Bidding a heartfelt goodnight to Johnny Carson!

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Mysteria

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0 posted 2005-01-23 03:29 PM

Johnny Carson will be always treasured and missed. I just wanted to salute this wonderful man who changed the face of television forever. May his family find some comfort in that this is a terrible loss to all of us.

From his last "Tonight Show."

quote:
"You people watching, I can only tell you that it's been an honour and a privilege coming into your homes all these years to entertain you. And I hope when I find something I want to do and think you would like, I can come back and (you will be) as gracious in inviting me into your homes as you have been.

"I bid you a very heartfelt goodnight."

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=435893

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Sunshine

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1 posted 2005-01-23 03:44 PM

I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of us here who stood, sat, laid in bed...ahem...while that blue light flickered and laughter hemmed the walls...

RIP, Johnny...

RSWells
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2 posted 2005-01-23 04:17 PM

Truly. The man ad-libbed so many things that even today make me laugh on reflection. No more "Heeeere's Johnny!"

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Midnitesun

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3 posted 2005-01-23 05:21 PM

I just read that Johnny is gone.

My god, the memories of him I carry around, how he made me smile and laugh, how he helped carry away so much anger and grief with the flip of his pencil.

LoveBug

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4 posted 2005-01-23 05:34 PM

He had a great gift, and he will be missed. Some of my earliest memories include his show. RIP Johnny

Oh, make me Thine forever
And should I fainting be
Lord, let me never ever
Outlive my love for Thee

Ron

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5 posted 2005-01-23 08:13 PM

I remember, as a kid, watching the final Tonight Show episode with Jack Parr and the first with Johnny Carson. I remember taking my wife (who thought Johnny was inordinately sexy) to see him in Vegas, circa 1978. And, of course, I remember watching his last show, after nearly a year of rumors about who his successor would be.

He gave us a lot to remember.

Midnitesun

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6 posted 2005-01-23 08:37 PM

Ron, your wife saw what many of us saw

serenity blaze
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7 posted 2005-01-23 08:42 PM

sigh...

a lovely man

Aenimal
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8 posted 2005-01-24 01:07 AM

just a class act, as a kid i used to sneak and watch from the stairs after bedtime. later i watched until he retired, no one has, or will ever come close to carson.i mean he was even funny when he bombed..

he was already missed

Kit McCallum

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9 posted 2005-01-24 06:19 AM

As a kid, I was a night owl and my parents used to let me stay up and watch the show with them. I used to love that. We were all fans through the years. As a matter of fact, and this is no kidding - before I even got a chance to see it, my dad taped over the last 1/3 of the only copy of my home wedding video ... with none other than ... Johnny Carson, rofl.

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10 posted 2005-01-24 10:52 AM

He was truly one of the 'greats' in the entertainment industry. I got the biggest kick out of his 'animal' guests and his interaction with them, especially that baby chimpanzee (I think it was anyway) that I saw once that hugged him. So adorable!

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11 posted 2005-01-24 02:12 PM

Excerpt from a dialog between Johnny and Jack Webb, Feb 19, 1968

The Copper Clapper Caper

Carson: There's been a robbery.
Webb: Yes sir, what was it?
Carson: My clappers!
Webb: Your Clappers?
Carson: Yeah, you know, those things inside a bell that makes them clang.
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Webb:Why do you think Cleveland's Claude Cooper would cop your clean copper clappers kept in your closet?
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Carson: He's a kleptomaniac.
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Webb: That figures. Now let me see if I got the facts straight here. Cleaning woman Clara Clifford discovered your clean copper clappers kept in a closet were copped by Claude Cooper the kleptomaniac from Cleveland. Now, is that about it?
Carson: One more thing.
Webb: What's that?
Carson:If I ever catch kleptomaniac Claude Cooper from Cleveland who copped my clean copper clappers kept in the closet...
Webb: Yes?
Carson: I'll clobber him!

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One of a kind indeed.

Parts sadly left out to avoid any copyright infringement issues. You can find it on the internet though.

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