Does Colbert even claim to be a comedian? The giveaway is his audience so often applauds instead of laughs. It is my understanding that he is entirely an in-kind soft money contribution to the Democrat Party.
His response to why he didn't cover serious issues: " That's not why I'm there. Once you start to do that you feel a sense of self importance, you shouldn't. I don't feel you should try to sway people." EVERY current night time show host needs to hear those words and learn from Carson.
@Jack Jones . . . I suspect the advent of cable TV programming, and to do whatever it takes to draw in an audience for ratings, has shifted the topic landscape when it comes to night time talk shows. You have to consider that behind the TV talk show host, as the face of the show, there are executive producers behind-the-scenes that dictates the format, and direction, of the show . . . where the quality of the content takes a back seat to what draws in viewers. When it comes to commercial TV in the US, it's all about viewership numbers to attract advertisers. The salaciousness of the TV show hosted Jerry Springer, where he said, in a moment of candor when interviewed on another TV show, that he'd host a cooking show if it could bring in the same viewing numbers as his (then) current show had with its tawdry topics.
Johnny knew the key to longevity on TV... Keep it light, don't be too serious. Today's late night talk show hosts are now political and stink up the place. Carson was the king and it has been all down hill after he retired.
Big Bill O'Reilly For instance: You're yet another unintelligent lout, and it'd serve you well to stifle yourself, so as to attenuate the unutterable gravitas of your profound idiocy. I'd implore that you practice explication before assertation, but it'd be an egregious perversion of the truth to errantly presume your capacity to do so. So, I'll just all-too cordially admonish that you relinquish yourself unto your ineluctable improvidence, until it inevitably induces your permanent cessation, thereby clensing the world's undertow of its panoply of dregs, as-per Darwin's natural selection, affording the space with which to environ a being actually worth its salt, as opposed to you.
I like the way Johnny described his drinking issues, dead honest, no illusions about what the drink did to his personality, admirable to acknowledge one's flaws without flinching.
I loved Johnny. I use to stay up on school nights to watch his show. He was so loved and so funny! So classy! The last of the greatest. No one will ever come close!
Back in the 80's we watched Johnny religously. Of couse,back in those days we stayed up all hours. Even when Johnny's monolgues were going south..he was always funny or sharp as hell. I haven't watched anyone since Letterman.
This is probably the best interview of Johnny,....he seemed to trust Mike Wallace...and he was very, very shy….Ed McMahon once said that anybody who tells you they really know Johnny Carson is lying to you.Because I've been with him longer than anybody and I don't really know him..
Sadly, today's late night narcissistic propaganda spouters for the Deep State - Democrats, believe their own press releases and wouldn't find themselves within 5 miles of learning anything from this.
That's one of the reasons why night show hosts suck now is they think we all want to hear their political views. I could give two shats in hell. Just make me laugh or even just smile before I go to bed at night. Carson was the Godfather.
@@RollingOrmond If we stick to the Constitution (you know... that document that is the foundation of our laws) and get back to treating others they way we would like to be treated (got that one from a VERY good book you might want to brush up on as well) and provide equity of opportunity for all (in a word "Capitalism") then what you're sighting as 'our slide' obviously can not and will not happen... But you just keep on blaming others, slandering and name calling and looking for fights... All the while living in the most equitable, richest, highest standard of living country in the history of mankind....
Emphysema probably got em all, it gets ANYONE who smoked for over 9 months. Even if you quit, after 9 months, you are toast. Horrible death from all accounts. The cruelest of diseases are the ones where you can't breath for years before the disease takes you. You just want to die.
Johnny was one of a kind! I especially loved his shows when he had animals on them, hilarious sometimes! A good interviewer, he brought out the best in a lot of those whom he chatted with on his show. Today's late-night shows are NOTHING compared to those in Johnny's era. We don't even have any interest in them and haven't for quite a while now. We watched some, but finally learned to just watch something worthwhile at that late hour!
So, he seems like a normal, slightly neurotic guy, much like me. Only I make a little less. What was so terrible about Johnny? He smoked. And liked privacy. Guy gave away hundreds of millions of dollars to a foundation.
Johnny the man may have had his issues (who doesn't), but Johnny the performer was pure class. He mentioned Benny, Skelton...he is right there with them.
That is because late-night TV was a 60's creation. Fathers and Mothers were raising the kids, so we went to bed while they watched. Eventually, Viet Nam, and other reality TV shows destroyed what was left.
Leelo Haskin You lack a grasp so fundamental as that of the language by which you've spewed your crass exclamation, so stop masquerading as someone with even the slightest grasp of the political paradigm within the U.S.
@@FoolishLearner you think you're intelligent? Seriously you're about a s sharp as box of rocks, you're on the same level as Trump, so I said what I said what part of it do you not understand dummie? Padagrim? Yep you're high on the spectrum alright but it's not the IQ spectrum.
As far as talk show hosts go, there were a litany of them. Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Steve Allen, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Ferguson have all entertained us this way. However, the one person that linked these guys together was Johnny Carson, because of the fact that he went head to head with Berle, Benny, and Allen in the ratings, and mentored Leno, Letterman, O'Brien, and Ferguson later in his career, which lasted over 30 years.
It was dead before Carson got in there. He became popular because he presented an image the public wanted to see. It's just like what happened to family TV-it disintegrated. By 1967 family TV was on life support. Carson would be the latest incarnation of the Mummy.
Thanks for posting this clip! Johnny was a National Treasure and his Legacy lives on. As far as these Celebrity Talk Shows he was the Zenith at the top of the game. From about the mid-70's growing up in Los Angeles. There were like three things I would stay up and watch late at Night. The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, Love American Style and Get Smart. No wonder I didn't "Get Smart" in school...I use to dream of going to College, when I use to fall asleep in High School.
Darn right! I'd trade the whole lot...and throw in Ellen, Oprah, Arsenio, Rivers, all of 'em...to bring Johnny back. He was the true King of Comedy, bringing the torch over from Hope and Benny for television, and he is sorely missed.
I loved watching Johnny so much! I heard that he was very depressed all the time and he hid it through his comical personality. I miss you and thought you were the greatest comedy late night tv host! Nobody could ever fill your shoes! RIP, Johnny!
Thank you for posting this (and Part 2)! I've never seen anything like this on Johnny Carson, and it was very enjoyable. Whatever Johnny was "really like" as a person, his class, greatness, and incomparable legacy entertainer can't be denied. :-)
@SEZWAH Music letterman was gonna get the tonight show from johnny carson but then leno came in and stole it from him by convinsing the nbc executives to give it to him, in anger letterman went to cbs to have his show against nbc
He was a class act, he lived quite modestly for who he was and what he was. When he retired he sure stayed out of the limelight. I caught that last television appearance he made on Letterman after he retired. It's on youtube here somewhere. Wow...The standing ovation he got was unreal(!!) I'd like to get the dvd collection "The Best of Carson". I could go back and watch some of those shows forever. The sketches were hillarious. Better than some of the stuff that's on now.
He was pissed off because Johnny cut ties with him and wouldn't communicate with him anymore. Bushkin used his former client to write crap and make money off Johnny's name. No class. Just greed.
He was complicated, like most gifted people with f'd up childhoods. "He was a man, take him for all and all. I shall not see his like again." @@RCGoetzke
Right after Carson said "it would have been a cheap shot" and then this professional interviewer thinks he is going to be funnier than Carson and go ahead and take that cheap shot. Another example of Carson having more class. The topic could have still been brought up.....but that wasn't the way to do it.
Jimmy Kimmel would have been a last minute stand in comedian on Johnny's Tonight Show if someone had gotten sick. Now he has his own show? Puhleeeeeze!
Great interview. I had forgotten how straight forward Mike Wallace was. I am probably among the few middle age people, who has never seen The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I have seen a few clips here, on youtube, but no one in my family ever watched the show. I find Johnny very interesting. He's so charming; I can see why people gravitated to him.
Johnny and Mike Wallace both have “it”, absolutely simply a wonderful interview. Clever, honest and frankly goose pimples good 👍 thank you greatly for this post 😃
"you could use that show to sway people, and I don't think you should as an entertainer " if only Colbert & Kimmel would take this advice the world would be a far better place and they would garner far greater respect.
He was a multi-millionaire and supposedly someone found some 16mm film(s) at his ex-wife's house showing them in action, turns out Johnny had some hidden equipment. He was the man about town in the 70's, the King of LA.
I'm a ex smoker and I use to watch Johnny smoke one after another.I don't miss it at all and wish I never started.Please if you don't smoke don't try it.
I told UK Music Fans about how Ed McMahon Hosted Star Search and the "Non-Winners" become Superstars and the Winners don't make it. I think him, and Dick Clark were very passionate about what they do.
Wayne Newton would not agree that Carson was kind to his guests. Newton told Larry King that he confronted Carson after Carson started making gay jokes about Newton. Newton then told King that "Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited individual".
@@deluxentertainment3 I suspect that Carson, who was a genius at being a late night talk show host, had difficulties in his personal relationships, especially with women, as a result of his horrible relationship with his mother. He hated her and upon her death uttered, "The wicked witch is dead" and didn't attend her funeral.
@@RCGoetzke - Poor - poor Johnny Carson. He was just so intelligent and well spoken. Unlike the horrible late night idiots they have today. I'm just commenting about Johnny Carson's on air presence. Looks can be deceiving though, especially in dinosaur media.
@@RCGoetzke - I can assure you Mr. Robert G., I am absolutely certain that Johnny Carson did not resemble Mother Theresa. I don't think he was shooting for that brass ring. I can't really think of one comedian that did. Maybe they should.
My wife and I don't watch Colbert or Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel we turn to channel 9.2 and watch Johnny Carson reruns.
the latest jimmy night shows are pretty crap
johnny & dick!
@@general5886 are u still alive?
Does Colbert even claim to be a comedian? The giveaway is his audience so often applauds instead of laughs. It is my understanding that he is entirely an in-kind soft money contribution to the Democrat Party.
His response to why he didn't cover serious issues: " That's not why I'm there. Once you start to do that you feel a sense of self importance, you shouldn't. I don't feel you should try to sway people." EVERY current night time show host needs to hear those words and learn from Carson.
Your right on!
@Jack Jones . . . I suspect the advent of cable TV programming, and to do whatever it takes to draw in an audience for ratings, has shifted the topic landscape when it comes to night time talk shows.
You have to consider that behind the TV talk show host, as the face of the show, there are executive producers behind-the-scenes that dictates the format, and direction, of the show . . . where the quality of the content takes a back seat to what draws in viewers. When it comes to commercial TV in the US, it's all about viewership numbers to attract advertisers. The salaciousness of the TV show hosted Jerry Springer, where he said, in a moment of candor when interviewed on another TV show, that he'd host a cooking show if it could bring in the same viewing numbers as his (then) current show had with its tawdry topics.
So true! Mainly one sided
Jack Jones right on !!
Something tells me you wouldn't mind as long as it was democrats they were making fun of.
Leno wasn't 1/10 the comedian Carson was. The current comedians aren't 1/100 the comedian Leno was.
Rodney Dangerfield was great
Boy could today’s Hollywood elite take a lesson from Johnny when it comes to talking politics with their platforms!!
Johnny knew the key to longevity on TV... Keep it light, don't be too serious. Today's late night talk show hosts are now political and stink up the place. Carson was the king and it has been all down hill after he retired.
Yes. He was always smart to not alienate 1/2 the country like today's hosts do.
@@MrAitraining Yup!!!!!! Exactly!!!!!!! I Love Johnny Carson I Love The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson On Antenna TV!!!!!!
Touché
Johnny was the best. Today's hosts are horrible
T Porchia I wonder how he felt when John Delorean got busted in The Cocaine Scandal
I know it sucks out there!
Hell yes they are!!!
Today's host are not good, but neither was Jonny, he was an asshole
Totally agree. Only one tonight show.
These late night hosts today should watch the clip of him saying why he doesn't bring serious topics to his show.
He was so good. Johnny was very, very political (he imitated Reagan many times) but it was just fun criticism.It wasnt bitter or mean-spirited...
@Big Bill O'Reilly !
Big Bill O'Reilly Caps-lock is how the uneducated exclaim through text.
Big Bill O'Reilly Far from it.
Big Bill O'Reilly For instance: You're yet another unintelligent lout, and it'd serve you well to stifle yourself, so as to attenuate the unutterable gravitas of your profound idiocy.
I'd implore that you practice explication before assertation, but it'd be an egregious perversion of the truth to errantly presume your capacity to do so.
So, I'll just all-too cordially admonish that you relinquish yourself unto your ineluctable improvidence, until it inevitably induces your permanent cessation, thereby clensing the world's undertow of its panoply of dregs, as-per Darwin's natural selection, affording the space with which to environ a being actually worth its salt, as opposed to you.
Johnny was pure class and that's what this generation would never understand.
He was a violent alcoholic who hit his wives.
this is a certified old fuck comment
God I miss him. he was a big part of my younger years. A class act in my opinion
I agree ..and Johnny was rocking a big screen tv back in 79 !
Scott Bastian nobody has been as good as him since. A lot of snark and smugness and partisanship. Carson had the gift of bringing everybody together.
@Eagle1 tell that to the average 15 million people that would watch him every night
Hi Scott- I've been enjoying the old 'Tonight' shows on 'Antenna TV' for the past 2 years. I'm sure you have too. Almost like Johnny is still with us.
Really?
I like the way Johnny described his drinking issues, dead honest, no illusions about what the drink did to his personality, admirable to acknowledge one's flaws without flinching.
The only king of late night . Kimmel and that wimp Colbert need to watch and learn !
So true!
Steve Allen invented Late Night and he was good at it. Jack Parr succeeded Allen and he was good at it.
I loved Johnny. I use to stay up on school nights to watch his show. He was so loved and so funny! So classy! The last of the greatest. No one will ever come close!
wonder if joan rivers thought he was classy he could be a ass at times but was still a huge fan
And it has all gone down the toilet since he left.
EXACTLY!!! He wasn't called, "The king of late night" for nothing!
And in a big way!!!
Back in the 80's we watched Johnny religously. Of couse,back in those days we stayed up all hours. Even when Johnny's monolgues were going south..he was always funny or sharp as hell. I haven't watched anyone since Letterman.
@Jeffrey Hinkel Oprah was not late night dummy
Knew it then know it now.It was never gonna be the same. And to me, Jay Leno was painful, Good grief. Why did they hire him???
This is probably the best interview of Johnny,....he seemed to trust Mike Wallace...and he was very, very shy….Ed McMahon once said that anybody who tells you they really know Johnny Carson is lying to you.Because I've been with him longer than anybody and I don't really know him..
Today's garbage that call themselves late night comics could learn a lot from this interview.
Sadly, today's late night narcissistic propaganda spouters for the Deep State - Democrats, believe their own press releases and wouldn't find themselves within 5 miles of learning anything from this.
That's one of the reasons why night show hosts suck now is they think we all want to hear their political views. I could give two shats in hell. Just make me laugh or even just smile before I go to bed at night. Carson was the Godfather.
+moncorp1 the other thing is that unlike myself and others, is that more often than not, he listened AND helped the guests look good and shine.
Amen!
Yeah, just smile and watch the country slide into fascism and racism without comment. Have a good sleep, sheep :)
@@RollingOrmond If we stick to the Constitution (you know... that document that is the foundation of our laws) and get back to treating others they way we would like to be treated (got that one from a VERY good book you might want to brush up on as well) and provide equity of opportunity for all (in a word "Capitalism") then what you're sighting as 'our slide' obviously can not and will not happen... But you just keep on blaming others, slandering and name calling and looking for fights... All the while living in the most equitable, richest, highest standard of living country in the history of mankind....
Rolling Ormond I'd venture to assert that you don't even know what Fascism is. Also, would you care to define your terms and provide a citation?
Johnny, Ed, Fred De Cordova and Mike Wallace are all dead now, only Doc is left and he is 90. R. I. P. Johnny, Ed, Fred and Mike.
I didn't know that Freddy DeCordova also directed the Jack Benny progran
Gone with the wind. Very sad.
You guys and your Good ol Days . geesh...their is always greatness...but you CANT DUPLICATE.
TRY watchin differant venues....so negative
Emphysema probably got em all, it gets ANYONE who smoked for over 9 months. Even if you quit, after 9 months, you are toast. Horrible death from all accounts. The cruelest of diseases are the ones where you can't breath for years before the disease takes you. You just want to die.
@@harpoon_bakery162 GRIM Bringer
Johnny was one of a kind! I especially loved his shows when he had animals on them, hilarious sometimes! A good interviewer, he brought out the best in a lot of those whom he chatted with on his show.
Today's late-night shows are NOTHING compared to those in Johnny's era. We don't even have any interest in them and haven't for quite a while now. We watched some, but finally learned to just watch something worthwhile at that late hour!
Jimmy kimmel should watch this.
and colbert
My wife and I don't watch Kimmel and a guy on Channel 5 Fallon and the guy on Channel 2 we watch 9.2 Johnny Carson reruns they're better
Jimmy is a jerk, no talented and most of all - NOT FUNNY!
Jimmy Fallon is a show off.
Kümmel, Colbert or Fallon would make a pimple on Carson’s ass.
He used his show to provide entertainment, not serious issues. Too bad Cobert, Fallon and Kimmel don't do the same!
Big Bill O'Reilly o thanks for the offer but unlike you I don’t offer sex to guys!
@Big Bill O'Reilly yeah keep talkin been going on for a little over two years now just keep talking.
Back then we had Cronkite, not Hannity, Tucker (because he tucks), etc.
Amen !
@@theforemostauthority2806
"The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine."
one of a kind RIP
September 19, 2018: Johnny, you are missed! (I never liked Mike Wallace....to cocky and rude.)
So is his son!!!
Johnny Carson's fake laugh sounds like "I can have you killed"
Carson is so right about late night hosts staying away from serious issues. I wish it were like that today!
I loved that man
So, he seems like a normal, slightly neurotic guy, much like me. Only I make a little less. What was so terrible about Johnny? He smoked. And liked privacy. Guy gave away hundreds of millions of dollars to a foundation.
Johnny at 5:45 is why I don't watch late night talk shows now. We miss you, Johnny!
I agree. And at 5:15 is why I don't watch any late night shows since Letterman retired.
Johnny the man may have had his issues (who doesn't), but Johnny the performer was pure class. He mentioned Benny, Skelton...he is right there with them.
Robert Bacjand: Jack Benny was his idol. He soooooooo respect Benny.
5:32. Late night hosts now should be like this.
he beat his kids
"Here's Johnny" ! Class Act
The irony of time: all the famous people in this clip are deceased.
That is because late-night TV was a 60's creation. Fathers and Mothers were raising the kids, so we went to bed while they watched. Eventually, Viet Nam, and other reality TV shows destroyed what was left.
People die.
In this interview THE Johnny Carson from the grave rips Colbert, Kimmel, et al who use their shows to promote their political beliefs.
Can't ignore the world but yeah that is a solid critique.
@reignman2112 fuck trump
Leelo Haskin You lack a grasp so fundamental as that of the language by which you've spewed your crass exclamation, so stop masquerading as someone with even the slightest grasp of the political paradigm within the U.S.
@@FoolishLearner you think you're intelligent? Seriously you're about a s sharp as box of rocks, you're on the same level as Trump, so I said what I said what part of it do you not understand dummie?
Padagrim? Yep you're high on the spectrum alright but it's not the IQ spectrum.
Leelo Haskin You can't even manage to type a tangential aspersion in proper grammatical English. 😂😂😂
So miss Johnny! Such a class act!
AHHH Johnny.....what a great show. Everybody in the nation watched.....Ten PM weeknights, the country lay in bed and watched Carson.
It was a great way to end the day.
On the east coast he came on at 11:30 till 1:00. Then they shortened it to one hour.
As far as talk show hosts go, there were a litany of them. Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Steve Allen, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Ferguson have all entertained us this way. However, the one person that linked these guys together was Johnny Carson, because of the fact that he went head to head with Berle, Benny, and Allen in the ratings, and mentored Leno, Letterman, O'Brien, and Ferguson later in his career, which lasted over 30 years.
Loved him
5:35 jimmy, seth, jimmie and stephen need ro watch this!!!!
National treasure? Yep!
5:30 Late night TV is DEAD.
It was dead before Carson got in there. He became popular because he presented an image the public wanted to see.
It's just like what happened to family TV-it disintegrated. By 1967 family TV was on life support. Carson would be the latest incarnation of the Mummy.
Thanks for posting this clip! Johnny was a National Treasure and his Legacy lives on. As far as these Celebrity Talk Shows he was the Zenith at the top of the game. From about the mid-70's growing up in Los Angeles. There were like three things I would stay up and watch late at Night. The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, Love American Style and Get Smart. No wonder I didn't "Get Smart" in school...I use to dream of going to College, when I use to fall asleep in High School.
GREAT MAN!!!!
Carson was great entertainer, but he hardly was a great man.
Not Really!!!
There is, and only, will be ONE Johnny! Nobody today even comes close!!!!!
Mike Wallace, a hero made by tearing apart other people, how sad
Johnny Carson makes me proud to be a Nebraskan.
Nebraska has a mean drunk problem?
@Eagle1 he was shy, not cold
@@tombryan1 try not to be forgotten when you die
@@tombryan1 LOL!!!
@@tombryan1Just as your home state apparently has an education problem.
Darn right! I'd trade the whole lot...and throw in Ellen, Oprah, Arsenio, Rivers, all of 'em...to bring Johnny back. He was the true King of Comedy, bringing the torch over from Hope and Benny for television, and he is sorely missed.
Yes, at 5:30, he explains why it is wrong to discuss serious issues as a talk show host.
It’s so so sad this amazing man is no longer with us 😢😢😢😢
I loved watching Johnny so much! I heard that he was very depressed all the time and he hid it through his comical personality. I miss you and thought you were the greatest comedy late night tv host! Nobody could ever fill your shoes! RIP, Johnny!
Brown Bag Lunch. I don't know about everyone else, but that was downright sexy. RIP Sweet guy.
John was King!! And will always be!!!!
It's hard to believe we've been without Johnny now for almost as long as he hosted "Tonight."
I assume you mean since he retired, (almost 30 years ago), rather than when he died? He died about 15 years ago.
steve allen, parkinson from England, and Johnny Carson would put today's host to shame. And I am only 35 years of age, so don't tell me I am old.
Do you think you're a kid at 35?
Thank you for posting this (and Part 2)! I've never seen anything like this on Johnny Carson, and it was very enjoyable. Whatever Johnny was "really like" as a person, his class, greatness, and incomparable legacy entertainer can't be denied. :-)
Saturday Night Live could learn from this extraordinary entertainer. So could many of the other two bit comedians around these days.
Letterman never learned what Carson knew. Serious issues will kill a show.
@SEZWAH Music you got the tonight show "war" all wrong
@SEZWAH Music letterman was gonna get the tonight show from johnny carson but then leno came in and stole it from him by convinsing the nbc executives to give it to him, in anger letterman went to cbs to have his show against nbc
@SEZWAH Music sure but you said letterman sold out to cbs
@@rubenva1258 Letterman was a pervert and NOT funny!
@SEZWAH Music Letterman made MILLIONS! now the late show is higher rated than the tonite show.
He was a class act, he lived quite modestly for who he was and what he was. When he retired he sure stayed out of the limelight. I caught that last television appearance he made on Letterman after he retired. It's on youtube here somewhere. Wow...The standing ovation he got was unreal(!!) I'd like to get the dvd collection "The Best of Carson". I could go back and watch some of those shows forever. The sketches were hillarious. Better than some of the stuff that's on now.
Johnny's former attorney, Henry Bushkin wrote a book about Johnny, what happened to attorney-client privilage???
It ends when you die.
He was pissed off because Johnny cut ties with him and wouldn't communicate with him anymore. Bushkin used his former client to write crap and make money off Johnny's name. No class. Just greed.
@@cookielady9995 But Bushkin was truthful. Carson wasn't the affable guy he appeared to be when hosting his show.
He was complicated, like most gifted people with f'd up childhoods. "He was a man, take him for all and all. I shall not see his like again." @@RCGoetzke
@@RCGoetzke In fact, Johnny Carson wss the EXACT OPPOSITE to the image he was projecting on the show.
At 8:37, Carson wanted to clobber Wallace when he brought up alcohol.
Right after Carson said "it would have been a cheap shot" and then this professional interviewer thinks he is going to be funnier than Carson and go ahead and take that cheap shot. Another example of Carson having more class. The topic could have still been brought up.....but that wasn't the way to do it.
I'm sure Johnny knew the question would come up. He handled it well.
Why do some ppl get mean when drunk and others don't?
No he didn't. He knew the question had to be addressed and he lead Wallace to it beautifully. These are two master conversationalists.
When Joe Namath said Carson was a mean drunk I believe him.
Jimmy Kimmel would have been a last minute stand in comedian on Johnny's Tonight Show if someone had gotten sick. Now he has his own show? Puhleeeeeze!
Great interview. I had forgotten how straight forward Mike Wallace was. I am probably among the few middle age people, who has never seen The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I have seen a few clips here, on youtube, but no one in my family ever watched the show. I find Johnny very interesting. He's so charming; I can see why people gravitated to him.
I do not think he liked talking about himself.
He was brilliant
really before his time when he used statement "go hard on em".. lol
Johnny and Mike Wallace both have “it”, absolutely simply a wonderful interview. Clever, honest and frankly goose pimples good 👍 thank you greatly for this post 😃
"you could use that show to sway people, and I don't think you should as an entertainer " if only Colbert & Kimmel would take this advice the world would be a far better place and they would garner far greater respect.
If today's late night hosts had this outlook it might not be shit to watch. I miss you, Mr. Carson.
He was a multi-millionaire and supposedly someone found some 16mm film(s) at his ex-wife's house showing them in action, turns out Johnny had some hidden equipment. He was the man about town in the 70's, the King of LA.
I miss both these guys, from the good ol' days of television...
There will never be another Johnny Carson. A late night legend. A class act.
I'm a ex smoker and I use to watch Johnny smoke one after another.I don't miss it at all and wish I never started.Please if you don't smoke don't try it.
Damned good advice. It goes for anything addictive too, in my opinion.
@@jimreily7538 Agree 100%
Nothing like a cup of coffee and a smoke to start the day, you just have to limit them like all vices.
5:41 Current Hollywood could learn from Carson!
I would've knocked the hell out if that interviewer coming into Johns home and insulting him like that that was so disrespectful and unprofessional.
That interviewer? That was the FAMOUS Mike Wallace.
So is his son!!!
Johnny on drums is classy..Carson was class incarnate.
I told UK Music Fans about how Ed McMahon Hosted Star Search and the "Non-Winners" become Superstars and the Winners don't make it. I think him, and Dick Clark were very passionate about what they do.
Dick Clark had more surgeries than Joan Rivers ever had.
Ah yes when evening talk shows were funny.
What a pure class act. Very rare quality these days..it’s all gone down hill since he left
Wayne Newton would not agree that Carson was kind to his guests. Newton told Larry King that he confronted Carson after Carson started making gay jokes about Newton. Newton then told King that "Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited individual".
Colbert, Fallon and Kimmel wouldn't have a show if it wasn't for Trump. They wouldn't have any material.
If you were a friend of Carson, it was best not to go drinking with him. He could and would turn on a friend with the best of them.
Robert G. yes he did slap a line backer.... Jets Linebacker....
5:07 .... all late night hosts should listen.
Johnny Carson was the G. O. A. T.
Johnny ordered the license plate on the Mercedes, it was to mean, 360 degrees, which is around, for all around guy.
I watch the re runs.
❤️
5:10. Take that Colbert Kimmel Myers and all the other left wing nut jobs
Boy, do we ALL miss this true talent!
Today’s hosts are crap and classless compared to this legend . No one will ever fill Carson’s shoes and it’s a shame
Johnny Carson: The best damn late-night host of all time.
5:48 He was watching the broken cigarette box clip. 😂
National treasure lol lol lol lpl lol lol lol lol lol which nation ?? the Congo lol lol
Super super guy he was
Why can't they just show the re-runs of The Johnny Carson show on late night?
Johnny was cool~unlike entertainers today.
They're a total turn off
Johnny the best no equal
5:30 = Johnny inadvertently weighs in on the state of contemporary late night shows
For a man who had a net worth in the Hundreds of Millions, he was very modest. He had such a calm and polite demeanor.
I'll put a pound to the penny that Johnny Carson was an #INFJ He was for sure an Introvert,,, and he was brillant..
I agree.
The man has perfect musical taste! Miss you Johnny!
Don't smoke!!!
I just love Johnny Carson. He's so giving.
He gave the shaft to quite a few people, many of whom had been family or friends.
@@RCGoetzke - I'm sure you're right. I'm only talking about his on air presence. Thanks for the insights.
@@deluxentertainment3 I suspect that Carson, who was a genius at being a late night talk show host, had difficulties in his personal relationships, especially with women, as a result of his horrible relationship with his mother. He hated her and upon her death uttered, "The wicked witch is dead" and didn't attend her funeral.
@@RCGoetzke - Poor - poor Johnny Carson. He was just so intelligent and well spoken. Unlike the horrible late night idiots they have today. I'm just commenting about Johnny Carson's on air presence. Looks can be deceiving though, especially in dinosaur media.
@@RCGoetzke - I can assure you Mr. Robert G., I am absolutely certain that Johnny Carson did not resemble Mother Theresa. I don't think he was shooting for that brass ring. I can't really think of one comedian that did. Maybe they should.
And he died alone...no religion, only regrets.
Today,all we have is bunch of liberals who can't stop pushing thier politics.
So true. These so called hosts have no class.
Carson heard all that before, He was a national treasure. I'm forty four, My opinion, nobody will ever be like him. He reminds me of my dad.