The Tonight Show - Monologue, Carnac - May 8, 1979

[@richardwilliams473]

Ed s laughing is SO infectious during the Carnac scenes!!!!

[@Ron-d2s]

He was loaded, messed up on the intro a few times too.

[@joeylawn36111]

4:07 "How many of you remember the old days........." ....When Gasoline was dirt cheap.... Pepperidge Farm Remembers.... 4:58 And this is why Reagan was elected in a Landslide in 1980

[@dhpbear2]

14:40 - Ending with 'Taps' in a minor key! :)

[@CreativeWarrior-]

Brutal!

[@ryanellis4474]

The music at the end!!!!!!!!!! So good! Masterfulness!

[@dhpbear2]

That's 'Taps' in a minor key!

[@Camop-iz9kt]

Great inside joke at 6:07. "Supertrain" was one of the biggest, most expensive flops in TV history. Only nine episodes were produced.

[@CaryMGVR]

*Ah yes, another Silverman classic ....* 🤮👎🏻

[@modernretroradio993]

I remember that show being promoted. Looks like I didn't miss much.

[@Solitude47152]

Supertrain was cutting edge.

[@Ron-d2s]

The one I wish had lasted beyond a single season was "The Highwayman" crime fighters with super high-tech semi-trucks, one even converted into a helicopter.

[@howardstern666]

This episode aired on my 10th birthday! I remember the gas lines back then.

[@lesgobrandon2436]

2022: Replace the name Carter with Biden and this monologue could be applicable today. 4:32

[@93Jubilee]

Yes. The hatred for Democrats is appalling. But an ignorant fool like djt can be applauded? Go figure.

[@lynngoodrich8450]

Flash floods- what do perverts do on the banks of the Mississippi. lol 😂

[@hankkingsley2976]

How is your blimp doing

[@yt650]

Frank was pumping Ethel when I pulled into the Sinclair station.

[@hankkingsley2976]

Couple of dinosaurs just like that joke

[@yt650]

@@hankkingsley2976 Super glad you liked it. Confucius say man who lose key to girlfriends apartment get no new key.

[@siggylloyd3566]

@@yt650 your quotations are funny, but your ad-libs aren't. Stick to repeating other people's jokes on the internet.

[@yt650]

@@siggylloyd3566 Glad to hear you like the quotations, you should stick to reading them and not worry about what other people say. We all have a first amendment right and I noticed that you exercised yours.

[@hankkingsley2976]

The Hello Larry joke was just as lame as the series

[@CaryMGVR]

*A measley buck for a gallon of gas ....* *And today I hear it'll be $10 by April ....* 😢

[@WingsOfDay]

Ed said they were as close as two people could be to being married without being married, I believe it.

[@dansantarsiero1526]

That's interesting. I saw an interview with Ed McMahon and he said he and Johnny rarely socialize outside the of the studio.

[@siggylloyd3566]

@@dansantarsiero1526 absolutely right. Sometimes I wonder where Tonight Show viewers get these absurd histories/characterizations of Johnny & Ed

[@DaninVirgina-mg7rf]

I wondered about that as it seemed, to me, that they were closer earlier in their professional relationship. Not that I spend a lot of time thinking about Ed and Johnny.

[@stoytrivia1126]

Catch-22 was always one of my favorite Carnac jokes. 😂

[@chejohnny3706]

great time capsule of 'merica in late 70's

[@hankkingsley2976]

Love the Supertrain reference.

[@darrelltalbott4830]

Thanks y’all

[@ilmsff7]

10:32 2022, 'Hold my beer."

[@wiedep]

Johnny's plate actually was - 360 GUY

[@ryanellis4474]

I’m sure you love Mark Malkoff… :-)

[@robertsnell3937]

Could you imagine Jimmy Fallon trying to do carnac?

[@bornyesterday21]

Jimmy Fallon couldn't wear Johnny's shorts.

[@93Jubilee]

He'd be giggling at his own jokes the whole time. such a shame that he likes to do that.

[@carnakthemagnificent336]

Audience gave indication of Reagan replacing Carter...

[@rainbowtrout]

Absolutely. And there's an episode right before the election where he does a poll of the audience and Reagan wins that in a landslide.

[@antibrevity]

I doubt this as elections back then did not begin until the very late in the prior year. Reagan announced his candidacy on Nov. 13, 1979, so no one in this May audience knew that Reagan was even running, let alone that he would win the Primary. The audience probably was disappointed with Cater, however, as he became quite unpopular as the economy stalled. His approvals were low by 79. In those days, Americans were still sane and had *normal* elections that only lasted 1 year. Now we are insane and have elections that begin the day after an election and last for 4 miserable years of hate-mongering. It's never ceases to amaze me how generation after generation of citizens seem to genuinely believe that Presidents have something to do with the Economy :|. Presidents mostly just cross their fingers and hope things are swinging upward so that they can take credit for it. It's big business to tell people that Presidents control their economy, however, as the "economy" is NEVER satisfactory and thus it's always an easy way to blame incumbents and incumbent Parties. We only ever think that the economy is good in hindsight; it was good "last year" or at some other point in the past.

[@carnakthemagnificent336]

@@antibrevity It would be understandable if the audience was reacting to their views of Carter rather than a favorability of Reagan over Carter, fair enough. Regardless of whether he had announced, they would have known he was a likely candidate based on his 1976 candidacy. Does Federal policy impact the economy? Bill Clinton inherited a post-recession rebound that he had no influence over. The economy is primarily a function of what the people do, but absolutely federal policy impacts the economy. Within two months of the 1929 stock market crash, unemployment reached 9.3%, but by June of 1930, unemployment had fallen to 6.3%. Smoot-Hawley tariffs (written by two Republicans), enacted by Congress, under Hoover, did not protect American jobs. When other governments followed suit, it reduced international trade and within five months of Smoot Hawley, we had double digit unemployment. People credit FDR for getting us out of the Depression, when FDR’s policies continued Hoover’s and extended the Depression. FDR signed more executive orders than all Presidents for the rest of the century combined. FDR inherited an unemployment rate near 20%, and yet unemployment did not reach single digits for the rest of the decade. The lower tax rates that Reagan got through congress absolutely facilitated an economic rebound of the early 1980s, (and generated record tax receipts to the Treasury.)

[@DaninVirgina-mg7rf]

Carter would have won the election except for his Iran rescue the hostages fiasco.

[@jeffreygranger6913]

Taps at the end of Carnac!?

[@hankkingsley2976]

Because he was dying out there. And truth be told Johnny was as funny when he bombed. Nobody can do that today you kids get off my lawn you don't know what you missed

[@jeffreygranger6913]

@@hankkingsley2976 That comment is the gospel truth.

[@richardwilliams473]

Yes . Taps played by an oboe but in a Minor Key

[@chrislargent6121]

Answer- pete rose , a used car salesman , a united states congressman Answer- who will be making ur next license plates

[@93Jubilee]

I hate the response about Jimmy Carter. He was one of our best presidents! Unifying, kept us out of war. A good man who kept the standards high. Unlikewhose how followed later

[@patbrooks9823]

A "Whodunnit" reference. No, it didn't do well. 111th out of 114 shows in the ratings.

[@KaneRobot]

I was 6 weeks old. So I guess I don't remember this one.

[@marksorenson5871]

Youre too young to know whats going on now. Grow up

[@cestmoi1262]

The video is absolutely poor quality put Johnny Carson is absolutely at his best! We lived in the best of times.

[@hankkingsley2976]

And me hey now Hank Kingsley

[@ashcarrier6606]

The crowd didn't like Lawrence Welk being dissed.

[@quizmaster85]

Hermetically sealed.

[@cowboytim9882]

"Beethoven's fifth movement...."

[@tonyreynolds5112]

I remember Carter did better for us hillbillies than Ronnie Raygun did. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸☮️☮️

[@Kandik93]

Never thought Carson was funny. Full of himself and dumb sexist jokes.

[@watchgoose]

did no one ever tell Ed that "all-knowing" and "omniscient" are the same thing?

[@leonsighdoria1919]

8 year old me stayed up late to watch this show, my current 11 and 13 year old children in 2023 have no idea who this guy is, it boggles my mind. We lived in North Hollywood California and I remember sitting in a hot 1965 Pontiac Catalina waiting with my mother in a gasoline line on Lankershim Blvd.