Joan Rivers said after the lights went out for commercial Carson would tap his pencils and say nothing
Just like Larry Sanders...
“Joan Rivers said after the lights went out for commercial Carson would tap his pencils and say nothing”
Interesting. Of course Johnny was different than his public personna and perhaps he was just being a jerk. Another possibility is that maybe he needed to save his voice for the show. I know singers that won’t talk hardly at all before a show.
Actually, makes perfect sense. Suppose something utterly amazing and hilarious happened while commercials were running?