Goodbye Johnny

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whabang wrote:
Whozzat?

johnny carson. host of The Tonight Show for some 30 years on american TV.

Jack Paar started this "institution" and in my view was probably funnier ("I kid you not!"), but he got fed up with the game after a short time and johnny took over the spot.

It did launch the careers of a great many people. If you got a "spot" on the tonite show, you were seen by a sh*tload of people and, well, you were almost set.

[cecilia]

naturally I know about Steve Allen. Often people say that letterman has recycled his old bits.
He certainly had a huge influence. His "man on the street" stuff is classic and reading the newspaper in THAt way was brilliant.

Ernie Kovacs is in a class by himself. An innovator that has not been equaled. he literally put the Tv on it's head.