we used to watch johnny carson. those were not the things my culture said, you can make a life that way. this is what society respect and you need to do it that way. fortunately, i stepped in to that fear -- always did that thing you are afraid to do -- and that changed my life. tavis: one of johnny carson's regular guests was bob. writer.e the youngest ride >> i lived in virginia. -- my uncle said, if you want to submit jokes to mr. hope. he called one day. he called the house, it is a bob hope for tom. my mother said, who is this? and this is the queen of england and she hung up. for july, he called back. he said to me comment -- fortunately, he called back. he said to me, can you do it again? i did it again and he hired me and that was my first job. about a freeing to fly. -- fruitfly. morgana ,r -- something about the seventh inning stretch mark. move on. will i am getting fearful. we talked about your fears and everyone of us can resonate about what people expect from us. the journey and life that takes you to

they sent me one of johnny carson as this young comic.s blitzed, but he had to go at 8:00 in the morning and do a kiddie program. we keep in touch when i get back to new york and he started doing the tonight show. i am changing this and i am changing this. i went in the studio. i sent it to him. the back story, state henderson -- stitch henderson was the orchestrate leader. i do not want that kid cutting in on me. i did not want to tell you, but i am doing you half the song. the song went on. ever lived tou regret it? >> not at all. you mentioned something a moment ago. it comes through so clear in this book. i was impressed by the can door and by the honesty. -- candor and by the honesty. whoe are a lot of people spent their lives running away from any contact with the mob. you never played the mob game, but you are honest about the fact that you knew these guys. , so did dean,k so did sammy. you did not work unless you worked for them. we know who ran the record companies. we knew who controlled everything. that does not mean you were a

i remember liberace, you know, like on johnny carson and those kinds of shows. >> does it seem oscar worthy, you think? >> i don't know. i didn't watch the whole thing. i had to watch it in snippets. zbl you're the movie expert. >> you're watching "early today." >>> kentucky church is dropping its scouting program. the church with more than 30,000 members will break ties. >>> and in "the new york times," obama plans three nominations for key courts. he'll try to fill three vacancies. and of course challenging republicans to find reasons to block the nominations. >>> topping our news, chicago police say they have arrested the man who they believe shot and killed 6-month-old watkins in march. coleman willis is charged with first-degree murder. police say he was seeking revenge for a video game theft. his father, the intended target. >>> the jersey shore revisited. chris christie will give president obama a tour of the rebuilt shore. it's a replay right after hurricane sandy and just days before obama won re-election. >>> they say you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drin

david letterman has replaced johnny carson. everything has quote marks around it.othing really matters. everything's a wink and a jab. and the spookiest thing to me about watching pulp fiction is that i could, you know, um... i felt deeply irrelevant you know what i mean? and i didn't feel irrelevant because i had been cheated. i felt irrelevant because it was good. if it had been bad, i wouldn't have been threatened. but david letterman's sensibility doesn't even scratch the dementia of pulp fiction. it's much more well-behaved than that and it won't offend the big mall mainstream the way pulp fiction will still offend a large chunk of the american mainstream audience. paul, you invoke pulp fiction but this has also been the year of forrest gump. i think it's very difficult to just say here, pulp fiction renders me meaningless and the traditional audience meaningless when, in fact, a film like forrest gump with extraordinarily old-fashioned, traditional... i mean, i think it may be the hollywood style in a rather quintessential way. that film does extraordinary bu

david letterman has replaced johnny carson. everything has quote marks around it.othing really matters. everything's a wink and a jab. and the spookiest thing to me about watching pulp fiction is that i could, you know, um... i felt deeply irrelevant you know what i mean? and i didn't feel irrelevant because i had been cheated. i felt irrelevant because it was good. if it had been bad, i wouldn't have been threatened. but david letterman's sensibility doesn't even scratch the dementia of pulp fiction. it's much more well-behaved than that and it won't offend the big mall mainstream the way pulp fiction will still offend a large chunk of the american mainstream audience. paul, you invoke pulp fiction but this has also been the year of forrest gump. i think it's very difficult to just say here, pulp fiction renders me meaningless and the traditional audience meaningless when, in fact, a film like forrest gump with extraordinarily old-fashioned, traditional... i mean, i think it may be the hollywood style in a rather quintessential way. that film does extraordinary bu

and the "times" wrote a big story, a week later he was on "the johnny carson show." >> jimmy: is thatu came up with. but this one really just changed all of our lives and you called mick jagger the patron saint of mtv. "i want my mtv." [ cheers and applause ] >> in 1982, it's hard to believe, but mtv was a year in production and nobody was watching them because there wasn't a cable operator in america that wants any part of them. rock stars, nobody wanted any part of them. >> jimmy: people didn't know what it was. >> anyway, the music business thought it would destroy their business. believe it or not. so they were about to close up, i went to them, they asked me to come in, i took their logo, i stuck the rolling stone logo in it. and told them i would do a commercial -- and towards the end of the commercial, a voiceover would say, "if you don't get mtv where you live, pick up the phone and dial --" >> jimmy: call your cable operator. >> "call the cable operator." and i said i would get a guy like mick jagger to pick up the phone and say, "i want my mtv." and they said, "george, nobod

. >>> and the drummer for 29 years for johnny carson has died.eed to take the gig for two weeks. that was back in 1963. he loved it so much he decided to stay. he was known for his drum battles with the frequent "tonight show" guests, buddy rich. shaughnessy says his love began at age 14 when his dad brought him home a drum set. let's listen. ed shaughnessy was 84 years old. and 2,000 miles, that's in 27 days, that's how far a group of veterans is walking to remind us that memorial day not just about the start of summer. this group is called carry the load. members are near the end of that journey, it's in texas. we're going to walk to pay tribute to the nation's fallen heroes and raise money for their families. so far they've collected more than $1 million. >> this is the second year of the national relay. start from west point, new york, and head down to dallas, texas. it's 2,000 miles. we do that in 27 days with a mission to get the word out about memorial day. got about 348 legs, each leg is about five miles. >> i'm in for my son. my son was

thing that is even more dangerous is that reactions of parents to those things if little mary or johnny carson on the floor and there's a television show and somebody is brutally murdered and the parents get up and get another beer, they are going like mom and dad weren't affected by that i guess it is no big deal and again it comes back to the responsibility of adults to constantly be monitoring. you say this is pretend and this is horrible. we don't like this happening in real life. but you get up and get some potato chips what are the kids going to think? so this is something that parents need to teach people coming and the x box and the tv shows it's not just the effect of the kids it is the parent's interpretation and those machines on the kids. >> i want to thank the panelist. [applause] >> "after words" with guest host judith of the national defense university. this week yasser and his book that this information. the former senior adviser to ambassador richard holbrooke repeals that the foreign policy plan supported by the late ambassador and former secretary of state of of the clinton

and it since has gone prime time in popularity including a 16-year run on the johnny carson show. >> we definitely are known around the world for our bird calling. we take pride in that. [ bird calls ] >> reporter: 19 students discovered their inner soprano last week with a gaggle of juniors taking the top prize with their rendition of the greater prairie chicken. [ bird calling ] >> reporter: how many hours of work did you put into this? >> not enough. [ laughter ] >> reporter: but you won. >> yeah, by a miracle. [ bird calling ] >> reporter: do you feel just a little bit cooler on campus now? >> i do. [ laughter ] >> reporter: you do? >> i do. [ bird calling ] >> reporter: the top three bird callers all take flight, yes, how about a free ride to new york and an appearance on david letterman? well, you get to go to new york. how cool is that? >> i'm so excited. yeah. i'm really pumped. >> my grandpa is really excited about letterman. >> they spend two nights and three days and letterman lets them fly out late the last day so they can go sightseeing in new york and they are going to

jack bene, johnny carson and this guy. and all three of them got their best laughs by deadpanning. because you know what they were thinking. they just -- they have taught you through their careers, brief careers in some cases, so you just laugh your butt off at them. just -- they just pause. that's the brilliance. the brilliance of just silence, looking at the camera. not a political thought. but i do think about these things, lizz, all the time. thank you. by the way, the public -- >> the confidence of knowing. yep. >> the confidence of knowing who they are. it works. they've taught us who they are. >> it does. >> thank you, dana milbank. that's why i think jon stewart is a brilliant political satirist. lizz winstead. thank you. of course, dana milbank who i read often. >>> coming up, take a guess, which political party plays fast and loose with the truth three times as often as the other. maybe there is a difference. next in the sideshow. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> welcome back to "hardball." now time for the sideshow. first, which party do you think wins on

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f little mary or johnny carson on the floor and there's a television show and somebody is brutally murdered and the parents get up and get another beer, they are going like mom and dad weren't affected by that i guess it is no big deal and again it comes back to the responsibility of adults to constantly be monitoring. you say this is pretend and this is horrible. we don't like this happening in real life. but you get up and get some potato chips what are the kids going to think? so this is something that parents need to teach people coming and the x box and the tv shows it's not just the effect of the kids it is the parent's interpretation and those machines on the kids. >> i want to thank the panelist. [applause] >> booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> next, booktv sits down with eric draper, the longest-serving white house photographer to discuss his photographs of former president george w. bush. it's just over half an hour. >> host: "front row seat" is thing of the book

she gave advice on personal problems, but she was best known for her frequent appearances on johnny carson'stonight show." she was 85 years old. >>> "toronto sun international," chris hadfield and the rest of the team landed in russia last night, spending five months in space during which chris became a viral youtube sensation for his cover of david bowie's "space odyssey." ♪ >> it's good stuff. even praise from bowie himself. you don't have a lot of stuff to do up there, right? press a couple of buttons, that is awesome. >> all right. joining us now -- >> that's beyond awesome. okay. from awesome to awful. >> yeah. wow. >> we just crashed to earth fast, didn't we? >> why do we do this? >> i don't know. hey, jim. >> jim vandehei. one of your lead stories this morning, how the irs scandal will lead to a campaign finance free for all. take it away. >> right. i mean -- we're dealing with three or four different scandals or big screw-ups in realtime. and i think the irs one in the short-term is most problematic for this white house given that there are seems to be new evidence that conflicts. >>

johnny carson said so you went from the -- the secretary, the girlfriend, got married and then you becames she was there. >> good segue, because here you are going through puberty on national tv. >> yes, he was. >> and the story right now. >> and the story goes you developed a wild crush on erin and it was impossible to hide. >> well, she got into yoga, it wasn't fair. she stretched on stage. >> erin -- >> didn't you go up to her one day and asked her for a kiss? >> this is his step-mother. >> he begged you had for a kiss one day. >> he did beg me, and as first -- at first i was going sure, why not, and then i suddenly went whoa, whoa, whoa, i've been your mother for four years. at this point this somehow doesn't feel right. >> i would like to retract what i said about you being normal because you're still talking about the tennis outfits and the yoga. >> that's puberty. >> you can't change that. >> very formative. >> he got married at 20. got to remember these things. >> joel, what did the show do for you as an actor? >> hmm, boy, that's an interesting question. i would say that, number

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