The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson is an American talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Show Night franchise from October 1, 1962 to May 22, 1992.
It originally aired late at night. For the first decade, Johnny Carson The Tonight Show is based on 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, with several episodes recorded on West Coast NBC-TV studios in Burbank, California; on May 1, 1972, the show moved to Burbank as its main venue and remained there exclusively after May 1973 until Carson retired. In 2002, The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson was ranked No. 1. 12 in the
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Format
Johnny Carson's Tonight Show forms a modern format from a late-night talk show: monologues are sprinkled with a rapid array of 16 to 22 single-liners (Carson has no more than three rules on the same subject) followed by a comedy sketch , then moved on to guest interviews and performances by musicians and stand-up comedians. During the early years of Carson's time, his guests included politicians such as former US Vice-President (and future US President) Richard M. Nixon, former US Attorney Robert F. Kennedy and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, but in 1970 Carson interviewed as guests with books, movies, television shows, or stage performances to promote. Other fixed players are selected for their entertainment or information value, in contrast to those who offer more brain conversations; Carson refused to discuss politics about The Tonight Show for fear it might alienate his audience.
Carson's preference for access to Hollywood stars caused the event to move to the West Coast on May 1, 1972. When asked about the intellectual conversation on The Tonight Show, Carson and his staff were always quoted as "Carl Sagan, Paul Ehrlich, Margaret Mead, Gore Vidal, Shana Alexander, Madalyn Murray O'Hair "as guests; However, a television critic says, "he always presents it as if they were spinach for your diet when he [displayed the names]". Family therapist Carlfred Broderick appeared on the show ten times, and psychologist Joyce Brothers was one of Carson's most frequent guests. Carson, in general, does not display the action of comedy prop (Carson does not refuse to use his own comedy props); Such actions, with Gallagher being a prominent example, more often appear when the guest host leads the program.
Carson hardly ever socializes with guests before or after the show; Interviewed Orson Welles recalled that the Tonight Show employee was stunned when Carson visited Welles's dressing room to say hello before the show. Unlike his other colleagues, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and Dick Cavett, Carson is a "cool" host who only laughs when he is really amused and suddenly cuts off monotonous or embarrassing shorts. Mort Sahl remembers, "The producer bends not far from the camera and holds a card that says, 'Go to ads.' So Carson goes to an ad and the whole team rushes to his desk to discuss what's wrong, like a pit stop at Le Mans. "Actor Robert Blake was never compared interviewed by Carson for" facing death squad "or" Broadway on the opening night. " The publicity value that appears on the The Tonight Show is so great, however, that most guests are willing to subdue themselves at risk.
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Ed McMahon
The show announcer and Carson sidekick are Ed McMahon, who from the first show will introduce Carson with a pulled out "Heeeeeeeere's Johnny!" (something McMahon was inspired to do with overly emphasized way he has introduced Robert Pierpoint reporter on the NBC Radio Network Monitor program. His slogan was heard every night for 30 years, and was ranked the top TV Land poll of US TV slogan and citation in 2006; it has been referenced in all media going from The Shining to Johnny Bravo to "Weird Al" Yankovic album cut; it's even used for Johnny Cage characters in the Mortal Kombat video game series.
McMahon, who plays the same role in the Carson ABC game of Who Do You Trust? for the previous five years, will remain standing next to Carson doing his monologue, laughing (sometimes obsequiously) in his jokes, then joining him in the guest chair when Carson moves to his desk. Both usually interact in the comic venue for a while before the first guest is introduced.
McMahon stated in Carson's 1978 profile in The New Yorker that "the Tonight Show" is my staple food, my meat and potatoes - I am realistic enough to know that everything comes from it. "After the 1965 event where he ruined Carson's joke in McMahon's air is cautious, as he says, "never go where [Carson] goes." He writes in his 1998 autobiography:
My role in the show has never been determined strictly. I do what to do when it has to be done. I was there when he needed me, and when he did not I moved to the couch and kept quiet.... I warmed up the audience, I did an advertisement, for a short time I held the first fifteen minutes of the show..., and I performed in many sketches. On our thirteenth anniversary, Johnny and I talked at his desk and he said, "Thirteen years is a long time." He paused long enough for me to recognize my gesture, so I asked, "How long?" "That's why you're here," he said, perhaps concluding my main role in the show perfectly... I have to support him, I have to help him hit the punch line, but when I do I have to make it look like I'm not doing anything. The better I do it, the less it looks as if I do it.... If I am going to play the second violin, I want to be Heifetz from the second violinist.... The hardest thing for me to learn how to do is just sit on there with the mouth closed. Many nights I will listen to Johnny and in my mind I will achieve the same ad lib as he said. I had to bite my tongue not to say it out loud. I have to make sure I'm not too funny - though critics who see some of my other appearances will claim I do not have to worry. If I laugh too much, I do not do my job; My job is to be part of a team that produces laughter.
Bandleaders and more
The Tonight Show has a live big band for most of its existence. The NBC Orchestra during Carson's reign was initially led by Skitch Henderson (who previously led the band during Tonight Starring's Steve Allen ), followed briefly by Milton DeLugg. Beginning in 1967 and continuing until Jay Leno took over, the band was led by Doc Severinsen, with Tommy Newsom filling for him when he was absent or filling for McMahon as a broadcaster (this usually happens when the guest host replaces Carson, who generally gives McMahon the night holiday also). The instrumental musical theme of the show, "Johnny's Theme", is the composition of Paul Anka's "Toot Sweet" composition, which Anka and Annette Funicello recorded separately, with lyrics, as "It's Really Love". During the event when Newsom filled in for Severinsen, the band played a slightly truncated version of the theme that was diverted from the bridge to the closing sentence without repeating the first few notes of the main melody. The NBC Orchestra is the last in-house studio orchestra to perform on American television.
Behind the scenes, film director/producer Fred de Cordova joined the The Tonight Show in 1970 as a producer, graduating to executive producer in 1984. Unlike many people of his position, de Cordova often appears on show that, joking with Carson from his chair outside the camera (although occasionally the camera will point toward him).
Repeating segments and plays
Character
- Carnac the Magnificent , in which Carson plays a psychic who wisely predicts answers to questions contained in sealed envelopes. This is for some degree of variation on Steve Allen's repetitive "The Question Man" sketch. The answer is always an outrageous harassment. Example "Carnac":
- "Debate"... "What do you use to catch fish?"
- "Steel"... "What sound does a sheep make when laughing?"
- "Ben-Gay"... "Why did Mrs. Franklin have no children?"
- "A piece of bread, a glass of wine, and you"... "Name three things that have yeast."
- "Three Dog Night"... "A bad night for a tree?"
- "Baldy Mountain"... "What did Yul Brynner's wife do on their wedding night?"
- "Sis boom bah"... "Describe the sound made when the sheep explode." (Ed McMahon's personal favorites)
Jack Paar's last appearance was on March 29, 1962, and due to Carson's earlier contract, Carson did not take over until 1 October. His first guests were Rudy VallÃÆ'Â © e, Tony Bennett, Mel Brooks, and Joan Crawford. Carson inherited from Paar a 1 1/4 hour long show (105 minutes). The event broadcasts two openings, one starting at 11:15 am and includes monologues, others who register guests and announce the host, starting at 11:30. Both openings give affiliates the option to filter out local newscasts fifteen minutes or thirty minutes ahead of Carson. Since 1959, the show was recorded earlier on the same broadcast day.
As more and more affiliates are introducing local news for thirty minutes, the Carson monologist is seen by fewer people. To remedy this situation, Ed McMahon and Skitch Henderson hosted the first fifteen minutes of the show between February 1965 and December 1966 without Carson, who then took over at 11:30. Finally, as he wanted the show to begin when he arrived, in early January 1967 Carson insisted that segment 11:15 was omitted (which, he claimed in a monologue at the time, "nothing really witnessed except the Armed Forces and four Native Americans in Gallup, New Mexico ").
- January 1965 - September 1966: Saturday or Sunday 11: 15-1: 00Ã, a.m. (reruns, initially billed as Saturday Evening )
- September 1966 - September 1975: Saturday or Sunday 11: 30-1: 00 am (reruns, now identified as Saturday/Sunday Night Evening ; Weekend Events in 1973)
- January 2, 1967 - September 12, 1980: Monday-Friday 11:30 pm - 1:00 pm.
In the mid-1970s tonight is the most profitable event on television, making NBC $ 50 to $ 60 million ($ 190 to $ 230 million in 2017) every year. Carson influenced the rescheduling (which was normally broadcast under the title of The Best of Carson in the mid-1970s and, in 1980, the length of the broadcast every night, by threatening NBC with, in the first case, move to another network, and lastly, retire altogether.
In order to work less each week, Carson began petitioning to network executives in 1974 who would return at the weekend to stop, to show one or more nights during the week. Responding to his request, NBC created a new comedy/variation series to give to an affiliate on Saturday night that debuted in October 1975, Saturday Night Live, now in its 43rd season.
In 1980, Carson renewed his contract with the proviso that the show lost its final half hour. In the final 90 minutes (September 12, 1980), Carson explained that by going to an hour, the show would be noticeably faster, and have many guest options.
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The event's start time was delayed by five minutes to allow NBC affiliates to include more ads during their local newscast.
In a screen speech for Carson in 2005, David Letterman said that every talk show host owes his life to Johnny Carson during his Tonight Show run.
Contract battles 1979-1980
In 1979, when Fred Silverman was the head of NBC, Carson brought the network to court, claiming that he had been a free agent since April of that year because his most recent contract was signed in 1972. Carson cited California law restrictions on certain contracts from being lasted more from seven years. NBC claimed that they had signed three agreements since then and Carson was tied to the network until April 1981. While the case was settled out of court, the friction between Carson and the fixed network and Carson was actively approached by a network of ABC rivals, who were willing to double Carson's salary and offered him a lighter work schedule and event ownership. Finally, Carson reached an agreement that pays $ 25 million per year while reducing its workload from 90 to 60 minutes, with new shows aired only three nights a week 37 weeks a year (guest host will show up late Monday night and for most Carson 15 week vacation and "Best of Carson" reruns will be aired Tuesday) and also gives him ownership of the show, as well as his back catalog, and from time slots after the Tonight Show Late Night with David Letterman produced by Carson Productions. In September 1980, the highly reputable Carson production company acquired ownership of the show. after having it from 1969 to the early 1970s.
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Only 33 full episodes of the Johnny Carson Tonight Show that had aired before May 1, 1972 are known to exist. All other events during this period, including Carson's debut as host, are now considered lost due to deletion. Following the standard procedure for most of the television production companies of that era, NBC re-used videotape The Tonight Show to record another program. Carson himself encouraged the removal of his archives, after cheerfully babbling that NBC had to "make guitar picks" from them, and did not believe in their worth. There are rumors that many other episodes are missing in fire, but NBC has denied this. Other surviving materials from that era have been found in kinescopes stored in the archives of Radio and Television Armed Services, or in a private collection of program guests, while moments like Tiny Tim's wedding, are preserved. New York meteorologist Dr Frank Field, a visitor who sometimes for years he was a weather forecaster for WNBC-TV, showed several clips of his performance with Carson in a 2002 retrospective at WWOR-TV; Field keeps the clips in his own private archive. There were also two appearances by Judy Garland in 1968 that still survive.
The archive of the program was almost complete from 1973 to 1992. The New York Post reported in May 2011 that 250 monologues and Carson sketches covering a 20-year period were on the Memory Lane website. Carson Productions also makes clips available on YouTube and TV Antenna.
Although no record is known to remain from Carson's first broadcast as the host of The Tonight Show on October 1, 1962, the photographs taken that night survived, including Carson introduced by Groucho Marx, as well as audio recordings. Marx's introduction and the first monologue of Carson. One of his first jokes at the start of the show (after receiving a few words of encouragement from Marx, one of which is, "Do not go to Hollywood!") Is pretending to panic and say, "I want my nana!" (The recording was played at the beginning of Carson's last broadcast on May 22, 1992.) The oldest surviving video footage of this event dates from November 1962, while the oldest surviving color footage is from April 1964, when Carson interviewed Jake Ehrlich, Sr..
A 30-minute audio recording of many "lost" episodes is in the Library of Congress in the Armed Forces Radio collection. Many episodes of the 1970s have been licensed to distributors who advertise mail-order deals on late-night TV. The next show is housed in an underground salt mine just outside Hutchinson, Kansas.
Rebroadcasts
A large amount of material from Carson's first two decades of The Tonight Show (1962-1982), much not seen since it was first aired, appeared in a half-hour "clip/compilation" syndication program. known as Carson's Comedy Classics which aired in 1983. The audio clips of the show were featured nightly at WHO-AM in Des Moines, Iowa in the mid-2000s. In 2014, Turner Classic Movies will begin re-selecting an interview of the program for a new series called "Carson on TCM" presented by Conan O'Brien, who himself hosted The Tonight Show briefly.
The digital multicast network Antenna TV gets the rereleading rights of the entire series episode in August 2015. Unlike the previous show clips, Antenna TV shows featured the full broadcast as it was originally seen, with the only edits removed from The Tonight Show name, with events renamed only as Johnny Carson (airplay partially opposite the current edition of The Tonight Show in most of the United States, and NBC still has a trademark on behalf of it), and with bumpers, walk-on music and cover themes replaced by generic music cues. Most of the music guest segments are also deleted. TV antennas begin broadcasting the event seven days a week from 1 January 2016. Currently, sixty-minute episodes (from September 1980-May 1992) air Monday to Friday night, and episodes ninety minutes (from 1972-12 September 1980) Saturday and Sunday night.
Guest host
Jack Paar often asked Carson to host this Night in his early years and repeatedly claimed that he was responsible for the selection of Carson in 1962 as his successor. Steve Allen also made use of guest hosts, including Carson and Ernie Kovacs, especially after he began hosting The Steve Allen Show in prime time in 1956 and needed to reduce his workload on Tonight .
The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson has a guest host for a whole week during Carson holidays and other nights he has been through. Many guest hosts have big names in their own right, among them Frank Sinatra, Burt Reynolds and Don Rickles. The following is a list of those who host guests at least fifty times during the first 21 years of organizing events:
- Joey Bishop (177 times, mostly in the 1960s)
- Joan Rivers (93, during the 1970s and 1980s)
- John Davidson (87)
- Bob Newhart (87)
- David Brenner (70)
- McLean Stevenson (58)
- Jerry Lewis (52 years old, mostly in the 1960s)
- David Letterman (51, mostly between 1980 and 1981)
Sammy Davis Jr. hosted in April 1965, becoming the first African-American to hold a talk show. Harry Belafonte hosted a week in February 1968, and among Belafonte's guests were Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 2, 1979, Kermit the Frog hosted a guest. In addition, many other Muppets appear for theatrical and regular segments: Frank Oz voicing the Fozzie Bear and Animal, while Jerry Nelson features the Deadly Uncle, Muppet inspired by Vincent Price during the segment with the original Price.
The Carson contract, which came into effect in 1981, reduced its work schedule to three nights a week, 37 weeks a year. "Best of Carson" was re-aired on Tuesday in the weeks that Carson was performing. Monday night events and events for most of the 15 weeks that Carson has been off hosted by the guest hosts. Due to frequent replacement needs, starting in 1983 the permanent guest host was hired to provide a more stable program. The permanent guest host was Joan Rivers (1983-86), then, after about a year where various guest hosts were used, Garry Shandling alternated with Jay Leno (1987-1988) and finally Leno himself (1988-92) after Shandling left to focus in the Showtime series It's Garry Shandling's Show . Although the concept of using "permanent" guest host is quite strictly obeyed, sometimes sick or some other situation necessitates replacement guest host, such as when David Brenner filled for Joan Rivers on October 31 and November 1, 1985, when the River's husband was briefly hospitalized.
Joan Rivers
In September 1983, Joan Rivers was appointed as Carson's permanent guest host, a role he basically fulfilled for the previous year. In 1986, he left the program for his own show on the new Fox Network. According to Carson, Rivers never personally told him about the existence of his show. The river, on the other hand, disagrees. Nevertheless, Rivers' new show was quickly canceled, and he never showed up again at The Tonight Show with Carson. He also never appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, a ban triggered by Leno in honor of Carson. He also never appeared for seven months running Conan O'Brien. After Carson's death in 2005, Rivers told CNN that Carson never forgave him for leaving, and never spoke to him again, even after he wrote to him following the death of Carson's son Ricky's accident in June 1991. On 17 February 2014, to the Tonight Show as part of a comedy drama where many celebrities pay the new host, Jimmy Fallon, after losing a bet that he will never host the program. Rivers appeared for the full interview segment on March 27, 2014.
The July 26, 1984 program, with guest host Joan Rivers, was the first MTS stereo broadcast in US television history, though not the first television broadcast with stereophonic sound. Only NBC's flagship local station in New York City, WNBC, had stereo broadcasting capabilities at the time. NBC was transmitted The Tonight Show stereo sporadically through 1984 and regularly started in 1985.
Consequential appearance
According to Skeptical activist James Randi Carson invites psychic Uri Geller, who claims paranormal powers to the Tonight Show specifically to refute Israeli player claims. Randi later wrote, "that Johnny has become a magician himself", so before the recording date, Randi was asked "to help prevent any tricks." As per Randi's suggestion, the show prepared their own props without telling Geller, and did not let Geller or his staff "near them." When Geller joins Carson on stage, he looks surprised that he will not be interviewed, but is expected to show his ability to use the articles provided. Geller said, "It scares me." and "I was surprised because before this program your producer came and he read out at least 40 questions that you would ask me." Geller can not display the paranormal ability, saying "I do not feel strong" and he expressed his displeasure feeling like being "pressured" to appear by Carson. According to the Nov. 7, 2014 article from Adam Higginbotham at New York Times :
The result is a legendary massacre, in which Geller puts confused grounds to his host because of his failing ability over and over again. "I sat there for 22 minutes, humiliated," Geller told me, when I spoke to him in September. "I'm going back to my hotel, ruined, I'll pack the next day and go back to Tel Aviv I think, That's it - I'm shattered."
However, this appearance was on The Tonight Show, which Carson and Randi had arranged to eliminate the capabilities that Geller claimed, backfired. According to Higginbotham,
To Geller's surprise, he immediately orders at the The Merv Griffin Show . She is on her way to becoming a paranormal superstar. "Johnny Carson's show made Uri Geller," Geller said. For a very believing community, his failure only makes his talent seem more real: If he does a magic trick, they will work every time.
Carson's last show
As his retirees approached, Carson tried to avoid sentimentality but would regularly showcase clips from some of his favorite moments and once again invite some of his favorite guests. He told his crew, "Everything's over, nothing lasts, thirty years is enough, it's time to get out while you're still working on your game while you're still working well."
Carson held a second show from the back, featuring guests Robin Williams and Bette Midler, on May 21, 1992. Once it was on, the atmosphere became electric and Carson was greeted with a standing ovation for two minutes. Williams is especially unobstructed by his typical maniac energy and his swift madness. Midler is more emotional. As the conversation turns to Johnny's favorite song, "I'll Be Seeing You" and "Here That Rainy Day", Midler mentions that he knows the last choir. He started singing songs, and after the first line, Carson joined and turned him into an impromptu duet. Midler finished his performance from center stage, where he slowly sang the pop standard "One for My Baby (and One More for the Way)". Carson suddenly cried, and gunfire from both of them was captured by a camera angle from across the set that had never been aired. The audience cries as well and summons three players out for the second arc after the recording is over. The show was soon recognized as a classic television that Midler regarded as one of the most emotional moments of his life and eventually won an Emmy for his role in it.
Carson did not have guests in his final episode of The Tonight Show on May 22, 1992, which was a retrospective event recorded before the audience of invited guests of family, friends, and crew. More than fifty million people are looking forward to this final, which ends with Carson sitting on the bench alone on the main stage, similar to Jack Paar's last show. He said these last words as a conclusion:
A few weeks after the last show aired, it was announced that NBC and Carson had made a deal to develop a new series. Eventually, however, Carson chose not to return to television. He gave only two major interviews after his retirement: one to the Washington Post in 1993, and the other to Esquire magazine in 2002. Carson hinted in his 1993 interview that he did. do not think he can achieve what he has accomplished. He rarely appeared elsewhere after retirement, providing only guest voices in an episode of The Simpsons, which included him performing strengths and featuring Bette Midler as well, and a cameo on May 13, 1994, the Late Show with David Letterman where he sent the Top 10 List and sat in Dave's chair for a minute.
In 2005, after Carson's death, it was revealed that he had made a habit of sending a joke to Dave Letterman through a fax machine that Letterman would later put it into his monologues. The January 31, 2005, episode of the Late Show with David Letterman , featuring a tribute to Carson, started with a monologue by Letterman who was entirely composed of a joke written by Carson himself after his retirement.
In 2011, the last Carson Last Night event was ranked No. 1. 10 on TV Guide Network, Unforgettable TV Finalists .
References
External links
- Official website
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on IMDb
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on TV.com
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson -related video interview on Archive of American Television
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