|
|
 |
05-04-2012, 10:16 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: On da Bayou Teche
Posts: 18,455
Likes: 18,542
Liked 58,860 Times in 9,667 Posts
|
|
Late night TV at its' best
Gawd-why can't we have stuff like this again
Dom Deluise and Johnny Carson.mpg - YouTube
__________________
Forum consigliere
|
|
The Following 6 Users Like Post:
|
|
05-04-2012, 10:23 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Illinois-west side
Posts: 691
Likes: 316
Liked 386 Times in 208 Posts
|
|
why???
just look how the people who watched that turned out..
you can have that again, can you?
next thing you know they will be drinking gin
__________________
is it just me?
|
05-04-2012, 11:36 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: So Cal Desert
Posts: 1,681
Likes: 1,166
Liked 1,227 Times in 393 Posts
|
|
Back when TV was worth watching
__________________
A closed mouth gathers no foot
|
05-05-2012, 01:13 AM
|
 |
US Veteran
Absent Comrade
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 11,738
Likes: 17,756
Liked 22,460 Times in 8,391 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER
|
Funny, last month an old childhood friend showed up at my house with a DVD set of the Jonny Carson show. It was a blast to watch. He also had one with the Groucho show (You Bet Your Life) some great humor.
__________________
Doesn't hasta call me Johnson
|
05-05-2012, 10:39 AM
|
 |
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 2,574
Likes: 8,270
Liked 2,071 Times in 590 Posts
|
|
Did someone say Groucho?
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
05-05-2012, 10:39 AM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cornfield County TN
Posts: 1,034
Likes: 6
Liked 55 Times in 23 Posts
|
|
Accountants are running the networks and the idiot viewers don't care.
__________________
VIVERE MILITARE EST
|
05-05-2012, 10:52 AM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Gun lovin\' Hollywood Ca.
Posts: 10,238
Likes: 7,741
Liked 18,707 Times in 3,792 Posts
|
|
Yes, TV was simpler back then, but there is some amazing TV on today...especially on cable. The writing on some of then new shows is head and shoulders above much of the older stuff. Check out Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Rescue Me, Louie, Sons of Anarchy to name a few... 
__________________
Thirty characters. Exactly...
|
|
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
|
|
05-05-2012, 11:27 AM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 14,661
Likes: 7,937
Liked 20,623 Times in 5,958 Posts
|
|
Carson was alright... but the king of late night TV is Barth Gimble!
|
05-05-2012, 12:01 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 22,079
Likes: 10,794
Liked 15,506 Times in 6,794 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by sipowicz
Yes, TV was simpler back then, but there is some amazing TV on today...especially on cable. The writing on some of then new shows is head and shoulders above much of the older stuff. Check out Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Rescue Me, Louie, Sons of Anarchy to name a few... |
Don't forget, parking wars, storage wars, swamp wars, crab fishing, doomsday prep, Fashion shows, hairdresser wars, Cops,Kardashions and all the endless quality stuff. 
__________________
Still Running Against the Wind
|
05-05-2012, 12:08 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Colorado
Posts: 15,132
Likes: 91,836
Liked 26,389 Times in 8,412 Posts
|
|
I've been doing a lot more reading the last few years.Back when I was married the ex never turned the damn thing off.
|
05-05-2012, 03:00 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Illinois
Posts: 5,658
Likes: 15,661
Liked 7,682 Times in 2,744 Posts
|
|
caj,
thanks for sharing this …………back in the days when entertainment was real.
now we settle for hillbilly handfishin, lizard lick towing and swamp people and a "perfect" commercial every 30 seconds.
|
05-05-2012, 08:57 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Lake Charles Louisiana
Posts: 1,049
Likes: 308
Liked 1,185 Times in 453 Posts
|
|
Caj, how about the famous Amos and Andy episode where Amos gets sued -- his reaction was priceless:
"I denies the allegations and I denies the allegator!
I have always wanted to file that quote as an answer to a petition.
|
05-05-2012, 10:02 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Hills of North Georgia
Posts: 5,128
Likes: 1,853
Liked 12,471 Times in 3,410 Posts
|
|
Now doubt Carson was king, no one today comes close. My favorite clip has an obviously intoxicated George Gobel and Carson almost in tears laughing so hard. Also watch an equally intoxicated Dean Martin and his cigarette ashes. I have never seen Bob Hope with nothing to say.
johnny carson george gobel - Bing Videos
__________________
LIVE FROM THE DAWGHOUSE
|
05-05-2012, 10:13 PM
|
 |
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Sadly, Seattle WA
Posts: 10,609
Likes: 22,892
Liked 10,349 Times in 4,292 Posts
|
|
Thanks, Caj, Carson was the best late night host. I watched one of the old George Gobel bits too, doesn't get much funnier than that!
__________________
Even older, even crankier....
|
05-05-2012, 10:48 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Florence, Alabama
Posts: 2,069
Likes: 1,893
Liked 1,145 Times in 306 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by sipowicz
Yes, TV was simpler back then, but there is some amazing TV on today...especially on cable. The writing on some of then new shows is head and shoulders above much of the older stuff. Check out Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Rescue Me, Louie, Sons of Anarchy to name a few... |
Sip, I agree with you on those. I would also include The Walking Dead among them. BTW, any involvment in those shows on your part wouldn't just by chance happen to influence your listing of them, would it?
__________________
MARK
|
|
Posting Rules
|
|
|
|
|
Linear Mode
