Tag: Johnny Carson
Did Tiny Tim Tiptoe Into Your Living Room?
Tiny Tim took “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” and turned it into one of the most unforgettable TV moments of the…
When Tippee-Toes Tiptoed Into Trouble
Leave it to the early 1980s to give us a controversy over a baby doll’s bare bottom. Mattel’s Tippee-Toes was…
Ever Eat A Pine Tree? Euell Gibbons Remembered
If you grew up in the 70’s you have to remember ole Euell Gibbons on the Grape Nuts cereal commercials…
Chevy Chase Talk Show
In September 1993 still fresh off Johnny Carson’s retirement Fox Network wanted to get in the late-night talk show circuit….
Andy Kaufman Imitates Elvis on Johnny Carson
From his March 3, 1977 appearance on The Tonight Show, Andy Kaufman segues from his “foreign man” shtick to a…
I Wish I Could Go Back To The Future For This Sale!
Early in 1982 Bank of America seized 1,400 DeLorean DMC-12’s because John DeLorean’s company failed to make payments on a…
Johnny Carson As Ronald Reagan
In a 1982 Tonight Show skit reminiscent of the old Abbott and Costello ‘Who’s On First?’ routine, Johnny Carson plays…
Michael Landon Final Tonight Show Appearance
In April 1991, TV icon Michael Landon was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. A month later, on May 9, 1991,…