Those were happy days for me. I used to sneak out of my bedroom to watch THE JOHNNY CARSON show! 📺 "May a bull elephant mate with your pet Yorkie" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
From an era when late night talk show hosts did not feel like their personal politics were any of our business, and did not wear their politics on their sleeves. My favorite Carnac was the one in which the crew swapped in a desk made of balsa wood, so that when Carson came out and did his usual trip on the step up and went to "steady" himself on the desk, he went right through it, and the desk disintegrated in a couple hundred pieces.
The crack about "Saturday Night Live" being dead was a reference to the short-lived "Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell," a prime-time show on ABC. It premiered in September of 1975 and was cancelled in January of 1976 after only 18 episodes. The NBC late night show also premiered in September of '75 but was known originally as "NBC's Saturday Night" in order to avoid confusion with the ABC show, which owned the rights to the "Saturday Night Live" name. In 1977, with the ABC show long gone, NBC acquired the "Saturday Night Live" name for it's show, which still runs to this day and is now in it's 46th season.
A: Peter Pan Q: What do you fry a peter in? When Carnak did this one, Johnny and Ed giggled uncontrollably like schoolboys for at least a full minute before getting back on track. I would love to see that again.
@@markflemmer1326 - A: Inka Dinka Doo. Q: What do you look for when tracking an inka dinka? But one I suspect he might've done in his last months . . . A: Black or White. Q: What is Michael Jackson?
I should point out the "Saturday Night Live" Johnny was referring to was Howard Cosell's short lived and terrible ABC Saturday night variety show. The one we're now familiar with was originally called "NBC'S Saturday Night".
The crowd aren't laughing because when the punchlines are Sargent Shriver and Wilt Chamberlain they're thinking, "in 40 years nobody's going to know who that is!"
I think my favorite was Shish Boom Bah... What's the sound an exploding sheep makes? Not because it was terribly funny but because Ed cracked up laughing for so long.
Not one of the better Carnac's, oh well. I cryed when I read Carson died, 05 was not a good year. Now there's no such thing as a good year in THE UNITED STATES OF BICKERING AND COMPLAINING!!
Agree. My cousin and I would do a. sleepover at one of the homes. Friday night was the only time we got to watch Johnny. Carson, to us that's what the show was called. We loved it.
Prime time for us ... us being me and my new bride. Young enough to still stay up late for the monologue and following comedy bit but still get up for work in the morning.
Am I dreaming this or in one Karnak routine did the staff put baby powder in an envelope so that when Johnny tore open the envelope the talcum covered his face ?
I was a bit baffled by the Saturday night live comment and then after thinking about it I recalled that Howard cosell actually had a show called Saturday night live it was on in prime time and it did not do well. The other show of course was only called Saturday night. I think it officially became SNL 30 or more years later
Actually I believe it was a reference to ABC’s variety show in ‘75 called “Saturday Night Live” with Howard Cosell, which didn’t last. NBC’s show at that time was called “NBC Saturday Night”. They changed it to “SNL” shortly afterward.
There was. I remember watching it, but I have no idea when they did that. They brought in a breakaway desk just for the occasion. I'd love to see the video of that.
One of my favorite Carnacs. The stage crew swapped out the real desk for one made of balsa wood while Carson was backstage getting into his Carnac get up. According to Ed McMahon (I forget where the interview was), Johnny was not told about the gag, so his reaction was genuine.
Proof that Carnac (Johnny Carson) did have mental powers: he saw 45 years into the future at the soon to start current season of Saturday Night Live...
@@Panwere36 True but the Cosell show premiered three weeks earlier, and in prime time. (And take my word for it, it was a stinkburger). For most of its first season, the show we now call SNL was called NBC'S Saturday Night
Actually I believe that was referring to the Howard Cosell show of the same name that was on at that time that's why it originally was just called Saturday night on NBC
Different Saturday Night Live than you are thinking of. This article is about the short-lived ABC show. For the NBC sketch comedy show, see Saturday Night Live. Genre Variety show Presented by Howard Cosell Starring Bill Murray. Brian Doyle-Murray. Christopher Guest Country of origin United States No. of seasons 1. No. of episodes 18 Executive producer(s) Roone Arledge Running time 48 minutes Production company(s) ABC Original network ABC Original release September 20, 1975 -January 17, 1976 Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell is an American television variety show that aired on ABC from September 20, 1975, to January 17, 1976, hosted by Howard Cosell and executive-produced by Roone Arledge. The series ran for 18 episodes before being cancelled.
@goteamdefense: All three ABC Cast Members eventually appeared on NBC's "SNL." Especially Bill Murray who duked it out with the famously truculent Chevy Chase off camera!😂😏🥊🥊🚫🎥📺B.W.
@andrewyoung2796: Back in The Sixties "Laugh In" had a risque running gag demanding that someone "Go look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls!"😂😏🎤👨🎓👩🎓🖊📙📺B.W.
@edfulginiti8798: I had to go and search out the significance of the one about Miss Mona Freeman. Sometimes I watch these to see if I can remember why a Satiric topic was um topical at the time!😂🎤💃📺B.W.
@@gocygo63 I THINK it was something like "What is the sound that Golda Meir makes when putting on panty hose" -could be wrong - that was a LONG time ago
Snl wasn’t called that then. It was called Saturday Night because Saturday Night Live was a Howard Cosell show that didn’t last long and that’s probably why he’s saying it’s dead
Mostly corny jokes but so funny, thanks to the delivery and presentation. And a lot of stuff the "woke" puritans would freak out about, for no good reason.
🌹💙 Ed’s laughter cracks me up as much as the jokes! 😆 Miss both of these legends! 🙂
Carnac should’ve been an astronaut. His presence is outer space material. A legend.
All-knowing, all-seeing...yet never could tell where that first step onto the stage was.
Rest in peace, Mr. Carson.
After all the yrs he was there ud think he'd know the step??!!!🤣😂😅🇺🇲💖🌹
At least one time they replaced the desk with a fake one that collapsed when he fell into it.
Remember the time the desk fell apart??
Those were happy days for me. I used to sneak out of my bedroom to watch THE JOHNNY CARSON show! 📺
"May a bull elephant mate with your pet Yorkie" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love Johnny Carson he's the best
From an era when late night talk show hosts did not feel like their personal politics were any of our business, and did not wear their politics on their sleeves.
My favorite Carnac was the one in which the crew swapped in a desk made of balsa wood, so that when Carson came out and did his usual trip on the step up and went to "steady" himself on the desk, he went right through it, and the desk disintegrated in a couple hundred pieces.
I’ve been waiting for years for that one to be on CZcams.
The crack about "Saturday Night Live" being dead was a reference to the short-lived "Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell," a prime-time show on ABC. It premiered in September of 1975 and was cancelled in January of 1976 after only 18 episodes. The NBC late night show also premiered in September of '75 but was known originally as "NBC's Saturday Night" in order to avoid confusion with the ABC show, which owned the rights to the "Saturday Night Live" name. In 1977, with the ABC show long gone, NBC acquired the "Saturday Night Live" name for it's show, which still runs to this day and is now in it's 46th season.
I never knew that,thanks.I was wondering why they always say, Live from New York its Saturday night.
Really appreciate this, Larry. My first reaction was it was the first shot fired in his insult war with SNL, which got pretty intense.
I almost thought there was a "NBC's Saturday Night" variety show that was also short-lived and retooled into SNL.
It was always a tradition that the biggest applause was for “I hold in my hand, the LAST envelope.”
Then getting "May a love starved yak become infatuated with your blue jeans" from Johnny
Yes!
@@billolsen4360 Another good one I remember: "May a crazed pole vaulter run under your sister's hoop skirt". 😆
@@markflemmer1326 Don't think I ever heard that one before...that's for the golden gift!
..."...may a toothless yak gum your mother's wheat thins..."...
Is it just me or are Johnny and Ed having way more fun than the job calls for?
They were certainly having more fun than the audience. These jokes just fell straight flat.
The jokes 'fell flat'? Was it in the first joke that played too close to home for you?
No, you're right
A: Peter Pan
Q: What do you fry a peter in?
When Carnak did this one, Johnny and Ed giggled uncontrollably like schoolboys for at least a full minute before getting back on track. I would love to see that again.
A: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
Q: What do you say to someone when their Doo-Dah is open? 😆
@@markflemmer1326 - A: Inka Dinka Doo.
Q: What do you look for when tracking an inka dinka?
But one I suspect he might've done in his last months . . .
A: Black or White.
Q: What is Michael Jackson?
@@wmbrown6HA 😂
A hipster would pay thousands of dollars for that chair Ed is sitting on. Pure funk.
Liked how he always tripped over the stairs on his way to do the routine
A testament to his acrobatic ability 🙂
@paulbaranofsky4995: One night he tripped and destroyed the poor Desk!😂🤣😂😉🎤📺B.W.
I should point out the "Saturday Night Live" Johnny was referring to was Howard Cosell's short lived and terrible ABC Saturday night variety show. The one we're now familiar with was originally called "NBC'S Saturday Night".
The crowd aren't laughing because when the punchlines are Sargent Shriver and Wilt Chamberlain they're thinking, "in 40 years nobody's going to know who that is!"
The good ol’ days.😊👍🏾👍🏾
I think my favorite was Shish Boom Bah... What's the sound an exploding sheep makes? Not because it was terribly funny but because Ed cracked up laughing for so long.
sis
It's devilishly clever. That makes it hilarious.
Sis boom baaaaaa !🍺🍺🍺🍺❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍😝😜😝😜😝😜❤🍺🍺🍺🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪😛🤪😛🤪❤
A: Venus De Milo, broccoli and Anita Bryant
Q: Name a nude, a food and a prude. 😂
@@markflemmer1326 Too crude, dude.
Not one of the better Carnac's, oh well. I cryed when I read Carson died, 05 was not a good year. Now there's no such thing as a good year in THE UNITED STATES OF BICKERING AND COMPLAINING!!
Jeffery O'Bryan thank you I agree 100%!
I cried too when passed.
Agree. My cousin and I would do a. sleepover at one of the homes. Friday night was the only time we got to watch Johnny. Carson, to us that's what the show was called. We loved it.
Prime time for us ... us being me and my new bride. Young enough to still stay up late for the monologue and following comedy bit but still get up for work in the morning.
I remember watching him with my grandmom or i called her Nan
This is classic Carson!
I love it when they say someone's name and then describe how it sounds.
Thanks for upload
Carson was the best
His insults were classic
"May your Avon lady be a transvestite in heat".....LMAO 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
How sadly politically correct things are--- the pc police would hate a 'transvestite joke today--- the world sucks now RIP Johnny & Ed
Dont forget about just having the character of Carnac the Magnificent in the first place.
@@pickeljarsforhillary102 CULTERAL APPROPRIATION! CULTERAL APPROPRIATION!
@@DMS-pq8 That better be sarcasm.
@@russs7574 Possibly
Siss-Boom-bah was my favorite.
The crack about Saturday night live was funny as it holds true today in 2020.
He referring to the short lived Saturday show hosted by Howard Cosell
IDK...SNL has been dead for quite a long time
“I bring you tidings from the West”
Gilligan, the Skipper, and Chief WIggum. Name three castaways. Heeyoo.
Ka-REEM Abdul Jibar :-P
During the takeover of the US embassy in Iran, one of Carnac’s insults was, may militant students house train an elephant on your prayer rug.
This is great! I thought I'd seen all these.
Am I dreaming this or in one Karnak routine did the staff put baby powder in an envelope so that when Johnny tore open the envelope the talcum covered his face ?
@@stevewiley8409 I've never seen that
I was a bit baffled by the Saturday night live comment and then after thinking about it I recalled that Howard cosell actually had a show called Saturday night live it was on in prime time and it did not do well. The other show of course was only called Saturday night. I think it officially became SNL 30 or more years later
WOW, THIS WENT STRAIGHT TO THE VIDEO WITHOUT ME HAVING TO WATCH 3 ADS FIRST?!?!?😮
rip love
Carnac predicted SNL today!
Actually I believe it was a reference to ABC’s variety show in ‘75 called “Saturday Night Live” with Howard Cosell, which didn’t last. NBC’s show at that time was called “NBC Saturday Night”. They changed it to “SNL” shortly afterward.
I swear there waz one time Carnac crashed thru the desk
There was. I remember watching it, but I have no idea when they did that. They brought in a breakaway desk just for the occasion. I'd love to see the video of that.
@@MrEsMysteriesMagicks Me too! And the way Carson looked right in the camera when something was suggestive.
There is
One of my favorite Carnacs. The stage crew swapped out the real desk for one made of balsa wood while Carson was backstage getting into his Carnac get up. According to Ed McMahon (I forget where the interview was), Johnny was not told about the gag, so his reaction was genuine.
I remember that
I'm guessing it was a prop 😂
Hermetically sealed.
Kept in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall's porch since noon today.
@@DextersLab13 *NO-ONE (!)*
I love Ed's Haw Haw Haw
Proof that Carnac (Johnny Carson) did have mental powers: he saw 45 years into the future at the soon to start current season of Saturday Night Live...
FTR, at the time the joke might have referred to Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. Never heard of it? There's a reason for that...
@@captmurdock , perhaps it did.. but still... lol
@@captmurdock , actually, looking at the date... SNL has premiered on NBC in October of that year.. so it was most likely about them.
@@Panwere36 True but the Cosell show premiered three weeks earlier, and in prime time. (And take my word for it, it was a stinkburger). For most of its first season, the show we now call SNL was called NBC'S Saturday Night
@@captmurdock , got you. And considering how Cosell came off outside of his job, I can imagine.
Can't have a transvestite joke like that today
Saturday Night Live: Name something dead. How prescient of Johnny.
Actually I believe that was referring to the Howard Cosell show of the same name that was on at that time that's why it originally was just called Saturday night on NBC
@@hankkingsley2976 Well duh! I'm guessing you don't know what prescient means.
@@DesertScorpionKSA apparently you don't either
Different Saturday Night Live than you are thinking of. This article is about the short-lived ABC show. For the NBC sketch comedy show, see Saturday Night Live.
Genre Variety show
Presented by Howard Cosell
Starring Bill Murray. Brian Doyle-Murray. Christopher Guest
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 1. No. of episodes 18
Executive producer(s) Roone Arledge
Running time 48 minutes
Production company(s) ABC
Original network ABC
Original release September 20, 1975 -January 17, 1976
Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell is an American television variety show that aired on ABC from September 20, 1975, to January 17, 1976, hosted by Howard Cosell and executive-produced by Roone Arledge. The series ran for 18 episodes before being cancelled.
The NBC show used to be called "NBC's Saturday Night"
ABC'S Saturday Night Live was cancelled mainly because nobody could stand having to put up with Howard Cosell twice in the same week.
@goteamdefense: All three ABC Cast Members eventually appeared on NBC's "SNL." Especially Bill Murray who duked it out with the famously truculent Chevy Chase off camera!😂😏🥊🥊🚫🎥📺B.W.
Funk and Wagnell
Dictionary.
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Front porch... in a mayonnaise jar... since noon today...
@andrewyoung2796: Back in The Sixties "Laugh In" had a risque running gag demanding that someone "Go look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls!"😂😏🎤👨🎓👩🎓🖊📙📺B.W.
How y’all like huh yeah lol humorous yeah
@edfulginiti8798: I had to go and search out the significance of the one about Miss Mona Freeman. Sometimes I watch these to see if I can remember why a Satiric topic was um topical at the time!😂🎤💃📺B.W.
A lot of the jokes are topical. Unless you lived though this era you won't get them. I did but some flew over my head, like the CIA joke.
May a bull elephant mate with your pet yorkie.
Johnny would be nothing without Ed.
Till this day I still laugh when Ed says I hold in my hand the last envelope and the audience goes crazy. 😂
Sis boom bashh
Even back then Saturday night live was dead
Different show. It starred Howard Cosell!
I remember one of the biggest laughs Carson got doing Carnac was when the answer was “Abba Eben”. Anyone know if there’s a video of it?
I looked for that one too! I saw it before but I think it was removed.
@@pnpracing4688 don't know - that's one reason why I wanted to see that video
...well...what was the question?!!!
@@gocygo63 I THINK it was something like "What is the sound that Golda Meir makes when putting on panty hose" -could be wrong - that was a LONG time ago
@@joeylawn36111
...Oh Gawd!
6:07
Question - body builders answer - what do you call legos sold in playboy
This show was probably from early 1976 and the joke about SNL being dead was funny, considering they are still around 45 years later
Snl wasn’t called that then. It was called Saturday Night because Saturday Night Live was a Howard Cosell show that didn’t last long and that’s probably why he’s saying it’s dead
6:05 Carnac could truly look into the future!
SNL is now actually dead, but not in 1975.
Nope, he meant a different show by that name. Back then SNL was called NBC's Saturday Night.
Mostly corny jokes but so funny, thanks to the delivery and presentation.
And a lot of stuff the "woke" puritans would freak out about, for no good reason.
A minimum of 4 of these jokes couldn't be done today...humor wrecked by woke culture. Sad.
Wow...who's the snowflake now?
Which 4??
Nuts
Before late night comedy became a communist sewer.
Communist?
What comedy? I get nothing from it.