i thought that johnny carson came witith the tv s set. w what the hehell were yoyou thinking? dave was the new johnny, for me. i m not exactly a computer, slow down. it felt edgy before i was probably old enough h to appreciaiate what ededgy was. you betetter be as s good as letterman! i ll give it a shot. my heart dropped through my butt, exited my butt. holy [ [ bleep ]ining [ bleep p. this isis madness.. absolute madness. it makes every hair on my bodydy stand up.p. we rere on! but n nobody s a a late-nigh host u until they y are one. fires, looting, and violence, tomorrow we ll drown out the negative voices that have health us back too long. fires leading to violence, five people are dead the end of an era. after ruling late night television for 30 years, johnny carson steps down tonight. the buildup to the last tonight s show was l like a t that was going to be derailed, and all you can do is stand by and watch. here s bette midler.
love it and we ll give you an award for it. carson: and so it has come to this. fallon: i thought that johnny carson came with the tv set. leno: what the hell were you thinking? ray: dave was the new johnny, for me. letterman: i m not exactly a computer. slow down. meyers: it felt. edgy before i was probably old enough to appreciate what edgy was. man: you better be as good as letterman. o brien: i ll give it a shot. o brien: my heart dropped through my butt. it exited my butt. stewart: holy [beep] [beep]. noah: this is madness. absolute madness. kimmel: it makes every hair on my body stand up. kimmel: we re on! kimmel: but nobody s a late night host until they are one. clinton: tomorrow we will drown out the negative voices that have held us back for too long. reporter: after a night of fires, looting, and violence, five people are dead. katie: the end of an era. after ruling late night television for 30 years, johnny carson steps down tonight. [distant applause]
emotional darkness, and transformed it into comedy. something terrible happens, these guys still have to come on that night and do a show. unless it s just something off the charts terrible. and i can remember sitting with jay and writers, and we were all just kind of like looking at the tv screen just stunned. 9/11 is such a shock to the country that television itself could not go back on the air. people were so afraid at the time that we weren t going to be able to be funny.
after something so horrific had happened. i know for the first few days we were wondering whether we would ever do a show again. the decision to go back on television after 9/11 was extremely difficult. no one knew what to do. no one knew what to do. the one that people turned to was david letterman. voltaren, the joy of movement. [upbeat music] i am what i live my way the new eau de parfum intense giorgio armani walmart s deals for days isn t over yet. this cyber monday is your last chance to score big online
you know what, i m not talking about this. well, it is. in that second i thought to myself, this guy s got it. that s the end of my mock show. if that s all i ever get, it was a lot of fun, i had a good time, thank you very much, good night. all i remember, it felt right. there were flares. there was a spark. couple days later, i picked up the phone. and it was my agent. and he said, you got 12:30. my heart dropped. through my butt. it exited my butt. if we had been fully aware of the scrutiny, the pressure, you know, what was at stake we would have gone bananas. i mean, that s hard. can you imagine? taking over for david letterman. it was crazy. to this day it s one of the craziest things i think i ve heard of in television.