Classic TV Moments : Johnny Carson and the Tomahawk
The Saloon dot net (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I really needed a laugh today...
Johnny Carson
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Sam Kinison on Johnny Carson
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
From 1991, it seems the two comedy stars have something in common: Failed marriages.
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Will Somebody Please Save NBC?
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Illustration by Christoph Niemann Back in 1986, when G.E. acquired NBC, the jokes—most of them from within, courtesy of Johnny Carson and David Letterman—centered on the question of what the hell a toaster company knew about broadcasting. These days, the unofficial in-house critique of the network comes from 30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy, whose combination of insane paranoia and pie-in-the-sky...
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Joan Rivers brings laughs to Miamis Arsht Center on Wednesday
Gay South Florida (Free subscription) | yesterday
... said, `Little boy, put your mother on.' I almost died. Now, Chastity Bono would have loved that!'' Johnny Carson put Rivers on the map, booking her on The Tonight Show in 1965. Two decades later, she became his permanent guest host. When Rivers learned she wouldn't succeed Carson at NBC, she signed in 1986 with the new Fox network, to become its first late-night talk host --...
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The Rise Of The Non-Veggie Vegetarian
Growing Edge (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In 1973, I saw somebody on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson expound on the health benefits of being a vegetarian. At that moment I became one myself. I haven’t eaten red meat since that time, but as my kids grew out of toddlerhood, we as a family started eating fish and chicken. Hence, I [...]
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Late night gets more colourful
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Since the simpler times of the Johnny Carson monopoly, the late-night talk scene has become a fractious and fragmented place, a ravaged landscape in a constant state of volcanic upheaval – never more so than now, with Leno steadfastly hanging on at 10, Conan chipping away at his predecessor's former Tonight Show numbers (now about halved) and the Letterman "scandal" only...
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The Bucs' BIG SPLASH
TBO > Sports (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... after enduring the franchise's 0-and-26 beginning, two years after being continually ridiculed in Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" monologue, two years after Tampa Bay players generally avoided being seen in public, the Bucs fell 10 points short of a spot in Super Bowl XIV.It was the coming-out party for a team - and a town.It was the Sports Illustrated headline from Oct. 1, 1979 -...
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Martin and Baldwin to host Oscars
The Celebrity Blog , Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity... (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
What? Did Tina Fey turn them down? Tuesday's announcement that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will host the 82nd Academy Awards telecast brought joy to the hearts of those of us who still long for the days of Billy Crystal or Johnny Carson. I recently mentioned Baldwin as someone the academy ...
- Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin: a couple of savvy insiders - L. A. Times Dodgers Blog
- The most unflappable hosts in Oscar history? - Chicago Tribune
- See the 4 articles on the same subject
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Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin: a couple of savvy insiders
bsalmons | 04/11/2009
Tuesday's announcement that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will host the 82nd Academy Awards telecast brought joy to the hearts of those of us who still long for the days of Billy Crystal or Johnny Carson. I recently mentioned Baldwin as someone the academy should tap, but I must admit it was with the hope that Fey would be in the mix.
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Wake-Up Call: The year the Bucs weren't so funny anymore
TBO > Sports (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... after enduring the franchise's 0-and-26 beginning, two years after being continually ridiculed in Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" monologue, two years after Tampa Bay players generally avoided being seen in public, the fell 10 points short of a spot in Super Bowl XIV.It was the coming-out party for a team - and a town.It was the Sports Illustrated headline from Oct. 1, 1979 - Tampa...
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More on dowsing
Why Evolution Is True (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... runs from about 1:50 to 7:30. (The whole film is great and a hoot– see, as just one highlight, Johnny Carson’s total pwnage of Uri Geller on the Tonight Show, or Randi’s outing of the still active televangelical fraud, Peter Popoff . Apparently no longer available as VHS or DVD, Randi has posted the entire film on Youtube.)
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And the hosting gig goes to…Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin
Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Before he was chosen to host the Golden Globes, a number of people talked about Ricky Gervais, but I’m not convinced he would’ve been a good Oscar fit. He’ll be great at the more laid back Globes, but the ideal Oscar hosts manage to fit in with the Hollywood elite while remaining apart at the same time. It’s why David Letterman and John Stewart were not popular and why Johnny Carson was...
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Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin: a couple of savvy insiders
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
What? Did Tina Fey turn them down'Tuesday's announcement that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will host the 82nd Academy Awards telecast brought joy to the hearts of those of us who still long for the days of Billy Crystal or Johnny Carson. I recently mentioned Baldwin as someone the academy should tap, but I must admit it was with the hope that Fey would be in the mix.But then she is not...