you bullied that boy. one of the most recognizable faces on daytime television. nobody tells me who to put on my show, including you. is calling it quits. dr. phil, dr. phil! tonight, before dr. phil leaves the studio, he s sitting down with us. dr. phil, welcome. to talk about his 20 years as the on-call doc for on-camera drama. who do you get along with? just as the surgeon general releases a report on the harms of social media it is urgent that we take action. dr. phil digs into america s growing mental health crisis, especially among teenagers. young people started watching people live their lives instead of living their own lives. and later it s the tonight show with jay leno! comedian jay leno s road to recovery after surviving a garage fire and a motorcycle crash. i never thought of myself as a roast comic. who gives us the latest on his health. i got a new face and a new ear. can i see it? sure. and his return to the c
motorcycles for 15 years. i understand, but you crash. and as a result you can talk about it because there s a pretty good excuse you get a broken clone bore. right. two broken ribs. and two cracked kneecaps. right, right, right. are you all healed? for the it s only a couple of months ago so you ve still got a little bit. yeah for the most part. at least it s a motorcycle. if i had slipped in my pat boone walk-in bathtub, that would have been really embarrassing. at least you get street cred. oh, a motorcycle. a 1940 indian. you get a little bit of street cred. this 2014, you have barely finished the tonight show and you, of course, launch a new show, jay leno s garage. i started it on youtube in 2006. okay. and it s still on. we do 52 shows a year. okay. and then the cnbc show is more celebrity-oriented, things of that nature. be that as it may, here are some clips from over the years.
i m sleeping. let me show you the main bedroom in here. screaming. a woman goes, there s a naked man! sorry! putting my pants on as i sneak out the door. i didn t break anything or ruin anything. you were squatting? squatting, exactly. 1977, you are successful enough that you get your first gig on the tonight show with johnny carson, and here it is. oh, yeah. those big mobile homes people drive around? i do not understand why anybody would buy a mobile home. can you imagine saying to your wife, honey, i m going to take the house down, get a pack of cigarettes, why don t you wait here. as i understand it for comedians, the key was not to make the audience laugh, the key was to make johnny carson laugh. and take a look at this. because after your bit, johnny calls you over to shake hands. which he didn t do most of the time. right, right. so how big a deal it was? it was a huge deal.
because you know, it s funny. now back in the day, i would say easily one-third of all the televisions, one-third or even half after 11:30, were watching johnny carson. now you re competing with the lord of the rings trilogy, watch all three godfather movies back to back, you ve got streaming everything. so it s a little different. when you re on tv, on the tonight show in those days, everybody saw you. the next day, you d have to do nowadays probably 10, 11 late-night appearances just to be reaching the same amount of people. then you get the tonight show. and this begins the tonight show saga about you and david letterman and who s going to get the job, and you get picked over him. i don t want to go through all of it. but what do you want us to understand about all of that? well, there are people who think i somehow stole the show from dave. johnny did want dave to do the show.
i ve set out to do. and the first question i was ever asked was for a sales reel. what s this show going to be about? and i said, two things. i said, i m going to talk about things that matter to people who care. that was what i wanted to do. and i said, i want to deliver commonsense, usable information to people s homes every day for free. and talk about the silent epidemics. talk about the things that had such a stigma about them that you didn t talk about them. and i really wanted to push mental illness to the forefront of the narrative in america. well, i want to pick up on that. because you read studies that say, anxiety, stress, depression, are bigger problems than ever. that teenage girls more than ever feel thoughts of suicide, of wanting to hurt themselves. what s going on? well, everybody thinks that