Johnny Carson & Jack Webb in a Dragnet Spoof (Copper Clappers).

Johnny Carson & Jack Webb spoof the kind of dialogue you would hear on the old Dragnet show. Johnny has had some copper clappers stolen and is reporting it to Jack Webb. Very funny. This show originally aired on 2/20/68.

[@JFinSD2]

Jack finally cracked a smile at the end of that bit....how he was able to do that bit without a flub and with a straight face is beyond me.

[@MrT8599]

Great sketch and great use of alliteration.

[@PaulaG43]

I love this! And Jack Webb’s smile at the end is priceless!

[@markgraczyk5600]

The clean copper clapper caper! A cool classic!

[@kevinmcclelland3845]

Good to see Jack Webb crack a grin,, he always seemed so serious.

[@joeblow8593]

That was when late night TV was worth watching...

[@jeanwalke6015]

When I need a laugh this is what I watch. You don’t find comedy like this anymore!

[@francisalanwormald6328]

AT 80 I GOT MORE THAN A SMILE...a hidden treasure....

[@justlivinglife....619]

Classic Johnny Carson, spoofing Dragnet, with the help of Jack Webb! And they never break or cut up! Perfect!

[@westlock]

Jack Webb did have a sense of humor. When Stan Freberg did his two parodies of Dragnet, Webb let his musicians participate.

[@elvicare35]

Johnny was starting to break, but held it together!!!!!

[@WDRowlett]

What's so funny to watch about this bit is Johnny Carson and Jack Webb keeping a straight face. That was back in the day and we had real entertainers. My Dad and I watched this skit and we were busting at the seams laughing.

[@seahorsegil]

So glad you enjoyed and with someone too. Shared laughter is always better.

[@kurtb8474]

Jack Webb totally stone-faced through the whole routine! Excellent!

[@doorswhofan]

No one else could've had such fun with alliteration on national TV. :-)

[@jeffcoat1959]

I could watch this 100 times and it's still just as funny.

[@dm95422]

Why can't late night talk shows be this great again ???

[@johnniecontreras3622]

Two of my all time favorites..classic all the way lol funny guys!!

[@BLink-zv8bl]

Brilliant. Two old pros.

[@0515stan]

Like I said when I posted this to my Facebook wall: This is from WAY back when comedians were actually funny.

[@raffriff42]

Classy comedy, Mr. Carson!

[@SeekingHisWill]

That was hilarious 😂. I miss the old stars. Johnny was about to lose it.

[@paulphillips6744]

Late night went from this to the trash we have today, so sad

[@mikegross6107]

EXACLY my words! I don't know HOW the late night shows stay on but guess when your high on weed, drugs and alcohol it doesn't matter!

[@TheBlueScarecrow]

Absolutely funny stuff with no filth. No more comedy like this anymore... sad.

[@sharpo]

Love clean clapper comedy.

[@scottgh8285]

I surely miss Johnny Carson.

[@hollyb6885]

I LOVE Dragnet.

[@barbarawashington844]

Comedy gold. I don't know how Jack Webb could keep a straight face through that routine. He sure perfected his mimicry of the attitude, the talk, and the walk of a cop on Dragnet. Laughable to think somebody like that could go undercover. They'd smell him a mile away!

[@donaldblankenship7541]

This skit was played continuously by ear phones on airlines in the early 1970s.

[@uberjeffsmith2473]

He will live forever.

[@panowa8319]

My God, I haven't laughed this hard in awhile! I think it was just funny watching Jack Webb keeping a straight face. I miss Johnny.

[@bailinnumberguy]

Absolutely classic bit.

[@TheRonnierate]

I remember that! So funny 😂

[@alanw505]

Funny collaboration.

[@suejane6996]

Bestest ever. Classic from years ago. Thx.

[@professorjams]

Excellent

[@mickeyray3793]

The very next time I get depressed and I need something to cheer me up, I'll play this "copper clapper" bit. And unlike Webb and Carson, I WON'T have to keep a straight face! 😅

[@InuitInua]

Cried laughing.

[@panowa8319]

InuitInua same.

[@elvicare35]

Me too!!!!!!!! I just watched it on another video, and wanted to check new comments!!!

[@johntabler349]

Carson couldn't keep the copped clean copper Clapper comedy bit straight I'm glad Cool Joe Friday kept calm

[@ronwade5433]

I was seven years old, Dad fixed TV's and we had color, still funny stuff now.

[@x.y.8581]

Clever how they collectively corralled the conclusion!

[@seahorsegil]

Correctly commented!

[@allend2749]

The D.I. starring Jack Webb is my favorite movie!!!!!!

[@james5460]

Jack Webb was trying to put on a new airing of Dragnet not long after this was filmed in 1978. It's interesting to see how he would have looked - a little beefier, a little tanner, but just as grim. I recall this got a lot of attention at the time.

[@uberjeffsmith2473]

Genius.

[@subbingtoeveryonewhosubsto3661]

tWO COMIC LEGENDS

[@hookahb8299]

How many times have i seen this and still laugh my ass off..HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

[@td389]

Come to be to Clobber the Kleptomaniac, Clod Cooper, from Cleveland after the Cleaning lady, Clara Clifford, discovered the Comped Clean Clappers that were Kept in the Closet.

[@GunBuddy08]

Classic!

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

John Randolph "Jack" Webb (2 de abril de 1920 - 23 de diciembre de 1982) fue un actor estadounidense nominado al Emmy, además de productor televisivo, director cinematográfico y autor, famoso sobre todo por su interpretación del Sargento Joe Friday en la serie de radio y televisión Dragnet. Además fundó su propia compañía productora, Mark VII Limited.

[@ricksaunders8074]

Hey SNL this is pure comedy

[@JamesJohnson-re9zw]

Funny, you don’t see humor like that these days

[@spockboy]

Awesomeness.

[@williambrodala8144]

SpockBoy I saw that episode as I watched the tonight show religiously, i laughed my balls off, that they never screwed up in the dialog was amazing and they all knew it too including the audience

[@spockboy]

​@@williambrodala8144 I'm too young to have seen it originally, but there is NOTHING on late night anymore that has this clean, simple and very funny approach to making people laugh.

[@reedsilvesan2197]

A little known fact. The badge Jack Webb used during Dragnet was an actual L.A. pd.badge. Upon the ending of the series it was officially retired, never used again. If you watch Dragnet, you'll notice that Harry Morgan NEVER shows a badge.

[@jk0897]

Good stuff

[@massapower]

PURE genius and funny . Unlike today's Trash !

[@stevierayc772]

I started out surfing for porn and I ended up here? Go figure. The funny thing is...this was way more entertaining than porn. Watching Jack Webb trying to keep a straight face...priceless.

[@StevenTorrey]

A brilliant piece of shtick!

[@BobHershey]

They cut the last bit of dialog at the end... Webb: "This looks to me like a 915"! Carson: "What's a 915"? Webb: "Klutzy comedy"!

[@kwdrm1]

Pure classic all the way.

[@chivalryalive]

Bob, do you know anywhere that we could look up the entire skit, including the missing dialogue at the end? I'm curious to hear it all. Thanks!

[@55Quirll]

You're right, I remember that ending as well. These skits were hiliarious and pure family fun, you can't find that anywhere today.

[@Red5614r]

genious

[@haybill3000]

Brilliant sketch on par with Who's on First?

[@5jerry1]

~Classic. XD!

[@jonathanhains814]

Truly a vlassic.

[@straitjacket8689]

Classic

[@tiha6708]

Reminds me of my high school sweetheart Clara Clifford from Clarksville who gave me chlamydia, crotch-rot, crabs & clap.

[@tiha6708]

davincent98 .. Well, I cautiously kept my cock caged and choked my chicken but she cleverly clamored coyly till I caved and I was captured by the cunning cunts crotch and caught the clap. Crap!

[@lindagreener6862]

Ti Ha moo moo jj

[@elvicare35]

Oh, please don't mention the C-R-A-B-S word!!!!!

[@Onemadgnome-yy1vs]

Ti Ha ROFLMFAO !

[@jamesbomar3903]

Ti Ha well you had to turn it into something filthy, didn't you,.....

[@WilliamT1964]

Bobby Hill (King Of The Hill) said that the 'Hard C' sound in comedy was funny. He was right.

[@georgegrant40]

Jay Silverheels had a good thing with Carson also

LOL! Priceless!

[@stephencarter744]

*Pat Novak* .........for hire.

[@rf396]

The street was as deserted as a warm bottle of beer, She looked badly used, like a dictionary in a stupid family. Hellman you ought to rent an idiot the heavy thinking is too much for you. The old man started across the street, he couldn't have made it with a pocket full of aces. CLASSIC hard boiled dialogue!!!!

[@stephencarter744]

rf396 undervalued and overlooked entertainment! "I'll dirty you up, like a locker room towel" . The dialogue is dynamite. The 'Sam Toliver' episode is my favorite.

[@rf396]

"You start with trouble and it never stops. It's like offering to buy aspirin for a two headed boy". You have Ed Begley Sr. in that Episode AND Stacy Harris! Yes that is one of the top PNFH yarns!

[@kyleecourtwright4967]

when was this interview and when did he discover his clappers were stolen?

[@chrisweltsch2130]

Johnny looks like George W.

[@tomderryberry9744]

What year was this originally done?

[@seahorsegil]

I did a quick search and it appears that it originally aired 2/20/68.

[@tommytruth7595]

Certainly better than the late night America-hating a.holes on late night TV these days.

[@FigaroHey]

I wonder if Jack Webb was so deadpan because he was a radio actor, when facial expression or gestures were pointless: you did everything by dialogue.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

I have some discs of Dragnet's first incarnation around 1954-55. What's funny is not only do the cops talk in that clipped way, every frigging guest actor talks the same. They mellowed it down a bit in the '60s as far as the guests speech, but they're still pretty staccato.

[@historicalreview7839]

Ed McMahon's laughter is obnoxiously loud as usual

[@karenharris3808]

say it three times fast

[@Mikesorrento3344]

Late Nite TV, with the exception of Leno, has and is trash now. Colbert et al have politicized content. I don't watch late nite TV anymore. Miss Carson greatly. Still watch his show in reruns. He was the best.