrown into the fire and did not stand much of a chance last year. now he has had a full off- season and a different head coach but this could be the year that darius a word bay could go over 1,000 yds >> and west coast offense, it great offensive coordinator who has been really friendly to quarterbacks over the years and he has plenty of playmakers and weapons and a good running game. >> would you think about greg nap because he played underneath of him, what are your thoughts of him as a coordinator and what will they succeed with him? >> he understands how to call the game, it is the running game and play action that works and they will put stuff down the field for carson and i believe he does a good job on game day calling the game. he was steve young's guy, garcia's guy, he was with the texans and he can get it done >> i just don't think he is tarot owens guy. >> who is his guy? >> pete carroll. >> for the moment. >> still to come, the countdown to kickoff, the local guy brings a super bowl experienc

carson did for all those years? >> we're doing circus time. we got people swinging on things, we're setting fire to stuff. you get folks running around naked. and johnnyart of everyone's evening. and then maybe he'd do aunt blabby and that would be it. >> do you think you have to do that? because that's where the audience is in 1996 or do you think it's a reflection of your sense of humor, of our comedy? >> i wish i could say it was a reflection of mine. mostly at the core it is. i don't know whether we have to do that to attract and keep an audience. i don't know. >> why do you do it? >> because of the competitive nature of the current marketplace of television, which now seems infinite. you feel that that's required. lord knows, i don't know if it is required. but that's the feeling. that's the sense. it's got to be like this. >> the feeling of your staff? >> everybody. >> i think we have contributed to this, sadly. i think we've been on our own bait here. when we first came on the air, i mean, every night we had hot air balloons going up in the audience, we had people jumping out of blimps. it was just nuts. but we thought this is our one chance mu