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...comedians, this is called timing, and in leaders it is called command. Carson was not joke for joke the funniest man on TV, nor the best interviewer. He was simply the best host: he could flow with events instead of being carried off by them, yield the spotlight to guests while transcending any particular night's program, withhold even as he made us believe he was giving...
When Johnny Carson signed off for the last time, he ducked backstage, away from the waiting media and well-wishers, and boarded a helicopter, not unlike a head of state. Not unlike a certain head of state, in fact, who, asked a too penetrating question on the White House lawn, would cheerfully feign deafness from the chopper blades. His timing impeccable to the last, Carson flew off for Malibu and retirement--no longer the King of Late Night, perhaps, but its President for life, and now, in death...
DIED. JOHNNY CARSON, 79, elegant, unrivaled king of late-night television; of emphysema; in Malibu, Calif. (see page...
...JOHNNY CARSON was five years into what would turn out to be a 30-year run as America's late-night host when TIME made him a cover subject...
...elderly woman in Columbus, Neb., turned on her color TV set, tuned in the Tonight show, and settled back to watch Johnny Carson. "And now--here's Johnny!" called Announcer Ed McMahon as the star skipped onstage--fetchingly handsome, slat-thin, loose-limbed, and wrapped in a Continental-cut suit. "My name is Shirley Hoffnagel," he began with eyes laughing, "and I'm here to talk tonight about the wonderful progress that medical science has made in sex-change operations." The studio audience rollicked to that line, but the lady in Nebraska rose from her chair, muttering, "That...