from new york, the tonight show starring johnny carson. and now here s the fabulous harry belafonte. here he comes. i found out about that week from harry belafonte. i went over to his home and all of a sudden effortlessly he started talking about this week of television and the tonight show. i m thinking wait a minute harry belafonte hosted a week of the tonight show. how did i not know this? that was probably the most revolutionary move that mainstream television could have done at the time. i write about tv. i write about politics. i should have known about it. why is this history lost to us? harry belafonte takes an existing white institution in american culture, and he turns it into something that represents his world, that it should be multicultural, that it should be politically engaged. what harry belafonte did, he combined politics and entertainment like a forerunner to the daily show and the stephen colbert show. is that a fancy way of saying i