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Posted: 6/15/2009 10:42:00 AM EDT

Screw Letterman, this was entertainment...

Posted: 6/15/2009 10:49:51 AM EDT

[#1]

He was great. Thanx for posting that.

Posted: 6/15/2009 10:51:52 AM EDT

[#2]

Carson was great but was he a DNC voter?

Posted: 6/15/2009 10:55:37 AM EDT

[#3]

He kept his political leanings private. He was even handed in his treatment of political figures in his monologues.

Posted: 6/15/2009 10:55:50 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Carson was great but was he a DNC voter?

Yes, but supported Reagan...

Posted: 6/15/2009 10:56:49 AM EDT

[#5]

That is classic comedy gold right there..................Beats the hell out of Letterman anytime!

Posted: 6/15/2009 10:58:53 AM EDT

[#6]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vniZZlq1u8&feature=related&pos=2

Posted: 6/15/2009 11:00:11 AM EDT

[#7]

Carson was a class act.

Posted: 6/15/2009 11:00:32 AM EDT

[#8]

Johnny Carson Karnak moment...

"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."

Posted: 6/15/2009 11:02:15 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Carson was great but was he a DNC voter?

Who knows, but I do know of a lot of former DNC voters of his age group that left the party a long long time ago. DNC voter of the 50's, 60's, and 70's does not necessarily equate to a DNC voter of the present era.

Posted: 6/15/2009 11:02:55 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Carson was a class act.

absolutly. RIP

Posted: 6/15/2009 11:11:27 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
He kept his political leanings private. He was even handed in his treatment of political figures in his monologues.

And that is what made him the success that he was, his impartial treatment of everyone. You would not have seen him talking about teenage rape. And Letterman wonders why he was passed over for the Tonight Show.

Posted: 6/15/2009 11:32:23 AM EDT

[#12]

Carson was the pinnacle - some of the finest comedy ever aired on television.

Posted: 6/15/2009 11:58:07 AM EDT

[#13]

This thread smells like old people.

Posted: 6/15/2009 12:07:06 PM EDT

[#14]

In the older Johnny Carson's show, there was this blond chick, do anyonw here knew who she was?

Posted: 6/15/2009 12:08:25 PM EDT

[#15]

I remember her. She drowned in Mexico on vacation, I think.

Posted: 6/15/2009 12:10:18 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
He kept his political leanings private. He was even handed in his treatment of political figures in his monologues.

This.... I dont GARA WHO someone Votes for. MY problem is when they use their position to Shill for one side or the other. As Laura Ingraham said, "Shut up and Sing" If i'm paying $100.00 a ticket to see someone perform Music, AFAIC a 20-minute Political Rant is theft.

Posted: 6/15/2009 1:40:26 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
In the older Johnny Carson's show, there was this blond chick, do anyonw here knew who she was?

Carol Wayne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHw825yq98M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ctQYkI9-yI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh8Iis7BDjI&feature=related

Posted: 6/15/2009 1:48:21 PM EDT

[#18]

If Letterman wasn't such an asshat he might have learned a thing or two from Johnny.

Posted: 6/15/2009 1:54:04 PM EDT

[#19]

I used to watch Carson every night.

I saw his final show, then never watched the Tonight Show again.

RIP Johnny and Dom.

Two real class acts.

Posted: 6/15/2009 3:27:45 PM EDT

[#20]

Classic

Link

Link

Posted: 6/15/2009 4:02:43 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
This thread smells like old people.

Little children frequently smell like...well...they need a good wipe.

Posted: 6/15/2009 4:14:31 PM EDT

[#22]

TV producers could learn a lot if they watched the old Carson programs. You don't have to be vulgar to be funny.

And Carol Wayne...wow, I had forgotten all about her!

Posted: 6/15/2009 4:24:45 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
I remember her. She drowned in Mexico on vacation, I think.

Sounds suspicious:

In January 1985 Wayne and her companion Edward Durston were vacationing at the Las Hadas Resort in Manzanillo Colima, Mexico. After an argument with Durston, Wayne reportedly left to take a walk on the beach. Wayne's body was found three days later in the shallow bay by a local fisherman. In her final interview on The Tonight Show, while discussing her role in her upcoming movie Surf II, Wayne told Carson she couldn't swim.

After the discovery of Wayne's body, authorities discovered Durston had checked out of the resort the day the couple argued, leaving Wayne's luggage at the airport. An autopsy performed in Mexico later revealed no signs of drugs or alcohol in Wayne's body.[3] Her death was eventually ruled as "accidental".

Carol Wayne was cremated. At the time of her death, her son Alex was approximately 13 years old.

In 2000 the series Mysteries and Scandals explored the circumstances surrounding Wayne's death.