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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, January 12, 2014

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BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Pimp Suing Nike for $100 Million After He Stomped Man Nearly
to Death with Jordans

LGBT NEWS:

U.S. Government Issues LGBT Travel Alert For Olympics

ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS:

Biography Of Fox’s Roger Ailes Alleges Sexism, Anti-Semitism

Roger and me: How I got berated by Fox News
Channel’s boss

ANOTHER HACK ATTACK:

Neiman Marcus is latest victim of security breach
Customers’ card information stolen and unauthorized charges made

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Los Angeles woman who fell from moving police car says she was sexually assaulted by cop

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

The racism at the heart of
the Reagan presidency

White professors still dominate Bay Area
colleges as student bodies grow more diverse


Franklin McCain — of ‘Greensboro Four,’
who defied whites-only barrier — dies

FREE THE WEED!!!

Faces of Pot: The Vapour Lounge

Marijuana case filings plummet in
Colorado following legalization

STOP THE PRESSES!!!

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio lambasted for eating pizza with a fork

IN THE ART WORLD:

Renoir found at flea market returned to museum by Virginia court

OUT OF THIS WORLD:

Planetology comes of age
Those who study planets orbiting other
stars now have plenty of data to play with

Rare, Eclipsing Binary Asteroids Discovered by Undergraduate Astronomy Class

Scientists spot hypervelocity stars escaping clutches of galaxy

TODAY IN BEATLES’ NEWS:

Paul McCartney And Ringo Starr May Stage Beatles
Reunion On ‘Late Show With David Letterman’

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Johnny Carson’s Last Tee Vee Appearance ► Another Magical Tee Vee Moment

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Johnny Carson got his start in Show Biz as a magician

Dateline May 13, 1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last tee vee appearance ever, fittingly on David Letterman’s show.

Carson was a tee vee institution for over 30 years. While other people hosted the Tonight Show both before and after him, Carson will always be the gold standard against which all others are judged. Carson retired from his show on May 22, 1992.

Johnny Carson always felt that David Letterman was the natural heir to the Tonight Show seat and was sorely disappointed that the show was given to Jay Leno instead. “Some people say” that’s why Carson declined to appear in NBC’s 75th Anniversary Special. “Other people say” that Carson never forgave NBC for destroying all the early Tonight Shows to make shelf room for newer shows. It very well could have been both.

Either way, it’s so appropriate that Carson’s last appearance was on Letterman’s show, almost 2 years to years to the day after his retirement. Letterman sprung Carson’s appearance as a surprise and the audience gave him a sustained standing ovation. After waiting out the applause for a while, Carson left the stage without saying a word. It looked like he had some lines, which he decided not to deliver at the last minute because anything he said would be an anti-climax. Remember: Carson was the master of Show Biz Timing™. Later Carson said he pulled his Marcel Marceau act due to acute laryngitis. This clip makes it clear he was going to say something.

This was one of the rare post-retirement appearances Carson made on tee vee, and the very last. On January 23, 2005 Johnny Carson died of respiratory failure from emphysema at the age of 79. After his death David Letterman did a Johnny Carson tribute show, which included an entire monologue written by Carson. It turned out that Carson regularly faxed jokes to the Letterman show just for the thrill of having then delivered on air.

Johnny Carson was the Comedian’s Comedian to the very end.

Here’s David Letterman’s tribute show to Johnny Carson:

Further Reading at Not Now Silly

Last Tonight Show with Johnny Carson ► Day In History
I’ve Got A Secret ► Another Magical Tee Vee Moment
Andy Kaufman ► Another Magical Tee Vee Moment

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Last Tonight Show with Johnny Carson ► A Day In History

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Dateline May 22, 1992 – Johnny Carson made his final appearance as host of the Tonight Show after nearly 5,000 shows. Here’s how that show opened:


Johnny Carson gave so many comedians their start.  A case in point: Ellen Degeneres:


Carson started in magic and particularly loved magicians. Here is The Great Flydini:


Few people realize that Michael Caine got his start doing stand up for Johnny Carson:


In 1982 Eddie Murphy jokes about the first Black president:


You’d never know who or what you would see on the Carson show:


And that included Tiny Tim:


Johnny Carson’s last television’s appearance was a cameo:

It hardly seems like 20 years since he’s been gone from the air. There has never been another one like him and there never will be.