Steve Martin Hosts The Tonight Show w/ Burt Reynolds Part 1

[micmac99]

OMG this would NEVER fly today but it's hilarious!!!!!! ROFL!!!!!

[keonewstuff]

He's hilarious but I've always wondered was his hair ever white?

[burr1aj]

This would never pass in today's world.

[penguinboy561]

Steve Artin is the best

[burr1aj]

@penguinboy561 At first I didn't get why you said Artin, but that Makes it Much More funny, lol. BOOM!

[BMassey1987]

0:59 Looks like a move that Conan Used on his last tonight show .

[MGR1900]

Wow. Although I think Steve Martin is one of the all time smartest and funniest comedians, this sketch could not be done on television today. Laughing at this would be a little awkward.

[MrBeautifulba1]

@MGR1900 But I'm laughing right now ??!!

[bballmanager]

Who is carazini?

[MayPhoenix]

Steve was one of the original prop comics. He was and still is brilliant.



[szqsk8]

Too freaking funny! If he did that skit today with the explosives, the PC whiners would be in a frenzy!!!! I was twenty in 1978 and people laughed a lot more than now. Everyone knew it was just a comedy and had a hood time. I miss those days :-(

[Dharmarecords]

I will never forget the night that this happened.. It was one of the funniest bits I have ever seen and I am so glad to be able to see it again.. Thank you whoever posted this stuff.... Steve is and always has been THE MASTER.... WOW...

[bksmays]

you're all a bunch of morons. this would be fine today, and Steve Martin is a genius.

[jerryhello100]

That's right stupid.

[vegasrobbie]

why does everyone have to be so hostile? It's about a comedy clip.

[zerosonico]

cuz everybody has guts on the internet

[tuxguys]

A genius out of the gate. This clip is over 30 years old, and it still exudes genius. Who needs to kill an audience? Hold 'em hostage!

[snorri500]

He hasn´t changed a bit since 1978, this might as well be since 2009

[lonelygnome1]

genius.

[bedimpled215]

This act blew me away. Pardon the pun. I so love the guy.

[davemock]

Listen to how the audience goes nuts while Ed announces the opening guest list and through the host intro. I can't tell whether it starts as soon as he mentions Mr Martin or when he says "Burt Reynolds," but that rarely happened during the first two decades of the Carson era except for the 17th anniversary show in 1979.

[dirtbagdarrell2008]

Its ok to use God's name in vain, but saying nigger is worse than murder. Not to me.

[framp65ton]

People...things change. Steve Martin is and will always be the greatest. That joke would have been fine up until Sept.10th of 2001. Parts of Texas still use the "N" word in public. Go figure.

[derfsanderson]

what part of texas are you from boy? Id beat your ass if i heard you say that just for texas

[HAETE]

dumb texan.

[Xenoamicus]

It sucks that if he had done this today, he'd be labeled a terrorist.

[dave18469]

good thing he did it 3 decades ago then. carson openly smoked on the tonight show back in the day. comedy was different then, life was different then.

besides if steve martin who will host SNL once again this saturday night straps C4 to his chest I personally will laugh my fucking ass off in spite of you!

[Xenoamicus]

In spite of me? What are you talking about? I think it's fucking hilarious. I'm saying it's sad that people are so paranoid these days that they wouldn't let someone do a skit like that anymore.

[karatezombie]

only by PARANOID THOUGHT POLICE...most people are over the OOOO-let's-tiptoe-around-anyth­ing-remotely-related-to-9-11

[papertigers426]

what do bombs have to do with 9-11? maybe boxcutters would be offensive..

[anthony48197]

i think it work y cant we laughs like that him is not a round mitch hedberg died but Demetri martins ok :)

[spectrum7virkeytroni]

I think you're all talking crazy. This would be completely fine on TV today. No one would care at all.

[rofyle]

The problem with this today has nothing to do with Bush. It has everything to do with lawyers. Some fool would sue NBC claiming they or snot-nosed kids were frightened.

If we had a loser-pays law on the books, that crap wouldn't happen. Lawyers don't want it though. It'll put the slime portion of them out of work.

[trevor20153]

lol...It is good see his strategy worked.

[Sloopydrew]

He could never get away with that now because Americans have turned into easily offended cowards controlled by the moral minority.

[Dukeboychn320]

WTF!

[rhythmkick]

Take it Easy on Me. Coward may bee too strong a word, my friend; why don't we settle for too comfortable.

[Xenoamicus]

No... the stereotype-fulfilling American is indeed cowardly. Granted, they're no longer in the majority, but they DO exist, and any American who says otherwise is simply ignorant. No, I'm not saying all of us are cowards, but the sad truth is, many of us ARE.

[ShawneeRanger]

How in the everlasting hell do you turn a clip of Steve Martin fucking around into sociopolitical allegory? What are you? Fifteen? Your good conduct medal just arrived from the Planet Dumbass.

[tuxguys]

"Your good conduct medal just arrived from the Planet Dumbass." I'm going to steal this and use it the first chance I get. My compliments.

[JackedUpOnTheJuice]

Can Anyone Explain this video?

[blueoverblue]

What needs explaining? You don't know what the Tonight Show is? You don't know who Steve Martin is? You don't know what television is? What do you mean?

[VeryEnormous]

Can anyone explain why someone needed an explanation. I guess Steve Martin didn't get this approved by Rumsfeld in the 70s, although Rumsfeld hadn't come out with the most important speech of the 2000's yet (i.e. "All Americans must watch what they say...").

[joshfif]

ahead of his time

[jaredfogel]

this would be a violation of the patriot act

[pinboyjorf]

an incomparable stand up genius.

[johngilbreth]

wow