The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson - a complete program from early 1987

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  • Guests were actor Charles Grodin, comedian Ronnie Shakes and singer/guitarist Leon Redbone and his group. I left in most of the commercials and promos to make it a kind of "time capsule". Two commercials were blocked by TH-cam because of copyright claims on the music, so I edited them out. I recorded this program from a rebroadcast that aired in early 1988 on WNBC-TV, Channel Four, in New York City. According to TH-camr Adam Nedeff, the original broadcast date was February 24, 1987.

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  • @TerriHARRIGAN
    @TerriHARRIGAN 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you Johnny for your show. Even though you have passed away many years ago your legacy lives on. You keep me alive. Your humour keeps me going. Love your shows. RIP Johnny

  • @modernretroradio993
    @modernretroradio993 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    For those who don't know, comedian Ronnie Shakes had already passed away when this rerun aired. He died about three months after the Feb. '87 taping. For many years, I wondered why we didn't see more of him in the '90s and beyond -- because he was so consistently brilliant. He had a heart attack while jogging.

    • @pianopappy
      @pianopappy  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks for sharing. I was not aware of this. How sad.

    • @TerriHARRIGAN
      @TerriHARRIGAN 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How sad to hear that.😢

    • @KayBarsotti
      @KayBarsotti 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't recognize the name, maybe his face

  • @johnsjohnson448
    @johnsjohnson448 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was a terrific Era in Late Night Television. Thank-You for sharing.

  • @MyThirdPlaceLtd
    @MyThirdPlaceLtd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh wow thanks for this if you have any more episodes with intros pls upload:)

  • @adamnedeff3102
    @adamnedeff3102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If you're interested in the exact original broadcast date, it's February 24, 1987.

    • @pianopappy
      @pianopappy  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm VERY interested, Adam. Thanks very much. How did you find out? I usually made a note of anything I recorded. However, this was a rerun.

    • @adamnedeff3102
      @adamnedeff3102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pianopappy I have access to a newspaper archive and I typed in the guest list.

    • @Maestrohbill
      @Maestrohbill 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pianopappy
      Well, the Grammys he joked about were that day. The rerun likely actually aired about a year later but the original show was 2/24/87.

    • @DBEdwards
      @DBEdwards 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A date that will go down in obscurity

  • @modernretroradio993
    @modernretroradio993 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is probably the best of all the Carson/Grodin exchanges. Love it!

  • @scaron1933
    @scaron1933 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was always disappointed when I stayed up to watch and this popped up. Same thing when the show was preempted by Wimbledon for which the Tonight Show had a bumper where they passed by a TV set with Carson on it as they told you it was being preempted that night for Wimbledon.

  • @echoecho3108
    @echoecho3108 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanx so much, pianopappy, for sharing!
    Such fun to see Johnny and the gang again.
    And it's cool that you kept the original ads.
    Some I remember, some I don't, but that's the way it goes.
    Thanx again!
    Keep 'em coming, please?
    (edit bc my stupidphone cannot spell properly 🙄 )

    • @DBEdwards
      @DBEdwards 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are better examples of Carson out there. But I have to agree. The commercials are cool

  • @mmoore385
    @mmoore385 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you for this….
    Can I ask a question? imo Why is it even on his worst night, that Johnny Carson was still better than most other comedians? (Even today?)

    • @johnsjohnson448
      @johnsjohnson448 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Because Mr. Carson was well read and knew what his audience expected of him. He made his guests shined and stayed away from one-sided politics by respecting his viewers.

  • @kittendiotima4212
    @kittendiotima4212 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Leon Redbone's band was excellent. I didn't know that the NBC Orchestra had won a grammy, it's not surprising tho, they were an amazing jazz big band

    • @pianopappy
      @pianopappy  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for your comment. After Caron retired from the Tonight Show, the band played some concerts under the direction of Doc Severinsen. I was fortunate enough to see and hear them at the Great Allentown Fair in Allentown, PA. For legal reasons, they couldn't be billed as "The Tonight Show Orchestra".

  • @nonenoneonenonenone
    @nonenoneonenonenone 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It helps to know that the writers had to come up with monologs and comic material every single day!

  • @codym8897
    @codym8897 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey pianopappy, can you upload the full-length Austin City Limits Season 5 opening sequence from 1980? It begins with a shot of the Austin skyline as the camera pans up. Voices can be heard saying: "Hey Wilder, how's Austin City Limits tonight? Get on down and find out!". Then, the music starts playing and shows scenes from around Austin, Texas. The next scene shows a truck driving into the water, a woman holds a cowboy hat while a man drives, a shot of the road with the Austin skyline, back of the truck driving by, camera panning to the left to see the Austin City Limits highway sign, and the camera zooming in on the Austin City Limits highway sign by giving a closeup shot; The music shifts to an instrumental version of "London Homesick Blues", and Lickona's voice can be heard saying: "Recorded live from Austin, Texas, it's Austin City Limits"; Then, the Austin City Limits highway sign morphed into photographs before zooming in to reveal the performance.👍

  • @jimclark6256
    @jimclark6256 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    every one has shredded documents, big deal , that does not mean they were incriminating or classified.

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 4:18 Johnny used an old Morecambe and Wise comedy name from Britain - "Dewey, Cheatem & Howe" used by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise in their show back in 1971.

    • @izzirf
      @izzirf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That was used by the three stooges in the 30s as well

  • @tomdooley4226
    @tomdooley4226 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hereeee's Johnny! 😅

  • @chrisrattray8958
    @chrisrattray8958 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ahhh, the prophetic first line!

  • @Scottwilkie18
    @Scottwilkie18 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    R I p Ed
    Johnny

  • @glen1ster
    @glen1ster ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Leon!

  • @deanbrandl1987
    @deanbrandl1987 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I saw Leon redbone concert the guy was absolutely plastered on jagermeister

  • @BigBingFan
    @BigBingFan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    FUNNIEST (in terms of no laughs for monologue & ALL the way through the show)--was Regis Philbin and James Garner, appearing with Johnny the Friday after the Thursday Thanksgiving, 1981. Does ANYONE have that in their video collection that they could kindly post? FUNNIEST I'D EVER SEEN!

  • @MyThirdPlaceLtd
    @MyThirdPlaceLtd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:06

  • @mercedes523
    @mercedes523 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would say I’m happier more than unhappy. When I became a believer and a follower of Jesus it turned my life around. The “secret “ of happiness lies in being CONTENT in all situations. The Bible says that it rains on the believer and the unbeliever and it shines on the same.

  • @DBEdwards
    @DBEdwards 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ISHTAR WHICH CHARLES GRODIN IS PLUGGING, update...... " ISHTAR shows this week at Portland State University's student-run 5th Avenue Cinema as part of a fall season that focuses on box-office flops worthy of revival-would mutate into one of Hollywood's most notorious disasters. A cascade of production problems and ego clashes lost Columbia Pictures nearly $40 million and is likely to have played a part in the studio's then-owner, Coca-Cola, selling it to Sony in 1989. "

  • @nonenoneonenonenone
    @nonenoneonenonenone 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's depressing to hear the political jokes and remember how mediocre things were in the 80s.

  • @DBEdwards
    @DBEdwards 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very strange Grodin Carson interview. Too intense. Unfunny. Ronnie Shakes? Lame. Pathetic. IT'S THE COMMERCIALS THAT ARE ENTERTAINING

  • @leslievey8453
    @leslievey8453 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy was rude and boring .

    • @pianopappy
      @pianopappy  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Actor Charles Grodin was a guest on the program many times and always acted the same way. Carson thought it was amusing and played along. Note the comment from TH-camr "Modern Retro Radio" below.

    • @DBEdwards
      @DBEdwards 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Grodin and Shakes. Indeed