Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson (October 23rd 1925 with Corning, Iowa - January 23rd 2005 with Malibu, California) is a Scénariste, Acteur and American TV host . He animated the emission The Tonight Show of 1962 to 1992.

Before the Tonight Show

Carson was born has Corning in Iowa and grew with Norfolk with the Nebraska, where he learned how to make turns of magic. It made its beginnings as magician with the 14 years age under the name The Great Carsoni . It was used in the American navy of 1943 for 1946, then attended the Université of Nebraska, where he was member of fraternity Phi Gamma Delta and obtains a license in 1949. The following year, Carson accepted an employment in a station of radio of Nebraska. Thereafter, he united at the station of Télévision KNXT of Los Angeles. It was the kickoff of its career.

In 1953, celebrates it actor Red Skelton, which appreciated the emission with sketches Carson' S Cellar which was diffused of 1951 at 1953 on KNXT, engaged Carson as script writer for his emission. In 1954, Skelton struck and lost conscience one hour only before its emission does not enter in waves on line. Carson replaced it then, and this made a new high-speed motorboat of it. It animated several television programs before joining the Tonight Show , including the television game Earn Your Vacation (1954), the variety programme The Johnny Carson Show (1955 - 1956), and five years with the television game Who Do You Trust? (1957 - 1962) where it met its associate ED McMahon.

The Tonight Show

Carson became the organizer of the Tonight Show with the network NBC on October 2nd, 1962. Its Co-organizer was ED McMahon during all the period when Carson animated the emission. Its first guest was Groucho Marx, which had been one of the many temporary organizers of the emission following the departure of Jack Paar. Carson is the joint author with Paul Anka of the musical topic which began the emission from time when it animated it.

There does not exist any band known Vidéo first presence of Carson to the Tonight Show . However, a sound recording of the emission was played on television. Carson began its first monolog by exclaiming “I want my chick!”

For million people, to look at the Tonight Show of Carson in end of the evening became a ritual, and Carson became a famous organizer and largely appreciated. The majority of the emissions started with the musical topic followed by the advertisement by ED McMahon: “Heeeeeere' S Johnny! ” Then the Monolog by Carson came. Often, the emission presented also Sketch are comic, of the Entrevue S and the music. The brand name of Carson was the imitation of a blow of golf at the end of its monolog. During the period of Carson, one often referred to the emission under the name “The Johnny Carson Show” or simply “Carson”.

The Tonight Show obtained an enormous audience the December 17th 1969, when Tiny Tim married with Miss Vicki during the emission.

The emission was initially produced with New York while remaining sometimes in California. It was diffused on line during its first years, then was remote for it (“ Live to Tape ”): the interruptions were then allowed only in the event of serious problem. In May 1972, the emission was moved in a permanent way of New York with Burbank in California, and Carson ceased animating the emission five days per week. The emission of Monday from now on was animated by a “invited organizer”. Joan Rivers was the stimulating “permanent” guest of September 1983 to 1986. Thereafter, the Tonight Show recovered to use various invited organizers. Jay Leno was the most frequent substitute and became the exclusive substitute with the autumn 1987. Leno then animated the emission of Monday and a recovery ( The Best off Carson ) was diffused Tuesday. Typically, a recovery presented an emission going back to approximately a front year.

In 1973, Carson was implied in a legendary incident with the popular indicator Uri Geller when it invited Geller with the emission. Carson, an experienced magician, wanted a demonstration neutral of the skills supposed To freeze and, according to the councils of his friend the magician James Randi, it gave To freeze several spoons coming from the drawer of his office and asked him to fold them. To freeze in was unable, and this passage to the Tonight Show was regarded thereafter as the beginning of the decline of its popularity.

The emission had recurring characters and sketches:

  • “Carnac the Magnificent”, where Carson played a Voyant which gave the answer to a question before of having been able to see the latter
  • “Floyd R. Turbo”, stupid rural answering the leading of a television broadcast station
  • “Art Fern”, the organizer of an emission on the Cinéma which announced products and flirtait with its charming fair assistant, played a long time by Carol Wayne
  • “Aunt Blabby”, an old woman which resembled to the character “Maude Frickert” of the actor Jonathan Winters
  • “The Mighty Carson Art Players”, which parodied the news, of films, the television programs and the Publicity S

Carson was often with its best, however, when the sketches encountered problems, which often arrived. If the monolog had little success, sometimes the orchestra was put to play Tea for Two and Carson was then put to dance the Claquettes with the laughter of the audience in studio. Sometimes alternatively, Carson reduced the microphone which was normally with the top of its head and except field, in order to declare “Attention K-Mart shoppers! ” (that one can translate by “customers of K-Mart, listen to me! ”). Carson had a talent for releasing comic comments in order to circumvent unexpected problems.

Another tradition which evolved/moved with the years was that to each time Carson said in its monolog something like “It was so hot”, “It was so cold”, etc, the audience required “How hot at once? ”, “How cold? ”, etc Carson told a joke then on this subject.

Almost all the emissions of before 1970 were lost when an employee of the NBC network decided to re-use the videotapes for other ends. Several other episodes would have been lost in a fire. The other emissions are stored in an underground file with the Kansas.

Invited organizers

Among the invited organizers, one often found:

Rewards

Carson was established with the Television Academy Hall off Famed in 1987. It also gained six Emmy Award S and a George Foster Peabody Award . The Presidential Medal off Freedom was decreed to him in 1992 and it received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1993.

Private life

Carson is married with Joan Wolcott on October 1st 1949. They had three wire. Their Richard son was killed the June 21st 1991 when its car fell from a cliff close to a shunt track resulting from highway 1 close to Cayucos, a small town in the north of San Luis Obispo. Apparently, Richard was taking photographs when the accident occurred. During the emission according to the death of his/her son, Carson paid homage to Ricky Carson during the last minutes while several of its photographs were presented.

In 1963, Carson has divorced Joan and married with Joanne Copeland the August 17th of the same year. After another divorce in 1972, Copeland accepted nearly a half-million Dollar S cash, works of art, like a hundred and thousand dollars per year in Alimony with life. At the time of the festival of the tenth birthday of the Tonight Show the September 30th 1972, Carson announced that him and the old professional mannequin Joanna Holland had been secretly married this afternoon - there, which surprised his/her friends and associated.

The March 8th 1983, Holland required the divorce. Under the terms of the Californian Loi S, it was entitled to half of all the fortune accumulated during the marriage, even if Carson had been that which had generated the totality of the incomes almost. During this period, it blaguait during the emission by saying that its producer Fred de Cordova had given him a Christmas present which it needed really: a certificate-gift for the law firm Jacoby and Meyers. The divorce procedures ended in 1985 by an agreement of eighty pages. Holland accepted twenty million dollars cash, as well as properties. One tells that Carson met his fourth wife, Alexis Maas, when he saw it walking on the beach close to his residence of Malibu, by holding empty wine glass. It left its house and offered to him to fill its glass. They married the June 20th 1987.

Carson was a major investor in the DeLorean Motor Company, which knew the failure ultimement. In 1982, it was stopped with Beverly Hills for driving under influence of intoxication, whereas it was at the wheel of a sports car DeLorean DMC-12. It was represented in court by Robert Shapiro and pled with absence of dispute. During a subsequent emission, it made a joke while being made escort by a police officer in uniform on the scene.

Carson was a friend of the astronomer Carl Sagan, who was often invited to the emission to give to it presentations on the Astronomie. Carson itself was an astronomer amateur. According to the biographer of Sagan, Keay Davidson, Carson was the first to contact the woman of Sagan to offer its sympathies to him when the scientist died in 1996.

Reprocess

Carson was withdrawn from the entertainment world the May 22nd 1992 when it ceased animating the Tonight Show . The NBC network gave the emission to the occasional temporary organizer Jay Leno, in spite of its promise in the Années 1980 to give it to David Letterman. Letterman, which was a friend of Carson, invited it to require what of him to make on this subject. Carson then says to him to leave NBC. Leno and Letterman became soon candidates on different networks.

At the end of its last emission of the Tonight Show , Carson indicated that it would turn over on television if it found a project interesting, but it was rather to be withdrawn completely. It seldom gave interviews and refused to take part in the celebrations of the sixty-fifteenth birthday of the NBC network. It made some appearances by playing its own part, such as for example by making a voice at the time of an episode of the Simpson ( Krusty Gets Kancelled ).

The most famous appearance of Carson after its retirement was with the emission The Late Show with David Letterman with the network CBS the May 13rd 1994. During one week of emissions recorded with Los Angeles, Letterman was made deliver its Top Ten List by Larry " Bud" Melman (Calvert DeForest) by giving the impression that it would be in fact a famous personality which would come to bring the list to him. During the last emission of the week, Letterman announced that Carson would bring the list to him. Instead of that, Melman brought it, insulted the audience (in accordance with the gag) and left the scene under modest applause. Letterman mentioned whereas the chart that it had just received did not contain the good list, and it asked Carson to bring the good one to him. It is at this time that truth Johnny Carson appeared on scene and went to the office of Letterman. When the audience realized that it was really about Carson, he expressed his joy and an ovation gave upright him. Carson then required to be able to sit down at the office of Letterman. This one accepted immediately and the audience appreciated much to see Carson behind an office for the first time since two years. Carson, moved, murmured “I' m back home. ” (“Me here at the house. ”) in direction of a realizer and, after one moment, and the scene without saying left rose the joke envisaged. (It was explained later that Carson had a Laryngite.)

A few days before the death of Carson, it was revealed that it still kept up to date with the topicality and the emissions with end with evening, and that he occasionally sent jokes to Letterman. This one used these jokes in its monolog, which Carson appreciated much according to Peter Lassally, vice-president senior of CBS and former executive producer of the emissions of Carson and Letterman. Lassally as affirmed as Carson had always believed that Letterman, and not Leno, were its “worthy successor”. Letterman frequently uses some of the traditional numbers of Carson during its emission, of which in particular Carnac (on a music played by the leader Paul Shaffer) and Stump the Band .

In 6:50 the morning of the January 23rd 2005, Carson died of a respiratory stop at the Cedars-Sinai Medical center of Los Angeles, after twenty of years of Emphysème. It was 79 years old. No public funeral service took place. The skin of Carson was incinerated and ashes were given to its widow.

The January 24th 2005, the emission The Tonight Show with Jay Leno paid homage to Carson by inviting ED McMahon, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles, Drew Carey and K.d. Lang. Letterman made in the same way the January 31st by inviting the former executive producer of the Tonight Show Peter Lassally and the former leader Doc. Severinsen. Letterman surprised the audience by announcing after its monolog this evening that it was entirely made up of jokes sent by Carson lasting the last months of its life.

It had four wives and three children.

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