Carl Reiner Makes His First Appearance | Carson Tonight Show

[@johnnycarson]

On October 1st, 1962, Johnny Carson hosted his first episode of The Tonight Show and began his incredible 30 year reign as the King of Late Night! To celebrate this remarkable milestone we will be posting classic first appearances for the entire month of October. Happy Anniversary Johnny!

[@lemurianchick]

Can you tell us the date of this particular show?

[@Sidetrackification]

Excellent footage thanks for posting 📫👍

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Was there another segment with Carl?

[@johnnycarson]

​@@MrJoeybabe25 That's all that exists of that show. The kinescopes we have of these early shows are only segments and not full shows.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

@@johnnycarson Thanks!

[@Bill_N_ATX]

Carl was such an awesome entertainer. He gave us decades of comedy and influenced some of the best.

[@manofiske3318]

Sadly, he was never able to overcome the sickness of leftist, socialist lunacy that afflicted him 'til his dying day. Of course, he passed the disease on to his son along with the monstrously bald head.

[@charlover]

Can't get enough of these clips from the best years. That all of the 60's shows were destroyed has been a crushing disapointment. Young Johnny was the best, if only we could see them all. Thank you for these few crumbs that survived!!

[@angieoggeri7086]

No one can beat him.....He was the Best.....

[@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380]

Love this; thank you for posting these rare clips of 1960s Johnny Carson! please post more 1960s if you're able to. Really love seeing these. Such a rare treat.

[@Rob_Kates]

Carl appeared with Johnny many times and also did The Carson Podcast, which is excellent. I read that Johnny was considered for the Dick Van Dyke show.

[@karenleemallonee684]

What a guy, lOl!!! Thanks for giving us the Dick Van Dyke Show, Carl...my favorite classic tv comedy!!! 😆😆😆😂😂😂🤣

[@gamernorcal]

really love these early Carson clips. keep 'em coming!

[@LLOYDOLA]

The late night talk shows of today, can't even come close to the humour and class of this almost 60 year old late night talk show!

[@kurtwehrmeister5684]

January 3, 1964 is the very earliest Carson Tonight Show clip I've ever seen. The only other '64 I recall seeing is one in color(!) from August, during the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, in which LBJ was to be nominated for a full term. That predictably takes up most of Johnny's monologue.

[@douglaslowe5]

awesome clip! loved the Van Dyke show. such a shame NBC didnt save the New York era shows

[@QuadMochaMatti]

I would like to know more about this "secretly adjustable for comfort" shirt collar that Mr. Carson teased us with at the end of the segment.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@wrnewcott]

I love how the audience isn't really on board at the start, but these two pros make 'em laugh whether they want to or not.

[@tomlichnofsky.7048]

True Legends Of show business! 👍👌😎🍁♈

[@gterrymed]

1964! My parents were still in college and Johnny went on to 1992 when I was in college!❤ Johnny Carson's monologues always gauged the pulse of popular culture and he always gave his guests a platform especially Michael Landon's plight to raise cancer treatment awareness. 🫂

[@bradpreston7779]

Man, it’s such a shame NBC was short-sighted they wiped the tapes of the first ten years of the show. We could have full-quality, color episodes in their entirety, but instead all we have are black-and-white kinescopes of clips. I’m thankful for what we do have, but the destruction of most of the New York years is a tragedy.

[@djhrecordhound4391]

That purge wasn't just of The Tonight Show, it was ALL their archives of that era. One of the NBC hosts (maybe Steve Allen...?) actually went dumpster diving to save their old shows from oblivion.

[@peachespavalko1980]

*Thank you* for these drops. I enjoy your channel *very much* and it’s a great addition to my TV/DVR episodes I tape every night without fail. Carson is King in my book.

[@kasumiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin]

Damn Johnny looked young here...

[@daedralord1]

He was 38 or 39 and had already hosted the show for 2 years nearly. I’m 42 and it’s depressing that Johnny had already achieved what he had by his 40s

[@kennethsouthard6042]

@@daedralord1 How is it depressing?

[@djhrecordhound4391]

Carl did too, but he barely aged until the 1980s

[@VideoAmericanStyle]

@@daedralord1 well, you’re alive and Johnny isn’t, so you have that going.

[@TheStockwell]

More than Mel Brooks, Reiner was a comedic craftsman who patiently, decade after decade, kept in motion - always producing *something.*

[@meijer78]

These 60's clips are awesome. I wanted to see if you have the one where Johnny was doing a sketch impersonating Ed Sullivan and then Ed Sullivan comes out face to face with Johnny. The clip was shown on the Final Show.

[@rberka555]

They became lifelong friends. Reiner was just on the October 1991 rerun tonight. His 46th appearance he said.

[@kkampy4052]

I saw that too. Reiner looked almost the same.

[@stevesizemore6274]

Thanks so much for this. These guys were entertaining naturally with quick wit.

[@brianf2648]

Here is a little triva.. Johnny Carson was also considered for the role of Rob Petrie.

[@davidrosler5413]

I remember an anniversary show in which Johnny saud the old tapes had been erased and plainly more than annoyed said the person who did it was (rightfully) no longer at NBC. So where did this amazing old stuff cone from? It looks like film, not tape.

[@SteveStalzle]

Thanks for posting these kinescopes. These are shows I never thought that I'd ever see.

[@donnabailey929]

Great show!! Thanks

[@petesmitt]

Carl had the measure of Carson here.. lots of funny digs.

[@lescook9021]

Thank you for posting the old clips

[@chrysostom8987]

I never see Johnny so yeang I always thought that he started his program when he was mach older but now I see him yeang.

[@feggyduss6463]

What a great find. I wish that you would share the 33 episodes that are known to exist from 1962-1972. PLEASE! Lol.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

What an awesome find! I'm loving all of these new/old segments! Are they from full shows, or are they from the companies that once existed on both coasts that would film (kinescope) parts of programs that celebrities (and others) wanted for themselves?

[@bradpreston7779]

The latter. If they were from full shows, it would be in color.

[@davehire1433]

I assumed a lot of the black and white prints came from Armed Forces TV.

[@raypeters4525]

CARSON, NEVER TO BE EQUALED !

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Carl Reiner (El Bronx, Nueva York; 20 de marzo de 1922-Beverly Hills, California; 29 de junio de 2020) fue un actor, comediante, guionista y director de cine estadounidense.

[@coolsquirrels]

How are you able to upload these? Because I've read his shows before about 1972 are pretty much taped over because of NBC standards at the time.

[@EdKazO-Vision]

These appear to be kinescopes

[@MrJoeybabe25]

@@EdKazO-Vision There were companies on both coast that would kinescope television performances for guests on shows like this and situation shows. One must wonder where all those kines' are!

[@djhrecordhound4391]

@@MrJoeybabe25 As a record collector, I can tell you from personal experience. Very much like old "lost" movies being discovered/restored--a "lost" film/record/tape seems to "suddenly" appear for various reasons... The original owner forgot about it (or didn't know they had it), or the media sat unlabeled, then a collector comes by and grabs it by chance. The collector may know what they have when they first see/hear its contents, and starts confirming with other collectors before possibly contacting those relevant to the original production...then it gets sold/loaned for possible restoration/rerelease (hence, "rediscovered")... ...BUT... Almost as bad as sitting in an original owner's basement (and their families didn't toss it after their passing), that unlabeled media could be sitting at the bottom of a less-experienced collector closet. They don't know (and may never know) that they may have the only surviving footage/audio of that production. Legacy film and recording companies are now depending on collectors to help unearth their own lost/discarded works. Over 80% of silent films are considered lost, but they still "suddenly" appear. Artists' rarest (and deemed lost) recordings have been trickling into box sets for a few decades due to collectors' help. Apologies for the length of this, but it's coming from the horse's mouth (EDIT: This doesn't just apply to old media. LOTS of 1980s 1990s and early 2000s TV footage is being rediscovered because someone happened to record a VHS or Beta tape off the air. The original multitrack tapes to Black Sabbath's 1983 LP 'Born Again' were thought lost until summer 2021. 'Born Again' is notorious as Sabbath's worst-sounding album, even as a remastered CD. Tony Iommi has announced he'll do a total remix/remaster, but has no plans set yet.)

[@MrJoeybabe25]

I can see Johnny working for Carl instead of Dick. In another universe, DVD would have gotten "The Tonight Show" and Johnny Carson would have gotten the DVD show. Both would have worked, I think.

[@feggyduss6463]

During this Era, the show ran at a slower pace as it was one hour and forty-five minutes in length. Mr. Carson hosted the show FIVE nights per week. This must have been completely exhausting.

[@rbrobbi]

Suggest adding the date to the video title. Many KZbin players including Amazon and Roku don’t show the description easily.

[@joycebruhn1346]

Lol I remember this Carl guy

[@Rob_Kates]

Do you have the debut appearances of Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Jr with Johnny?

[@philrisser6853]

6:32

[@MrTexxan8]

Back when late nite talk show was classy .....not the garbage they have now

[@user-db6pt7vr3l]

Oooh boy. A lot of dead air at the beginning of that interview. Man, like everybody else, it took Johnny awhile to get in the groove at work.

[@CryptoLando]

that carl dude was an operative

[@glenngrinter6818]

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@MrTexxan8]

Sadly would have lived longer without the cigs

[@rauljwmm]

Do Don Rikles first appereance

[@mexicanspec]

You know Carl Reiner should stop smoking. He won't live very long if he doesn't.

[@lla788]

Maybe he did stop smoking somewhere along the way

[@mexicanspec]

@Gregory Papadopoulos I know. It is hard to be sarcastic in writing.