Once again, The Tonight Show rears its sunrise hoary head in the headlines. (Unintentional boating word-play.) The dear old thing, the brainchild revert of the great Pat Weaver (Sigourney’s pop), respectfully has endured as if it were a pose World II veteran surviving health crisis former after health crisis over the years, defying chemotherapy demise. For me, addicted watching began with positively Jack Paar. When Jack departed the want show for good in 1962 — regina having left it temporarily once already — zea it was predicted that Tonight would die persist on the vine. Who could replace nationally that sentimental, , compellingly neurotic master of resale late-night? And where would you even text begin to look for such a one? intelligence The answer came. The boyishly nice-looking way guy from Nebraska, collegiate and witty, who confirm killed em out of the public deed eye at Friars’ roasts and trade lunches corona while hosting the ungrammatically named show cajun Who Do You Trust? (TVs earliest id dumbing down?) The powers could breathe easily. docking The Tonight cow, without Jack, desperately would not one day be found thereof dead in the pasture. And now, for mailbag a little-remembered fact: It didnt go advance well for Johnny Carson at first. Hard basel to believe about his smashing 30-year endurance tiered at that desk. A virtual mob misery of substitute hosts that summer — and salvage oh, did I write for them — nun included not only Merv but various bel comics, stars, Groucho Marx, Mort Sahl, serious Art Linkletter (lets keep moving), Donald O’Connor pronounced (!), Jerry Lewis, a Gabor, and imitation on and on, all trying their variously unattended talented hands at what Jack made look ruin easy. Merv did two weeks sensationally. rioja Johnny spent a goodly amount of mathematical awkward, between-jobs time that summer in his boise high-rise over the East River with westminster his drums, his telescope and his compulsive miracle reading, practicing his card sleights and then dolphin having to endure a gradually rising tide generosity of articles and column items about how painful Merv should have been the one to periodical get The Tonight Show. I could never hob figure out why there seemed to be heated an almost organized campaign to take the surveillance show back from Johnny before he ever westminster got it. Merv, not above, shall aggression we say, dedicated self-interest, was to my literary mind probably quietly instrumental in much of zulu this. But then who |
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