Posted on 01/23/2005 11:57:30 AM PST by gortklattu
Just the Jokes, OK?
Johnny: "Sis - Boom - Bah
ED: "Sim - boom - bah
Johnny: What sound does an exploding sheep make?
Za Za Gabor
I remember that one like it was yesterday. The best part of it he was serious or the best comedian in the world. Probably the latter.
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This thread was important. I watched Carson so much that he became sort of a friend...but I only saw his show in person once.
Robert Blake and Burt Reynolds were on that show. Blake was drunk, stoned, or something...and told Carson that he'd never been on the other side of the desk. At the break Fred DeCordova came up and talked to them, they switched places. Blake interviewed Carson, who did nothing but burp, then dropped his pants....
My date and I got home in time to see the show on TV. It's neat to laugh twice.
One time Carson told a joke which really bombed, someone in the audience did a whistle, like incoming artillery. Carson laughed and said "Give me a break!", somebody else yelled back "where?". Johnny's look was priceless, as was Ed's laugh at that point.
The next show was filled with jokes about how mean and nasty the other crowd was. Great comedy!!
Speaking of Yassir Arafat, does anyone remember when Johnny played Ronald Reagan? Yes Sir, No sir, Yassir etc.
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Love it!
Those are great! This is exactly how I think Johnny Carson would have wanted to be remembered. I'm just sitting here, reading this thread and laughing out loud. What great memories!
"I did not know that." :)
R.I.P. Mr. Carson
He's been so old and sickly for so long, if you had said he'd been gone for awhile I wouldn't have been surprised. Whatever he was doing, I think it extended his life.
Yeah, if he never smoked, he never would have died. He'd still be living in the year 3,000. Derr. I can't stand those reporters! He was a life long water drinker too.
He died peacefully. But ole Fox New had to put in that he was "a life long smoker."
Just saw it at the myyahoo page:
E! Online: News
Late-Night Legend Johnny Carson Dies - 50 minutes ago
Sotzing did not disclose any further details, including time of death, where
Carson died or the exact cause of death.
The late-night fixture had been beset by health problems since his
retirement more than a decade ago. Carson underwent a quadruple-heart bypass
in March 1999. Some reports said the comic had suffered a heart attack,
necessitating the emergency surgery.
In September 2002, he confirmed he was battling emphysema.
Carson was born John William Carson on October 23, 1925, in Corning, Iowa.
(Nope is... no mention of smoking, drinking, or anything like that.)
Especially if smoking had nothing to do with his death. If it did and they can honestly say it caused it, that would be the FIRST ever death certificate that the Antis could show off in public.
When Fox News reported that he had died, they did not GIVE emphysema as a cause of death. All they said was "he was a long time smoker." He was also a life long drinker but did they report that? No!
He was not a life-long drinker. He stopped drinking many, many years ago.
He stopped drinking in 1978 and spend much of his last years helping alcoholics and related charities.
He quit smoking in 1992 after a tumor was removed from his lung.
http://emphysemafoundation.org/ Emphysema is the fourth largest cause of mortality in the U.S., yet it is not a highly publicized disease, consequently, little is known about it by the average citizen. Almost 16-30 million U.S. citizens are afflicted with emphysema... and every year approximately 100,000 sufferers die of the disease. Smoking is the major cause, but with ever increasing air pollution and other environmental factors that negatively affect pulmonary patients, those numbers are on the rise.
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"When Fox News reported that he had died, they did not GIVE emphysema as a cause of death."
Ok so they only implied that it was a smoker related death.
BTW I smoke.
Thanks, Cagey.
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