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00:00For 30 years, he was the king of late-night television.
00:04From the early 60s into the 90s, all of America tuned in to watch Johnny hold court on The Tonight Show.
00:11Let me point him out. You may have yours, I got mine.
00:14Johnny's unique sense of wit and brilliant comic timing provided us with the opportunity to spend time with the biggest names in entertainment.
00:22Johnny's nightly monologue was a barometer of the times.
00:25They can either take the physical examination by a doctor, or they can go on a date with one of our congressmen.
00:32The Tonight Show was a showcase for some of the world's greatest comedians and a launching pad for young comics making their national debut.
00:39You think you can get the lid off this jar? I'm just so weak, you big, strong man, you.
00:45I sit in it and wait for the tide to take me.
00:50You don't have to hire any babysitter, nobody's gonna bother that kid.
00:52Oh, my old man's refrigerator repairman, what do you think about that?
00:58Yeah.
01:02Buddy, would you like to meet Johnny Carson?
01:04Right.
01:07The Tonight Show was also home to movie stars, showbiz legends, and those quirky guests who always deliver the unexpected.
01:18Then I'll take my accordion and sit on the toilet, CJ.
01:21Go, folks. Go get it. Go get it.
01:25Go get it.
01:26Now, don't you move unless I tell you.
01:31Come on!
01:33And, of course, those friends from the local zoo who stopped by to steal the show.
01:37Senator Smith.
01:39During the next 30 minutes, we're proud to present some of the greatest moments in television.
01:44So sit back and enjoy scenes from three decades of late-night television history.
01:48On October 1st, 1962, Johnny Carson debuted as host of The Tonight Show.
02:02From New York, The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson.
02:05For the next 10 years, The Tonight Show originated from Studio 6B at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
02:16The program was recorded live back then, providing some unrehearsed moments of unforgettable television.
02:22Okay, Bingo.
02:24Well, shall we have a go at it?
02:24Get your axe and let's go.
02:26All right.
02:26Let's go.
02:32What is the trick on it?
02:33You throw underhanded?
02:34No.
02:35Oh.
02:36Overhanded.
02:36It's an overhand throw.
02:37The trick is to keep your arm extended, and that way you break the microphone.
02:41You know, you keep your arm extended, and put only one revolution once around on the way, but that's indefinite.
02:52All right.
02:54All right.
02:55This famous tomahawk toss by Ed Ames is remembered as one of the longest bursts of continuous audience laughter in television history.
03:16I didn't even know you were doing it.
03:41In addition to that, who are you?
03:50This is even more important.
03:52Carol Ann Trayson.
03:53You're Joanne who?
03:54Carol Ann Trayson.
03:55Carol Ann Trayson.
03:56You're two different girls?
03:58Yes.
03:59Say the secret word, and Grouch will come to your house.
04:06And the top.
04:07Love, love, love.
04:11Now, it's very clear, our love is here to stay, why is our love here, why is it here?
04:23Not for a year, but forever and a day, go on.
04:33And now with the latest in weather, here's Al Sweet, your hippy-dippy weatherman.
04:37David Wasabner.
04:39David Wasabner.
04:48King Fossum.
04:49I see the radar tonight is picking up a line of thundershowers, which extends from a 0.9 miles south-southeast of Chester, Pennsylvania, along a line and six miles either side of a line, to a 0.8 miles north-northeast of Secaucus, New Jersey.
05:04However, the radar is also picking up a squadron of Russian ICBM, so I wouldn't sweat the thundershowers.
05:13Oh, let your fingers do the walking.
05:15Hey, that, that really kicked out.
05:16Oh, ha!
05:17I told you, remember?
05:18Can I do it a couple of minutes?
05:19No!
05:20No!
05:21No!
05:22No!
05:23No!
05:24No!
05:25No!
05:26No!
05:27Just give me a break, I'm so lonely.
05:28Get out of here!
05:29Come here, come here!
05:30No!
05:31No!
05:32No!
05:33No!
05:34No!
05:35No!
05:36No!
05:37No!
05:38No!
05:39No!
05:40No!
05:41No!
05:42No!
05:43Just give me a break, I'm so lonely.
05:45No!
05:46No!
05:47No!
05:48No!
05:49No!
05:50No!
05:51No!
05:52No!
05:53No!
05:54No!
05:55No!
05:56No!
05:57No!
05:58No!
05:59No!
06:00No!
06:01No!
06:02No!
06:03No!
06:04No!
06:05No!
06:06No!
06:07Paano!
06:09Johnny, I want to say, Susan I'm very glad to be here, and I'm going to tell you, without
06:13me, your show tonight would have been nothing.
06:23This is a pretty fast league.
06:26Oh, this is the eight troops are out here.
06:27And I'm glad you saved me now, you know, because, you know, when you come on last, you're,
06:34uh, did you ever get the feeling, did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo
06:42and you were a pair of brown shoes?
06:53One of those days, huh?
06:59And I have a feeling it's going to get worse before it gets worse.
07:03I asked you about this before, and I think they thought you were making a joke, the fighter
07:06pilots.
07:07You were a pilot, right?
07:08Oh, yes.
07:09I was a pilot during the war.
07:11You remember the wars and all the papers.
07:13I reckon.
07:14I'm encouraging it.
07:15Well, I told you about that the last time I was on your show, you know, about, uh, I fought
07:20the whole war in Oklahoma.
07:21And, uh...
07:22What were you saying?
07:23Now, I don't know why people laugh when I say that, you know, because that's evidently
07:26where they needed me or they wouldn't have sent me.
07:29You know, go ahead and laugh.
07:35I don't care.
07:36But if you remember, you think back, no, first of all, I was an instructor.
07:40I was in V-26, eight, 89s first at Altus, Oklahoma, and then V-26s at Frederick, Oklahoma,
07:47and I was an instructor there.
07:48And if you think back, and I'm not mad at anybody or anything, but just remember, there
07:53was not one Japanese aircraft that got past Tulsa.
07:56And now, here's Johnny.
07:57In the 70s, The Tonight Show moved permanently to Hollywood, where the audiences were as warm
08:01as the weather.
08:02Okay, I'll tell you, it was really hot today.
08:33It was worth the trip in, wasn't it?
08:36Just as you, uh...
08:38It was so hot...
08:40It was so hot today, I saw a robin dipping his worm in nest tea.
08:48It was, uh...
08:50It was so hot today, I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.
08:57It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, If You Want It Your Way, Cook It Yourself.
09:06It was so hot today.
09:08It was hot today.
09:09What's today?
09:10Thursday.
09:11Tomorrow's Friday?
09:12Friday.
09:13Who do we have tomorrow?
09:14I don't know.
09:15Well, I...
09:16I'm not gonna be here.
09:17I don't know.
09:18Are you putting me on?
09:19No, I'm off.
09:20I'm going to be out of town tomorrow, so...
09:22What do you mean you're gonna be out of town?
09:24I'm going to be...
09:25Tomorrow's Friday.
09:26But I can take a day off once in a while.
09:28You certainly invented it.
09:33I was...
09:35Animals are so weird.
09:36I was camping up in Sequoia National Park.
09:38And, uh...
09:39I'm Jewish, you know, and my friend said,
09:41Hey, Jewish people don't camp.
09:43And, uh, we do.
09:44We just have it catered.
09:45That's all.
09:46And, uh...
09:48Do you mind if I talk to you for just a minute?
09:51I just want to say a few words about diarrhea.
09:56Dippity-doo.
10:01Dippity-doo.
10:05What forms on your dippity early in the morning?
10:10I cleaned my refrigerator out the other day.
10:12Haven't done that in a while.
10:13Found a milk carton in there with a Lindbergh baby on it.
10:20Come on, I dare you.
10:22I dare you to knock this battery off my shoulder.
10:27Come on, I double dare you.
10:31I mean, you don't really care what I have to say, do you?
10:33Honestly?
10:34No.
10:35Look, I gotta do...
10:40I gotta do an hour a night.
10:43I'm looking for warm bodies.
10:45I used to be skinny in high school.
10:46I gained a lot of weight since then.
10:47I'm kind of chunky now.
10:48I got a little bit of gut.
10:49That's why I'm wearing this big old suit.
10:51What?
10:52If I put on a pair of bikini underwear, you know,
10:53I'd look like a Bartlett pair of the rubber band
10:54wrapped around the bottom.
10:58You know what I say?
10:59I say, yes, Mr. Carson.
11:01I love it.
11:02Can you come?
11:03No.
11:04You know, cause women, we lie to men all the time, you know.
11:13It's not that we mean to or anything.
11:15It's just that it takes too long to explain the truth.
11:18All right, now, this is a favorite of mine.
11:25I love this one.
11:27Burt Lancaster.
11:29Such a great, great star and an impression that always works
11:34and previous till now, hard to do.
11:37Got it.
11:39A hot potato.
11:40A hot potato.
11:41Good heavens.
11:42Burt Lancaster, you can take as hot as you can stand it.
11:46Oh, it's steamed.
11:48Come on.
11:49All right, Johnny.
11:50Yeah.
11:51Just a minute.
11:52Okay.
11:53You're cutting a small portion of this very hot potato.
11:54That's right.
11:55A small portion of that, but I'm going to cut it into four pieces, Johnny.
11:56Right.
11:57All right.
11:58Just in the mouth.
11:59Go.
12:00Ha!
12:01Ha!
12:02Ha!
12:03Ha!
12:04Ha!
12:05Ha!
12:06Ha!
12:07Ha!
12:08Ha!
12:09Ha!
12:10Ha!
12:11Ha!
12:12Ha!
12:13Ha!
12:14Ha!
12:15Ha!
12:16Ha!
12:19Ha!
12:20I can see that.
12:21That's, uh.
12:22All right, yeah.
12:23Absolutely true.
12:24Now, it says something else here on the thing, it says Burt Lancaster and in the same potato
12:28package, it says curly.
12:30Curly's a little easier, if you want your...
12:32Curly of the three...
12:33Perfect Burt Lancaster, yes, you need a little bit of pepper and pepper's good for everyone.
12:37It says Brando, Sullivan, et All, it has them all here.
12:39All right.
12:41Curly is you take a little bit of pepper, a little bit of pepper.
12:43A little bit of pepper. You know, Curly, the great Three Stooges. Hard to do. Not now.
12:47Take a pepper. Put it like that. Okay, now.
12:50You begin to make a child's train noise.
12:53Woo! Woo!
12:56In with a potato! Woo! Woo!
12:58Woo!
13:13From Hollywood, The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson.
13:26This is kind of a strange audience. Have you noticed that?
13:29How strange is it? Well, before the show tonight, a sweet, sweet elderly lady came up to me and says,
13:36you know, I'd like to capture you on canvas.
13:40I says, you mean you'd like to paint my portrait?
13:41She says, no, I've got an army cot in my Winnebago.
13:45The 80s and 90s brought some of the most memorable guests to The Tonight Show.
13:49But nothing turned the show upside down like kids and animals.
13:53People make a mistake. They see a bear and they think it's a Disney character.
13:56That's right.
13:56And they want to feed them and cuddle them, and bears are, you know, what?
13:59They're very... I'll tell you what else they are.
14:02Don't drink that out of Ed's or you'll...
14:04That bear will hibernate for a year.
14:10He gets a slug of that.
14:13Well, the other thing, you know...
14:14That bear will go into camp.
14:16Hey, you got any food?
14:19Have you seen the movie Parenthood that you're in?
14:21Yeah, I did.
14:23You did, huh?
14:24Yeah.
14:24Well, how'd you like it? What'd you think of it?
14:26Um, I think it was nice.
14:31Thought it was nice?
14:32Yeah.
14:32You're looking at yourself up on the screen, aren't you?
14:35Right.
14:36Huh? You see yourself up there?
14:37Yeah.
14:38How do you think you look?
14:40Cute.
14:48Lawrence Wall comes from, I believe, South Dakota, back in the Midwest, where I grew up.
14:52And a lot of people don't know this about Lawrence, but his personality was formed in his very early years.
14:59I think it was one day in the second grade, little Lawrence had to leave the room.
15:05And the teacher said, why?
15:07And Lawrence says, I have to do a one and a two.
15:12Very personal.
15:13He's really cute.
15:19At what age will he be when he's really difficult to handle?
15:22It's not going to be long, like maybe tomorrow, the end of the week?
15:26He only weighs about eight or ten pounds.
15:28She weighs about ten pounds.
15:29I just said that.
15:30And it's a handful.
15:34Does she ever stop moving?
15:36She's fairly active right now.
15:38She sleeps a good part of the day.
15:40What's that?
15:43Have you ever seen this show before?
15:49Well, when I was up vomiting and all that stuff.
15:52That's all about my vomiting now.
16:04Boy, that's the first time you've had to...
16:07How's that?
16:08Now that, obviously, is a monkey or ape family.
16:11This is a member of the ape family.
16:12Well, he's actually somewhat of a monkey, isn't he?
16:16He likes your camera.
16:17That's right in the camera.
16:18This is a Celebes ape.
16:20Celebes ape.
16:21And it's one of the few animals in the world that's actually worshipped.
16:25That's all right.
16:25Come here.
16:26Come on, boy.
16:26That's all right.
16:28He's worshipped as an ancestor to a human being.
16:31Oops.
16:32Hey, give me that one.
16:34Come on, you son.
16:38How long have you had him under control, Jim?
16:42No, I wonder what he's...
16:43Just a little hand gesture.
16:44He's perfectly relaxed there.
16:46I meant to have that.
16:47How are you doing?
16:48Try to take that away from him.
16:49What?
16:49Just say you're going to take it away from him.
16:51I'd like the banana.
16:52Just tell him you want the banana.
16:53I want the banana.
16:53Okay, I don't want it.
16:56Doc, give me the banana.
16:57Give it here.
16:57Give it here.
16:58Come on.
16:58Give me the banana.
16:59Give me the banana.
16:59Give me the banana.
17:01This is called Doc?
17:04Doc, come here.
17:05It's called Doc.
17:05Come on.
17:07Hey, Doc.
17:08He's frisky, isn't he?
17:08I just admitted you.
17:09Come on.
17:09Here's your chair.
17:10Come on.
17:13Hey, John.
17:14Would you want to hold it?
17:16I want to do it.
17:17Doc, come on.
17:18Sit, sit.
17:19Lay back.
17:20Doc, come on.
17:22Come on, Doc.
17:22Easy, Doc.
17:23You'll set this chair on.
17:26Man and his monkey.
17:28You'll set this chair on.
17:30Doc, on your chair.
17:32On your chair.
17:34Hey, Doc.
17:36Don't be right.
17:41That's all right.
17:42You're fine.
17:44You're right in the mouth.
17:48It punched me right in the mouth.
17:51Doc, I don't...
17:52He's all right.
17:54He's just playing.
17:55We're playing.
17:57Every Lincoln's birthday, I...
17:59Reminds me of my old girlfriend back in Nebraska.
18:02Gina Statutory.
18:07Name was Gina Statutory, and she went to Lincoln High, and she was voted Miss Lincoln, because
18:14every guy in school took a shot at her in the balcony.
18:22Have you always been rather...
18:23Zoftic?
18:26What would they call that when you grew up in Tennessee?
18:28I, uh...
18:29Zoftic?
18:30I can't say.
18:30Healthy?
18:31Healthy, I guess.
18:32Yeah.
18:33Um, bosomy.
18:36What did you ask me just before that?
18:38Have you always...
18:39Oh, well, yeah.
18:40When you're young, I mean...
18:41I've always been pretty well blessed.
18:42People are always asking if they're real, and...
18:45Oh, I would never...
18:46This and that.
18:46I would never, you see.
18:48No, you don't have to ask.
18:48I would not.
18:49I'll tell you what.
18:50These are my...
18:50I have certain guidelines on the show.
18:53Do you?
18:54I usually ask them.
18:55But I would give about a year's pay to peek under there.
19:02How do you call the kitty?
19:04Yeah, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty.
19:09She was on Johnny Carson's show one time.
19:11She came there with a cat on her lap, and she said to you, do you want to pet my pussy?
19:15And, um, my son said that you said, uh, I'd love to if you'd remove that damn cat.
19:31Okay, let's go to today's strange items in the newspaper.
19:33This is the kind of stuff that makes life interesting.
19:35And we'll find out how interesting in just a moment.
19:38In the paper today, a woman in Michigan, I don't know the city, so...
19:42She was arrested for soliciting sexual favors.
19:46That's the way they put it in the paper.
19:47Sexual favors.
19:49For spaghetti dinners.
19:54You can't make this kind of stuff up.
19:56Apparently, she never asked a man for money.
19:59All she wanted...
20:00What's this?
20:03A spaghetti dinner.
20:06My question.
20:08Technically, wouldn't that make her a prostitute?
20:12You know, Miss Kitty, we've known each other here at the Long Branch for a heck of a long time,
20:26and, well, I guess it's no secret that I'm really sweet on you.
20:31How come we never go upstairs?
20:33I've been meaning to confess something to you, Marshal.
20:36Well, what's that, Kitty, darling?
20:37Not Kitty.
20:40Jim Thompson.
20:41Thompson.
20:42Undercover Pinkerton.
20:45I'll bet you're glad we didn't go upstairs now, eh, Matt?
20:49No, Kitty, because I got a surprise for you.
20:51Oh!
20:52Oh!
20:52Oh!
20:52Oh!
20:52Oh!
20:52Oh!
20:53Oh!
20:53Oh!
20:54Oh!
20:54Oh!
20:55Oh!
20:55Oh!
20:56Oh!
20:56Oh!
20:57Oh!
20:58Oh!
20:59Oh!
21:00Oh!
21:01Oh!
21:02Oh!
21:03Oh!
21:04Oh!
21:05Oh!
21:06Oh!
21:06Oh!
21:07Oh!
21:07Oh, screw it!
21:18Let's go!
21:24I'm going to get swinging in a moment here.
21:26What else happened?
21:27Oh, Margaret Thatcher is not in town.
21:29She actually is in Washington and, uh, with meetings, and a reporter asked her what the biggest
21:35contribution, the Great Britain has made, and she said, deporting Robin Leach.
21:41Hello, one and two, attention Kmart shoppers, aisle 34, garden halls and lawnmowers.
21:56Can I ask you something without getting too intimate?
21:57How do you know after, uh, I mean, we'd gone out a couple of times, right?
22:13Everybody, look at me, and it was in the middle.
22:15Oh, my God!
22:16Oh, my God!
22:17Oh, my God!
22:19Oh, my God!
22:20Oh, my God!
22:20Oh, my God!
22:22Oh, my God!
22:23Oh, my God!
22:24Oh!
22:24Wait a minute.
22:29See, there's the difference right there.
22:33And I didn't see you running to the phone to call mom and dad.
22:37After we went out a couple times, what was there about this fella?
22:41That was different than you?
22:42Yeah.
22:49Perhaps you can define some terms.
22:51Yes.
22:52Now, how do we get the term UFO?
22:54Actually, during World War II, a fighter pilot saw this immense ball of fire right in his
23:01path, and the pilot yelled, U-F-O.
23:08I do not like balls coming toward me.
23:12You guys never had any girlfriends in there at all, did you?
23:26Huh?
23:26There were four grown men in there.
23:28You never had any girlfriends.
23:30You're out on that ranch all by yourself.
23:32I'm not into meaning.
23:35A lot of rumors about that.
23:36There were a lot of rumors about the Cartwrights being homosexual.
23:39There were great dealings.
23:39I didn't mean that.
23:40And I am here to set the record straight we were not.
23:44Thank God Hop Singh was.
23:46Over 105 in Los Angeles.
23:51Over 105 in Los Angeles.
24:01Under the Reagan plan, how old will you have to be to collect Social Security?
24:04Over 105 in Los Angeles.
24:23On May 22, 1992, Johnny took his final vows before the nation.
24:46In the preceding months, many friends stopped by to say farewell.
24:53We're all going to miss you, you know.
24:55What?
24:56You know, I couldn't believe it.
25:00I know you don't like modeling kind of feeling things.
25:03We're both the same.
25:04We're very similar from the Midwest and kind of hold.
25:07Don't go, Johnny!
25:09Don't go, Johnny!
25:11Don't go, Johnny!
25:13Don't go, Johnny!
25:15But on behalf of the female population, I feel the need to point out that you are not just
25:21leaving The Tonight Show.
25:23You are simultaneously dumping 150 million American women who go to bed with you three
25:29nights a week.
25:31For 30 years, millions tuned into The Tonight Show every night to see old friends and to
25:37see what was going to happen next.
25:43Thanks for the memory.
25:46Sun burns at the shore.
25:49Nights in Singapore.
25:50Yes.
25:54Name something you'll find on a farm.
25:58Well?
25:59Is there a well?
26:01There's a wall!
26:05Lake Baringo is a body of water.
26:08What?
26:09I will what?
26:11You will remarry.
26:12Oh.
26:19Its surface is smooth as glass.
26:25Please, honey, we're through anyhow on this thing.
26:28As someone who has been getting his brains beat out by you for 12 years, I'm not going to miss you.
26:34But getting to Lake Baringo.
26:39Is a genuine pain in the air.
26:59If I could magically, somehow, I'd like to do the whole thing all over again.
27:04I want to thank the gentleman who shared this stage with me for 30 years, Mr. Ed McMahon.
27:11Mr. Doc Severinsen.
27:13You people watching, I can only tell you that it has been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes all these years and entertain you.
27:27And I hope when I find something that I want to do and I think you will like and come back that you'll be as gracious inviting me into your home as you have been.
27:34And I bid you a very heartfelt good night.
27:39Thank you very much.
27:43Thank you very much.
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