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Johnny Carson’s ‘Tonight’ Show…From Vanity Fair<\/p>\n

This is a very fine article from February’s Vanity Fair Magazine written on the occasion of the ‘Tonight’ show’s return to New York. It’s a very intimate and in depth look at Johnny Carson and his years as host of the show in New York and in Los Angeles, but centers on the 30 Rock years in 6B. I hope you will enjoy this as much as I did! The Vanity Fair article is linked here as well as copied below incase the link breaks.<\/p>\n

The Tonight Show\u2019s Johnny Carson Era in New York<\/a><\/p>\n

Sam Kashner reports on the New York period of the late-night show, which lasted from 1962 to 1972.<\/p>\n

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Before moving\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0to Los Angeles, in 1972, Johnny Carson hosted it from New York City, where he braved garbage strikes and muggers, lived high atop United Nations Plaza, and had run-ins with mobsters.<\/div>\n
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\u2018His dream was New York, not Hollywood,\u201d says former talk-show host Dick Cavett, a fellow Nebraskan who was a writer for\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0in the 1960s, when the show was broadcast from Rockefeller Center, in Midtown Manhattan. \u201cHe felt sorry for people who were born here because they never had the thrill of getting on a train in Nebraska and knowing when they got off, they would be in Grand Central Terminal.\u201d (Actually, Johnny flew to New York his first time.)<\/p>\n

Johnny Carson walked out from behind the curtain to host\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0for the first time on October 1, 1962, replacing Jack Paar, who had earlier replaced Steve Allen. In front of a television audience of eight million, old show business gave way to new: Carson was introduced by a 72-year-old Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford was there to plug her autobiography, and aging crooner Rudy Vall\u00e9e also appeared with a book to sell. But heartthrob singer Tony Bennett and that hot new comedy writer Mel Brooks brought it all up-to-date.<\/p>\n

The show was broadcast from NBC Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Center, as it was during Allen\u2019s and Paar\u2019s reigns (and will be during Jimmy Fallon\u2019s). Carson had been well prepared for his new role as host of\u00a0Who Do You Trust?<\/em>\u00a0(modeled on Groucho Marx\u2019s\u00a0You Bet Your Life<\/em>), which was taped at the Little Theater, on West 44th Street. \u201cThe idea [of\u00a0Who Do You Trust?<\/em>] was to get New Yorkers or tourists to come in and really talk about their lives,\u201d recalls Ron Simon, television and radio curator at the Paley Center for Media, in New York. (Simon interviewed Carson for the Paley Center\u2019s Jack Benny exhibition in 1991.) \u201cThere was something about Carson that he would find exactly where the conversation sparked, where he could interact, where he could say that great retort or give that great Benny-esque double take. Those five years of practice really made him as host of\u00a0The Tonight Show,<\/em>\u00a0but it also gave him a real sense of the city itself. It was like an introductory course on who New Yorkers are, what they think about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He was helped by the extraordinary musicians he had on the show\u2014which broadcast one of Barbra Streisand\u2019s first television appearances, and Judy Garland\u2019s last. Bette Midler came on, fresh from the Continental Baths (and would 20 years later famously ring out Carson\u2019s final show in Los Angeles). <\/span>The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0was also a showcase for such writers as Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and William Saroyan, even if they often had to wait in the greenroom until the flickering final moments of the show, known as \u201cthe death slot.\u201d For comedians, to be summoned to sit at Johnny\u2019s right hand was the Rapture, like suddenly being called up to show-business heaven. Bill Cosby, Redd Foxx, Rodney Dangerfield, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles, George Carlin, Joan Rivers\u2014all saw their stars rising over Rockefeller Center.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cHe was very strict about the show,\u201d recalls Mike Zanella, then a 19-year-old kid from the Bronx who had begun working for Carson as a cue-card boy on\u00a0Who Do You Trust?<\/em>\u00a0and five years later was brought along to\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0as a talent coordinator and personal assistant. \u201cPerformers\u2014[even] Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Judy Garland\u2014had to come in to talk to the talent coordinators,\u201d Zanella recalls. For Carson, the show was everything\u2014his laboratory as well as his den. \u201cWhen that red light came on, that\u2019s when he came alive,\u201d says Zanella. \u201cHe was a very shy and quiet man. He had the midwesterner\u2019s awe for New York, and he lived for the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the American public, it was a love affair from the start. Nora Ephron, who followed Carson around for a\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0series in January of 1967, noted that the entertainer was \u201cjust sophisticated enough to talk to sophisticates, just hayseed enough to seem astounded by what they tell him.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Ron Simon noticed about Carson during the New York period of the show, which lasted from 1962 to 1972, \u201cthere\u2019s a sexiness about him. He looks his best, and the way he interacts, especially with the female guests\u2014you could see almost a flirtation going on. As Lenny Bruce and others were pushing the limits in the clubs, he was doing the same thing on a nightly basis. If you only know the Los Angeles incarnation of the show, you\u2019re going to miss how he was very much a part of the\u00a0Zeitgeist<\/em> in the 60s\u2014that new wave of masculinity, of an emerging social movement that he was bringing into the bedrooms of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a ring-a-ding quality to those early shows. They always felt live, though they were taped hours earlier. It helped that Carson had a smart, sophisticated team of writers behind him\u2014besides Cavett, Ed Weinberger (who later created such television series as <\/span>Taxi<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>The Cosby Show<\/em>), and a corpulent, irreverent genius named Pat McCormick, there was Marshall Brickman, who would later co-write\u00a0<\/span>Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Manhattan Murder Mystery<\/em>\u00a0with Woody Allen. Brickman, who became head writer on the show at the tender age of 27, wrote many of the \u201cCarnac the Magnificent\u201d routines, in which a turbaned Carson divined the answers before being given the questions. As in, Answer: \u201cN.A.A.C.P., F.B.I., I.R.S.\u201d Question: \u201cHow do you spell \u2018naacpfbiirs\u2019?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Carson was more than just an editor of other people\u2019s jokes\u2014he was a good comedy writer on his own. It was no accident that his thesis at the University of Nebraska had been \u201cHow to Write Comedy Jokes,\u201d narrated on tape with examples from the famous comics of the day: Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, and others. \u201cHe was able to choose the jokes that really worked,\u201d Simon says. \u201cThey weren\u2019t dealing with family\u2014he wanted to deal with what it was like to live in the city during the 60s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Often the opening monologue made fun of the downside of what New York\u2019s Mayor John Lindsay had christened Fun City\u2014the muggings, the garbage strike, the blackouts. Cavett recalls writing a number of jokes for Carson on urban decay. To an out-of-towner who bragged on an audience card, \u201cMy hometown of Cincinnati has much cleaner streets than New York, signed Miriam,\u201d he answered, \u201cPompeii, after Vesuvius went off, had cleaner streets than New York.\u201d He joked about the city\u2019s high crime rate: \u201cNew York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time\u2014most, unsolved.\u201d Not even New York\u2019s weather was immune to ridicule\u2014\u201cIt\u2019s so cold here in New York that the flashers are just describing themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Carson\u2019s nightly poking fun at New York helped define the city for the American heartland. Even Mayor Lindsay got in on the act on one show, describing a computer-dating machine set up in Central Park where a bachelor deposits his quarter and tells the machine, \u201cI\u2019m sensitive, I\u2019m single, I\u2019m rich,\u201d whereupon the machine mugs him. The jokes got so relentless that the builder Lew Rudin and the president of the New York City Council complained to NBC executives about the bad press Carson was giving New York.<\/p>\n

He smoked throughout the show. \u201cThat was the sign of being an intellectual\u201d in the 60s, recalls Simon. \u201cEdward R. Murrow smoked, Leonard Bernstein smoked\u2014two of Carson\u2019s role models.\u201d He wanted to be equal to the city that was hosting him.<\/p>\n

Carson was always pushing boundaries, negotiating with NBC as to what he could say on the air. On one show he appeared in his undershorts, joking that NBC had taken everything away from him. He was very conscious of who owned the show, until the mid-1970s, when he wrested control from the network. Besides benefiting financially from the show\u2019s distribution and syndication, making Carson a very wealthy man, he now had a major say as to who would follow him on the air at 12:30 A.M. In the 1980s, observes Simon, \u201cno host of any other NBC property ever received such a privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carson also showcased a lot of eccentrics. Both the zenith, and the nadir, was the on-air marriage of Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki. The ukulele-plucking oddball known for his trilling, falsetto version of \u201cTiptoe Through the Tulips\u201d had been a fixture of bohemian nightclubs in Greenwich Village. It was the moment reality television was born. They were married on the air on December 17, 1969, and it was the most-watched event in the history of late-night television until Johnny\u2019s final show, on May 22, 1992. \u201cThere was no tougher ticket in New York than a place in the audience for\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0that evening,\u201d wrote Laurence Leamer in\u00a0King of the Night,<\/em>\u00a0his 1989 biography of Carson. Carson\u2019s stalwart sidekick, Ed McMahon, set the tone for the nuptials: \u201cWe cordially request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki right here on\u00a0The Tonight Show.<\/em>\u00a0But right now, here are some words of wisdom from Pepto-Bismol tablets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout it all, Carson lived high above the mean streets of New York. Dick Cavett remembers Carson\u2019s first apartment, at 1161 York Avenue, as a \u201cfour-bedroom bachelor pad over the river with his telescope there, [which he] claimed he used for astronomy.\u201d He had a car and driver available day and night. In the mornings he would play tennis alongside Mayor John Lindsay at the Vanderbilt Club, in the Grand Central Terminal Annex; later in the day he\u2019d make the rounds\u2014Patsy\u2019s, Toots Shor\u2019s, \u201821,\u2019 Le Club, Danny\u2019s Hideaway, even the Playboy Club. Like a true midwesterner, he was a meat-and-potatoes man his whole life and loved the row of steak houses between Lexington and Second Avenues in the East 40s\u2014Colombo\u2019s, the Palm, Pietro\u2019s, Joe and Rose\u2019s, the Pen and Pencil.<\/p>\n

His favorite watering hole, though, was Danny\u2019s Hideaway. He enjoyed the company of manly men such as writer George Plimpton, recalled Henry Bushkin, Carson\u2019s legal\u00a0consigliere<\/em>\u00a0for 18 years, who recently published\u00a0Johnny Carson,<\/em>\u00a0a lively and revealing memoir of his time with the talk-show host. \u201cI\u2019ll say one thing for Carson,\u201d Bushkin recently told\u00a0V.F.<\/em>\u00a0while sipping a drink in Peacock Alley, in the Waldorf-Astoria. \u201cIn those days he always picked up the check.\u201d The exception was at Danny\u2019s Hideaway\u2014\u201cDanny would never let Carson pay.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1963, after less than a year as host of\u00a0The Tonight Show,<\/em>\u00a0Carson married his second wife, Joanne Copeland, at Norman Vincent Peale\u2019s Marble Collegiate Church, on Fifth Avenue. Joanne was a former Pan Am stewardess, back when being a stewardess was considered a glamorous job. She had barely finished redecorating the York Avenue apartment when the Carsons had dinner with producer and television host David Susskind and his wife, Phyllis, at their co-op apartment at the U.N. Plaza. The two towers rose up 38 stories at First Avenue and 49th Street, with panoramic views of the city. \u201cYou have to move here,\u201d Susskind told Carson. \u201cHow can you not wake up happy living here?\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite his success, Johnny Carson rarely woke up happy. He usually woke up hung over. But move they did, into a posh duplex apartment in the west wing of the U.N. Plaza with an even more breathtaking view than the Susskinds\u2019. The nine-room apartment, with its dark, wood-paneled living room, cost $173,000. They moved in with eight color television sets and 16 phones. The World Wildlife Fund would not have approved of Joanne\u2019s decorating scheme\u2014wolf in the living room, cheetah in the foyer, and lamb in her dressing room.<\/p>\n

Despite its luxurious d\u00e9cor and staggering views, the U.N. Plaza apartment was a home few people were allowed to visit. When Joanne threw a surprise birthday party for her husband one year, only eight people were invited. \u201cJohnny packs a tight suitcase,\u201d Ed McMahon confided to Nora Ephron. \u201cYou won\u2019t get in.\u201d In fact, Bushkin was astonished to hear himself described by Carson as his \u201cbest friend\u201d in Kenneth Tynan\u2019s February 1978 profile of the comedian in\u00a0The New Yorker.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carson and McMahon, who had taken his rolling *r\u2019*s with him from\u00a0Who Do You Trust?<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0as Johnny\u2019s announcer and second banana, would do their serious drinking at P. J. Clarke\u2019s, Sardi\u2019s, and Trader Vic\u2019s, inside the Plaza hotel. Carson\u2019s drinks of choice were vodka sours and J&B scotch and water. One night at Danny\u2019s someone came over and apologized to Johnny for seating him in the wrong room. \u201c \u2018Whatever room I\u2019m in is the right room,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another favorite watering hole was Jilly\u2019s Saloon, on 52nd Street at Eighth Avenue, known to cater to celebrities and mobsters, and owned by Jilly Rizzo, Frank Sinatra\u2019s boyhood friend. According to Bushkin it was at Jilly\u2019s that Carson was thrown down a flight of stairs for chatting up a mobster\u2019s girlfriend, resulting in injuries that put him out of commission and off the show for the next three nights.<\/p>\n

Then there was the time the novelist Jacqueline Susann, known for her racy novels such as\u00a0Valley of the Dolls,<\/em>\u00a0threw a drink in Carson\u2019s face. It happened one evening at Voisin, on the East Side. Carson, a gifted magician, sat drinking and doing card tricks with a small group. Susann was Joanne\u2019s friend, and beside the two women at the table was prizefighter Rocky Graziano, as well as the wife of Rudy Vall\u00e9e. No one recalled what was said, but after a few of Johnny\u2019s jokes fell flat, as Nora Ephron later wrote, he started insulting the best-selling novelist, who had often been a guest on his show. \u201cYou are unbearably rude,\u201d Susann supposedly said. \u201cYou\u2019re not that great a comedian.\u201d And like something out of a John O\u2019Hara novel, she flung the contents of a Black Russian\u2014a mix of vodka and Kahlua\u2014into Johnny\u2019s face.<\/p>\n

Carson couldn\u2019t have been too surprised\u2014he\u2019d already witnessed the vicious running feud Susann and Truman Capote had aired on\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0in 1969. Capote had slighted Susann\u2019s literary abilities, and Susann retaliated by mocking his effeminate mannerisms and high-pitched voice. Capote\u2019s turn came again when he next appeared on the show and described Susann as looking like a \u201ctruck driver in drag.\u201d And then he went on the show a second time to apologize . . . to the truck drivers!<\/p>\n

For the first year as host of\u00a0The Tonight Show,<\/em>\u00a0Carson was paid just over a reported $100,000 annually for five 105-minute appearances each week. By 1980, in Los Angeles, when he would drive himself to work in his Corvette down the Pacific Coast Highway, he was making $25 million a year, working one hour a night, three nights a week, 37 weeks a year. It was good to be king of late night. Frank Sinatra once admitted that he admired many things about Johnny Carson, but he envied him his bank account.<\/p>\n

Despite all the mishaps, those early days were heady times for Carson and his cohorts. \u201cWe were all young. It was all new,\u201d Zanella reminisces. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t a superstar yet. It was all Christmas presents and parties with the band, and it was fun; there were three marriages within the staff, and relationships, and then in Los Angeles, it became a business. It all changed once he became a superstar.\u201d<\/p>\n

As much as he enjoyed the city\u2019s nightlife, Carson was never comfortable meeting the public. As Nora Ephron noted, \u201cHe was called New York\u2019s most reluctant celebrity, second only to Greta Garbo.\u201d Ephron described his life then as spent \u201crushing from his limousine to the NBC elevator.\u201d But that didn\u2019t keep him from tasting all New York had to offer. He kept a 42-foot Owens Cruiser named\u00a0The Deductible,<\/em>\u00a0which he would take out on the Hudson River, one of the few places in the city he could find solitude. From the pitcher\u2019s mound at Yankee Stadium, he tried throwing a curveball to Mickey Mantle. Once he got his pilot\u2019s license, the Cessna Corporation gave him a plane. He brought his midwesterner\u2019s love of football to New York, attending the New York Giants\u2019 games at Yankee Stadium. He perfected the art of hiding in plain sight, telling Ephron, \u201cAt Giants games, nobody sees me . . . nobody bothers me. I\u2019ve had the same seat for seven years and they leave me alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

As early as October 1965, three years after taking over\u00a0The Tonight Show,<\/em>\u00a0the New York\u00a0Daily News<\/em>\u00a0would write that Johnny Carson had \u201cthe most familiar face in America.\u201d Two years later, he was on the cover of\u00a0Time,<\/em>\u00a0described as \u201cmaster of the thousand takes. He\u2019s got a Jack Paar smile, a Jack Benny stare, a Stan Laurel fluster.\u201d<\/p>\n

For almost a decade, Carson ruled late-night television. But by the end of the 60s, the late-night neighborhood began to get a little crowded. Joey Bishop tried to give him a run for his money before flaming out after a brief stint on ABC. Merv Griffin moved to CBS and would be on the air every night at 11:30. Carson\u2019s former monologue writer Dick Cavett flourished with his more intellectual show, which ran for five years on ABC. Everyone was going after the same talent, and the same guests were appearing on all the shows.\u00a0Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0producer Freddie de Cordova felt that they had exploited all the New York talent, and he convinced Carson that he should move to Los Angeles. What may have helped persuade Carson to decamp were the dissolution of his marriage to Joanne and meeting his soon-to-be third wife, Joanna Holland, a 32-year-old model. California would represent a new life, and a new wife, for the 46-year-old television star.<\/p>\n

So \u201cThe Great Carsoni\u201d pulled off an amazing disappearing act: he left New York, and the show began broadcasting from Burbank on May 1, 1972. Television had come of age in New York, but it had decided to grow old in California.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he moved to L.A. he was very, very concerned that it was a creative mistake,\u201d recalls David Steinberg, who began his long and successful career as a comedian on\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0in 1968, when it was still broadcast from New York. (Steinberg\u2019s extraordinary rapport with Johnny would see him appear a staggering 130 times on the show, bested only by one of Carson\u2019s idols, Bob Hope.) \u201cCalifornia was a better decision for his life, but he was never sure that it was better for the show.\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0represented New York, the glamour and sophistication of Broadway as it was then. I think Johnny missed it. He was still excited by his stardom in New York,\u201d explains Steinberg, who has brought his own comedic gifts as a television director to episodes of\u00a0Seinfeld, Friends,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Mad About You,<\/em>\u00a0as well as the occasional\u00a0Curb Your Enthusiasm.<\/em><\/p>\n

Marshall Brickman observes that the show had a different feel once it moved west. \u201cThe prior show had that New York DNA. When he went out to California, there was no sense of compression at all. You know, 6B [in New York] is a small studio. I don\u2019t know if it held 400. It was originally a radio studio, was it not? But out there in Burbank on Alameda, there was a big barn into which they put bleachers, so it was less like theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show was taped earlier in Los Angeles, first at 6:30 and then at 5:30, so it was more Blue Plate Special than Happy Hour. Perhaps it was the seven P.M. taping in New York that had inspired Carson to be more spontaneous and risqu\u00e9\u2014no wonder the New York shows seemed sexier.<\/p>\n

Brickman remembers the trip from his apartment on West 67th Street down to 50th and Sixth Avenue, and \u201cgoing in the NBC entrance at Rockefeller Center, or Radio City, as they called it. It was architecturally spectacular, and you go up in these very classy wood-paneled elevators\u2014and you\u2019re really in the center of New York, which feels like the center of the world. When you\u2019re out in California, you drive on the freeway. You go to Studio City. You could be on the moon. You walk into this complex that could be an agricultural distribution center, but it\u2019s NBC,\u201d whereas in New York, \u201cyou were at the absolute heart of what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though he lives in California now, Mike Zanella is glad\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0is coming back home to New York. \u201cMaybe,\u201d he says, \u201cit\u2019ll be a party again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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