Johhny Carson......RIP

[jdogginla]

Reported that Johhny Carson died this morning. RIP

[switchin'addiction]

RIP to a great television icon. Just reported on NBC news. Was 79 years old.

[spectratoad]

Another legacy into the history books. RIP there Johnny. Do you think when he walks through the gate there will be a stage for him to continue the show? :D

[Krazy K]

Another legacy into the history books. RIP there Johnny. Do you think when he walks through the gate there will be a stage for him to continue the show? :D
Just like Bob Hope!! Ya know it!!

[Tom Brown]

I always admired Johnny's class. :cool:

[Mtg Pro]

This is the first that I heard. A very funny man..

[Kilrtoy]

WOW, that is too bad, he was pioneer in the TV field....

[cc322]

Bumer I was just talking to some friends and we were wondering what happened to him :(

[1978 Rogers]

He was a great.

[MRS FLYIN VEE]

may he rest in peace. :(

[Rod-64]

Johnny Carson, late-night TV legend, dead at 79
(CNN) -- Johnny Carson, host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years, died Sunday of emphysema.
"He passed away this morning," Carson's nephew, Jeffrey Sotzing, told CNN.
The long-time smoker was 79 and had announced in 2002 that he was suffering from the disease.
Carson hosted the late-night talk show from October 1, 1962, to May 22, 1992, taking over from Jack Paar and handing off to Jay Leno.
"The Carson show changed your life," comedian Joan Rivers said. "If Carson liked you, you were set. He got the bright comics. He picked the ones who were different, who were smart."
Born John William Carson on October 23, 1925, in Corning, Iowa, he is survived by his fourth wife, Alexis, and sons Christopher and Cory from his first marriage, to Jody Wolcott. Another son, Richard, died in a car accident in 1991.
Carson began his show business career as a teenaged magician and ventriloquist before serving in the Navy during World War II.
After the Navy, he attended the University of Nebraska, graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
While still in college, Carson took a job as an announcer with KFAB in Lincoln, Nebraska, and two years later moved to Los Angeles, California, where he took an announcer's job at KNXT-TV.
A year later, the boyish-looking budding comedian had his own show -- "Carson's Cellar" -- 15 minutes of poking fun at the news, for which Carson persuaded stars of the 1940s and 1950s to appear for free.
In the midst of the show's run, famed clown Red Skelton hired Carson as a writer -- and even put him on as host on live television when Skelton was injured during a rehearsal.
"The Johnny Carson Show" spent 39 weeks on CBS from 1955 to 1956, then he moved to New York, where he hosted ABC's game show "Who Do You Trust?" and met Ed McMahon, who became Carson's sidekick until his retirement from "The Tonight Show" 35 years later.
Under Carson, "The Tonight Show" earned 42 Emmy nominations, winning seven trophies. Carson picked up a Golden Globe nomination in 1975, three years after moving the show from New York to Hollywood.
Carson was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1987, five years before he left "The Tonight Show." An estimated 50 million people watched his final broadcast in 1992.
President George H.W. Bush awarded Carson the Medal of Freedom on December 11, 1992, and the following year he was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award.

[FMluvswater]

The man could make me laugh. Sorry to hear the world has lost him. :(

[HavasuDreamin']

A rare talent. One of the funniest men ever IMHO. RIP Johnny.

[ECeptor]

I always admired Johnny's class. :cool:
Ditto. That's a damn rare trait to find on the TV today...

[Blacksheep]

Sad day in the world of television. I was just reading an article on CNN last week that talked about how Johnny would send David Letterman jokes he would continue to write and Letterman would use them on the Late Show. Johnny enjoyed still seeing/hearing the audience laugh at his jokes.
Sad to see him go.

[bigd1]

The Amazing Carnack predicted this.

[charlyox]

Johnny Carson was the BEST! R.I.P.

[shueman]

Spent many a night watching him between my toes.....RIP

[Procraftkev]

Rip Jonny!

[Sleek-Jet]

What I always like about Carson was when he'd get tickled about something in the monolog or a bit and end up gigling and trying to regain his composure for the next 5 or 10 minutes...
God Speed Johnny...

[spectratoad]

What I always like about Carson was when he'd get tickled about something in the monolog or a bit and end up gigling and trying to regain his composure for the next 5 or 10 minutes...
God Speed Johnny...
Yeah, that just get me giggling too. that was funny when he would lose it. :D

[JetBoatRich]

He was a classic old time comedy :D
How about one more :notam:
HERRRRRRRE"S JOHNNY :D