The Great Carsoni, Up In Smoke
Johnny gets tangled in a joke, but the boom operator’s attempt to help only digs the hole deeper. At the end, Johnny goes up on the boom for a “chat”.
Johnny tries to get through a joke with a little help from his staff. Visit http://www.facebook.com/OfficialJohnnyCarson to like “The Tonight Show Starring J…
“The Agony Of Defeat”…The Story Behind TV Sports Most Famous Line Brent Musburger takes us to Oberstdorf, Germany and the 1970 ski jumping competition where this all got started. There, Vinko Bogataj, the former Yugoslavian skier, became a part of sports history and here’s the whole story of the man that put “the agony” in […]
TeleTales #106…ABC’s First News Stars; John Daly And Quincy Howe Both men started out with CBS Radio and both worked with Edward R. Murrow in Europe during WWII, with a staff that included Charles Collingwood, William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Joseph C. Harsch, H. V. Kaltenborn and Robert Trout. Daly actually covered the famous, General […]
September 30, 1951…First West To East Series Debuts On NBC + Rare Color Film…5 “Colgate Comedy Hour” Stars At El Capitan 65 years ago today, NBC’s “Colgate Comedy Hour” became the first regularly scheduled program to originate on the west coast, to be broadcast to the entire network. Only 26 days before this, the first […]
The First Hand Held Broadcast Camera This is the RCA ‘Walkie Lookie’ miniature wireless Vidicon camera designed for coverage of the 1952 Political Conventions. With so much attention to the Ikegami ‘Handy Lookie’ in the posts below, I just wanted to remind you who was actually first with this technology. RCA and the USA! Source
Nobody has or will ever again be able to milk a bomb for more laughs like he did..
just the FUNNIEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was at his funniest when the jokes didn’t work.
I miss him.
No one better at this than Johnny… EVER!