>> johnny carson wasn't just the host of "the tonight show." johnny carson was the man that america said good night to for 30 years. ♪ >> and on my watch, johnny decided that 30 years was a great time to take a bow and say thank you and good night. >> 30 years is enough. it's a good time to get out while you're still on top of your game plan. >> johnny carson retiring in the early '90s was the great moment where a huge chunk of the ice shelf breaks off. something that has been there for centuries, for thousands of years, suddenly is no longer there. >> a tremendous part of history. and that's lovely to have made your mark on an era like that. >> johnny had told no one what he had planned to do, and we weren't prepared. and that set off a game of musical chairs for who would get the throne, and there only was one late-night throne. >> hi, you guys! >> jay leno had been pretty much carson's regular substitute host when he went on vacation. >> you know what's amazing, only six months ago people were talking about donald trump as a presidential c

give it up for - [ cheers and applause johnny carson had it - >> steve: who knew >> jimmy: johnny carson left that here. he left that it was just always on the desk i didn't know it was jimmy buffett's salt shaker. [ laughter ] sorry, jimmy this one's from doug hamilton. "hey jimmy, i'm excited for the new 'top gun' movie. but i saw the trailer, it looks pretty intense is there any way you could make it a little more for kids? well, yeah, i see what you're saying it definitely seemed a little intense. so, i got my nephew cody to redo the sound effects take a look at this. >> your reputation precedes you. >> i have to admit i wasn't expecting an invitation back >> they're called orders, maverick [ mouthed sound effects >> "top gun: maverick. [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: let's try another suggestion here. this one is from chris middlebrooks "hey jimmy, i'm sure you know this already, but today is national twilight zone day has anything weird happened to you today? i don't think so i mean, today has been a pretty normal day well, actually there was something weird that happened earlier t

and you are no johnny carson. ♪ goo goo goo goo goo goo goo goo ♪ >> welcome the great white north. i'm bob mckenzie, this is my brother doug. today we got a real big show -- >> there was a second city chicago company, there was a second city toronto company. the toronto one is the one that fueled the sctv series which originally was syndicated and got to the states that way. >> hail, hail! >> hail, hail. thank you very much for that marvelous reception. i particularly want to thank my supporters over there in the cesarean section. >> it's healthy to be an outsider. you know, as a comedian. and canadians are always outsiders, but they're looking at the other culture which is right next door to them. >> i love you, i want to bear your children! ha ha ha! >> it was the type of comedy that had only been accessible if you could have gotten into the improv clubs in chicago and toronto. i had never seen anything like second city tv. >> james bridgeman, parkdale. >> sorry, no, never mind, i'm sorry. >> it was far more conceptual in its humor because it didn't have to be performed in front

then the johnson richard nixon and ronald reagan as well as on iconic entertainer johnny carson. it's a pleasure to welcome back to the great lives podium my good friend steve farnsworth. thank you so much bill. i'm delighted to be here and to talk to you about one of the really interesting people in the history of american film. now you may have heard a rags to riches story or two in your time, but few will ever compare to the bust to boom tale of charlie chaplin who went from being a destitute child in a victorian workhouse in london to the most famous man in the world in two decades. charlie chaplin the world's first and arguably largest global movie star was so effective at offering enigmatic political messages that we are still debating what he was trying to say more than a century after his first signature character appeared on the silver screen. the 81 films that chaplain was involved in as actor or author or director or composer or all of the above represent an unequaled body of work. george bernard shaw who knew a great deal about putting on a compelling presentation sai

johnny carson signed off on "the tonight show" 30 years ago this week, and she was the person who serenaded him. and you are like, while matt, bette midler, you've got to love her. and now she becomes this person. i don't know what to say at this point, the people exploiting this the way they are. >> carley: understood. thank you for joining us this morning. >> sorry. >> carley: we wish you the best, we understand. we would turn to the senior meteorologist with our weather forecast. >> good morning. let's get to it. memorial day weekend is coming up in a lot of folks are like, what's the weather going to be like? let's take a look. it's cooler than average, an area of low pressure moving over the ohio river valley and we can see the potential for severe storms today. hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes for some of these areas stretching from the gulf coast although it up toward the great lakes. and on friday that friends will sweep across the east coast and give us a rainy day for most along the i-95 corridor into saturday. there's the friday risk. some of these big cities, and watch fox we

>> johnny carson inherited "the tonight show," but he made it his own. >> it is going to be wild tonight. i can always tell. >> he hosted a nightly party. >> oh. >> are you married? >> oh. >> and if his buddies came, and they started playing together, you felt like what it must have felt like to go to vegas at 3:00 in the morning and have the rat pack come out. >> no, but where is the guy you talk to? >> it was a beautiful thing to watch a guy working at his best. >> okay, bingo. get your ax and let's go. ♪ >> if you watch it closely, he is gauging how much longer he can wait to let the laugh die before what he says will be irrelevant to what happened. and he gets it just on the nose. it's beautiful to watch. >> i didn't even know you were jewish. >> johnny was the best audience in the world, and he loved comedy. >> the woman is watching him. she's watching him from the corner of her eye. he says to him, what are you looking at? the guy says i'm looking at that ugly baby. that's a bad-looking baby, lady. >> johnny was there listening for you. he wanted you to score. and when you scored

where you grew up watching "snl" or johnny carson and you can't believe you're sitting in this seat. >> jimmy: yeah >> and i had a little of that with "the today show." it's like you're a kid, and then at some point in your life, you stepped through the television, and you're the one on the other side that's hosting "the today show. it's a wild thing. [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: you do a great job i want to -- i want to ask you about something, because i saw you do recently -- you ran the marathon >> yes >> jimmy: this was a major deal [ cheers and applause dude, you were great i go, "are you a runner? >> i'm not a runner at all as a matter of fact, i was, like, the turkey trot at thanksgiving was as far as i would go like that 5k or the one-mile even but during covid, you need a a little purpose, right. you want to do something and i decided to run for the michael j. fox foundation. >> jimmy: ah, that's my guy. [ applause ] >> my dad has had parkinson's disease for about 30 years unfortunately. so, i'm on the board of the michael j. fox foundation. i said let's go raise some mon

carson. and i mean you are -- not only are you a kid, but you are just so confident you're more confident than, i would say, half the adults i have on this show. >> and we're both parents, so we're around younger kids now. >> seth: yeah. >> whereas, when i grew up, i was, like, weirded out by kids 'cause i was, like, a working paying-the-rent kid. didn't go to school, i didn't have siblings. i was always around adults so kids would be like, "mah mah mah!," and i was like -- [ laughter ] so - >> seth: you're like, "do you behave like that at your job?" >> yeah, exactly >> seth: the kids were like, "i don't have a job i'm seven. >> "beat it, kid, you're being a weirdo." [ laughter ] i just was -- i was um - i don't know how kids are as precocious as they are or how i was. i feel like my life is so full-circle in that i'm much more intimidated and dialed-back. when you're a kid, you don't know to filter >> seth: yes it's like amy schumer said in that cute movie, "i feel pretty," which i love so

carson, jay leno monologue sort of thing. and obama, in this case, he showed up before and after a picture of him. so, here he is as president. he's got a lot of gray hair. and, here he is before he becomes president. and he says, oh yeah, those days where i was a strapping young muslim socialist. [laughs] but, donald trump definitely took a different route to the white house. and, i wasn't quite surprised at the different route to the white house because he was the ultimate of the anti establishment candidate. and, he was essentially playing into peoples anger, peoples anger at the establishment. and, donald trump liked to liken himself to andrew jackson, as the anti establishment candidate. and president. i think that there is less similarities between the individuals, trump and jackson, then there is and the people who voted for them. in both cases, it was a rejection of this entrenched believe. and the people who voted for andrew jackson against john quincy adams were very much of the same mindset as the people who voted

the day after, she went on the johnny carson show. >> did you do this in the kitchen? >> i did this in the kitchen. >> excuse me for laughing. i thought good cooks were not supposed to do that, julia. >> i don't know. i cut a good piece of my finger. >> did it go in the preparation? >> that wasn't part of the recipe. >> i see. >> i'm julia child, and i'm going to make a homemade feast. >> we happened to turn it on, and there it was live. >> now i've done it. i've cut the dickens out of my finger. i'm glad in a way this happened. oh, god, it's throbbing. >> she had a copy, and at dinner parties at her house, she would show the dan aykroyd tape. >> it was very funny. we loved that. >> why are you all spinning? oh, i think i'm going to go to sleep now. bon appetit. >> one time i said, you know, julia, i sometimes forget when i'm with you how famous you are. and she said, you know, so do i. and i think she did. ♪ you know real chili never has beans. you know which pizza is eaten with a fork and a knife... and which one is definitely not. you know a cappuccino is for the

. >> the day after, she was on the johnny carson show. >> did you do this in the kitchen? >> i did that in the kitchen. >> forgive me for laughing. i didn't know good cooks were supposed to do that. >> did that go in the preparation? >> that wasn't part of the recipe. no. >> i see. >> julia child. today i'm going to make a holy feast. >> we happened to turn it on and there it was, live. >> now i've done it. i've cut the dickens out of my finger. i don't know how this happened. oh, god, it's throbbing. >> she had a copy. and dinner parties at her house, she would show the dan aykroyd tape. >> it was very funny. we loved it. >> why are you all spinning? i think i'm going to go to sleep now. bon appÉtit. >> one time i said, you know, julia, i sometimes forget when i'm with you how famous you are. and she said, you know, so do i. and i think she did. ♪ baby got back by sir mix-a-lot ♪ unlimited cashback match... only from discover. lemons. lemons, lemons, lemons. look how nice they are. the moment you become an expedia member, you can instantly start saving on your travel

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