LETTERMAN & CARSON – $1,000,000. CHEQUE
LETTERMAN & CARSON – $1,000,000. CHEQUE
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LETTERMAN. 1991
LETTERMAN & CARSON – $1,000,000. CHEQUE
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LETTERMAN. 1991
Hours ago before this was taped, Carson announced his retirement at the affiliates meeting in New York, forgot the location where…
I love how humbled Dave is around Johnny. Love their relationship. It’s just neat to see them together
Dave mentioned that Johnny was carrying the network for a while there and Johnny demurred, but it’s true. During the Fred Silverman Era, Johnny and The Tonight Show was the only thing NBC had that was making money. He saved NBC from going down the pooper.
2 legends.period
Hard to believe, but prior to the Kennedy Assassination (November, 1963), there was no 1/2 hour evening news as we know it today. I believe John Cameron Swayze was only on for about 15 minutes at about 6 PM, and that was the extent of TV national news coverage.
Welp, in this reality, Ed McMahon did not give away Publishers Clearing House checks. In fact, he never even worked for them.
Carson . . .a legend
Sobering thought:
We’re only 1-2 generations away from no one knowing who these two icons are.
Nothing to see here, Just two legends talking to each other.
Johnny came to this show from the affiliate meeting where he announced his retirement. Supposedly Letterman knew–but it hadn’t been made public. This show, Letterman was hoping Johnny would say something but didn’t want to force the issue. You can tell when Johnny said "Last year" and kept going with it–no one noticed.
Letterman’s love and respect for Carson is a beautiful thing to watch.
Mandella Effect — Ed McMahon NEVER gave out those giant checks, so yeah this doesn’t make any sense now.
"Ya quit your job!" – David Letterman, watching this segment during his postmortem after the taping.
Legands
This was re-enacted in the HBO movie, The Late Shift. It was at the NBC affiliates meeting that Johnny Carson announced he would be retiring as host from The Tonight Show the following year.
4:32 – It took the studio audience a little bit of time to understand what Johnny meant here.
5:11 – Oh, SNAP!
When Letterman grabs the couch I thought it was Mr. Carson’s leg.. my bad.
I thought I heard that they had to bump Jim Carrey (then known as James) as a result of Johnny making this appearance. Carrey was still on "In Living Color" at the time.
We often don’t appreciate what we had.
2 Reasons why TV will never be what it was …
Thank you for uploading this! I’ve wanted to see this for a long time
Check out Carson’s leather boots
Thanks. I was in the audience for this show. This is the first time I have seen it since.
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What’s it feel like when you see the best ?
Carson was the best.
Save the guest entrance for the guests. I’ll come in any doorway I want.