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JOHNNY CARSON.(The Talk of the Town)(Obituary)
How strange it was to learn, on a Sunday, that Johnny Carson had died. Strange that it was a Sunday--one of only two nights of the week that he had not owned. That day, we didn't even have Letterman or Leno to look forward to in the hope that they would say something trenchant and touching. They did issue statements, but, because they weren't there in person to deliver them, their words went no deeper than the quite good statement put out by President Bush, who didn't know Carson and doesn't owe his career to him. (We can only dream about the jokes that Carson might have made about Bush.) But that was fine. This time, our own thoughts were enough. If Johnny hadn't made our careers, he had, after all, made our nights, and almost thirteen years after he was gone from public view--and there has hardly…
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Gates, David February 7, 2005 700+ words
...go off to the clubhouse. While Johnny Carson was host of NBC's "The Tonight...at Benny's funeral.) The "Johnny Carson" he invented was a guy who didn...began taping at 6:30 p.m. And Johnny Carson wasn't "Johnny Carson"; it...
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- News wire article from: Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) Rahner, Mark March 2, 2007 700+ words
...on a crowded subway. A young Johnny Carson retorts, "You were getting a...one of them -- on DVD: "The Johnny Carson Show" (Shout Factory, 1955...sketches he wrote, these are pure Johnny Carson. This was his first network experience...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 24, 2005 700+ words
...will be no memorial service for Johnny Carson, at his request. The legendary...like him. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOHNNY CARSON: You people watching, I can...out that was May 22nd, 1992. Johnny Carson bid fans of "The Tonight Show...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 23, 2005 700+ words
...years as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show," Johnny Carson has died. The 79-year-old died early this...a regular face on the late night show with Johnny Carson and sometimes when Johnny Carson wasn't there, was comedian Joan Rivers...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune January 25, 2005 700+ words
...the Kansas City Star on Tuesday, Jan. 25: JOHNNY CARSON _ 1925-2005 A turbaned Johnny Carson pulls an envelope out of the mayonnaise jar...institution poking fun at an American idol. Johnny Carson, who died Sunday at age 79, made the late...
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Kissell, Rick January 26, 2005 700+ words
...grabbed a big audience Monday for the show's first telecast since the death of former host Johnny Carson. Show, which featured Leno's tribute to Carson and guests including Ed McMahon and Don Rickles, averaged an 11.2 rating/26 share in...
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- Magazine article from: National Review February 14, 2005 700+ words
* Johnny Carson, R.I.P. If Johnny Carson could have managed it, no doubt his death would have been...At all. The hostility had come to something of a boil when Johnny Carson convened us for a joint appearance on The Tonight Show. Susskind...
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