Johnny Carson Makes Fun of Doc Severinsen's Floral Jacket, Tonight Show 1986

[@lighthouse44]

No one will ever top Johnny Carson. He is forever the gold standard.

[@craigjgomez]

To illustrate your point, as a last request from a dying legend, David Letterman with the help of Tonight Show Producer, Peter Lasally, gave Johnny the job of writing the monologues for Letterman's opening each night. So, for the last month of Johnny's life, the opening monologue that Letterman gave was actually written by Johnny Carson. A fitting tribute to the best late night host that has ever been.

[@Oddjob22667]

I'm so pleased you posted this. I actually won this jacket in a 1988 Muscular Dystrophy Association charity auction but in all these years had I never been able to find a photo or video clip from the night of the show the floral print jacket was worn (a Ralph Lauren Polo 39R. There was even an Italian cigar band in one of the pockets!)

[@lynneferencik1378]

that is pretty cool

[@toniwilson1579]

It is so neat you now have a another part of the history of your jacket. it being wear and also it being made fun of... by the king of late night t.v.

[@bailey9r]

Are you sure you "won"? ;

[@davefox7516]

That's awesome! 👍 I collect blazers from the TV series MIAMI VICE.

[@rayanderson7074]

Wow post a picture please…

[@Danny-ju2ip]

Amazing Doc is still around in 2021 at 93 years old

[@PlanetEarth3141]

Two years later and Doc is still blowing Gabriel's Horn 📯.

[@Neb-ie5mj]

And still is!

[@jennifersman7990]

There was one night Doc had on a pinstripe suit with multicolored stripes, Johnny said he looked like a hit man for a circus

[@stevethomas2285]

Haha!

[@supercruiser4925]

The man's a comedic genius

[@hankkingsley2976]

You will never see or hear a band like that ever again. They could do it all and back anyone.

[@tomlehr861]

Best timing,best sense of humor,

[@jefferyobryan6351]

Miss that man and the era more than a millennial will ever understand. Everybody was happier, that's a fact Jack!

[@jscordoba3]

I'm an old (38) Millennial. I always remember my parents laughing their asses off at Carson. I used to sneak to the top of the stairs and watch without them noticing. Once in a while if my Mom was asleep, my dad would let me come down and watch. Great memories.

[@lescook9021]

@@jscordoba3 Please read my entire post before judging where I'm coming from. I make a LOT of generalized negative comments about millennials. However, I'm fully aware that just as not everyone in "The Greatest Generation" was great, in fact many were the opposite of great, not everyone who's a millennial is a selfish, self absorbed, lazy entitled (blank), who think thinks that nothing happened before the day they were born worth knowing about. There are many millennials who would fit right in with The Greatest Generational. You sound as if you are one of those.

[@JammasterJames]

"you have the face that could wear that!" Hahahaha! Classic! I miss Johnny Carson...

[@JamesHaney]

Doc always brightened up the Late Night, just a few steps off from Liberace-Sparkly! Also: Many Congrats on the Nuptuals--a wonder to "behold" (audio-wise, anyway)!

[@JammasterJames]

Thank You James! The kind words are appreciated!

[@SSArt98]

Jammaster James James is a good name and usually, anyone with this name is of good character. ;) ~ Have a Good Day & Stay warm if your in our near this insane Winter of 2014 here in the Mid West of the USA! ~~ Truth, Peace, Freedom & Love2ALL James (One nick name of mine is "JAM") lol

[@JammasterJames]

Thanks James! Stay warm and dry my friend! May 2014 bring you good health, happiness and prosperity!

[@JamesHaney]

Gettin' all "Jim"-ed up in here!

[@rjp801]

He joked about the delay in shuttle Columbia launches... And later that same month in January 1986, on the 28th, the crew of the shuttle Challenger was lost, by launching in cold weather...

[@melbrod3868]

And the Columbia itself broke up on Feb. 1, 2003 I was struck by his comment about the record loss in the stock market--39 points.

[@violinhunter2]

Yep.

[@miketubbs1198]

@@melbrod3868 ...or jumping off the World Trade Center.

[@Jacob-sh4ym]

Only Doc could pull off that much Class!!! A gorgeous sport jacket!!! 🎺 I miss those Guys, the Tonight Show, and that Era so much, it hurts!!!

[@salvatoreruggiero33]

Johnny was the best!

[@ScottKorin]

Listening to Johnny talk about the Dow Jones dropping 39 points and how that was a big deal, we have to realize that in 1982, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 777. Between 1982 and 2000, the Down Jones Industrial Average increased over 1,500%. That's insane!

[@Rocket9944]

Scott Korin Thats why we crashed in 2010...

[@AKSyndrome]

+sn9696 Do you mean the "Dot-Com" bubble in 2000 or the Great Recession in 2008?

[@StevenTorrey]

39 point loss? Doesn't even compute on the top 10 losses. Oct. 29, 2008--fell 777 points.... The 1929 crash when DJ stood at 381 pts and it fell by 121 points for a loss of 38%; by the time the crisis ended on November 11, it fell by 40%. Again that was when the Market stood at something 381 pts in 1929. So 39 points was barely a ripple even by 1982 standards.

[@joevignolor4u949]

That's what happens when central banks prints money like crazy and gives it to their rich friends.

[@stevethomas2285]

That 39 points was, at the time, the 2nd worse drop. The worst was October, 1929. Also, the Dow was 1,526 in January 1986.

[@Palootski]

Only Doc could do that !!!

[@bubbaries]

Carson: “One investor I heard, jumped off the trade center...” Me: ooooooh boy did that not age well.

[@cechristine2376]

Who could've known that far ahead of time what would happen because of the demented brains in sick terrorist lunatic assholes.

[@TL2354]

Why?

[@jamespfitz]

Neither did Johnny. Or Ed. Or Freddy. Or any of us, eventually.

[@healing2power2music2]

Love the jacket !

[@stevethomas2285]

The 39 point drop was second worst at that time; the worst was October 1929. Also, the Dow was at 1,530 in January 1986.

[@houstonrebel4449]

The King of Late Night. Entertainment in general was best in the 60s and 70s and always will be better than whatever else comes out now.

[@kpf8186]

39 point drop in the Dow Jones....now THAT"S funny!

[@ianraphaellopez9613]

I went there for this joke...

[@jolynnhill8502]

I miss Johnny and Ed and the band! No late night shows will ever be better than this.

[@victorblock3421]

Ed's laugh made the show for me

[@98Dougmorris]

a class act!

[@jerrykinnin7941]

Oh to be back in the 80s again. A great time. Reagan was an excellent president. I remember the space shuttle in 86. MTV actually played music videos.

[@StevenTorrey]

"The NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986,..." I was wondering about his comment about the postponement of the Challenger in January, 1986.

[@sferrell1000]

A little eerie when he spoke about the shuttle taking off the next day.

[@ScottKorin]

Actually, he is talking about the Columbia mission, STS-61-C, that launched January 12, 1986. There were four scrubbed launch attempts before the successful launch on the 12th.

[@daedralord1]

Scott Korin yep and just over two weeks till Challenger

[@Woody615]

I looked it up and Columbia was delayed 7 times. It finally launched on January 12 which was a Sunday and he never is on on Saturday night. Therefore it had to be before then. Columbia was scheduled for Wednesday, January 8, so since he said they were going to try tomorrow, I suspect that this is from Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1986. It though was delayed also, thus the January 12 launch.

[@jeromestracks108]

The Goat

[@spidrawebster]

There really ought to be a comp of Doc's best outfits.

[@rayanderson7074]

THE KING…PERIOD.

[@MarvinThiessen]

Carnac the Great says, may your only son win First Place in the "Liberace Leap Frog Contest".......

[@dionysus2006]

This aired the day before the Columbia Shuttle disaster on Jan 28th, 1986

[@evoman1776]

No it was over 2 weeks later. They didn't fly the next day, it was delayed again. It happened 2 days after the Super Bowl, and he was talking about the upcoming NFL conference games. Also he mistakenly called it the Columbia - it was the Challenger, not Columbia which later had it's own disaster.

[@dionysus2006]

@@evoman1776 Yes, you are correct. It was Challenger

[@buckle-upbuttercup9345]

RIP Doc. 1927 to 5/20/2020

[@canadianfortrump4057]

You'll be happy to know Doc Severinson's still alive. I checked Wikipedia and other sources and there's no information that says he died on May 20, 2020.

[@kkampy4052]

@@canadianfortrump4057 I was wondering because I hadn't heard anything

[@Danny-ju2ip]

Doc is still around. He's 93 years old

[@whiteclifffl]

The market dropped 39 points????? LOL.

[@RobertSnell-nz4oo]

Carson would be having a field day with the DC goons

[@larrystuder8543]

I had a sofa looked like Doc's jacket..

[@rberka555]

More!

[@augthedog55]

The Bears shutout the Rams 24-0, and then went on to defeat the Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX.

[@J.B24]

39 points? psh. Amateurs.

[@damachine3]

1:53 It wasn't that big of a drop because in percentage terms there was no comparison. 39 points only amounted to 2.5% drop since the Dow was much higher then (the 38-point drop in 1929 equated to a 12.8% decrease because the Dow was much smaller then). For example, today the Dow would have to drop 650 points to equal a 2.5% drop...since it's at 26,270 as I write this. Very misleading. As far as 2.5% is concerned, especially given how the market moves in current times, it's surprising that that was any cause for concern.

[@damachine3]

Quote from the papers on January 1986, when Johnny made this comment... "The Dow, which finished at 1,526.61, lost 39.10 points, or nearly 2.5 percent. The drop was the worst in the blue-chip indicator's history, exceeding a 38.33-point decline on Oct. 28, 1929, when the market was in the midst of the collapse that preceded the Depression. But in percentage terms, yesterday's decline was much less than the drop in 1929: In that decline, the Dow lost 12.8 percent."

[@RonGerstein]

In 2024, the DJIA reached 42,000 points.

[@cgmoog]

5:12 he means the Challenger Space Shuttle which blew up on launch soon after this was taped.

[@stevenfarley4738]

LOL = "the Dow dropped 39 points"

[@koatlga]

Carson mentions the Space Shuttle Columbia was being delayed. Wasn't it the Space Shuttle Challenger in Jan 1986?

[@HHH-ye1ro]

KevieO yes. This was in January, before the disaster. He was discussing the AFC & NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES. What a view into history.

[@Woody615]

The Rams played the Bears in Chicago on Sunday, January 12, 1986. Columbia was first scheduled to launch on December 18, 1985 but was delayed 7 times before its eventual January 12 launch. It was scheduled to launch on January 8 but was delayed again, so since he says, it's supposed to try again tomorrow morning, that means that this broadcast was from Tuesday, January 7, 1986. The Space Shuttle Columbia (mission STS-61C) finally launched on January 12, 1986. It was the last flight of a Shuttle before the Challenger Disaster (mission STS-51L) on January 28, 1986.

[@depaola63]

Yes it was! January of 86' ..the Football talk also..Eric Dickerson's LA Rams..

[@TL2354]

Woody615- Challenger explosion was 2 days after the Super Bowl.

[@schwei56]

Columbia met its fate on Feb. 1 2003. 😔 Breakup on re-entry.

[@Jeremiah7-ox2nj]

Ed McMahon, Johnny's obsequious side-kick.

[@davidmackenzie5403]

He took Grandma drapes

[@mikes9959]

Doc looked like a barber pole in Venice or something.

[@Pilot545]

Pretty sure the shuttle he was talking about wasn’t Columbia but Challenger. RIP.

[@1111boone]

39 point drop in the Dow Jones Average?????!!! Man, you get that much movement in 1 hour nowadays!

[@jamespfitz]

Yes, inflation changes things over 40 years How bizarre

[@kevinthetruckdriver353]

I had a chance to buy stock in Kodak Instant Camera's or Sony Betamax Home Video. Dam. I chosed the Super 8 movie reel to reel home movie projectors instead. That's 10 bucks I'll never see again. 😲 😭

[@kkampy4052]

I bought an Apple II+ for about $1200 around 1977. If I had bought the stock instead, I'd be a millionaire now.

[@Threedog1963]

"The stock market dropped 39 points..." and it was a big deal? LOL. The market can drop 20 times that much today and it's just normal activity.

[@jamespfitz]

Yeah, inflation is funny.

[@MrBowtie1982]

I am surprised no one made a big deal about the joke involving someone jumping off the world trade center.

[@joevignolor4u949]

That's because 1986 was before 2001.

[@GdHr-oz5ph]

The tie with the jacket is horrendously bad in the best way.

[@millerforester6237]

Hey Johnny, you have a different outfit every time you appear on the show, on TV, etc. You get your que from Qaddafi? Or the other way?

[@pjwillsr]

5:12 mentions the next days delayed Columbia Space shuttle liftoff....sad reminder and erie.

[@johncavedo3706]

He talked about the shuttle delays. The next day the Challenger blew up, killing all astronauts while the world look Ed.

[@TL2354]

The Challenger didn’t blow up the next day you moron but why let facts get in the way of your stupidity

[@StevenTorrey]

@@TL2354 YOU ARE WRONG! "The NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986,..."

[@118Columbus]

@2:19 This World Trade Center joke did not age well - 1986 joke before 2001 Twin Towers collapse…

[@afweath05]

Where's that anti-cold nasal spray? The cold is a Corona virus, maybe I should get that spray.

[@freecycling6687]

Hmmm, too bad those scientists didn't keep working on that "anti-viral nasal spray." It might have come in handy recently.

[@jdhrap]

Recap 37 1/2 yrs later. Rams got smoked by Da Bears Super Bowl Shuffle team. And Columbia exploded on takeoff the next day.

[@leonardstilwell1894]

Whoa ... a 39 point drop?! That's Trump change :)

[@rpminc1974]

True, since Trump as President the Stock Market is at record highs every day !!!

[@TERoss-jk9ny]

@@rpminc1974 : Hit 30,000 yesterday!

[@evoman1776]

I guess that "breakthrough" for the cure for the common cold didn't quite pan out.

[@jeffrose5622]

Lets go Brandon!!

[@hogansavoy6525]

Compare this to Fallon's SJW woke nonsense. Johnny is rolling over in his grave right now.

[@psadelachute363]

Why so much useless writing permanently obstructing the image ??? What a shame. Mr. Carson must be turning restless in his grave...

[@dhpbear2]

Click on the text and then click on the upper-right to close

[@tlcp53b49]

I wonder what he would have done or not done with Bin Laden?

[@robb1761]

Doc was a nurse

[@anonygent]

2024 and still no cure for the common cold.

[@stevefowler5970]

meanwhile, johnny is wearing an ugly bright white colonel sanders jacket

[@drServitis]

NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY JOHNNY CARSON WAS SO POPULAR. TRIPPING OVER EVERY OTHER WORD, AND STIFF AS A POLE. VERY INSECURE MAN.

[@sunshine45986]

drServitis Triggered over someone's success, now that's insecurity, envy, jealousy, and hatred in all capital letters.

[@drServitis]

Your mother thinks otherwise...........................

[@depaola63]

He was jackked on " blow ! "

[@DonTheVoice]

Johnny was popular because nobody else could do it better, and people watched him. Can you do better? If you can, post a youtube video of your work, and tell us where it is!

[@drServitis]

I went to school with a Don Mueller at Duke of York Academy in Nairobi back in the day. Did you go to school in Nairobi, by chance?

[@deanbrandl1987]

When you're making $10,000 a week you can buy lots of clothes