Sis Boom Bah

My all time favorite!
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[@jeromestracks108]

Johnny Carson on a bad night was still funnier than all of today's late night hacks put together.

[@kenw9061]

I totally agree

[@garycunningham9216]

Fallon sucks

[@JustPaul357]

Let's not forget, he was funnier than his contemporaries as well. It's not about the times, it's that Johnny was just that great. No one could save an unfortunate circumstance like Carson, king of improv.

[@stevebonafede2777]

Sis boom baa and V 8.....this still makes me laugh until I can't breathe. Watching Johnny lose it is priceless

[@LeoWhalen1933]

Not only the best carnac joke but the best carnac segment ever😂😂😂

[@Jamthecoolerator]

"This audience would lob a grenade at Bambi's mother." That sets it off just right. 😂😂

[@chris1pdx]

"May a Toothless Yak gum your Grandmother's 'Wheat Thins'" HOLY SHIT

[@kenw9061]

lol...yeah

[@kcjazzcat7822]

Hilarious.

[@stevenj9970]

Sis, boom, Bah.... One of the best laugh segments ever of Johnny and Ed.....

[@kenw9061]

It sure is

[@rogerbrinker7417]

As many times as I have heard this before and never tire of watching Johny and Ed cracking completely up!

[@kenw9061]

I know, the joke isn't that funny but watching them lose control like that makes me laugh like crazy. I miss that show.

[@sanford943]

​@@kenw9061I still think it is one of the funniest Carnac lines. Not sure when this originally ran but I am guessing anyone under 50 would not get some of the references

[@kenw9061]

Probably not...lol @@sanford943

[@sriv94]

@@sanford9431981.

[@patrickmoore6407]

Guessing this is from 1981 or thereabouts, given the references to Tip O’Neill and the air traffic controllers being on strike before Reagan fired them all?🤔

[@johnhourigan6049]

Honestly, one of the classic moments in TV history -

[@kenw9061]

I wish the Carson foundation would release the entire series on blu-ray. I know what I'd be watching in the late evenings.

[@dominicboudreau]

Sis BOOM Bah😂 I've never heard Ed laugh so hard! 😅 love and miss those guys!

[@tjwash5118]

Sis boom bah is one of my only clear memories of this show. Whoever wrote that joke probably had no idea how iconic it would be, and definitely had no idea that it would live on through KZbin. For all I know, it could have been a fairly common joke they heard on the street and recycled.

[@kenw9061]

Either way, they did it perfectly. I think the funniest part was how they both just lost control for a while. I think if they kept laughing for another few minutes, the audience would have kept laughing along with them.

[@tjwash5118]

@@kenw9061 you are right, he often got his best laughs when he could laugh at himself over a stand up joke that bombed.

[@shackdaddy7106]

The writer didn’t. But according to Ed McMahon, Johnny had told him that there was one joke in the Carnac routine that would really get him. So Johnny knew.

[@timothycrafford17]

The pause between a wed wobe and sis boom bah is priceless. Johnny knew what was coming 😂😂

[@lancegulyash204]

V8 is probably one of the most underrated ones bc it had to follow Sis Boom Bah.

[@ivanramos5236]

the original and best late night show ever!

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

Well...behind Jimmy Fallon. Right?

[@sushicourier]

That Barbara Walters joke is very funny as well. "Wed wobe" 😂😂😂😂

[@scazermazz]

I can remember when they did the "Sis Boom Baa" joke. My dad and I were cracking up over that for a week

[@chrispile3878]

Back when late night TV was clever AND hilarious!

[@kenw9061]

And still relatively family friendly

[@jameshall2999]

This is one of the rare times when both Carnac and Ed McMann both laugh

[@sfopaladin2661]

Thanks for the memories Ken. So sad these 2 great entertainers have left us. RIP Johnny & Ed 🙏

[@kenw9061]

He got lucky with Ed. He was the perfect straight man for Johnny.

[@shackdaddy7106]

The best comedy happens when things go off script. This is a perfect example.

[@AbandonedMines11]

Johnny always makes that trip, stumble, and near-fall at the beginning of the skit looks so real!

[@jennifersman7990]

One time he stumbled and fell into the desk crushing it. I think they showed it once on a anniversary show

[@AbandonedMines11]

@@jennifersman7990 That would be funny to see! I’ll have to search for that particular clip.

[@4KindnessGal]

I always loved how the audience would applaud wildly when Ed would announce the last envelope. 😅

[@kenw9061]

Yeah, and I always wished there were a few more.

[@MrLittlebuddy]

This is at least my 20th time watching this and I still laugh my ass off. Classic forever.

[@kenw9061]

I have that same problem. Every time I watch it I almost die laughing.

[@MrTonyd1954]

Your not alone

[@tomiossi8092]

I’m just dying laughing with them. Such great innocent humor.

[@kenw9061]

Yeah, they kept it clean and still managed to be funny You don't see that very much these days.

[@reyesguerra9671]

Funniest ever, my watching since 67 until he retired.

[@ilyakats54]

Sis boom bah killed me😂

[@musicauthority674]

I wonder what ever happened to Carnac the Magnificent's turbin? because it should be in the Smithsonian museum.

[@kenw9061]

It would be a collector's piece for sure.

[@williamjones7163]

I saw another episode of this skit. I was hoping it was this episode. To my grest relief this is it. Now to rewind. And re-watch. Again, and again. It has been worth it. My apologies to the sheep. Sis. Boom. And Bah.

[@Red-rl1xx]

One of the all-time classics!😂

[@lindaseel9986]

I don't know how old I was when this episode was aired. But I do remember hearing my parents cracking up! 😂😂😂😂 My father used that Siss Boom Bah line till the day he died. R.I. P. Daddy. ❤️

[@jek9911]

😊 maybe this episode is from the very early 1980s

[@lindaseel9986]

@@jek9911 I think the mid 70s. I was still a kid at home.

[@slimonion1975]

This has me in stitches everytime i watch it thank you for sharing

[@Bishopbosco]

I remember the night this was originally broadcast. Still as funny decades later!

[@user-uj4vy8vd7s]

ART FERN AND CARNAC - SIMPLY THE BEST OF ALL TIME

[@Red-rl1xx]

Judging from the air traffic controller jokes, this dates from sometime in 1981. I believe I can remember hearing about it on the news.

[@timothycrafford17]

To me that was the epitome of comic genius 😂😂

[@musicauthority674]

Johnny Carson used to do routine's that were spoofs from Carl Sagan. and like the amazing man that Carl Sagan was, he took it so very well. he and Johnny Carson were great friends. and Carl Sagan had such a great sense of humor.

[@musicauthority674]

Carnac the Magnificent was the best interaction between Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon. thought the intire Tonight show. describe the sound a sheep makes when it explodes. is the most hilarious thing I have ever heard. and it was just as hilarious as when Johnny Carson said it the first time. it was always funny how Johnny Carson would try to keep from laughing though the Carnac the Magnificent routines. and it is was always great how the audience would go wild. when Ed would hand Johnny the last envelope.

[@richardvervoorn6626]

One of the FUNNIEST BITS on Johnny’s Tonight Show !

[@sushicourier]

August 5, 1981. The air traffic controllers strike had started 2 days earlier.

[@t.j.gregson]

I always wondered what Ed's laugh really sounded like.

[@debbiethomasson2709]

Someone got a raise!! Ed is perfection!

[@russs7574]

....and my second favorite Carnac was when the crew replaced Johnny's desk with a balsa wood copy, so that when he went to do that little stumble, the desk broke into a hundred pieces when he tried to catch himself.

[@MrKbsweeney]

I’ve never understood why they didn’t finish with Sis BOOM bah. So.Damn.Funny

[@kenw9061]

I agree, I also used to love watching his Floyd R Turbo character.

[@johnwhite5897]

If he can't really see in the future😮😂😂

[@jennifersman7990]

Probably because they had no idea how it would go over with the audience

[@rockbassrules]

“May your only son be caught in a gay swine stampede” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@brooklynrican64]

My favorite Carson ever😅

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

If Ed didn't have you at least smiling then you have no soul

[@rick5793]

These NEVER get old 😅😂 I could watch hours of Carson, Leno was ok and funny in his way but nobody will ever match Carson.

[@kenw9061]

The man was funny, but had class.

[@kcjazzcat7822]

Nobody.

[@thomasbentley4757]

Late night talk shows today need to watch and learn from Carson.

[@kenw9061]

I agree :)

[@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet]

Love their relationship!!

[@kenw9061]

Yeah, those two had to have a lot of fun at times making that show.

[@HM2SGT]

5:45 *here at the end of 2023 the question would be 'who is running the house, senate and executive branch?'*

[@dkwoodsy2082]

The sis boom bah thing reminds me of a Mad Magazine cartoon I saw back in the 70s. It was about sounds that “super-heros” make. The sound when Wonder Woman takes off her bra… Ploob-a-doof 😂😝😁

[@jennifersman7990]

There was one other gag like that, Baja Describe the sound of a sheep laughing

[@michaelgilbert3713]

Woody Allen wrote for J.C. 👍🏼 true did Steve Allen write for J.C.

[@DanielManson-p3w]

Saw this live. Still laugh my as off years later!! What happened to comedy?!

[@jessearias12]

Hilarious 😂

[@bill-fk7tl]

Do we know who wrote it??

[@johngrogan7585]

Thank you

[@HM2SGT]

1:33 😅 talk about topical humor!

[@kenw9061]

Those two guys must have had a lot of fun making that show.

[@HM2SGT]

@@kenw9061 laughter really must be the best medicine, it kept Johnny's smoking from catching up with him until he retired

[@roncaruso931]

A time when late night was worth staying up for! The "comedy" of late night TV and the hosts are garbage these days.

[@BMan100]

God if they finished up with sis boom ba ….

[@pickles5150]

I was getting a knobber from Judy Bolton while watching this.

[@user-qc7iy6gx6s]

Johnny was the best

[@kenw9061]

I totally agree. The rest learned from him. Some better than others...lol

[@rogersmartinjr.8588]

Ed drunk? Probably.

[@kenw9061]

I heard he was quite a few times, but Johnny was laughing just as hard. They made a great pair.

[@rogersmartinjr.8588]

​@@kenw9061They sure did. There is one clip on KZbin where Johnny jokingly calls out Ed's drinking before Joan Embry comes on. No judgements here, they were hilarious!

[@kenw9061]

@@rogersmartinjr.8588 and Ed being drunk made them even funnier...i think at times he just acted drunk just for the laughs.

[@SullenMorbius]

I don't get it 🤷🏽‍♂️ Why is that so funny?

[@misterroboto5556]

This used to be funny... A very very , VERY long time ago.

[@kenw9061]

Sorry man, I still think it's funny as ever. Maybe it's just me.

[@1956gaba]

Is today.