The Ultimate Johnny Carson Collection - His Favorite Moments From The Tonight Show (Vols. 1-3) (1962-1992)
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Actor: Ed McMahon, Johnny CarsonBrand: ST Clair ENT GRP INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Unknown; English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 420 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Carson Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Ultimate Johnny Carson Collection - His Favorite Moments From The Tonight Show (Vols. 1-3) (1962-1992)
Movie Review: From a sometime viewer and lukewarm fan A kind of Holden Caulfield review
Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes I start to review a certain item, and caution myself against it. Why? Because I know that there are other people who care about the book, movie, music, television show, in question in a way I do not. They are passionate about it. They know it from inside. Consider the excellent review of J. Grabowski of the 'The Ultimate Carson Collection' on this Amazon site. It is outstanding, and cannot be matched by anything I, a very occasional watcher of Carson through the years, can say.
Nonetheless I'll just do what I often do in these reviews, simply write what I think. I watched Carson in and out, occasionally for many years. I never became addicted to it like some people I know. These were the ones who simply had to watch the 'Tonight' show every night. My guess is America had millions of these.
I think for most of the years I underappreciated Carson. I thought of him as kind of corny.And as I am not a special fan of what might be called 'physical humor ' I just did not care for some of the stuff. Also the various tics and repetitions, the whole hokum which goes with these shows, the various chitchat with Ed and Doc never really got me.
In latter years though I thought of the matter again, and became a bit nostalgic watching the show. He was quick- minded certainly and fast he had something else I really liked, great curiosity. He would bring someone like Carl Sagan on the show because he wanted to understand the stuff Sagan was talking about. He of course kidded and made fun of many guests but he did it without depriving them of their dignity. He gave them a chance , as far as I could tell, to get on whatever they wanted to say or promote.
Moreover he stuck it out for a long time. And what happens is when someone becomes familiar, even if you don't particularly like them at first , they sort of grow on you, and you get to feel you know them, and sort of like them. Old Johnny was like that.
When you think of it really , all these people who were so young once and so full in life, and who it seemed would last forever, and you understand that they are old or most likely, dead, it makes you kind of sad.
It's funny. The twentieth century invented this business of film and now you can see people actually acting, speaking moving as if they were alive. It's uncanny really. There is Johnny out there young as ever when you know he's somewhere else six - feet under. It's strange and it makes you sad.
This man probably entertained more Americans than any other person in history. Got more laughs. Made more people smile when they went to bed.
He deserves a lot of credit and recognition for that. And he certainly got it in buckets in his lifetime.
This does not however stop him from being , I guess what he always was, a kind of lonely quirky guy all troubled in himself.
Thank you Johnny. As some other guy said in the best years of television you were the best late night guy we ever had.
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Studio: Respond2 Entertainment Release Date: 10/14/2003 Run time: 420 minutes Rating: NrSimilar DVD Movies
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