Word: eds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carson's advertisers, but its quality as well. His viewers are mostly urban and at least high-school-educated-young enough to stay up late with ease, or successful enough not to have to show up too early for work. Jimmy Stewart watches, and so do Bobby Kennedy, Ed Sullivan, Darryl Zanuck, New York's Mayor John Lindsay, Nebraska Governor Norbert Tiemann, Robert Merrill and Nelson Rockefeller. Rocky was Carson's guest recently and suggested that Johnny run against Bobby for the Senate in 1970. There was much good-natured kidding, and the next night Carson...
...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...
...satisfactory. The top-rated Nielsen shows for 1966-67 are either tired adventure series such as Bonanza and Dragnet or low-IQ sitch-coms on the order of Beverly Hillbillies and Bewitched. The only steady programs that offer the hope of entertainment are Old Standbys Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin-and movies, for which TV can claim no creative proprietorship. The only spice in the schedules are the sporadic specials, many of which are first class; to their credit, the networks next season will produce 300 such programs, including two Truman Capote adaptations...
...offhand humor but in his visual performance. He is General Eclectic himself, a master of a thousand takes. He's got a Jack Paar smile, a Jack Benny stare, a Stan Laurel fluster. If a joke dies, he waits a second, and then yawns a fine Ed Sullivan "Ho-o-okay. . ." A sudden thought-either his or a guest's-will launch him into an imitation of Jona than Winters imitating an old granny. He can spread his eyes wide open into a wow. Semi-emancipated puritan that he is (he was reared a Methodist), he can, when...
...person who is required to play strictly second banana is Ed McMahon, 44, who serves as straight man and prompter as well as announcer. For example, when Carson got caught in a dangling conversation and extricated himself with a cliché, "The grass is always greener," McMahon chimed in: "Could I write that down...