Carson received six Primetime Emmy Awards, the Television Academy 's 1980 Governor's Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. [1] and The Fall Guy, and appeared in many sketches on The Red Skelton Show. She jumped (or fell) from a sixth floor apartment building in 1969. Currently, sixty-minute episodes (from September 1980-May 1992) air Monday through Friday nights, and ninety-minute episodes (from 1972-September 12, 1980) Saturday and Sunday nights.[40]. Today, he is regarded worldwide as a television legacy. ", In 2005, after Carson's death, it was revealed that he had made a habit of sending jokes to Dave Letterman via fax machine which Letterman would then sometimes incorporate into his monologues. Most musical guest segments are also removed. and "I'm surprised because before this program your producer came and he read me at least 40 questions you were going to ask me." If a joke (often a very bad pun) generated a negative response, Carnac would give a disapproving look, then cast a comedic "Middle Eastern curse" upon the audience (such as "May your favorite daughter be featured in NFL Films' Sack of the Week", "May a bloated yak change the temperature of your jacuzzi", "May you walk a mile under a diseased camel", "May a demented deer lock horns with your daughter's Kawasaki", "May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of the person seated next to me, and may his arms be too short to scratch", "May a diseased camel be sick on your prayer rug", or "May your proctologist be a frustrated concert trombonist"). Jack Paar had often asked Carson to guest-host Tonight in its earliest years and repeatedly claimed he had been responsible for NBC's selection of Carson in 1962 as his replacement. Her lack of a job made it difficult for Carol to cope financially and she reportedly became dependent on drugs and alcohol to manage her problems. Suspicions were raised: Carol Wayne had to be identified by workers at the Las Hadas resort where the couple had been staying earlier in the week. "I went back to my hotel, devastated. [36], The 30-minute audio recordings of many of the "missing" episodes are contained in the Library of Congress in the Armed Forces Radio collection. NBC executives had been proposing the five-minute delay idea to Carson since 1988, only to be repeatedly rebuffed, amid concerns that some of its affiliatesparticularly those that had unsuccessfully sought permission to delay the Tonight Show by a half-hourwould begin preempting the program entirely and replace it with syndicated reruns to generate extra revenue from local advertising. He was the son of Ruth E. (Hook) and Homer Lloyd "Kit" Carson, a manager of the Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Company. [44] He was a charming host who developed humorous skits and created several memorable alter egos in his 30 years on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson." One of his characters, "Carnac the . His popularity with the late-night audience became so great, and the income from advertising on his show so profitable that, in 1967, NBC had to lure Johnny back to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)after a walkout with a three-year contract guaranteeing him a minimum of $4 million. It has been rumored that toward the end of her life she had resorted to being an escort for rich men. [2] As Allen acknowledged in his book The Question Man, this bit had been created in Kansas City in 1951 by Bob Arbogast and used on The Tom Poston Show in New York where it eventually ended up on The Steve Allen Show, much to the surprise of both Arbogast and Allen. [34] Carson Productions has also made clips available on YouTube and Antenna TV. In order to work fewer days each week, Carson began to petition network executives in 1974 that reruns on the weekends be discontinued, in favor of showing them on one or more nights during the week. Please Tell Me You Weren't Her First Choice. He died in 2005. Playing off current events such as the Watergate crisis, his comic evisceration of President Richard Nixon was credited with some critics as exerting such a drag on Nixon's approval rating that it made his resignation possible, if not inevitable. ", "Sis boom bah." Teresa Ganzel is better known as a recurring cast member of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). Johnny-Boy Was a Ladies Man Carson, like many other powerful men, had no problems seeing other women. John William Carson (October 23, 1925 - January 23, 2005) was an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He eventually hired Danuta Wesley and later Teresa Ganzel to be his new Matine Lady. He was on his way to becoming a paranormal superstar. This was short-lived as a year and a half later, Snyder had quit and Tomorrow Coast to Coast had been canceled. 1932), The major menThat is different. ", Ed McMahon's favorite Carnac the Magnificent punchline[5]. By the mid-1970s Tonight was the most profitable show on television, making NBC $50 to $60million ($210 to $250million in 2021) each year. Beginning in 2020, the museum began working with the National Comedy Center to preserve the archive. To rectify this situation, Ed McMahon and Skitch Henderson co-hosted the first fifteen minutes of the show between February 1965 and December 1966 without Carson, who then took over at 11:30. He paused long enough for me to recognize my cue, so I asked, "How long is it?" Miami Vice. Unlike the previous clip shows, Antenna TV's airings feature full broadcasts as they were originally seen, with the only edits being removal of The Tonight Show name, with the show being renamed simply as Johnny Carson (as of January 2018, the broadcasts air opposite the current edition of The Tonight Show in much of the United States, and NBC still owns the trademark on that name), and with bumpers, walk-on music and the closing theme being replaced by generic music cues from the Warner/Chappell Production Music library. In 2013, Nelson and family returned . When Carson later learned of their destruction, he was furious.[31]. [7] The show broadcast two openings, one starting at 11:15p.m. and including the monologue, the other that listed the guests and re-announced the host, starting at 11:30p.m. Jack Paar's last appearance was on March 29, 1962, and due to Carson's commitment to the ABC game show Who Do You Trust?, he could not take over until October 1 (the day his ABC contract expired). He had left Waynes luggage at the airport. Not that it necessarily means anything, but Diane Linkletters companion the night she was killed was Edward Durston. When Geller joined Carson on stage, he appeared surprised that he was not going to be interviewed, but instead was expected to display his abilities using the provided articles. The success of the Tonight Show, helped lead to her ultimate professional downfall. This led to a stint as the host of the quiz show Earn Your Vacation (1954) and the variety showcase The Johnny Carson Show (1953) in 1955-56. JOHNNY CARSON CARNAC THE MAGNIFICENT Aug 04 1979 ZANY 180K views 2 years ago poiuytgf 101K views 5 years ago Carnac the Magnificent: Three Dog Night & Mount Baldy on Johnny Carson's Tonight. Positive reaction would prompt disbelief from Carnac, stating the ease at which he could make people laugh, such as "This audience would laugh at Dinah Shore backing into a meat thermometer." He made memorable put-downs of politicians and celebrities, a format that was used by his successors Jay Leno and David Letterman and legions of comics who came after him. [60][61], In 2011, the last Carson Tonight show was ranked No. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson had guest hosts for entire weeks during Carson's vacations and other nights he had off. She played opposite Carson in over 100 sketches. January 2, 1967 September 12, 1980: MondayFriday 11:30p.m.1:00a.m. September 15, 1980 August 30, 1991: MondayFriday 11:30p.m.12:30a.m. September 2, 1991 May 22, 1992: MondayFriday 11:35p.m.12:35a.m. )[citation needed] The oldest surviving video recording of the show is dated November 1962, while the oldest surviving color recording is from April 1964, when Carson interviewed Jake Ehrlich Sr. as his guest. 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. Thus, I went to my old friend Google and thy questions were answered. Born in Corning, Iowa, on October 23, 1925, to Ruth and Homer R. Carson, a power company manager, Johnny Carson learned how to reel in audiences at a young age. "[7] He wrote in his 1998 autobiography: My role on the show never was strictly defined. James Cameron Keeps Smashing His Own Records, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: Carson, Birth Year: 1925, Birth date: October 23, 1925, Birth State: Iowa, Birth City: Corning, Birth Country: United States. She landed roles in several films, including Gunn, The Party (both directed by Blake Edwards), Scavenger Hunt, Savannah Smiles and Surf II. There have been at least seven published biographies of Carson.After brief stints on radio stations in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, his career was exclusively in television, starting with work at Nebraska TV stations in the late 1940s which preceded his 1951-53 skit program Carson's Cellar (1953) on Los Angeles station KNXT-TV. Since 1959, the show had been videotaped earlier the same broadcast day. I was there when he needed me, and when he didn't I moved down the couch and kept quiet. "He is one of a kind, was one of a kind", De Cordova said in 1995. [citation needed], In January 1985, Wayne vacationed at the Las Hadas Resort in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico with companion Edward Durston, a car salesman. Wayne said she was "discovered" at a Hollywood party and auditioned for The Tonight Show after appearances as a Las Vegas chorus line dancer.[2][3]. The show kept Carols character off the air for one year to pay tribute to the wonderful actress. The character was taken from Steve Allen's essentially identical "Answer Man" segment, which Allen performed during his tenure as host of The Tonight Show in the 1950s. [23] While the case was settled out of court,[24] the friction between Carson and the network remained and Carson was actively courted by rival network ABC, which was willing to double Carson's salary and offer him a lighter work schedule and ownership of the show. In 1980, Carson renewed his contract with the stipulation that the show lose its last half-hour. Debuted in 1977. Carson's time as host of THE TONIGHT SHOW made him an important part of American pop culture, and would eventually . One of television's best-known personalities, Johnny Carson hosted 'The Tonight Show' for 30 years. She was also a frequent guest on The Red Skelton Show, and had many appearances on other popular shows of the time. The resulting jokes often involved puns or wordplay; for example, "The La Brea Tar Pits" was the answer to "What do you have left after eating the La Brea Tar Peaches? NBC claimed that it had signed three agreements since then and Carson was bound to the network until April 1981. Finally, because he wanted the show to start when he came on, at the beginning of January 1967 Carson insisted the 11:15 segment be eliminated (which, he claimed in a monologue at the time, "no one actually watched except the Armed Forces and four Navajos in Gallup, New Mexico").[19]. Sidekick McMahon's "Heeeeere's Johnny!!!" McMahon stated in a 1978 profile of Carson in The New Yorker that "the 'Tonight Show' is my staple diet, my meat and potatoesI'm realistic enough to know that everything else stems from that." For a year, Tom Snyder's existing talk show, Tomorrow, was expanded to 90 minutes and forced to change its format, adding gossip reporter Rona Barrett as a co-host and taking on the name Tomorrow Coast to Coast. Carol was deathly afraid of water, and would not have gone swimming. Here are some of them: -Carnac the Magnificent, mystical answer-question man. Carson hinted in his 1993 interview that he did not think he could top what he had already accomplished. For decades, Americans tuned in to "The Tonight Show" to watch Johnny Carson interview musicians and movie stars, perform in silly skits and simply make audiences laugh at the end of each day. Menu. Here are some of them: -Carnac the Magnificent, mystical answer-question man. Art Fern," the fast-talking host of a "Tea Time Movie" program, who advertised inane products, assisted by the attractive Matinee Lady, played by Paula Prentiss (late 1960s), Carol Wayne (the most familiar Matinee Lady, 1971-81, 1984), Danuta Wesley (1982), and Teresa Ganzel (1984-92). There were no cuts or abrasions, so a fall from the nearby rocks was ruled out. "I don't think there's any reason for him to try something different".Carson, who was suffering from emphysema and had quadruple bypass surgery in 1999, died peacefully at the age of 79 on January 23, 2005, surrounded by his family and friends. Geller said "This scares me." Heeeeeere's Johnny! On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. Watch Carson episodes every night on Antenna TV at 10:00PM ET / 7:00PM PT and 4:00PM ET / 1:00AM PT!Carnac the Magnificent with Predictions about Snoopy and Taxi Driver on \"The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson\" in 1976. [25], Eventually, Carson reached an agreement that paid $25 million a year while reducing his workload from 90 to 60 minutes, with new shows airing only three nights a week 37 weeks a year (a guest host would appear Monday nights and for most of Carson's 15 weeks of vacation and "Best of Carson" reruns would air Tuesdays) and also give him ownership of the show, as well as its back catalog, and of the time slot following the Tonight Show which became Late Night with David Letterman produced by Carson Productions. In September 1983, Joan Rivers was designated Carson's permanent guest host, a role she had been essentially filling for the previous year. He was constantly told that if his wife's lawyer found out, he may lose the divorce settlement. Debuted in 1967. One of his first jokes upon starting the show (after receiving a few words of encouragement from Marx, one of which was, "Don't go to Hollywood!") was to pretend to panic and say, "I want my nana!" The better I did it, the less it appeared as if I was doing it.If I was going to play second fiddle, I wanted to be the Heifetz of second fiddlers.The most difficult thing for me to learn how to do was just sit there with my mouth closed. [45] In addition, many other Muppets appeared for skits and regular segments: Frank Oz voiced Fozzie Bear and Animal, while Jerry Nelson performed Uncle Deadly, a Vincent Price-inspired Muppet during a segment with the real Price. The curse concept was created by "Tonight Show" head writer and Woody Allen collaborator Marshall Brickman. Early life [ edit] Frederick De Cordova, the producer of "The Tonight Show" throughout Carson's 30-year run, believed that Carson never pressured himself to launch a follow-up as he already had achieved unprecedented success on TV. Carol also had guest appearances on The Red Skelton Show, portraying a similar role. "Johnny Carson" (Season 2, Episode 5) . Actress: The Toy. [1] As Carnac, Carson wore a large feathered turban and a cape. Shout! [38], A large amount of material from Carson's first two decades of The Tonight Show (19621982), much of it not seen since it had first aired, appeared in a half hour "clip/compilation" syndicated program known as Carson's Comedy Classics that aired in 1983. After college, comedian Johnny Carson worked as a television writer for Red Skelton's show. [8], Since the 1980s, Howard Stern has paid tribute to Carnac the Magnificent, with his own skit called Sternac the Improbable.[9]. With a career spanning nearly 50 years, Carson was welcomed into the homes of millions each and every night. Though the concept of using "permanent" guest hosts was fairly strictly adhered to, occasionally illness or some other situation necessitated a substitute guest host, as when David Brenner filled in for Joan Rivers on October 31 and November 1, 1985, when Rivers's husband was briefly hospitalized. Best Known For: One of television's best-known personalities, Johnny Carson hosted 'The Tonight Show' for 30 years. On April 2, 1979, Kermit the Frog was guest host. He was dating Playboy model Angel Tompkins while going through a divorce with his second wife, Joanne. The January 31, 2005, episode of the Late Show with David Letterman, which featured a tribute to Carson, began with a monologue by Letterman composed entirely of jokes written by Carson himself after his retirement. Debuted in 1968. "I sat there for 22 minutes, humiliated," Geller told me, when I spoke to him in September. [7] Carson influenced the scheduling of reruns (which typically aired under the title The Best of Carson) in the mid-1970s and, in 1980, the length of each evening's broadcast, by threatening NBC with, in the first case, moving to another network, and in the latter, retiring altogether. Carol Marie Wayne (September 6, 1942 - January 13, 1985) was an American television and film actress. Soon after, he underwent quadruple-bypass surgery. [2] The show's house band, the NBC Orchestra, was led by Skitch Henderson, until 1966 when Milton Delugg took over, who was succeeded by Doc Severinsen less than a year later. [48], The program of July 26, 1984, with guest host Joan Rivers, was the first MTS stereo broadcast in U.S. television history,[49] though not the first television broadcast with stereophonic sound. He married for the final time in June 1987; Carson and Alexis Maas remained together until Carson's death, nearly eighteen years later. He served in World War II in the Navy as an ensign before enrolling at the University of Nebraska in 1947. The character would emerge from behind the show's curtain accompanied by Indian music, and make his way towards the desk, where he would invariably stumble on the step in front of the desk and lose his balance. Today, The Tonight Show remains one hour in length and is still followed by Late Night, currently under the title Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014). If I got too many laughs, I wasn't doing my job; my job was to be part of a team that generated the laughs.[13]. Watch Carson episodes every night on Antenna TV at 10:00PM ET / 7:00PM PT and 4:00PM ET / 1:00AM PT!Jon Lovitz Appears as Tommy Flanagan the Pathological Liar on \"The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson\" in 1985.MORE JOHNNY CARSONYOUTUBE: \"Subscribe\" http://bit.ly/johnnysubYOUTUBE MAIN MENU: http://bit.ly/johnny_menuYOUTUBE PREMIUM: http://youtube.com/johnnycarsontvFACEBOOK: \"Like\" http://facebook.com/johnnycarson ITUNES http://bit.ly/johnnyitunesDVD: http://bit.ly/carsondvdsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/#!/JohnnycarsonGOOGLE PLAY: http://bit.ly/carson_gplayGOOGLE+: http://bit.ly/johnnygplus\"jon lovitz\" \"tommy flanagan\" \"pathological liar\" \"sketch\" comedy \"johnny carson\" \"johnny carson youtube\" \"tonight show\" \"johnny carson show\" comedy \"best of johnny carson\" \"funniest moments johnny carson\" youtube laugh \"stand up\" funniest \"funny videos\" comedian Carson \"johnny carson best moments\" \"the best of johnny carson\" \"best johnny carson moments\" \"johnny carson theme song\" \"best of carson\" \"the tonight show with johnny carson\" \"tonight show johnny carson\" \"tonight show band\" \"jonny carson\" \"humor\" \"hilarious\" \"stand up comedy\" \"video clip\" \"live tv\" [57] When the conversation turned to Johnny's favorite songs, "I'll Be Seeing You" and "Here's That Rainy Day," Midler mentioned that she knew a chorus of the latter. Johnny Carson 540K views 11 days ago Jon Lovitz | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade 39K views 4 months ago Jim. This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 18:57. She replaced the late Carol Wayne as the Matinee Lady in the popular "Tea Time Movie" skits. [6] Other regulars were selected for their entertainment or information value, in contrast to those who offered more cerebral conversation. (1956) from 1957-62, teaming up with longtime sidekick, Ed McMahon, in 1958.Before his triumph on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), Carson tried his hand at dramatic acting, appearing in Playhouse 90: Three Men on a Horse (1957) (episode # 1.29) during the inaugural season of Playhouse 90 (1956) in 1957. Serving aboard the USS Pennsylvania, he continued performing magic, mainly for his fellow shipmates. [2] The same year, she filed for bankruptcy. I had to make sure I wasn't too funnyalthough critics who saw some of my other performances will claim I needn't have worried. New York meteorologist Dr. Frank Field, an occasional guest during the years he was weather forecaster for WNBC-TV, showed several clips of his appearances with Carson in a 2002 career retrospective on WWOR-TV; Field had maintained the clips in his own personal archives. As I watch the great episodes of the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, I especially enjoy where Carson plays his character of Art Fern and the Tea Time Movie. ", and "9W" was the answer to "Mr. Wagner, do you spell your name with a V?" Following a commercial break, viewers could depend on another gently satiric or slightly zany comedy skit featuring returning fictional characters like Art Fern, Carnac the Magnificent, Aunt Blabby and Floyd R. Turboall underplayed by a straight-faced Johnny Carson. Pretending to psychically concentrate, Carnac periodically asked for "complete silence" from the audience, and McMahon would retort that he often got it.[6]. introduction of Carson became a cultural catchphrase, memorably reprised by Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), Woody Allen's character in the Best Picture Academy Award-winning Annie Hall (1977), stand-up comic Alvy Singer, is recognized in front of a movie theater by a street tough due to his appearance on "The Tonight Show".Aside from his banter with celebrities, he amused his audience for 30 years with broadly played skit comedy by his "Mighty Carson Art Players" and his spoof clairvoyant "Carnac the Magnificent". Carol was eventually replaced after many years by actress Teresa Ganziel. Midler finished her appearance from center stage, where she slowly sang the pop standard "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)." Wanna Buy a Dirty Picture? The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - Recurring Segments and Skits - Characters Characters Carnac the Magnificent, in which Carson played a psychic who clairvoyantly divined the answer to a question contained in a sealed envelope. [37], The non-tape archives pertaining to Carson's show are held by the Elkhorn Valley Museum in Carson's hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Johnny Carson on NBC, the third iteration of the Tonight Show franchise. Teresa Ganzel. 1970). I had to support him, I had to help him get to the punch line, but while doing it I had to make it look as if I wasn't doing anything at all. Carson was also a veteran, having enlisted in the Navy just prior to the end of WWII. Antenna TV began airing the show seven days a week beginning January 1, 2016. [11], Carson almost never socialized with guests before or after the show; frequent interviewee Orson Welles recalled that Tonight Show employees were astonished when Carson visited Welles's dressing room to say hello before a show. A year later, she married television and film producer Burt Sugarman, who served as producer on Celebrity Sweepstakes. It's time to get out while you're still working on top of your game, while you're still working well. "[54], Carson hosted his penultimate show, featuring guests Robin Williams and Bette Midler, on May 21, 1992. [8] When asked about intellectual conversation on The Tonight Show, Carson and his staff invariably cited "Carl Sagan, Paul Ehrlich, Margaret Mead, Gore Vidal, Shana Alexander, Madalyn Murray O'Hair" as guests;[7] one television critic stated, however, "he always presented them as if they were spinach for your diet when he did [feature such names]. Unlike every other TV star, he remained on top until the very end, the show winning its ratings period every year for 30 years. The NBC Orchestra during Carson's reign was originally led by Skitch Henderson (who had previously led the band during Tonight Starring Steve Allen), followed briefly by Milton DeLugg. Recurring character on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose, "Ed McMahon,'Tonight Show' Stalwart, Dies", "STERNAC THE IMPROBABLE RETURNS WITH ANSWERS ABOUT NASCAR, GAMESTOP, AND JASON KAPLAN'S DIET", Here's Johnny: Magic Moments from the Tonight Show, Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carnac_the_Magnificent&oldid=1065449461, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 13 January 2022, at 16:15. [54][57] Midler was more emotional. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. It was in Norfolk, where he lived until he was inducted into the U.S. Navy in 1943, that he started his show business career. [53], As his retirement approached, Carson tried to avoid sentimentality but would periodically show clips of some of his favorite moments and again invited some of his favorite guests. "Johnny Carson Calls This Man 'Bombastic' All the Way to Bank.". -Carswell the Psychic, fake soothsayer. "I have an ego like anybody else", Carson told The Washington Post in 1993, "but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time". 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