Johnny Carson (Page 1/2)
cvxjet MAR 14, 12:44 PM
So I never watch the Late show or any of the other stuff on late at night- Always got up early so went to bed by 10 pm (Last 16 years at CG station I was up at 4:15 every morning and on the weekends my dog would wake me by 6 "Time for BREAK fast!!!")

But I did know of one amazingly funny bit with Johnny Carson....He had Ed Ames (Mingo on Daniel Boone) Throw an axe at a cardboard cowboy target...The axe landed in the wrong location.......Johnny's "Return" on this is probably the best ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l1PBP0It4Q

I just found another one where Don Rickles broke Johnny's Heirloom Cigar box and the next night Johnny finds out about it and goes across the hall with a cameraman to ream Don...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4_dM0kMQc0
sourmash MAR 14, 01:43 PM
That is pretty uncomfortable to watch.
cliffw MAR 14, 05:24 PM
I remember one. He had a female guest, Phyliss Diller I think. She was holding a kitty cat in her lap. Johnny asked her if he could pet her pussy.
Hudini MAR 14, 05:42 PM

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Originally posted by cliffw:

I remember one. He had a female guest, Phyliss Diller I think. She was holding a kitty cat in her lap. Johnny asked her if he could pet her pussy.



I always heard the story as Zsa Zsa Gabor. Daahhling.....

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cvxjet MAR 14, 05:48 PM

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Originally posted by cliffw:

I remember one. He had a female guest, Phyliss Diller I think. She was holding a kitty cat in her lap. Johnny asked her if he could pet her pussy.




Holy crap.....How did that one make it past the censors? (Or was it live at that time?)

I actually thought of a come-back for the axe incident but realized it wouldn't have been allowed back then; "Which head are you supposed to scalp?"

And it took me a couple of hours of thinking so not even on the same planet with Johnny......
Hudini MAR 14, 05:54 PM

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Originally posted by cvxjet:
Holy crap.....How did that one make it past the censors? (Or was it live at that time?)

I actually thought of a come-back for the axe incident but realized it wouldn't have been allowed back then; "Which head are you supposed to scalp?"

And it took me a couple of hours of thinking so not even on the same planet with Johnny......



Here is the story:
cliffw MAR 14, 06:01 PM

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Originally posted by Hudini:
I always heard the story as Zsa Zsa Gabor. Daahhling.....



It was, thanks.
sourmash MAR 14, 06:38 PM
Bob Eubanks said he didn't remember the episode on the Newlywed Game when the woman said "In the ass." When asked the weirdest place she'd thought about making whoopie.
cvxjet MAR 14, 07:07 PM
Thanks Hudini......The English language seems designed specifically to get us in trouble- there are a number of similar-sounding words that mean two (Extremely) different things...

Back in the Navy (1980) I was in the Philippines and had a Mormon Philippine girl-friend......there were two words in Tagalog that sounded similar to "I know" and "What?" but meant the exact opposite....So I would be telling her something about the aircraft on the USS Coral Sea and she would say (What sounded like) "I know".......Then I would say something about the Philippines and she would say "What"....What made it even worse was she would switch between English and Tagalog.....I was very confused (My natural state)
IMSA GT MAR 14, 08:01 PM
I used to watch Johnny every night and truly miss that man and his talent. He used to be on at 11:00pm and even in grade school back in the 70's my mom let me stay up each night and watch him. He was the last great personality with a talk show.