Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have never heard of or listened to these two British comedy acts can hope to derive any kind of enjoyment from Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe. For the rest of us, sitting through this 90-minute waste of celluloid is akin to viewing a series of old Johnny Carson monologues strung together; you know exactly what's coming, and the pleasure lies exclusively in the anticipation, not in the misbegotten result. However, in all fairness to the individuals responsible for this film, they certainly knew what they were doing. Towards the end of Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe...
...ratings that the joke on Wall Street is, "What's the difference between the Titanic and NBC? Answer: the Titanic had an orchestra." Indeed, the malaise is so well diagnosed that NBC itself carries jokes about its incompetence. When President Carter's translator flubbed in Poland, Johnny Carson told his Tonight show audience that "later on Carter's Polish interpreter will be out here to explain why he was just made head of programming at NBC." Though NBC was second for much of the new season, it is now clearly in last place with a 17.9 average...
...ploy worked, and talk-show fans began perceiving Reynolds as "a man smarter than the roles he played." Soon Johnny Carson started asking Reynolds to fill in as host of the Tonight Show. Even the infamous nude centerfold photo in Cosmo was intended as a put-on, a satirical thrust at the whole institution of centerfolds and a self-parody of his own growing macho image. That gambit may have worked a little too well. The magazine hit the stands just as Reynolds' first really good picture, Deliverance, hit the screen, and some of his friends think the gatefold...
...charging $110 for a pair of loafers, and you can't get a hamburger at "21" for less than $10. A Rolls-Royce? Don't ask. So what's a fella gonna do at Christmas time but ask Santa for a raise? Which brings us to Johnny Carson, who has been put-putting along on only $1.5 million a year. Last week jolly old NBC raised its No. 1 star a cool $1 million, to $2.5 million...
...sweeten the deal even further, NBC also reduced Carson's work load. Johnny, a pioneer of the four-day week, now does his late-night talk show 38 weeks a year. In the future, said NBC, he will have to work only three days a week for 25 weeks and four days for 13 weeks. If you want to divide that with the calculator you got for Christmas, you will come up with Johnny's hourly salary?$13,123. There's more than one way to beat inflation, eh, Arthur Burns...