Re: Silence is golden! A Late Show monologue from 1994



On Jan 22, 6:12 am, Tom Wolper <twol...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1/21/11 7:17 PM, randwill wrote:



I got the newest "Tonight Show" box set for Christmas and it includes of lot
of Johnny Carson's monologues from the 70's, 80's and 90's.  The contrast
between then and now is very striking.  When a joke doesn't strike the
audience as funny, they don't laugh and Carson makes the most it. He was a
real stand-up comedy pro.

The difference is, if Johnny was bombing, the TV audience wasn't checking out
what was on the other late night shows.

Really? Is getting the live audience over hyped going to stop people
changing the channel? I don't think any of the other shows are as bad
as the LS for this.

Gary
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