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]
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At that point, helen kushnick had been fired. we brought in debbie vickers. i didn t and i have in common we are hard workers and we ll do whatever is in our power to get better. jay s strength was the monologue and joke telling. jay felt in studio 1 in burbank, the audience was too far away from him, the band was too far away. so we got a new set design. jay now is working closer to the audience. we ve extended the monologue because that s where jay s muscles are. i can t help thinking, if you re a peeping tom, right? of all the people you could go after, why pick madonna? what part of this woman haven t you seen already, you know? jay was rolling. it was like, tonight i felt like he was in a club, he was doing standup.