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]
Million viewers watching that night, we had over 10 million. let me start with question number one. [ laughter ] everyone wanted to know, what is hugh grant going to say? what the hell were you thinking? [ laughter ] [ rim shot ] oh my god, you couldn t have said it better. as you know, the hollywood community was shocked to learn that this type of thing was going on. jay kills it. the whole show. well, i mean, obviously very so many bad things about it, i don t know where to begin. but one of them was, you know, the embarrassment i caused the people have been working with the last year on this film. when you embarrass tom arnold [ laughter ] at that point in july 1995, jay became carson-like. he became the voice of the viewer. and from that day on, jay leno and the tonight show are number one. a late night crowd is back at nbc. dave hated losing.
as you know, the hollywood community was shocked to learn that this type of thing was going on. jay kills it, the whole show. well, i mean, obviously, you know, so many bad things about it. so i don t know where to begin. but one of them was that, you know, embarrassment i caused the people i have been working with the last year on this on this film. and when you embarrass tom arnold, that s really at that point, in july, 1995, jay became carson. like, he became the voice of the viewer. and from that day on, jay leno and the tonight show are number one. a late-night crowd is back at nbc. dave hated losing. he became more and more tied up it s a life-size dave letterman doll. look at that beauty right there. isn t that good? there you go.
Arrested in hollywood for allegedly picking up a prostitute. the fact that hugh grant showed up with jay leno was that he showed up. he with all thought he would cancel his appearance. jay anticipated that and jay called hugh grant. and he said, i think ultimately this story goes away if you don t hide. please welcome, ladies and gentlemen, hugh grant! instead of having our usual whatever it was, 4 million viewers watching that night, we had over 10 million. let me start with question number one. everyone wanted to know what is hugh grant going to say. what the hell were you thinking? oh, my god, you couldn t have said it better. as you know, the hollywood
Said it better. as you know, the hollywood community was shocked to learn this type of thing was going on. jay kills it the whole show. so many bad things about it, i don t know where to begin. but one of them was the embarrassment i ve caused the people i ve been working with this last year on this film. when you embarrass tom arnold, that s really tough. at that point, july of 1995, jay became carson-like. he became the voice of the viewer. and, from that day on, jay leno and the tonight show are number one. a late night crown is back at nbc. dave hated losing. he became more and more tied up in what the ratings are. a life-sized david letterman doll.