she would not let that overtake her anger. >> she had that relationship with johnny carson for 21 years he broke her heart. >> for taking a job that she wasn't getting "the tonight show." it was a great opportunity. understandable why she would do it. never spoke to her again. >> that is because she a woman. several men went on to take over "the tonight show" and other late night shows. never a woman. and also joan was so gracious. he made me. i got to give him that. she also later on, years after that happened to her, she was able to articulate how much it wounded her. >> to have lost her husband to suicide and raising a daughter by herself and have to, you know, move forward and make a living. >> absolutely. >> you also point out something before we went on air. she invented a whole new television programming which is the red carpet stuff. >> yes. she took a bunch of celebrities walking into a building and turned that into two hours of entertainment. she put designers on the map before anyone knew who they were. >> this is the edgar. she was incubating. >> she came in an egg and some

it was the same johnny carson. >> you ended up meeting because he was a magician? >> yeah. >> you did some magic? >> that's right. i met carson as a magician backstage, church basement and i took my two little magician friends with me and there he was. and gave us a filthy look every magician would give you when he is concealing a dove in his coat, setting up the egg. i said, it's all right, mr. carson, we are magicians. "okay, fellows." he was so nice to us. >> you stayed in touch with carsson. he was a significant help to your career. >> that's one of the things that struck me about your life was the amazing amount of incredible people that you managed to somehow connect with early, and a lot of it was because you were incredibly persistent. you do things most of us wouldn't have the guts to do. >> i was known for going into judy garland's dressing room at the palace and saying hello after a show. at one point, she said is this an interview or something? i was still in college. but i did that i wanted to be with them in their world. >> you end up going to yale? yo

was johnny carson. so this is old john, eh? gng right into all homes across america.oing the show behind that desk so long you don't know how, you know you don't know whether to sit like this or like this. introducing the best of the tonight show starring johnny carson from starvista entertainment and time life. do you like my dress? what there is of it is uh...

. >> johnny carson style. great america. passed away. >> destined for political stardom in 2015 n. british prime minister david cameron. this year, he barely held the united kingdom together and had trouble keeping his governing coalition intact. next year, cameron will redefine his country's relationship with the european union that will counter the growing threat from the uk independence party while keeping britain in the eu. a tight rope act that cameron will pull off. you care to comment? >> yeah, i don't think he's going to pull it off. >> you don't? >> no. >> does anyone think he's going to pull it off? >> i don't think so. i think he has a very slight chance. >> i'm a fan of david cameron, but he's not a magician. >> that means a no? >> no. >> the answer is no. >> destined for political oblivion? >> nicholas -- venezuela. i think they're going to default on its debt. almost have to. >> red state democrats. they all got wiped out in november. >> tom? >> i like pat, the third biggest party in the uk. o coalition partner in the british government, but he's going to struggle in

which have so many talk shows, when i started out there was just the tonight show, johnny carson. it was the only show to do. other shows came along like letterman and ar seenio hall, and now there's a plethora of talk shows. >> it seems like half of them hosted by people who used to do weekend updates. >> fallon. meyers it's about to start. lots of opportunities for you to sit on the couch. >> that's right. yeah, i've been on a lot of keuchs in my life. i went from laying on couches at friend's homes to sitting up on couches. >> sitting up on couches. saturday night live and specifically the weekend update, a brand that you're associated the with is a small club, but if you're in the club it's a good thing. that conveys going forward. people still all those years later think of those in those -- >> it is kind of an exclusive club, i think. it's getting larger and larger, they're coming up on their 40th anniversary in 2015. >> right. >> it just seems that there's more and more people that have been on it. and there's a lot of people that have been on that show that you don't even

johnny carson style. a great american. passed away. destined for political stardom in 2015. british prime minister david cameron. this year he barely held the united kingdom together and had trouble keeping his governing coalition intact. next year cameron will redefine his country's relationship with the european union. that will counter the growing threat from the u.k. independence party while keeping britain in the eu. a tight rope act that cameron will pull off. do you care to comment? >> yeah, i don't think that he'll pull it off. >> you don't? >> no. does anyone think that he'll pull it off? >> i don't think so. he has a slight chance. >> i'm a fan of david cameron, but he's not a magician. >> that means a no. >> no? >> the answer is no. destined for political oblivion, pat? >> venezuela's nicolas maduro, john. >> eleanor? >> red state democrats. they all got wiped in and out november. >> tom? >> i like pat, but mcclegg the third biggest leader in the u.k. he's going to struggle next year. >> clegg? >> mcclegg. >> c-l-e-g-g? >> correct. >> mark? >> well i think nancy p

> from the moment he stepped on stage to the day he said goodbye -- the king of late night was johnny carsonht into the homes acro

fast-forward to the inauguration in 1981 johnny carson claimed the moniker nancy ted to equate nancy's ambitions with those of abe peron. exactly, i agree. without nancy ronald reagan never would have been elected to anything. she was the one with the driving ambition, not ron. another misunderstood aspect of the reagan story is his conversion from new deal democrat to eisenhower republican. that was not just an instantaneous flash. occurred over a decade. during the early 40s while fighting communist infiltration into the screen actors guild reagan was threatened over the phone with an asset acid in the face of taghavi persisted in blocking the communist penetration of the union. in response the burbank police department offered protection and they also offered a concealed weapon permit. not well understood the three years he was head of the screen actors guild he was also packing heat. reagan came to understand the lofty ideals of communism simply could not be enforced without terror. that was part of his conversion. further political movement came in the early 50's with the korean w

> from the moment he stepped on stage to the day he said goodbye -- the king of late night was johnny carsonng the applause sign home and putting it in the bedroom. >> he went right into the homes across america. >> mom, i am on tv.

. >> ultimately, i think they were on the johnny carson show more than just about anybody. >> is therelly so bad? >> roger. i can't recommend three amigos. it's the christmas picture i like the least. >> oh. >> this is the happy hour. >> yes. >> you know, i don't think i'd ask you if i knew you were going to say that. >> god willing, he'll make more good movies in the future. >> with your help. >> yes. >> yes, with your help. >> there is a tendency for somebody who is, who is naturally funny, as chevy is to try and get lapsed by standing there and ad libbing when somebody sells trying to talk. >> that's right. >> the movie studios went from helping us to hating us, to fearing us. >> circulations of all of the newspaper critics and all of the magazines could not match the reach of the show at its height. it became quite clear very often that the film companies cared a lot about roger and gene seeing it, but not so much about the rest of us. >> two thumb's up became everything for a big hollywood movie. back when movie makers still thought critics enthusiasm could sell a movie. >> in 199

from the moment he stepped on stage, to the day he said goodbye -- the king of late night was johnny carson

>> ts first time i was on was 1973 with johnny carson.obody knew who i was. i thought to myself, what am i going to say? i enjoyed making the movie and happy to be here and enjoy this and that. what am i going to do? i decided right then and there to become a contrarian. it hit me just before i walked out. no one sees me like u that in life. >> did carson get it right away? >> he got it and then he didn't. and then i wasn't on with him. at first they'd tell me i was the first person out of three people he put under contract as a guest. >> don't you have an entourage? >> pupil you don't have an ent entourage entourage? >> do you bathe yourself? do you feed yourself? do you cut your own food? i do nothing myself anymore. >> i see, interesting. >> you don't have that. see, it shows. >> you think about people on tv a lot, totally different off the air than what people saw on the air. >> not with me. i forget who wrote this book. >> it came out a couple years ago u. >> i didn't know that because it's got stuff in there that was astonishing. on

i wanted to be tom brookaw in the morning or johnny carson at night. if there is somewhere i can get in between those two human beings and combination of those two, and that kind of is what happened. >> now you are one mike jerrick. >> and then there is the mike jerrick. >> please. >> dream came true. >> what did you want to be. >> actress. i would walk around and people would is a what do you want to be. >> a actress and waitress on the side. that is what i said to everybody. my poor parents were like what. i got to be an actress a little bit. this was when i was in school grade school, haha very funny. i was in the play stevey the spy. i was back in grade school. i played the role. >> never heard of it. >> it is about a story of a 13 year-old, a freed slave who worked in the house of a revolutionary war general she was a spy. she later helped played his life. >> you got to play phoebe. >> but i never got to be a waitress. >> what was a number one priority. >> look at what i have planned for you. >> what. >> do you know what that is. >> what. >> that

>> johnny carson inherited "the tonight show," but he made it his own. >> it is going to be wild tonighti can always tell. >> he hosted a nightly party. >> 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 las 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. ♪ wait to let the laugh die before what he says will be irrelevant to what happened. and he gets it just on the nose. it's beautiful to watch. >> i didn't even know you were jewish. >> johnny was the best audience in the world. and he loved comedy. >> the woman is watching him she's watching him from the corner of her eye. he says to him, what are you looking at? the guy says i'm looking at that ugly baby. that's a bad-looking baby, lady. >> johnny was there listening for you. he wanted you to score. and when you scored, he scored. >> i said now calm down. he said madam, the pennsylvania

famously close friends before leno was picked over letterman to take over "the tonight show" for johnny carsoneunion for the ages? >> i certainly hope so. this is how people identify 24e78selves these guys don't share an audience. they have been on primetime in the network spots and have been sparring for decades. so this would be sort of a -- sort of a great finale for both of them i think. >> this seems like a lot of fun. >> were you leno or were you. >> growing up in london, i have to say i was really neither but out of two e.o. don't make me decide. >> i'm more jimmy fallon. eastern when i was growing up i was more arsenio hall than either of them. i think it would get great ratings. joan rivers is the only thing that's missing from that epic. >> thank you for your time. >>> when we come back the viral photo changing lives. next. ears we've helped one million business owners get started. visit legalzoom today for the legal help you need to start and run your business. legalzoom. legal help is here. good job! still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can.

milton berle, johnny carson was here. [ cheers ] "american power hour". >> oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.o watch it all the time in the '80s, like, "star search". what was that r&b duo that they used to have on there all the time? >> jimmy: on "american power" ? you mean pleather and jerry? >> yeah, pleather and jerry. >> jimmy: yeah. they were the greatest. [ light laughter ] they were so close to making it big. i think they're lyrics never really connected to a wide audience. >> no, but i dug them. i really loved them so much. >> jimmy: it's funny that you mentioned them because we always have a clip of pleather and jerry loaded just in case their names ever come up in an interview. >> really? >> jimmy: you guys want to see a clip of pleather and jerry? [ cheers and applause ] here they are on "american power hour" singing "girl, we gon' do it". >> oh, that one? >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. ♪ >> welcome to "the american power hour". where the stars go to shine. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ oh girl i want to get with you rock your body through and through ♪ ♪ spend the whole night making lov

you know johnny carson used to do it, so i'll go over to my comedy club, i'm name my comedy club clube. >> club cube? >> the cube club, how about that? the cube club, i mean, ice cube. >> really, a mason jar? zoom out. i have the classic stool here. you can't see my stool. all comedians use it, a stool right? oh, goes off the green? >> oh, yes. >> thanks. goes off the green, we have to go back. >> just pretends us know that this stool is down here okay? trying to get the mood set here. take a little zip. >> sends in on twitter, how cold is it? >> you don't create your own jokes? >> , no i need help. a woman who normally watches the show sent me jokes. >> i love norma. >> this is one of hers. the comedy styling of one norma who watches this show every day. it is so cold. >> how cold is it? >> it is so cold steve keeley and i are going to a warm bar after the show and get plowed. >> so fun. >> i all about timing. >> that's the first one. >> okay, we'll get better, flight. >> we'll work on the timing of the second one. >> all do you have do, mike, just deliver. they're giving you the jok

will follow ♪ bringing you back to carole king, "king of queens," queen bee, 6b, the studio where johnny carsonght show." carson to leno, leno to conan, conan to fallon, "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." how do you like me now? ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's pretty good right there. i've got to hand it to you. that was pretty fun. that was fun. fun. fun run. run-dmc, sia, bringing you back to "chandelier." "king lear" by shakespeare, britney spears, mouseketeers, tears for fears, "cape fear" starring robert de niro. oh, you talking to me? "me, myself and i." "big eyes," big sean, "i don't eff with you." ulysses s. grant, grant's tomb. tomb "raiders of the lost ark," noah's ark, bringing you back to russell crowe. cameron crowe, sheryl crow, i'm counting crows. ♪ mr. jones and me mimi from "drew carey," carrie bradshaw, terry bradshaw, bringing you back to the nfl. m-n-o-p, pbs, sats, tsa, "abc" by the jackson 5-4-3-2-1. "one tree hill," "hill street blues," "blue's clues," booze cruise, cruise control, bringing you back to "speed 2." "to kill a mockingbird," mockingjay, "hun

there are not a lot of girls that grew up wanting to be johnny carson.i would like to see someone do it, but i don't think it has to be. >> you mentioned lucille ball. when lucy and desi moved to the country, they moved to westport. so let me just say to all of us and to everyone, we really appreciate you being here. we thank you all. thomas jefferson, we certainly talked about him a lot tonight. jefferson reminds us that where the press is free in every man and woman, and everyone is able to read, all is safe. i've have sublet we have critics like frank bruni and sandra here. we want to thank our audience and we want to thank c-span, and we want to say thank you from syracuse university. please remember in november on election day to please about. thank you. [laughter] [applause] ♪ >> you are so great. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> the c-span city store takes book tv and american history t

mike, whatever you are going to steel johnny carson you have to steel his material.about the animals. for instance, it is so cold today, i just saw a robin dipping his worm in hot chocolate. it is so cold today we had a squirrel run up to our exhaust pipe to warm up his nuts. >> i knew the nuts and the squirrels warming up was going to come out eventually. thanks, steve. >> you can always check for weather updates on our web site at my fox philly.com. >> that piece of rock that he is holding is more valuable then the rocky gave this woman. >>> this is weird. a new study says most states have a long way to go for improving early childhood education. i'm talking about prek. >> researchers with education week graded state participation and prek programs based on enrollment. overall they gave the u.s. ape d plus in all bye six states received c's and d's. pennsylvania both received a d plus. new jersey received a c minus. >> d's, d plus and c minus, basically the same grade for our three states. >> that is something. >> that is prek. >> all right. well, 8:08 on this frid

. >> i want to quote johnny carson.with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, jesse waters and kennedy. ♪ [ music ] happy new year's eve. we're glad you're joining us we're coming to you live from the heart of times square in new york city. now less than an an hour from midnight. right now, celebrities are riding out twitter with new year's eve messages so let's take a look at them. some tweets here, kim kardashian, hope everyone has a safe, happy new year, cheers to less negativity and no mean comments on social media. >> yes. >> pose activity. >> did she tweet a picture? is there a picture? >> yes. exactly. >> can she please learn proper grammar? . >> i would love to be her doctor. plastic surgeon. >> bob has a mad love affair for anyone named kim. to gloria estefan. happy new year to all. okay. to all, good health, and tim mcgraw says thanks to fans, family, and my team for a great year. here is a good one. bruno mars says maybe when the clock strikes 12, put that uptown, folks. that is great. >> bruno mars. that is beckel