Category: The Tonight Show
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7 You Tubular Algy Rhythms
For want of anything else to write about today, here are the first seven videos that YouTube is recommending I watch today. So, let’s watch them together.
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Twas The Night Before Christmas
The turkey is brining. The decorations are up. The stock is simmering. The presents are wrapped. The Radio Times is daubed with pen circles. The arguments are already bubbling inside my head. Twas the night before Christmas …
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Impeach This
Here’s how Johnny Carson was approaching some of the revelations during the Clinton impeachment. I’m sure all of the late night monologues around then had the same ideas floating up to the surface. It all seems a bit lazy and insensitive to me. This is taken from an LP called The Watergate Comedy Hour, and…
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Hyacinth & Seinfeld
Keeping Up Appearances is a sitcom written by Roy Clarke for BBC One, starring Patricia Routledge, which ran for five series between 1990 and 1995. But you knew that already. You may not know that it is still one of the BBC’s most exported shows worldwide. Routledge demonstrated time and again her physical comedy prowess.…
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Behind The Scenes On The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson
Here’s a delightful little reminiscipackage made towards the end of Johnny’s run on The Tonight Show in 1992. It appears to have been filmed over two days, rather than the one intimated at in the clip, because the early production meeting talks about Steven Wright, while the show features Stevie Wonder. Wright’s appearance was on…
