>> jay leno wanted to essentially just continue doing a johnny carson-type show. your name? >> i'm going to ask you to turn the cameras off, please. >> okay, we just wanted to drop off this basket of fruit -- >> part of dave's thing was he 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 >> look, what about me? i could 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 of course is the fate of nbc's "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 earlier 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 for him. >> when we found out leno was going to g

after ruling late-95 television for 30 years, johnny carson steps down tonight. >> and so it has come. i am one of the lucky people in the world. i found something i always wanted to do, and i have enjoyed every single minute of it. i bid you a very heartfelt good night. >> it's certainly true that with johnny out, a vacuum was created. >> a big decision that had the entertainment industry buzzing, this week. that's of course the fate of late-night stars jay leno and david letterman. >> "the tonight show" without johnny carson as the regular host made its debut last night. jay leno emerged from behind the curtain. >> oh, i don't care if you laugh. i got the job. >> look at this. they are getting more press than the president. so start up your remote controls. a late-night race is about to begin. >> jay was a brilliant standup. he continued the tradition of johnny. he had a big group of monologue writers. that was the main writing on that show. he was writing the best topical jokes that anybody could write. >> democratic candidate bill clinton said he is also troubled by the amount of

he's hosted "the tonight show" practically as long as johnny carson and now he has his very own show,iginally had a one-hour daytime show, and nbc, after like 13 weeks, decided to cancel it. >> today is our last show on the air. monday, las vegas -- [ booing ] have these people been frisked? >> it was a dismal failure in terms of the ratings, but not in terms of introducing us to letterman. >> david, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you very much for having me, i appreciate it. >> in spite of all this nonsense that goes around in the background, stay with it, don't give up. stay with us here in new york. >> dave is back in new york. you're going to host a late-night television program that premieres monday night. what are critics likely to say tuesday morning? >> i don't much care because i found a way to deal with that, pills and whiskey. >> david, you're on. >> oh, i'm on? i'm sorry. >> proceed. >> i'm enjoying listening to you snort. >> they gave him "the late night show" after "the tonight show." and at the time, people thought who's going to watch television at 12:30

my name is johnny carson and i were to. shift special this time developing and testing autonomous camera drones. in the e.u. financed multi drone project is ready for takeoff near the spanish city of seville will these 3 drones accomplish their mission completely are needed. will this 3 year project have a successful outcome. company for. each of the drones developed for this project has a precise lee defined flight path. to camera movements to were programmed in advance. the drones are designed to work fully autonomous lee. far means advantage is that you can fly with the drones precisely and the drones do exactly what you want for example we have a big sporting event and in case we have more than one drone they have more to draw on it is really difficult to rip the choreography precisely so it is nasa. and on the small so we can repeat this scenario. look back a few weeks when project partners from industry research in the media met at a country estate in northern germany some scientists and specialists from 8 european co

and you are no johnny carson. ♪ goo goo goo goo goo goo goo goo ♪ >> welcome the great white north.was a second city chicago company, there was a second city toronto company. the toronto one is the one that fueled the sctv series which originally was syndicated and got to the states that way. >> hail, hail! >> hail, hail. thank you very much for that marvelous reception. i particularly want to thank my supporters over there in the cesarean 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 love you, i want to bear your children! ha ha ha! >> it was the type of comedy that had only been accessible if you could have gotten into the improv clubs in chicago and toronto. i had never seen anything like second city tv. >> james bridgeman, parkdale. >> sorry, no, never mind, 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 that it was this sort of low-rent th

my name is johnny carson and i work. lining up for a bargain as day after christmas shoppers around the world are going to time for the sales but just how much are they spending. also coming up we'll look at an extreme case of a rental market gone bought in mumbai old neglected buildings are out of risk of collapse. and leaving a better case twist kingmakers and son fear for their future as u.s. tyrants begin to buy. their new business i'm take ferguson welcome christmas is barely over and the sales have already started in london bargain hunters lined up for hours in the rain hoping to get their hands on some cut price march for them shopping online just doesn't seem to have the same of he'll. after the joys and excesses of christmas day comes the dedications hunt for boxing day bargains in britain's department stores. just by chilly temperatures and pouring rain hordes of shoppers lined up for the luge stores were slashing prices by up to 90 percent to get consumers away from their online outlets and back onto the high

for the first time ever, six of george's legendary appearances on "the tonight show" starring johnny carson. george: on the medical front, researchers have discovered a new disease which has no symptoms. it is impossible to detect and there is no known cure for it. fortunately, it's confined to new jersey. [laughter] announcer: and we'll ship it all to you absolutely free. george: i'm in the car. announcer: plus if you order now, we'll also include an exclusive collectors booklet with photos, quotes, and a big picture look at george's electrifying career. george: you look at it. announcer: this collection is all the best and only the best, over 30 unique performances, totaling nearly 30 hours from across five decades. george: hurricanes form just off the coast of west africa. they form off the coast of west africa, they come all the way across the ocean, and they attack the south. [laughter] announcer: anything we missed, george? george: these are my rules. i make them up. announcer: right. this is the collectors carlin, and you won't find it in stores. only time life can bring it straight

my name is johnny carson and i work a d w. this is deja vu news asia coming up a powerful political dynasty in the philippines a mass murder and a verdict 10 years in the making look at a trial that's put the country's justice system to the test and china needs more pigs the world's biggest consumer and producer of pork faces a major shortage will visit the farmers and butchers battling the fallout of swine flu. i'm suzanne was going to welcome to news asia it is good to have you with us we start with what's been called the trial of the decade in the philippines a court test sentenced members of a powerful political family to life in prison for orchestrating a massacre 10 years ago it was a story that rocked the philippines around the world in 2958 people were murdered in an ambush on a convoy carrying a candidates family ahead of a regional election and $32.00 journalists were among those who were killed now it happened in maganda now province in the south of the philippines this is a region that is battling insurgencies and

and i would tell jokes from the johnny carson show. you know why?show. and i would tell those jokes to the kids and they thought i was amazing i was doing impersonations. and when i finally got to-- to, like, l.a., i would do different types of impersonating. i was the only black guy doing ronald reagan. >> stephen: do you still have a reagan? ( laughter ) >> yes, i do. "well, well, well, as a matter of fact, there you go again." that's all ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: the gipper. the gipper >> yeah, yeah. and so-- so when i got to l.a., i started burning up everything. i i was killing its clubs and all my impersonation was my go-to. mike tyson "heavyweight boxer, mike tyson." one particular night, i went to my mike tyson joke, right, and nobody laughed. you know why? because mike was in the audience. ( laughter ) and this was when mike was knocking people out for just smiling. one dude in the back said, "yo, mike is in here!" and i said, "oh, snap." and a girl in the front said, "what are you going to do, jamie? you scared? you scared?" and

my name is johnny carson i work a d w. this is deja vu news asia coming up a powerful political dynasty in the philippines and mass murder and a verdict 10 years in the making for look at a trial that's put the country's justice system to the test and china needs more pigs the world's biggest consumer and producer of pork faces a major shortage will visit the farmers and butchers battling the fallout of swine flu.

for the first time ever, six of george's legendary appearances on "the tonight show" starring johnny carsonesearchers discovered a new disease which has no symptoms. it is impossible to detect and there is no known cure for it. fortunately, it's confined to new jersey. announcer: and we'll ship it all to you absolutely free. george: i'm in the car. announcer: we'll also include a collectors booklet with photos, quotes, and a big picture look at george's electrifying career. this collection is all the best and only the best, over 30 unique performances, totaling 30 hours from across five decades. george: hurricanes, they form just off the coast of west africa. they fall off the coast of west africa, they go all the way across the ocean, and they attacked the south. [laughter] announcer: anything we missed? george: these are my rules. i make them up. announcer: right. this is the collectors carlin, and you won't find it in stores. only time life can bring it to you and your satisfaction is guaranteed. george: quality, value, styles. announcer: if you haven't laughed yourself silly at the best

. >> johnny carson writing his theme music.e -- >> laura: you know what i like about mariah carey, her first big hit 20 years ago, she does that thing with performers that i admire their singing ability, but they apparently enhance their singing ability by doing that rain. >> that's when you can't get the notes. do you know what the last holidays song to hit number one billboard chart, the last holiday song? >> laura: bruce springsteen. >> no commit was the chipmunk song. ♪ [laughter] 1958, laura. [laughter] i thought you were surely going to say bing crosby, white christmas the perennial best-selling christmas. >> laura: the one i used to like and i don't understand how they did it with the jingle bells dog barking. that, it is amazing how dogs can actually hit the note, oh, wait, they are telling me they were not real dogs. >> they were not real dogs. >> laura: so when you were little -- >> we have to go into the most important thing. >> laura: with christmas coming fast in a special on fox nation come i understand that we me

. >> roger was so popular that he occasionally appeared on "the tonight show" with johnny carson as a successful anchor that new york has ever seen. >> television news costers were still almost all men, but a few women did manage to break into the boys club. >> i think in this city the unconventional is practically unavoidable. >> by the late '60s, the single anchor at the desk became a team. >> still in gray, all the news beat people. >> news was one of the station's profit centers and promotion went into overdrive with ads like this that required the city to clear the streets for filming. ♪ ♪ but not all news vehicles looked that great. this was the one they roweled on theout for a night crew. >> it was an extremely raucous meeting called to decide whether to challenge the new bans on public gatherings and loiterering. police outside were readies snangds flanks around city hall and the police department. >> it took so long to get film developed in those days that most of the night crew stories wouldn't appear on television until the next day, and channel 7 promos touted performancer

he understands in the age of television, the johnny carson approach to televangelism, being more intimateestyle and your beautiful family, is what brings people in. and he's a brilliant entrepreneur and a brilliant salesman of himself. >> "ptl." >> and here are jim and tammy! >> their appeal is powerful. last year, a million people responded to the bakkers' 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, either. i love nice things, and jim and i work very, very hard for nice things. >> they say the only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. >> toys like a fleet of luxury cars and fancy homes from palm springs, california, to south carolina. >> they think by them living well, by them having rolls-royces, everyone will think, ah, god shining his countenance upon them and thus upon us. and "ptl" becomes the vehicle for their media em

. >> johnny carson i just figured that out on my own. [ laughter ] you can google that later.on't know who that is >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> it is a detachable and attachable sleeve. so, if you have a sleeveless gown, a sleeveless dress, and you don't want it to be sleeveless, you can attach this to any dress and you get a little capelet sleeve. >> seth: oh, my god. that is amazing. [ audience oohs >> right >> seth: now - [ cheers and applause >> but it's not just -- and it's not just about, like, "oh, i don't like my arms." i think all arms are disgusting. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> i -- i apologize to your previous guest she's beautiful. but i just think armpits and arms are disgusting. >> seth: yeah. >> i just -- >> seth: and yet, you love hands. you've always -- a huge fan of hands. >> i actually am >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> did you know that >> seth: no, i didn't know that. >> oh, i thought maybe i tweeted about it [ laughter ] >> seth: you tweet about hands >> i actually am a very big fan of - >> seth: wow, so that's so interesting that you're all -- you're