Steve Allen, Jack Paar or Johnny Carson?
1986
Jack Paar Returns to The Tonight Show | Carson Tonight Show
1986
Jack Paar Returns to The Tonight Show | Carson Tonight Show
Which Tonight Show Host was the Best?
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Carson.
I vaguely remember Steve Allen having a live variety show that was hysterically funny. Steve couldn’t stop laughing at some of the stuff that happened and my Dad would never miss the show.
I vaguely remember Steve Allen having a live variety show that was hysterically funny. Steve couldn’t stop laughing at some of the stuff that happened and my Dad would never miss the show.
Carson over any of the Tonight Show hosts....ever.
Tommy Smothers dead-on imitation of Johnny Carson - Feb 20, 1992
Unpopular opinion — I’ve never found the tonight show, letterman, Leno, SNL, etc funny..
They have had funny moments.. but on the whole, those shows are and have been way overrated.
They have had funny moments.. but on the whole, those shows are and have been way overrated.
Hey thanks. It brings up memories of my late Father. Nothing and no one could make him crack up like Buddy Hackett😉
Not so much now due to their politics but back in the day SNL was hilarious. Even some of the later stuff (pre 2016) was funny like Justin Timberlake and the junk in a box or the cow bell routine with Will Farrell. Eddie Murphy doing Mr. Rodgers and Buckwheat were rib busters. Debbie Downer and anything with Chris Farley are also funny.
Future murderer Robert Blake sitting next to Rickles in 1976
Don Rickles Lays Into Johnny as a Rhinestone Cowboy | Carson Tonight Show
1989
Don Rickles Doesn't Hold Back | Carson Tonight Show
Don Rickles Lays Into Johnny as a Rhinestone Cowboy | Carson Tonight Show
1989
Don Rickles Doesn't Hold Back | Carson Tonight Show
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Agree on all those bits. Going back to the original days the first cast was funny or so it seemed to two new parents who were up late with a newborn. They were “so silly you had to laugh” funny if that makes sense,
Ackroyd and Steve Martin “We are here to see large American breasts” and Gilda Radner doing Roseanne Roseannadana (We were living in NY at the time, and the character was modeled after a WABC reporter so we thought it was spot on funny.
Farrell and Murphy came later and did some funny stuff. Buckwheat was epic.
Carson is the gold standard. Post Carson era I have always preferred Conan.
Don Rickles - "Mr. Warmth" | Carson Tonight Show - September 19, 1975
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - Ed, Fred and Doc Give Johnny the Business - Sept 23, 1987
I saw Rickles in Clearwater in 2015. He had Regis with him as MC
This might be the oldest complete Carson Tonight Show episode. There is a complete episode from earlier in 1965 hosted by Joey Bishop with Sinatra as a guest.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson December 31st, 1965, with original commercials (full show)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson December 31st, 1965, with original commercials (full show)
From Burbank, 7 years before the permanent move to the west coast. This was a year after Sinatra kicked Joey Bishop out of the Rat Pack. I thought this was a complete episode but the monologue is missing,
Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Joey Bishop Tonight Show 4-10-1965
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I don't know what a trumpet mute is. He was given a custom mute with a patten of one of Doc's famous jackets that he wore on the show
Doc Severinsen's 97th Birthday Surprise!
Doc Severinsen's 97th Birthday Surprise!
Doc Severinsen And The Tonight Show Band Deliver an Incredible Performance of "Ode to Billie Joe"
