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Johnny Carson reigned supreme as the host of The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. After 30 years of guests, here are two that have had legendary appearances. Here with the story is Mark Malkoff, author of In Love with Johnny Carson. Take it away, Mark. Um Don Rickles in 1965 made his Johnny Carson debut, and nobody would put Rickles on television.
Johnny was the first one. People were too nervous to have somebody insult anybody on TV. It was decided at the Tonight Show that Don Rickles would not be allowed to make fun of Johnny, Ed McMahon, or anybody present. And Don said, then, what am I going to possibly do?
So it was decided that Johnny would take two or three minutes and explain to the audience that this is a man, his humor is making fun of people, but it's okay. We're allowed to laugh at him.
So after Johnny for two or three minutes would explain to the audience what was gonna happen, it was very revolutionary to have an insult comic. on television. It was decided that Don Rickles could make his network television debut and he would make fun of Ed McMahon. And make fun of the band leader Skitch Henderson, and everyone would see Johnny laughing. And eventually, if Johnny was laughing, the audience would laugh.
And then, when the audience laughed, then Don could make fun of Johnny and see that Johnny was laughing, and it would work. And it did work. Don Rickles is here tonight. He opens at the Resorts in Atlantic City tomorrow night, Friday, January 13th. Would you please welcome Mr.
Warmth? Don Ricky. Yeah. Oh. Funniest monologue I've ever heard.
I've heard you many, many years. Tonight was the funniest, so enjoy it.
Okay. What's the worst place you ever worked? I mean, when you were just starting. No way. Ah, boo.
Here, here's your boo. Boo this. Anyway, yeah, boo this.
Now, that's an Italian expression for how's the family. It took him a couple appearances for the audience really to understand, and then Don Rickles became an icon on the show. How long have you been married now, and how does your wife, Barbara, put up with you?
Well, I got news. Yeah. We love each other, you know. You've been married. Are you married?
Yes. All right, all right, all right. Do you like the way I set this up for you? I'll just feed him in. You take the snappers.
Because I know all your wives, you know, and now you're very pregnant.
Well, I did, I did. They were all friends of mine, and they're friends of yours, and so you got in court and said. You're gonna take what? But uh One of Johnny's favorite moments, and they would show this in anniversary shows, was one night Johnny was at the desk and he noticed that his cigarette box was broken. Uh-oh.
What the hell happened to this? You know how long I've had the cigarette box on his desk? You brought that up from New York, sir? I brought this from New York. What on earth?
This was in the mid-70s. And Doc Semronson informed him that Don Rickles the night before had been on with guest host Bob Newhart and had broken Johnny's cigarette box accidentally. It happened last night. Don Rickles. I did not see the name.
Don Rickles did it last night. He's taping across the hall. Yeah. CPO Shark. Can I get over there?
Can I get over there? And this was unheard of, but Johnny said in the middle of the show, let's go across the hall and ambush Don Nichols. I don't give a damn if they're on the earth. Recos. Wrickle, hold, stop the taping.
Stop the taping.
Somebody broke my cigarette box. David Letterman made a staple in the 80s of interrupting news broadcasting television jokes that had never been done. And Johnny had arranged with his director, Bobby Quinn, to allow enough cable for the cameras to follow him. And Don Rickles, who's the king of insult comics, was flustered for the first time in his life and had no response. They told me you broke it on the show last night.
Well, I really. And history was made with television, and every year that clip was shown. No, but I'm sorry about the box. I will come up with something.
Well, I hope so. But just keep me on your show. You mean so much to me. Can I? No, no.
Please. No, no. Don't humble yourself. Please, I want to be with you so much. Don't humble yourself, brother.
I want something back.
Okay, carry on. In the mid-60s, Ed Ames was known for being on Daniel Boone. He was somebody in the beginning of the show that would throw a tomahawk, but it was trick photography. Ed Ames did not know how to throw a tomahawk, yet it was decided on the tonight show him and Johnny would throw tomahawks at a wooden cutout of a cowboy. And Ed Ames came in and said, I don't think I can do this.
I don't know how to throw a tomahawk. They tried to show him he couldn't do it. He couldn't make it stick. And then they said, hold it this way, the opposite way. And he was able to make it stick.
So on air, it was decided that Ed Ames would throw a tomahawk first and then Johnny. And it would take turns. Ed Ames throws the tomahawk and it hits the cutout in the crotch. Right. Uh Yeah.
At the time, this was absolutely shocking. Ed Ames went home that night and he told his wife: the funniest thing happened. I know you're not going to see it tonight because the NBC sensors are never going to let this show. Johnny told the NBC sensors, this is staying. Johnny and his brilliance held Ed Ames back.
Ed Ames was going to go retrieve the Tomahawk. And he held Ames back, and Jack Benny mode kicked in. Jack Benny was famous for his pauses, he built up the laughs with comedy. And Johnny, for one or two minutes, just let the laughs build before he started doing his ad-lubs. And NBC ended up erasing most of the first 10 years of the Tenet Show, but Johnny, after that episode, said, I want a copy of this, and he kept it in his desk, and that's the only reason it exists today.
Every anniversary show, Ed Ames and the Tomahawk was shown. There were a couple years where Johnny thought it was too overexposed, and they might not put it in, and they would get so much mail from people that were. That were outraged that they wouldn't show it.
So it became an annual tradition. Ed Ames, his career, was really overall, that's probably the most famous moment of his career. He was a singing star, he was a TV star, but the Tomahawk. and Johnny Carson became the most iconic moment maybe in the history of the Tonight Show. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Greg Kangler.
And a special thanks to Mark Malkoff, author of In Love with Johnny Carson, One Obsessive Fans Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend. Get the book wherever you buy your books. You won't put it down. Here on Our American Stories. Lee Habib here again.
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