there was johnny carson's "tonight show tiga that was it.rsenio had been around for a wild but he was kind of -- while but he was -- i think he had two years left to go. it felt like it was johnny and it was dave, and then there is nightline, and that's it. nbc had locked down amon napoli on the whole thing. -- a monopoli on the whole thing. i can't tell you how many shows there are on now. i'm in the business and i think there might be 35 late-night shows. there's a ton of them. there's a ton of these shows. the technology changed with cable, then the internet comes along, and what is happening is comes along and the ability to watch things out of sequence. so the late-night show, it 11:00 oro become -- 11:30 at night my choice would probably be to catch up on some of the shows i have missed earlier in the week. my natural inclination would not be -- i would not watch a late-night talkshow anyway just because -- i would watch your show before i would watch a late-night comedy show, because i can't relax watching those. i'm looking at the se

johnnie carson's tonight show, that was it. and arsenio had been around for a while but he was kind of, i think he had maybe two years left to go. but he was around. but it was really, it felt like it was johnny and it was dave, and then there's nightline and that's it. and it really was-- nbc had kind of locked down a monopoly on the whole thing. and so it was a built-in audience. i done even know, i can't tell you how many shows there are now. i have lost track. i'm in the business and i think there might be 35 late night shows. >> rose: a ton of them. >> there is a ton of them. >> i look every night and i see how many people at 11:00. you, me, a wol bunch of other people, daley show. >> there is a ton of these shows, the technology changed, with cable. and then the internet comes along and what's happening is that-- and tivo comes along and the ability to watch things out of sequence. so the late night show started to become-- i often know that 11:00 at night or 11:30 at night, my choice would probably be to catch up on some

all johnny carson does is skits and bits and mr. par used to do -- mr.used to do proper interviews. our show is hugely influenced by jimmy fallon's show. i'm sure his show is influenced by ellen. all of those things start to influence you. charlie: but it feels comfortable at least. james: i feel a lot more comfortable now, just in the manner that -- i am just overwhelmed by the way people have responded. charlie: is it the idea that you didn't step on a banana or do anything that people would have said, after you'd been on, how did this ever happen? they are saying, isn't this interesting what he is doing? james: i guess so. i am overwhelmed by that, really. i am incredibly relieved and grateful. charlie: could this happen in primetime, a show like this? jay leno tried to do it but jay leno was jay leno. james: i'm not sure. charlie: is it late-night where there is a feeling of freeness nd a feeling of -- james: i think it is also the feeling of the end of someone's day. not that i know anything about the history of late-night, but i feel like the chang

i loved johnny carson. as just king and johnny was, you know, god, sort of olympian but dave was really stupid and approachable. he was like us. we wanted to throw things off buildings. so i always -- he was always my late night host. he was always the guy i admired the most but never thought i'd take over for him. it was a happy accident, how about that? >> ken bastida had the fun assignment of interviewing him and late show with stephen colbert kicks off tuesday night right here after kpix 5 news at 11. >>> all right. full slate of college football games. et it's always full of surprises. and cal the average scoring over 1 ,,,, [female announcer] through labor day at sleep train's mattress price wars, save up to $400 on beautyrest and posturepedic. get interest-free financing until 2019 on tempur-pedic. but this special financing offer ends labor day at sleep train. pwhat've we got? 5. bp 64/40 sterilize sites. multiple foreign objects in the body. tweezers. (buzz!) (buzz!) if you're the guy from the opera

. >> it's pretty cool because the works collection includes lucille ball, bob hope, johnny carson. >>it's an amazing place. if you get lost for a couple of hours, it's worth the trip. >> and a beautiful building too. >> mm-hmm, beautiful. >>> it's monday. is it true we're kicking off a week of great weather? >> kick it, no problem. it's going to be so nice. september is one of those months. >> yes, it is. >> it's kind of all or nothing. it's either cloudy or rainy or a spectacular day. >> sunday. >> exactly. one leads right to the next. we could use some rain around here. it's been an incredibly dry month. the showers only added up to .016 of an inch. many spots into the 50s this morning. in fact, it's our coolest morning in washington at quite some time at 56 degrees at reagan national. southwest wind at seven miles per hour. 56. you say, wow, that's awfully chilly. reagan national has been below 60 since june 4th. yes. 3 1/2 months it's been since this chilly of a start. a nice cool morning. 100% sunshine coming your way. mild and dry. just nothing to complain about outside of the f

i'd like to go on the johnny carson show. you know what this beard covers up, johnny?rs? [ bleep ] now that's not moral. and when you go to church -- and when you go to church, you ask the nuns if they won't go out and deal a little bit of that to save starving children. you want this wedding ring i got with all these xs on it? >> strange man. >> he employs a profound disconnect between being involved in the murders of at least nine people and deserving to be in prison. >> so watching a tape like this, watching this particular tape, what do you take away from it? >> i think what i'm seeing here it makes me sad. this is what happens when we don't take care of our children. warm, happy, nurturing families do not produce people that grow up and kill other people for fun or revenge. the probation and parole agencies need to be more mindful how they treat and what they deal with preadolescent and adolescent juvenile offenders. >> there's a notion a lot of people have is born bad. that charlie manson must have been born bad. >> i think there probably occasionally is a bad se

kreutzberger has been compared to johnny carson and oprah winfrey. the finale included video messages from president obama and the first lady, along with latin american stars including shakira and gloria estefan. >>>> so thank you, done franciso for all of the joy and the entertainment that you brought into our lives for some years. you will be missed. >> >> sreenivasan: best-selling author jackie collins has died. her racy novels sold 500 million copies around the world. her best known was 1983's" hollywood wives," which sold 15 million copies and became a tv mini-series. collins died of breast cancer in los angeles. she was 77. last night, the newshour's gwen ifill was in charleston, south carolina, hosting a town hall special, engaging the community on issues of race and conflict following the killing of nine churchgoers there in june. here's a look at "america after charleston": >> many of the conversations that we have are surface level. i agree that bringing down the flag is a momentous occasion, but what we've learned in the past year is not t

wanted to come out here tonight for you, carol, because you may remember, i used to go on the "johnny carson show" and well, i'd read a poem every now and then. so since we're celebrating the release of the "lost episodes," why i found the lost poem. ( laughter ) and i'm going to do it for you. i'm just going to get that off your face. >> thank you, jimmiy. >> i'm going to do it for you right now. i hope you have time, steve. >> stephen: i want to-- i want to inform the affiliates we might be going long tonight. ( laughter ) >> yeah, that is only because i never was able to honor that new year's resolution i made every ( laughter ) anyway. ( cheers and applause ) this is a little poem i've done. i call it "carol." carol burnett is a wonderful gal she always makes me laugh somehow. all she has to do is put on that silly grin and i get this funny feeling all over my chin. whether she's wearing a dress made of old drapes or doing that tarzan yell like some crazy apes the stewardess norah desmond, the chairwoman, and that poor mrs. wiggins. why these are just some of the characters for which she

he had to go on ed sullivan and johnny carson so he had to play the tv game and he did it well. >> he he was working the playboy club and the copa cabana. so you moved to beverly hills. >> we did. >> move to beverly. >> yep. >> and how old were you? >> i was three when we moved to l.a., in 1966. >> but he is still very tv friendly. he is not the george carlin we know. >> and became huge. that's when his career took off. he did the john davidson show and merv griffin. his career exploded. he got some movies and got in with dore advice day and -- doris day and brian keith. >> but they kept asking him to do the same tv friendly routines. >> they said do that hippy dipy thing and the indian sergeant. he was ready toy valve. to evolve. he said he had new stuff and they said yeah, don't do that. he started to get depressed. >> and then he started to get fired. your parents and you and you were an only child. he started getting fired from big gigs, vegas. why? >> language. shocking, huh? >> but that meant you were doing well. he was earning a good living. >> my mom put a deposit down on a be

most late-night hosts if you ask who they worship, they'll say johnny carson before they say jesus christ. stephen colbert is different. that gives him a certain dimension and i think a lot of the audience that may not necessarily agree with him because of his politics will like that about him and see there's something there to connect with just as joe biden connected with him. >> i can't imagine any other late-night hosts having that serious and emotional conversation with a potential presidential candidate, vice president of the united states. of course colbert himself lost part of his family including his father in a plane crash when he was 10 years old and he brought that up and the two connected on that. the contrast with jimmy fallon. trump did "the tonight show" on friday night. it brings me to a different race. ratings race. given what you have seen from this week, humor, focus on politics, can colbert beat or be competitive with jimmy fallon and with jimmy kimball? >> he had a very big first night because of the promotion. jimmy fallon won the rest of the week and had a big night

. >> stephen colbert, johnny carson was on the air, what, 35 years, something like that?ng time. >> and he said the key was listen to your guests. >> right. >> i think steven was very nervous in this interview, because the first time he is just talking over him, not letting george talk, listening was the key for johnny. >> all right. well, hopefully he's watching this, and listening to you. >> johnny? >> your advice. >> johnny not watching any more. >> we're talking about stephen. >> see, you're not listening. >> what's that? >> typical. >> hi, kathy. so stephen colbert gave george some grief about not being invited to the wedding. so steven handed him a gift, you saw it right, there the blue box, from tiffany. >> oh,. >> but it was engraved with i don't know you. i like that part. that's perfect. from the jersey shore to los angeles, california, philly native bradley cooper was on the late late show, with james cord on last night. >> cord on asked cooper his secret to getting the ladies, and that's when bradley whipped out his secret weapon. >> i did very good in the bar

let's see crystal, i was trying to get to johnny carson the great what's his name, carnak in there smera k. >> last week it changed the dynamics of this debate. do you think tomorrow night will do that? >> i do. i'll tell you why i do. i do for the venue in which i'm standing right now. i think this alone will clang the nature of the debate. here's why. the last debate that, fox debate was held where lebron james plays basketball. there was a huge crowd of tense of thousands there and donald trump feeds ob that. there was an audience built in, don, for his one-liners. they responded. i'm looking at 500 seats the candidates get a small allotments. there are benefit ne factors of the reagan lie prepare recipients of those seats, friends of cnn. there is not a built-in audience for the type of routine i think trump has succeeded with. i'm saying it will be more sedate. i think a sedate crowd will draw out more substance, especially when have you jake and dana and hue hewitt. so what i'm saying is, i think tomorrow night is a night he, trump, is going to need to bring more specifics and not

johnny carson and merv griffin had authors on all the time. i think colbert was one of the few shows on comedy central where authors could go on tv and do an entertaining session about their books. i think you'll see a cerebral quality to his show. i think he's excited to be dropping the satirical persona. >> going back to biden for a minute. do you think biden would agree to appear on colbert's show if he didn't have an announcement to make about some sort of bid. >> do you think he would have leaked to maureen dowd that his son wanted him to run or that he met with elizabeth warren in d.c.? biden is always a good talk show guest. whether he's running or not, it's good for him to make this appearance. the show is lucky to have him. >> if he is not making an announcement about presidential ambitions on the show, it will keep people talking and speculating about his plans. >> they're a good mix together. one of the things that will inform the quality of stephen's show is his life-long commitment to catholic principles of social justice. stephen

[dramatic musical flourish] following johnny carson's death, what tv host delivered a monologue of jokescarson had written especially for him in his final months? what's that smile? >> chris, this is right in my wheelhouse: tv. it's--david letterman was the guy that wanted "the tonight show," didn't get "the tonight show," was pals with carson. carson appeared on his show. it's david letterman, b. final answer. >> right in the wheelhouse. you hit it out of the park. that's right! [cheers and applause] crushed it. $10,000. joe, you're moving up the board there. playing great. two more lifelines. how far can this guy go? stick around; we're gonna find out. [cheers and applause] before i had the shooting, burning, pins-and-needles of diabetic nerve pain, these feet... ...served my country... ...carried the weight of a family... ...and walked a daughter down the aisle. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and he prescribed lyrica. nerve damage from diabetes causes diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is fda-approved to treat this pain. lyrica may cause serio

>> whoopee. >> yeah. >> i'm old school johnny carson. >> yeah. >> what year was that?ar shows and the most. next year there will be at least two hosts according to david hill joking two is better than one. imagine you're in there. one of your hosts drops dead from cardiac arrests. wow. you get your second host who keeps going. >> but they wouldn't because your co-host would be dying. >> you might find some humor -- >> it's going to be a bummer. you know. >> yeah. >> the elephant in the room the body on the floor there. >> that's not good. >> last time we saw that duo it went well. 2011 james franco and anne hathaway. >> i feel bad for them. >> i do. i think it was a mismatched pairing. >> yeah. it didn't work too well. 2010 steven martin with alec baldwin. which wasn't bad. in 1987, how can you forget this? chevy chase, paul hogan, and goldie hawn. >> i forgot. >> paul hogan? >> you call that a host? >> crocodile dundee was the host? >> he was. >> you first, dream teams. jared leto and jennifer lawrence. i think he's hilarious and smart. >> he is? >> oh, gosh. >> what

late night is not necessarily the big tent that it used to be under johnny carson and really more whichts to establish a destingtive voice. >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. mexican standard time. >> reporter: colbert has the voice. the character was in his words a poorly formed high status idiot. >> i consider myself a proud bible thumper. i stopped when i saw the bible frowns on premarital thumping. >> reporter: he shares some vision of the show. >> the goal is to have fun with my friends. that means sometimes thinking about things that we care about. >> expected to and wants to bring over much of his audience which is younger than the other late night audiences in the same time slot. ♪ my name is stephen colbert from my head to my feet ♪ >> reporter: colbert takes over or david letterman whose late show ranked second to tonight show since 2009. a look at upcoming guests reveals list of celebrities, politicians jeb bush and vice president joe biden and business leaders. >> i think there may be a branding effort that fits with his persona of kind of being the thinking person's comedy show. ♪ why

johnny carson was equal opportunity basher.th jimmy carter. >> that is what will happen. watch what colbert does with hillary. biden. it will all come out. bernie sanders. will do bernie sanders could cowardly lion sketch. neil: how do you do bernie sanders? >> oh, oh. oh. [laughter] stephen could run with it. that is the initial input. neil: very good. >> whoa. we'll have more. >> i love you, bierne any. neil: stick around. urn with it neutralizes stomach acid and is the only product that forms a protective barrier that helps keep stomach acid in the stomach where it belongs. for fast-acting, long-lasting relief. try gaviscon®. if you can't put a feeling into words why try? philips sonicare leaves your mouth with a level of clean like you've never felt before making it the most loved electric toothbrush brand by americans and their dentists. innovation and you. philips sonicare. are you new to medicare? thinking about retiring? do you have the coverage you need? now's the time to get on a path that could be right for you... wi

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