he idolized johnny carson.s, 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 that leno was going to get the tonight show, we were all obviously depressed. we felt like we were being punished 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 help hissed off are you? >> by all rights, david letterman should have taken over for johnny carson, but his agent took a very, very aggressive stand. we are going to really control all of late night. it's going to cost you a fortune. and they put our backs to the wall. >> i can only tell you it has been an honor and

and you are no johnny carson. ♪ goo goo goo goo goo goo goo goo ♪ >> welcome the great white north.mpany, 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 thing. it was this sort of by

a woman once asked me if i knew johnny carson was, you know, because i was from appalachian she didn't like we had phoebe's or nobody was literally apalachee was a construction, it was a social and cultural invention. for example, iowa is a construction to the difference between iowa and appalachian is, you know, when you're in iowa because there's a sign there that says, welcome to iowa. there's no such sign with appalachian everywhere in the world. there are happy latches and therefore everywhere you go, there are hillbillies. if we think of the hillbilly as sort of an outcast group, this your 1st trip to new york, i collected an article in which the official chinese news agency criticized a group of chinese people living far away from be gain. as the equivalent of hillbillies. everybody has an appalachian, everybody has some body that they can feel superior to. we all do bad. why the hillbilly is the image of a guy with a corn cob, by remote ignorant, barefoot, lazy, and so has really been a way of legitimate in the dispossession of the mountains. it's a region of people who are to

i can picture, by the way, picture the staffers from the jay leno show or johnny carson doing this.dn't. they're not political activists. meanwhile, we see the escapism gone from late night. last week the president doesn't do an interview for 120 days. so does he go to "60 minutes" or bret baier and martha maccallum? no. he goes to jimmy kimmel for a foot rub on abc. this is being ignored, by the way. abc and nbc are ignoring the story. i'm trying to picture what would the coverage be like if seven fox news staffers unlawfully broke into the capitol and overstayed their welcome. >> martha: can you imagine? >> i don't want to picture that. >> martha: you have to in order to understand the shoe on the other foot. jonathan turley is a good person to turn to for a sane look at things. there's a lot of comparisons. they went into the building and they overstayed their pass is what it sounds like to me. we all know any of us that have gone in and out of the buildings, you need credentials. they don't let you just wander around. we'll see what comes out with this. they didn't injury anybod

. >> yes >> jimmy: you've been on with johnny carson, jay leno, and now, me. >> and you >> jimmy: i'mr. >> it's a huge honor, and i was absolutely thrilled. and they spoiled me. and so many people came that night. >> jimmy: and then you're speech was so touching, and so cool >> oh, thank you >> jimmy: you didn't -- it wasn't about you, which i thought was interesting. you didn't make it about you you wanted to thank the crew >> well, i actually said that nobody acknowledges, except in the credits that run by far too fast, as we well know, especially on tv and i wish something could be done about that. but i just wanted to acknowledge everybody in the studio, and there are hundreds of people behind the camera, and nobody ever recognizes them so, i wanted to do that. [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: there's so many people that make the film, and make everyone look good. you said that there was a set designer, or painter maybe >> it started -- it's a true story, i was driving home one day off the lot at 20th century fox. and i was finishing a long day of shooting on "the sound of music. a

it was the johnny carson tonight show. that's a long time ago, but i remember i wanted to host the tonight show and in my high school yearbook. everybody said dave one day you're gonna host the tonight show. well, i'm not the host of the tonight show, nor would i want to be anymore? i'm not even honestly, i'm not even sure who the hosted tonight show is but i do something that's kind of close to hosting tonight show. i do host a daily show and i own the company that produces it and i get to talk about what i think for a living and i get to hopefully make some people laugh and make some people think so you have that chance in america to kind of look at something in the distance and go i kind of want that and then maybe if you go in that direction, you might not grab that exact thing, but you might get something that's kind of pretty good around that that you didn't even see. so the gratitude thing i think is deeply important because unfortunately right now, so much of what comes out of the modern left out of the progressive

the day after, she went on the johnny carson show. >> did you do this in the kitchen?w. i cut a good piece of my finger. >> did it go in the preparation? >> that wasn't part of the recipe. >> i see. >> i'm julia child, and i'm going to make a homemade feast. >> we happened to turn it on, and there it was live. >> now i've done it. i've cut the dickens out of my finger. i'm glad in a way this happened. oh, god, it's throbbing. >> she had a copy, and at dinner parties at her house, she would show the dan aykroyd tape. >> it was very funny. we loved that. >> why are you all spinning? oh, i think i'm going to go to sleep now. bon appetit. e with newfound happiness and zero surprises. and all of us will stop at nothing to drive you happy. we'll drive you happy at carvana. what do you think healthier looks like? cvs can help you support your nutrition, sleep, immune system, energy ...even skin. so healthier can look a lot like...you. cvs. healthier happens together. this is a hero, walking his youngest down the aisle, which to his bladder, feels like a mile. yet he stands st