most important star and nbc, but he wanted to work fewer days of the week. >> and in a weird way, johnny carsonfor snl in the early 70s, they would show the best of the tonight show on saturday night on nbc and carson was like what if we take the best of carson? and instead of having it on saturday night, we'll put it on monday night. i can take monday off, play tennis, relaxed early july of 19 1974. i was a full-time employee of sports and the ceo of nbc said to me, i'd like you to come here and help us build a new late night franchise on saturday night it was crazy. i mean, i knew nothing about entertainment or comedy and i can read more and michaels i'd been in la for almost four years i've done a lily tomlin show earlier and every time i worked on a pilot of some sort, it would always be you can't do this, you can't do that television becomes so not fossilized, but a lot of restrictions i don't understand what's bothering you. well, i'll tell you what's bothering me. i'm a grown man. you got me all dressed up in his silly bunny out. >> a meeting, a setup for lori hi, johnny. it was more cou

lopez: johnny carson was and is, i think, the high water-mark. goldberg: he was it. was the one that i grew up with. o'brien: he is late night. carson: i bid you a very heartfelt goodnight. [applause] [cheering] sotzing: and he walked out of the building, and got into a helicopter, and that's the end of that. [applause] embery: and i didn't know if anybody could pick up the flag and run with it. ♪ announcer: live from the nbc studios in burbank california, the tonight show with jay leno! leno: you know, the tonight show ended on a friday. we started on a monday. it was awkward. leno: let's see how you all feel in 30 years. [laughter] leno: when i started i was doing johnny's show exactly the way johnny did it, in johnny's studio, but as the tv critics will tell you, i'm not johnny! vickers: who wouldn't be nervous following the king of late night, right? leno: ah, we are coming to you live! you're seeing this right now, as it happens. we're not on tape. it's live, live, live! noah: leno loves making people laugh, and his vibe is very jovial. but anyone who thinks they

- jay leno wanted to essentially just continue doing a johnny carson-type show. st wanted to drop off this basket of fruit. - part of dave's thing used to always be attacking authority. he liked that. - cut the cameras, please. - 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. - he's on there. - so he's--well, what about-- look, what about me? just put it on there. me. i can be on there, couldn't i? - who is he? - 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

and can you tell the story about johnny carson about. okay, so this was one of my first appearances on johnny carson. it was like an earlier one. and my mom thought it would be a really good idea if, as a surprise to johnny, i did carnac, which was was a pratfall. yeah. he would come out and he would he would come out and they go and it was in the opening and he come out and like trip and fall over the thing. yeah. and that was car next. yeah so on his entrance. yeah. exactly. so my mom said let's do that for johnny and let's do it as a surprise. so they didn't tell any of the camera operators. they didn't tell johnny. and luckily i was in my dressing room practicing on with like a pillow from the couch. and i kept doing these pratfalls. and my mom said, it's going to be funny. you know, he's made everybody laugh. this is good for him. it's going to be so nice. yeah. and i'm like, great. tommy smothers comes by and i say, he comes in. he sticks his head in. he goes, hey brooke. and i'm like, hey tommy, i've got a surprise for you. i'm do

i've watched johnny carson, and you are no johnny carson. [ cheers and applause ] [ whooping ] good day today we got a real big show 'cause we got a... bianculli: there 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 caesar! ■■■■■■■■ hail caes! hail, hail. thank you very much for that marvelous reception. i particularly want to thank my supporters over there in the caesarian section. [ laughter ] steinberg: it's healthy to be an outsider, you know, as a comedian. and canadian are always outsiders but they're looking at the other culture, which is right next door to them. i love you sammy maudlin! i want to bear your children! [ laughs ] hanks: it was the type of comedy that had only been accessible if you could have gotten into the improv clubs in chicago or toronto. i had never seen anything like second city tv. alex trembel: james bridgeman, parkdale. [ laughter ] sorry, no, never mind. i'm sorry. yost: it was far more conceptual in i

that's so crazy, with johnny carson. >> jimmy: yeah. >> you know? >> jimmy: you were seven? -- on johnny carson, your first appearance -- [ cheers ] -- talking to johnny. here's drew barrymore making her "tonight show" debut. take a look at this. >> can you do it. just give me a scream. [ audience aws ] >> okay. >> just -- >> guys ready? [ laughter ] >> okay, we're ready. [ scream ] [ applause ] that's a good scream. >> yeah. >> have you always been able to do that? >> i practiced so much at home that i was able to do it. >> mm-hm. >> so, the other day, i screamed my throat off. [ laughter ] when i got home, i was sweating. [ laughter ] i needed to take a shower badly, i was filthy. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: what are you --? [ cheers and applause ] who is that person? she is so charming. that is so charming, that person. and look at what a great woman you've become, that little baby. come on. >> you know what's so wild? and when i look at that, my legs don't touch the ground. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you're a baby. >> like, we all are growing up together. i'm 49-year

-- i am old enough to remember johnny carson dash for jay leno needs to do that met on the street interviews and they would talk to people and i wouldn't know how many senators they had, who their elected representatives were, and you would think, oh, ok. and we just kind of let it go. but now we understand what happens when citizens don't understand fully their government or their democracy, and how those things interact with their lives. and we understand what that leads to when we don't have well-informed citizenry that is not only committed to a robust democratic institutions and practices, but also the democratic culture, the health of the body politic that supports those institutions and those practices. that is the focus of the work that we're doing at the institute, the work we are doing -- the work this task force is working on and that is what we want to talk about today. we want to highlight the importance of the work that lawyers can and must do is, in fact, we are to live up to the fact that democracy is not inevitable. it's not like the air we breathe. it isn't just

and johnnie carson said farewell.n's markie. martin looks back. >> today is may 22nd and if you enjoy playing a game of cards, it happens to be national solitaire day in 19. 0, 6 on this date. the wright brothers flying machine was patented mexico entered world war 2 by declaring war on germany, italy and japan. and in 1972, richard nixon arrived in moscow, which was the first ever visit by a u.s. president to the soviet union in 1980, the arcade game hackman was released. comedian johnny carson made his final appearance as host of the tonight show. >> in 1995, fans of laverne and shirley. we're excited as the 20th anniversary reunion, special air and the world's tallest tower. tokyo skytree standing at 2080 feet open to the public. what you get from the top of that. >> she'll be ul hassan way fun times. all right. back in a show you probably don't remember. and what the problem morning know sure acquino remember, we're in and i our or on this show and not just a look at the remember, laverne and shirley to be i mean,

he is, he has johnny carson, basically doing that tonight, joe. but it was actually a trial. and he didn't set a lot of really stupid things. but here's speaking of stupid. we talk a lot about how johnny cochran took advantage of people's racial sensibilities, which he did um, and i think robert, you agree with that, then it successfully. and there was something to take advantage of. there was a story there to take advantage of what it had to do with the murder, who knows, but he did it. but there was something else that i think had a lot to do with this case. and that was the lack of competence of the prosecuting team. there was no greater moment then this watch here. here's a guy holding his hand wide open and trying everything doing everything he can to make it look like the glove. that was his. the glove. now doesn't fit now remember the well was around with blood on it and water on it and sweat on it. and that it was left in the locker room in the evidence area. it had been sent was for a month. and mary, what's a good rubber? good, what any prosecutor would tell somebody

he has johnny carson, basically doing that tonight. joe. but it was actually a trial, and he didn't set a lot of really stupid things. but here's speaking of stupid, because we talk a lot about how johnny cochran took advantage of people's racial sensibilities, which he did. and i think robert, you agree with that? been successfully and there was something to take advantage of. there was a story there to take advantage of what it had to do with the murder, who knows, but he did it. but there was something else that i think had a lot to do with this case. and that was the lack of competence of the prosecuting team. there was no greater moment then this watch here. here's a guy holding his hand wide open and trying everything doing everything he can to make it look like the glove. that was his. the glove. now doesn't fit now room. 6 or the glove was found with blood on it and water on it and sweat on it. and that it was left in the locker room and the evidence area it had been sent was for a month. and mary, what's a good rubber? good. what an

jay leno you wouldn't see them doing a fundraiser with -- >> johnny carson would make fun of both sideship has sailed. they act like this is a new thing with joe biden. but for president barack obama, the press and the comedians couldn't have been more gentle. if they were going to mock obama, they would mock how awesome he was. you know, that was their thing. and we've got plenty to do with, with joe biden. to tell you the truth, i don't mind the other comedy shows because we've got a show called gutfeld and a he allows me to mock joe biden all the time. that's why we're cleaning up in the ratings. >> you're part of the number one show in late news. no one else will tell the vocation we -- jokes we tell oe fox news channel. this is from last night. this is from s saturday night live. >> your daughter must feel so supported when these out there. >> what's that now? when who's daughter is out there. >> at the protest. >> no, man. you bugging. alexis vanessa roberts better have her butt in class. let me find out she's in one of them damn tents b instead of the dorm room i paid for. i'm su

introduced into evidence at the criminal trial for a president of the united states. [ laughter ] johnny carsonidn't get that with nixon, we got it here. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] thank you. six years ago, we had stormy on after the state of the union. i asked her about a letter she released that said she never had an affair with trump, i questioned whether she really signed the letter because the signature looked suspect. stormy implied that she hadn't signed the letter, which led to some very angry texts from trump's lawyer who threatened to "rain legal hell" on her. and while i was pleased as punch for sure -- [ laughter ] to be included today, i feel like prosecutors missed the most important interview i did with stormy, which was this. >> which have these mushrooms, orange mushrooms, would most represent the commander in chief of the united states military? >> can you hold it up so it's coming at me at the correct angle? [ moans and laughter ] >> jimmy: they might fall off. is this the one? >> it's a nubbin. >> a what? >> it's a nubbin. it's a little nubbin. >> jimmy: so for rea

he hted one of the talk shows, one of the game shows that johnny carson hosted ft to go host the tonighttook over he had sool sixties, comede and i had middle during his service in the korean war on the left is photo of him attending a birthday for ted williams many years after the korean and on the right is a photo of him with john glenn at some kind of event the mid sixties. so talking to woody woodbury and a couple of the other people who were actually on missions with ted williams and john glenn was a really great resource for me to recreate these images of these two men flying missions together sportswriter by nature and a big history fan, there on later part portions of his korean war years of his baseball career. haveeen asked i mean on podcast, this baseball sports podcast is ted williams thetest f all time. there are other claimants, babe would certainly be considered the greatest home run hitter, arguably time, barry bonds, who steroid aided made a lot of records and broke the home run record and actually broke a lot of ted williams records for walks and on base percentage or t

. - so when we were watching david letterman in college or johnny carson or jay leno, here comes arsenioan. - who does eddie go to for advice when he has problems? do you have somebody you can talk to when you have problems, even on a personal level? - just you. (audience laughing) - that was like a party every single night. - what's up? - [audience] woo, woo, woo, woo. - arsenio created the destination for black entertainers to be themselves. - i was born with the name sinbad. - what's your last name? - bad. (audience laughing) - he kind of set the table as far as like, "hey, look, hip-hop culture, black culture, it can be represented on tv." - you could watch arsenio hall every night. oh, yeah, 11:30 after the news, "oh, yeah, yeah, hey, hey. let's watch arsenio." it was a thing. - you've had late night shows before that weren't on the same level as arsenio. he was going toe-to-toe with jay leno, all the big shows. he had big guests. - he was able to kind of conquer that in late night space and he was able to give us people like prince and michael jackson as guests, which led that to b

. >> it was something jack parr taped on, if you want to watch it jack parr show predated johnny carson got to look at it. >> he was stuck in england at the time. [ laughter ] >> martha: alright. brian and steve think you guys great to sea you. shark tank investor given a living on the anti- israel protest on college campuses now cancelling graduations for a handful of people it turns out who are winning clearly because everyone else is missing their graduation will make him back. >> you don't have to agree with the israel equipment but a lot of the protesting and a lot of the words being thrown around on these campuses are actually vary anti-semitism the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day... a "let's dig in" day... mm. ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day... a "perfectly delicious" day... - mm. [ chuckles ] - ...a "love my new teeth" day. because your clearchoice day is the day everything is back on the menu. a clearchoice day changes every day. schedule a free consultation. mom genes. she passed them down to you. but who passed them to her? ancestr

brag, but first, we need to do since evidence at the criminal trial for president united states johnny carson and get that one nixon, we got in here. why was i not asked to testify? >> it's outrageous i'm going to start soon, people i don't know. >> i really and i think i could keep trump awake during the trial. one of the all right. >> or panels here, david from the atlantic shore, michael singleton, former deputy chief of staff at hud or republican strategist, former white house senior policy adviser, ashley alison, also democratic strategist. david, i just decided that the only way to deal with any of this is humor because i mean, the, the litany of things we learned yesterday at this trial, taking us all back to this time where trump was grappling with this michael cohen okay. sorry, it's friday i just hand the floor to you when racing okay. i'm gonna make a serious point because it is absurd and squalid and repulsive situation. here's the serious point and for people were thinking about the future and how they're going to vote. the american political system has found it possible the amer

. >> i remember being a kid and asking my parents, can i stay up to watch johnny carson.re they tell me go to bed. i feel like there is a kid out there staying up to watch me. it means a lot to me, and i hope i do well. >> i love stories like that. dreaming about this since he was a little guy. >> yeah. >> well, a decade later, nbc is honoring the big anniversary with an epic prime time special promising games, surprises and a look back at some of jimmy's legendary show moments. "the tonight show" anniversary special airs tonight at 9:00/8:00 central right here on nbc. >> that is going to be good. >> rooting for him. >>> next up, "the voice." while carson is on the west coast with his other tv family, the current group of semifinalists battling it out in the last few episodes of the season. we just learned who will be spinning in those big red chairs come this fall. are you ready? >> michael bublÉ and snoop dogg are set to make their coaching debut. nbc announcing yesterday they'll be joined by "voice" vets reba mcentire and gwen stefani. so there's your team. stefani. yo

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