Letterman Tribute To Johnny Carson, Part 1

On July 25, 2013 - TV History


Letterman Tribute To Johnny Carson, Part 1 of 6

A week or so after Carson’s death, Dave did a great tribute show to his mentor. In this part, all the jokes in the monologue were written by Carson and faxed to Dave in the month prior. Dave speaks of this in some later segments that I’ll posting tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BiHLK5lFvQ

Dave’s opening monologue consists entirely of jokes sent to him from Johnny Carson. Then Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra play Carson’s theme song. This ep…

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  1. Bobby Reyes July 25, 2013

    …Johnny Carson was the best ! ..often imitated but never duplicated ! ..the American Masters docu on PBS was great !