The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 25th Anniversary Special

Original Air Date: October 1, 1987

[@MrDuds1984]

They don't make these stars anymore, they're all gone and it saddens me. It's great that we can relive these moments, thank you

[@musiknutz]

Hate to admit it but Bib Hope singing Thanks for the Memories makes me choke up. The talent (s) we had back then!!!

[@marilynr.meier-obrien3366]

There never has been a show like Johnnnnnnny Carson and it is so missed. Johnny was a one of a kind. He is so missed.

[@coolmoodee]

No one will ever hold a candle to all these talents... I loved growing up to this stuff . Real talent and class.

[@sherrisRN]

Agree! I miss those days on the shag carpet watching JC!

[@davereineke8172]

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[@naomiraymond4944]

Ok I’m

[@naomiraymond4944]

Those were t days my friends I thought they’d never end ~. But they did !

[@michaelanderson6456]

What most people don't realize is for these situations-comedian (sut-com for short) , and Late host , these writers look normal, yet are really mentally ill,(you thought I was going to say "mentally illegal "roll on the floor 😳..but that is correct..your Hollywood entertainment industry scripting writering, and actors are allowing nothing to be hinded..this comes from the heart ❤...thank you verry much..

[@pattih7]

In 2022, thanks for the memories, everyone! !♥️

[@nancyhowell4505]

I never forgot that tomahawk throw! So unexpected and outrageous. From the first time it was shown until today, still makes me laugh to tears! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@patsheppard2616]

I got to see Doc in a tux. Amazing. When you see him sing with Bob Hope and Pearl Bailey, you can get glimpses of his talent as a singer. He choose to hide it most of his performing career. It was our loss.

[@rjmurray5128]

Wish he had went on to do at least 35 years and say goodnight one last time in 1997, a way to bid farewell to the last of the greats of the 20th century and the golden years of late night television, my news source came from Johnny, Ed & Doc. As Bob Hope eloquently sang "Thanks for the Memories" I'll just keep watching here on KZbin when I need to go back in time and try to relive how great we really do have it here in America despite today's troubles and an ungrateful nation that we have become.

[@pattih7]

Thank you, in 2021! If only for a moment, we can laugh! We need laughter; so many have forgotten how! Lord, may Your Joy shine forth, and give us hope!🙏♥️✌️🦋

[@susanwest8239]

Amen.

[@marilynrichter9824]

Johnny was and still the best.

[@dejpsyd0421]

I can’t believe only 6 people have agreed with you. I can’t name 1 talk show host that comes close to Johnny

[@joyceknobbe6978]

He was a class act!

[@lyncressler2608]

This was by far the best and only late night talk show that ever existed !!!! I miss all of you !!! 😩

[@jackwatson3944]

Letterman was much better.

[@garyalpern1402]

@@jackwatson3944 & he owes most of that to Johnny, will tell you that himself. But he did also evolve.

[@joheron6227]

Such iconic man! Comedic by just a laugh, holding an animal or chatting with Ed! He started a legend and is a legend himself! Miss you Johnny and team!

[@cmroszczyk1]

My husband and I were expecting our first baby, and a neighbor and I worked together second shift at a nursing home. We could not go to bed until we watch the tonight show. We loved it so much.

[@tonyreynolds5112]

It'll be so sad when us old farts are gone that actually got to see Carson live. RIP all of us.

[@KY-dx4rf]

Top performer, top night-show host, top human being! 👏👏👏

[@ashleelarsen5002]

👍

[@pinklemonadeanimations]

🤢

[@keithnorris8982]

When Ed Ames started towards the hatchet, Johnny grabbed him in order to milk it out for all the laughs. He was the master of timing!

[@ashleelarsen5002]

Timestamps or it didn't happen

[@keithnorris8982]

@@ashleelarsen5002 I don't understand what you mean.

[@ashleelarsen5002]

@@keithnorris8982 I couldn't find what you were talking about, but then again this is my Naptime show.... So goodnight 🤙

[@maryhale8356]

@@ashleelarsen5002 p poo pray

[@sammyoyola2042]

I stayed late until 1 am watching ninety minutes of this show. Got to work all redeyed and sleepy but I did my job. Thanks for the memories. RIP Johnny Carson and all his guests gone to heavens.

[@marshamariner7897]

How Carson and Webb could keep from laughing is beyond me 🤣😂😅😹🌹💕

[@CookieCaspari]

I loved staying up late watching Carson and then Letterman. Excellent late night programming!

[@carolynmartin6562]

2022 would be awesome to have some of these comedians back. Laughter best medicine and America needs it

[@MrToadbait]

For the most part I agree, but I think Jay Leno wasn't that funny and still isn't

[@vicmartinoofficial331]

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was the tops in entertainment! There will never be entertainers of this caliber ever again most likely and there will never be another late night talk show host as good as Johnny Carson that's for sure. Heyoooooo.

[@doristhomson3082]

I wonder how ay times Johnny and Jack Webb had ti rehearse that bit about the clean copper clappers before they got it all correct. I nearly fell out of my chair, laughing.

[@susanwest8239]

God bless Johnny Carson....

[@pamelajordan2890]

Johnny Carson was so mellow, sweet, funny .My dad reminded me of him. He'd come out with a one liner and we'd crack up.❤️😺

[@musiknutz]

What an absolutely perfect TV moment. Thank you so much for the post

[@shirleybrown9153]

Johnny Carson was the BEST !!!!!!!!!!!

[@stevekay1925]

Ahh good clean comedy and jokes that we were able to laugh at whereas today people would be crying “I’m offended, I’m offended”.

[@ozziemoran2133]

I remember it all.just great!!

[@walterluberto5323]

Thanks for posting!

[@Metalgal713]

Love the tribute to Fred Astaire at the end.

[@marilynrichter9824]

I watched with my Dad may both RIP⚘

[@marilynrichter9824]

He was the best!

[@captainbart]

Sat and watched this with my Dad.....he and Mom left the next day for the West..

[@gailjackson8941]

I miss Johnny!

[@Jennifer-ym9mm]

See 14:00 -- FABulous duet-dance with Johnny Carson, Pearl Bailey!

[@chirelle.alanalooney8609]

Oh my God Carl Malden's Nose is absolutely hilarious.

[@Robert-tm4yj]

He was the master of late night! 💔🎶🎼👍

[@hhairball9]

What a lineup!

[@wcwbulldog1701]

EVERYONE SAY IT...... THANK YOU JOHNNY.....THANK YOU JOHNNY.....THANK YOU JOHNNY......R.I.P. TO THE ONE AND ONLY KING OF LATE NIGHT!!!!

[@joangeorge605]

The good old days, no cursing, off guard jokes, dirty jokes.

[@jchow5966]

I slso loved staying up late to watch Johnny - ☮️💟

[@katycoolidge9615]

I can't handle life Without you JOHNNY CARSON thank God for KZbin.. CRIES 😢😭 😢😢😢😭 😢😢😭😭😭 😢😢😢😢😭😭 SO I CAN SEE YOU I MISS YOU JOHNNY CARSON AND QUITE A FEW LOST STARS 🤩😍 AND I WON'T HAVE MUCH TIME LIMIT LEFT I HAVE HORRIBLE APPENDIX SWOLLEN

[@shellthomas3123]

That’s is why he will always be the Man!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@katycoolidge9615]

I love 💕😘💕💕😘😘😘 this episode of JOHNNY CARSON AND I GOT A COUSIN NAMED JOHN MURPHY SO I GOT THIS JOHN JOHNNY CONNECTION I LOVE THEM ALL

[@urielchamberlain599]

Thank you!

[@bestoutcomes]

Carson's appeal was/is second to none.

[@hardlines4]

Johnny had more class in his pinky than any of today’s Late Night trash hosts!

[@DavidBroeg]

😘❤😁

[@my4cutegirls]

The little boy asking for a magic trick and to come to the birthday party ❤️ oh my heart

[@tomeddy3971]

The absolute best of Late Night Television. . .Nobody better than Carson, Letterman a close second. I haven't watched late night TV since these two left. Rest in Peace Johnny Carson.

[@faywhitehead7059]

The greatest of all!

[@marilynr.meier-obrien3366]

He is missed

[@johnking5174]

What Johnny meant here at 2:10 was that California on October 1st 1987 experienced a very powerful earthquake. The Whittier Narrows earthquake was 5.9 on the scale and it happened at breakfast time at 7.42am which shook a lot of LA people out of their beds!!

[@m42037]

Never hear this kind of applause from Fallon!! He's as funny as a train wreck

[@cestmoi1262]

I remember people mentioning the "good old days" and I thought they were nuts. And now I am old enough to recognize that they were right.

[@p47thunderbolt68]

When watching an episode that I remember watching when it when it originally aired makes me think back to that time . Add to that ,that everyone is gone now makes it sad .

[@Ky29999]

What A Line Up Tonight!

[@allanhugo8569]

The best tonite show host ever. All others are a close second.

[@MustertheBrohirrim]

Those quake jokes are 👌

[@jchow5966]

This is incredible.

[@meaghenporte4961]

Thank you so much for posting this! Whatta guy!

[@michaelhatem6085]

Thanks Ed

[@CowGirlKat8691]

Best night time show ever

[@eileencampbell9544]

a class act

[@user-eb6xg1wc8i]

❤❤❤ Memories…pressed between the pages of my mind

[@tinklvsme]

🤔 Could u imagine how confused 80% of the comedians and 99% of the singers would be if they time transferred to 2021?? 🤥

[@jameschavez6400]

More Stars Than You Can Shake Your Telescope At

[@anntalbert4247]

God bless we miss you

[@dougbuchanan5815]

OMG...the best...thanks

[@kylellikethesmith9879]

I miss this so much.

[@tinklvsme]

🤫. I lived down south when we had that Riverside earthquake. I’m surprised they filmed still. We lived about 10 minutes fro, Riverside, it messed up the phones, tv, the freeways. We had a small 1 every week, I got used to them. The 1 that felt weird were the 1s that u could fill the ground roll right underneath your. ✌️❤️🙏🦋

[@gardenlover9663]

I am here to watch the Pearl Bailey number again. What a dame!

[@Vicki1951]

One of the small Midwest towns he lived in was only 12 miles from my hometown.

[@wannabe4668]

Absolutely hilarious

[@davidmeabrod9059]

Thank you jewels

[@fredadelodovici5669]

This is so great to see Johnny Carson 🥰I had a big crush on Johnny Carson they’ll never be another talk to you like it I do like Jimmy Fallon but it’s not a difference but he is funny just like Johnny was❤️🦋🦋👄🥰🌎😘😷

[@gtafan9584]

Was Ronald Reagan still participating regularly in TV shows while in office? Interesting.

[@dave00004483]

No he wasn't. His last acting job was in 1964, before he became Governor of California.

[@juergenr784]

Ioved Johnny most always left me laughing it was sad when i saw his last show and said good bye to Ed and doc and to us he was the greatest

[@TheBaritoneCrooner]

WOW, a Joe Biden reference in the opening monologue! 😆

[@davidyeates8381]

Johnnie had previously referred to the then Senator Biden, a Democratic Candidate, some weeks earlier when he mentioned that the then Senator had quoted part of a RFK speech as his own. When the press raised the issue he was quoted as saying - “not to worry”, he reassured his staff, “we have nothing to fear but fear itself”.

[@leslievey8453]

He was a known plagiarist.

[@Theworldisyouroyster156]

Johnny ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@susanwest8239]

No one will ever have these shows again. Shows we have one are junk compared to these.

[@Robert-tm4yj]

Wow 😳, he is the best

[@meijer78]

At the end when Johnny announced that he was sticking around, that's when he cut back to doing the show 3 days a week instead of 4.

[@stevenherrold5955]

these are the good old days when this show was fun and funny to watch now its like somebody pulled the plug on humor and forgot how to plug it back in that new guy is worse than watching old episodes of Gilligan's island

[@sammyoyola2042]

Jay Leno, who took over the Tonight Show was OK, except not like Carson, of course.

[@danielraymadden]

I was already potty trained when this show first aired 1962...I remember standing on the coach next to mom and dad in my new whitey tidy underwear I was all grown up two years old...I would pretend I was smoking a pipe like dad...made it out of Tinker Toys...

[@anthonytindle5758]

In the years of BBC there has been loads of talk shows doing exactly the same as Carson in fact some of his best stars have been over here doing the same some of which we have very little knowlage of but as they have the yanks favour we get to know them after a evening interview eg. Steve Martin.

[@dogbarbill]

There are more fucking YT ads in this than there were in the original TV broadcast

[@joannaedwards6325]

Hey Bruce ! Thank you very much for this. What a tremendous show this was. It's in my favorite library for sure. Which quake is he referring to in 1987? The one that was in San Francisco ?

[@turkfiles]

It is known as The Whittier Earthquake of October 1, 1987. I was driving through Whittier, CA to work when it struck. Thought I had run over nails and all my tires blew out at once! It was quite an adventure!

[@katherinehogan6622]

I don't normally respond to j. Carson joke . However the great quack was when??? I believe before the film was made in '" the great 🌎 earth quak ? ". That's probably the wrong title. You can check it out at any of your local libraries. It starred Jeanette McDonald & Clark gable & Spencer Tracy!!! I highly recommend 👌 it !!!!! It is in black ⚫ & white!!!!! But who truly knows. My father moved us to southern California when I was 13 yrs. Old. We found out a lot about earthquakes, mudslides undertows in the Pacific ocean & winter rains & mudslides !!!!!!! What about the 🔥 fires. I lived in it and survived!!!!! I will always 💘 love Johnny Carson!!!!!!!

[@oregon32nursenurse43]

Probably the quake of 1992

[@MrGfmassot]

Crying.....

[@chirelle.alanalooney8609]

I had no idea that Pearl Bailey was so funny.

[@lupitaseoane7466]

Classy night show entertainment with Johnny !!! Nowadays, nothing but trashy and vulgar, all of them. Especially with the ‘woke’ culture…… thanks for posting these great programs. 😊👍

[@jchow5966]

Best of America. TV ever!!!!!!!! ☮️💟💟💟☮️💟

[@jchow5966]

LOL!!!!

[@sylvainbeaulieu6300]

What Johnny Carson build for 30 years it took Jay Leno just a short time to destroy it.

[@marshamariner7897]

I sense a who's on first routine 🌹💕😂😅

[@virginiamenkes1059]

wherei.the CC?

[@sabinchich999]

I also have birthday on October the 23rd 👍😉

[@atatterson6992]

Me too :-) Happy Bday

[@jimrick6632]

THIS WAS WHEN TV WAS MEANT TO "ENTERTAIN"...TODAY...ZERO ENTERTAINMENT ON ALL THE NIGHT TIME SHOWS...SAD....

[@sherryhesner5940]

😍😍😍😍😍

[@katycoolidge9615]

JOHNNY CARSON I got cancer and going to find out how long I got to live or worse if I got cancer in second place then that's very shorter time

[@lisaadams4912]

Hi hi this was the second

[@floydiandreamscapes5145]

Anyone else hear what sounds like a water fountain?