>> jay leno wanted to just continue doing a johnny carson type show. tur off the camera. >> we wanted to drop off this basket of fruit. >> david liked attacking authority. he liked that. >> he needed a corporate bad guy to go up against. i was oftentimes that target. >> i can hear this warren littlefield guy whining all year long about not getting his name on the card last year. what about me? i can be on there, couldn't i? >> it was always letterman's dream to be the host of "the tonight show." he idolized johnny carson, rightfully so. >> the big decision that's had the entertainment industry buzzing is due this week. that is the fate of nbc late night stars jay leno and david letterman. >> most of us thought the person who deserved to get it was david letterman. he didn't get it. jay leno got it. >> leno who rode his motorcycle into a news conference hosted by nbc entertainment president warren littlefield still has a bruised ego about the way the network wavered in its support of him. >> when we found out leno was going to get "the tonight show," we

he's going to be running as an democrat. >> jalen know what timed to essentially keep doing a johnny carsonease. we wanted to drop off this basket of fruit. >> he needed a corporate bad guy to go up against. i was oftentimes that target. >> i could hear this guy whining about not getting his name on the card. >> it was always letterman's dream to be the host of "the tonight's show" he idolized johnny carson. >> the host of nbc's late night stars, jay len know and david letterman. >> leno who earlier wrote his motorcycle into a news host conference still has a bruised ego about the way the network waivered in its support for him. >> when we found out that leno was going to get ""the tonight show"" we were all depressed. welt like we were being punish niched for making fun of them and not cooperating and not being as collaborative as we could have been. and we also felt like we were being disrespected because we did 11 years of great shows. >> just how piesed off are you? >> by all rights, david letterman should have taken off for johnny carson. but his agent took a very very aggressive stand

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cbs, number nine. >> letterman placed a call to johnny carson asking for his advice and johnny said,the linchpin. letterman always took johnny's advice. >> the late night wars are about to begin in earnest on american television. david letterman is now headed for cbs. >> cbs had lured him over with a salary more than four times that of leno and given him what he really wanted -- the 1 1:30 time slot now as dave and jay prepare to go head-to-head, one thing is clear, late night tv will never be quite the same. >> all of a sudden, there's a talk show war. >> start up your remote controls. the late night race is about to begin. >> on monday, david letterman's new show debuts here on cbs. followed a week later by chefvy chase on fox and a week after that by conan o'brien on abc. they join jaylen mow, arsenio and "nightline." >> it became a crowded space and the competition became that much more difficult. >> the third corner his ratings fading rapidly, arsenio hall. some tv writers think arsenio could be the big loser in this free-for-all. >> when letterman came in, essentially difficult

isn't that risky for the inquirer they'd lose their -- >> johnny carson was -- >> he was the most powerfulan in hollywood because he could kill you with one joke. >> somebody told vice president george bush that jesse jackson was coming to the white house, and he said oh good maybe he'd autograph my thriller album. >> you wanted to hear what johnny would say. >> a paper today a woman in michigan, she was arrested for soliciting sexual favors, that's the way they put it in the paper, sexual favors for spaghetti dinners. you can't make this kind of stuff up. apparently she never asked a man for money, allhe wanted was a spaghetti dinner. my question, technically wouldn't that make her a montpa constitute. [woman 1] huh. can't find my debit card. [woman 2] oh no... [woman 1] oh, it's fine. [woman 2] yeah, totally. it's fine. but like...is it fine though? because, i would maybe be worried...really, really, really worried. uh...do you want me to go back and look for it? i will. i mean a lot of bad things could happen. you need to call the bank. i don't know how else to tell you, you need to shu

>> jalen know wanted to keep doing a johnny carson-type show. to ask you to turn the cameras off for this. >> part of it was attacking authorities. he liked that. >> cut the cameras please. >> he needed a bad guy to go up against. i was oftentimes that target. >> i can here this warren litter field guy about not getting his name on the card last year. he's on there. >>-always letterman's dream to be the host of the tonight show. he idolized johnny carson rightfully so. >> the feat of nbc's late night stars jay le know and david letterman. >> most of usthought the person who deserved to get it with letterman. but jay le know got it. >> le know who rode his car into a motorcycle still has a bruised ego the way the network labored in its support for him. >> when we found out that le know was beginning to get "the tonight show" we were obviously distressed. we felt like we were being punished for making fun of them and not cooperating and being as collaborative as we could have been. and we also felt like we were being disrespected because we did 1

. >> a producer on the johnny carson show on the very tyler moore show the second to third year and the the man and his prostate. >> so why in your view are the right to we net jobs?. >> so you voted. >> was is sylvia?. >> but garland had to solve the way the republican majority congress is lockstep said no way. and almost without any conversation at all i turnaround to find al gore said to -- just as gore such that they did a good job because they knew they could not win. because we had to scream now to against those rigidity and the lack of seoul the republican in have created of leadership. >> you have written this book you have written some amendments to the constitution?. >> i forgot what they were now. >>. >> best said is a very good example. >>, the time but nothing ever changes. but then to make their case known. every legislate toward in washington to be indebted. so when does anything change in this country? in to understand i have been traveling and i don't know what is happening the wan will the people rise up? with the quality of our lives?. >> is being threatened. >> there

he was a producer who came and was a writer on the johnny carson show and came to us on the mary tyler moore show about the second or third year i guess. and went on to do many other things i do a one-man show of his now. call a man in his prostate. in the last. we have done this book together. why in your view are right wing people net jobs. as you described them. they go to new extremes it's like when you go to who was a supreme court judge that obama --dash garland and he saw the way that that majority congress said no way. almost without any conversation at all i now turn around and i find with neil portraits how did it happen. talk about stealing a march on one. the right wing certainly did a good job they knew they could not win. this book came about because we have to scream out since the democrats are not doing a great job of it against the excesses the strictness, and the lack of soul that the republicans have created in terms of leadership. you had written in this book the grouchy historian comes out in october of this year you've written some amendments to the constitution.

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, and you are no johnny carson. [ laughter ] >> welcome the great white north.icagcompany and a second city toronto company. the ronto one is the one tha fueled the sc tv series that was syndicated and got to the states that way. >> thank you very much for that marvelous reception. i particularly want to thank my supporters over there in the cesarean section. >> it is healthy to be an outsider. as a comedian, and canadians are always outsiders, but they are looking at the culture that is right next door to them. >> it was the type of comedy that had only been accessible if you could have gotten into the improv clubs in toronto or chicago. i had never seen anything like second city tv. >> james bridgman, hartdale. >> i'm sorry. >> it was far more conceptual in its humor because it didn't have to be performed in front of an audience. and there was also just the idea it was this low-rent thing. by the seat of our pants kind of operation that give it an authenticity. >> now that our programming day has been extended -- >> where do you want me to put the kielbasa? >>

it never got old. >> i have watched johnny carson, and you are no johnny carson. >> the toronto one isas isn't indicated and got to the states that way. >> ceasar, hail. >> thank you very much. i particularly want to thank my supporters over there in the caesarean section. >> it's healthy to be an outsider. you know, as a comedian and canadians are always outsiders, but they're looking at the other culture, which is right next door to them. >> i want to bear your children. >> it was the type of comedy that had only been accessible if you could have gotten into the improvince clubs in chicago or toronto. >> it was far more conceptual in its humor because it didn't have to be performed in front of an audience. there was also just the idea that it was this sort of low rent thing. it was sort of by the seat of their pants kind of operation that gave it an authenticity. >> now that our programming day has been extended, i'm going to be spending -- >> where do you want me to put the kilbasa. >> put it in the frig. >> you were rooting for the show and the characters that they created. there w

. >> johnny carson would mock something in the public eye, everybody was in on it. >> he was the most powerful man in hollywood because he could kill you with one joke. >> somebody told vice president george bush that jesse jackson was coming to the white house and bush said oh, good maybe he will autograph my thriller al m album. >> didn't care what others would say but you always wanted to hear what johnny would say about the news. >> a woman was arrested for soliciteing sexual favors, thats the way they put it, sexual favors, for spa getty dinner. never asked the man for money all she wanted was a spegetty dinner. my question, technically wouldn't that make her a pasta-tute. it's being in motion. in body, in spirit, in the now. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for when you need a little extra. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink. be up for it what are all these different topped & loaded meals? it's an american favorite on top of an american favorite, alice. it's like labor day weekend on

johnny carson was a regular at your restaurant. he would buy 10, 20 boxes of pizza.red what he was doing with them. wolfgang: john used to come to our restaurant all the time. he had his new girlfriend at the time. he took home 10 pieces one night, and i said, "what you doing with the pizzas? are you having another party?" he said, "i put them in the freezer." "you put them in the freezer? i am not going to give you pizzas anymore if you treat them like that." he said, "they are just as good as the ones you make here." i said, "that can't be possible." i tried them. i said, "it's a little dry." the next one i cooked less and less. then i baked them in home and said, "maybe he's right." a supermarket called gelson's came to me. i know bernie gelson very well. he said, "you know, maybe you should sell some of your restaurants in the store." i said, "let's start with the pizzas." haslinda: you are ok with putting your name on a lot of different things. not just frozen pizza but also appliances, utensils. some people think that is selling out. is it? wolfgang: you know,

haslinda: johnny carson was a regular in your restaurant. he used to buy 10, 20 boxes of pizza. he was doing with them. wolfgang: john used to come to our restaurant all the time. he was with his new girlfriend, alex, at the time. he took home 10 pizzas one night, and i said, "what you doing with the pizzas? are you having ather party?" he said, "i put them in the freezer." "you put them in the freezer? i am not going to give y pizzas anymore if you treat them like that." he said, "they are just as good as the ones you make here." i said, "that can't be possible." so i tried them. i said, "it's a little dry." the next one i cooked less and less. then i baked them in home and said, "maybe he's right." then when a supermarket called gelson's came to me. i know bernie gelson very well. he said, "you know, maybe you should sell some of your restaurants in the store." i said, "let's start with the pizzas." haslinda: you are ok with putting your name on a lot of different things. not just the frozen pizza, but also appliances, utensils. some people may think that is selling out. is it

i said it before but it is so true that johnny carson said there are four seasons in california, fired, flood and drought. it is true. >> i think san diego broke a record at 98 degrees and it has been hot in california. >> except at the coast. half moon bay was 61 and asking for some warm weather. and it all depends on where you are in proximity to the coast. we have more fog with low clouds cooling is down a little bit but not a huge drop in the temperatures but mostly inland coming down a little bit. we have many fire statewide from the top to the bottom and all the best to the firefighters under these very difficult conditions. what could happen in southern california with lightning strike coming in from that monsoon moisture in from arizona but that is staying in southern california and southern nevada but not making it here. low cloud cover's making a push with most locations running cooler. 54 in gilroy, santa cruz at 54 and low 50s in the santa cruz mountains, mid to upper 60s at cupertino. we have enough to usher in the cooler delta breeze holding steady and you can see the mo

started as a come dewriter for the tonight's show, jack par in 1961, continued writing for johnny carson>> do you ever sit home quietly by the fire rereading dickens or -- >> when he finally got his own show in 1968. >> can i tell one story, before i've get into that? >> sure. >> he just shut up and let his guests talk. something his mentor jack par suggested. >> i made the ten best dressed list in poland. >> he said, hey, kid, when you are going to do the show, don't, you don't, don't, don't do interviews. >> don't do interviews. >> didn't do interviews. make it a conversation. >> i think you do a yeoman's job. nobody else on television that does what you do. >> it landed him guest whose rarely did other shows. like marlon brando. john lennon, yoko ono. >> so you are jack lennon. >> you are fred astaire. or orson wells. >> the great groucho marks. >> any bed can say something dirty and get a laugh. but say something clean and get a laugh. that requires a comedian. >> i wasn't looking at you at the minute. >> no, ha-ha-ha. >> stuff did happen. intelligent stuff did get talked about. poli

>> johnny carson inherited "the tonight show," but he made it his own. >> it is going to be wild tonight 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. ♪ >> 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 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

standing up and giving a fire and brimstone speech, he understands in the age of television, the johnny carsonism is what brings people in. >> and here are jim and tammy! >> their appeal is powerful. last year, a million people responded to the bakker's constant request for money. >> how many do you have right now? >> just about 30. >> 30 what? >> silver 7,000 clubs. >> that's $90,000. >> praise god. >> the bakkers have been criticized for their own lavish lifestyle. >> just because i'm a christian doesn't mean i don't like nice things. we work very hard for nice things. >> they say the only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. >> a spring of fancily homes from palm springs, california to south carolina. >> they think by them living well and having rolls-royces, everything will think god is shining upon them and us. and ptl becomes the vehicle for their immediate empire, for their theme parks. >> if we are to be fishers of men, that's what the bible says, we've been using some pretty lousy bait. we've just built better bait to reach people. >> you can have a lifetime par

before but this is frankford avenue here and then there is a forked in road what do you sigh, johnny carson. >> you take it. >> yogi berra would say, you can see cops to the left up ahead that is girard avenue another main drag. these are main streets bob kelly has been telling but frankford and girard's then these poor people who who this call to the water main lottery because it seems to happen every third day. we still got a trickle through yellow police tape here but you can see how badly buckled there road is this will be a trouble spot for a while, they will to have redue this road here and as chris gets down and in squatting position you can see how the water pushed the tarp. i have said this several times cast iron pipes started to be laid under road in 1819. we are approaching 200 anniversary of this water system and don't be surprised if these pipes here that we're talking 200 years old and you can see a crack it looks like an earthquake here. come over where i am you can see crack through road and police getting a good look on the sidewalk. nice new restaurants, gyms, this buildi

. >> that is kind of like, the johnny carson show when they bring on an animal and that was first chancee d tom hanks did it. >> apple things, it started in an office somewhere. >> the apple thing was i thought there was a cartoon where goofy ate corn like a typewriter. i felt like what if i tried to do that but it never was exactly that but that was my intention with that. >> where are you performing are you performing tonight. >> i'm performing in the cella r. >> no. >> i'm joking. >> of course. >> i am performing at punch line. >> look at that. >> there is another one tonight, friday, saturday, and two shows friday, saturday, tonight one show. >> well, wait a minute, tonight, tomorrow night and saturday night. >> are you sure. >> i am sure of that. >> yes. >> we're looking for certainty >> yes. >> what do people expect what kind of stuff. >> it is a great show. >> yeah. >> it is crazy how many people keep coming, i didn't think stand up would be as successful but it has become very successful. >> it is big in philly. >> you will be satisfied, do a lot of snl stuff and talk about my ge

he showed up on johnny carson and griffin and the mike douglas show and he became more mainstreamed and appeared in a play on broadway and surely but slowly the idea came that maybe he should be back fighting and a guy in new york, a young civil rights lawyer named michael, he filed a whole thing in new york to get his licensed back, he said ali really hadn't been convicted of anything. he was still in appeals process. how could he have lose his job for something that he wasn't convicted for, that wasn't an american kind of thing. in georgia it wasn't the state boxing commission that licensed fights, it was the city boxing commission, under the nose of wester maddox, probably the most segregationist governor in america, they pushed through the thick in -- thing in atlanta and he fought jerry in 1970 and new york thing had opened up and he fought oscar -- he beat jerry in three rounds, kit him -- cut him up pretty bad and he fought oscar in madison square garden. that fight went to distance, 12 rounds and he won the decision and then he decided to fight joe frazier, frazier had become th

but i'd like to see johnny carson and ed sullivan and their ben factors -- >> colbert made a homophobic where is the social justice in that? >> neil: so you have an issue with that. this isn't coincidental -- >> the more intolerant you can be, even though you're the tolerance police, the more you'll be heaped upon by awards. that's what this is about. this is not really about diversity. this is about who can be the most -- like verbose and angry and see about the rest of the country. >> leena dunham was the poster child of the millennial and nothing. >> that's another hypocrisy. >> neil: by the way a new study out that shows drivers spend 17 hours a year looking for parking spaces. that does not surprise me. >> i've lived in new york city. that's my favorite past time. looking for a parking spot. >> there's an app for that. >> i start looking for a parking spot and i end my day looking for a parking spot. now i pay to get a spot in front of my building. it's a tandem spot. it's like sharks. all you do. you can see that -- >> neil: that's a lot of time. >> a lot of time, money, pollution

>> johnny carson was the guy and he was on, no one challenged him.pened up the can for everybody else to jump in. you know letterman had this enormous battle which i wrote a book about. that made everybody paid close attention to late night and other competitors say now we can get in the game for a cable channel or get in the game for fox or abc and other networks tried to do it. >> ten seconds or less, what's the difference of the nineties than today? >> it is a little bit more traditional then. >> bill carter, thank you very much for being with us. the nineties start sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. the special report, the most powerful man in the world followed the russia connection inside the attack on democracy. that's at 11:00. i am john berman, thanks so much for joining us for 360. stick around. the following ace cnnis a cnn'sl report. >> winston churchill, famously in russia. it is a mystery. prime minister churchill meets vladimir putin. >> he's very much of a leader. he's been a leader far more than our president has been a leader.

>> johnny carson. >> i think we just had bad tv's back in the day. >> oh, that's true. >> jimmy: no,m going to have the attitude and i'll walk down my block, like, "i was on 'tonight show.'" >> yeah. >> and they'll be like, "i don't care." >> yeah. >> jimmy: no, no, please. [ light laughter ] we did it and you scored and that's why you have such a a great show, and we love you guys and we're fans, so thank you for coming on. appreciate it. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. i tell you, we'll make some pickles sometime. i want to try them on the set. i want to show everyone a clip. here's a clip from your show, here is desus and mero on the show "desus and mero." >> hey. >> jimmy: on viceland, take a a look. >> now remember when your man abandoned -- he's behind the muslim ban. he hates -- doesn't rock -- muslims at all. >> he quentin miller'd that [ bleep ] >> look at him over here. there's a crip caught in a a blood neighborhood. >> and he's, like, so shook. >> no, no, no. it wasn't the ban. it wasn't the ban. >> no, no, no. [ talking over each other ] >> it was the muslim band. i w

and different things along those lines, he showed up on more and more, johnny carson and merv griffin and the mike douglas show and he became more mainstream. he appeared in a play on broadway. lonely but surely, the idea came that maybe he should be back fighting and the guy in new york, a young civil rights lawyer named michael meltzer, he had tried to follow the whole thing in new york to get his license back because ali, he had been convicted of anything, he was still in the appeals process, how could he lose his job for something he hadn't been convicted for? that wasn't an american kind of thing. so that had gone on and another guy had tried to get him a license and in atlanta georgia where in georgia it wasn't the state commission that licensed fights, it was the city boxing commission so under the nose of western automatics, probably the most segregationist governor in america, they pushed through the thing in atlanta and he decided to fight jerry corrie as his comeback fight and he thought jerry corrie in 1970 and then new york opened up and he thought oscar, he beat jerry co

that last 10 seconds before did you go to break johnny carson "the tonight show" and see what these guysver to whom. and what they possibly could be saying. steve: i wonder what the reaction to the group is on the president's speech yesterday in warsaw because you look at the reviews. you know, for the most part across the united states of america. and they call it a defining speech. it was a good speech. actually it was a good speech to introduce the president to the world. it would have been great to have some of those themes at his inauguration. they chose about six months in to do all of that. ainsley: angela merkel is the most obviously of the g-20 summit because it takes place in germany. she standing in the very front row, wearing red. everyone else is in basically navy or black suits. i was watching as president trump walks in and then vladimir putin walked in next to angela merkel. and i wanted to see if they were going to discuss anything or talk or shake hands. didn't see that. brian: couple things interesting. vladimir putin is in this one. told to stay out of home g 8. g 7 b

ask you for being here and i watch the tonight show with johnny carson and i thought i'd a kid from indianai get on stage, how do i perform. i learned magic and magic was the thing that springboard my career and an interesting thing about magic and having obsessive-compulsive disorder is in order to practice and be good at the art of magic, you have to do the same thing over and over again. the repetitive action and little did i know you how much obsessive-compulsive disorder was a positive aspect of becoming a magician and also becoming a performer. i think part of the reason and maybe a greater majority of the reason i'm successful is because of my obsessive-compulsive disorder. why? because i don't let go of things. i would have people hire me if i promised them i would never call them anymore. just get him out of the room, hire him so i don't have to talk to him anymore. so the repetition and one thing i guess something so passionately actually worked in my favor. >> can you tell us what it is? what it was for you personally? ocd rears its head in many ugly ways. mine was about neatness

johnny carson the same way.'t care who you were, he would go after everyone, but now he's making that statement that we are not going to convert anyone. as if that's their job. those people are watching your show. >> how are they hoping to do that anyway. >> there's that piece that came out about the john oliver show. it was a huge success on hbo. they said it didn't moved the needle during the election. yes there was outrage but it didn't end up moving the needle at all. >> other ten people on the upper east side watching john oliver. >> a lot of them are millennia millennial's. >> at least they figured it out. >> still ahead, general john kelly is set to take over as the chief of staff. this guest thanks it will be a great combination. he's joining us at the top of the hour. >> i remember the old days chris wallace was on tv and maria, wait a minute, that's today and they're all on our show. will be back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ to hit 'send all' ♪ ♪ t now. people would ask me that we traveled,ntries what is your na