Johnny Carson was the King of late night comedy.
He didn’t take sides.
Maybe he was political or maybe he wasn’t.
He was practical and a professional entertainer.
Coming up with comedy material is hard.
Why make your work twice as difficult by limiting your subject by half?
Not only that only a fool would not recognize by doing that you are limiting your audience by the same proportion.
He was endearing because he bombed so much. :^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4kiHXb88Ww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n23kdwM8ur8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d55S9EYtHbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhPnpcbDcaM
Some memorable Carson moments:
‘May a diseased camel take a liking to your sister.’
‘I was beside myself....my favorite position.’
Johnny Carson got to practice his chops nightly—but there were nights he “bombed” and even made jokes out of that—whynot?!
I enjoyed Rock’s presentation. It was one of the first out of the gate that poked fun at mostly all sides. Yeah, it poked fun at Trump, but not maliciously—
The jokes could have been better and a bit more digs at the other side, but his audience was leftists and he has to drag them along slowly...
Perhaps comedy will return with the return of Trump. It so sadly degraded these past years. Or maybe comedy was funnier decades ago when some of us were experiementing with laughing powders and wacky tobaccy...