David Letterman's Tribute to Johnny Carson 1

Dave's opening monologue consists entirely of jokes sent to him from Johnny Carson. Then Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra play Carson's theme song.

This episode was broken up into seven parts; unfortunately, part seven is no longer available.

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• Dave
• David
• Letterman
• Johnny
• Carson
• Tribute
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• Shaffer
• monologue

[Mozzer232]

Actually Johnny lobbied very hard for Dave to take over the show. Johnny felt embarressed when he didn't get the show, because he all but promised it to Dave. Johnny pretty much divorced himself from NBC upon retirement, and made his last TV apperance on Dave's CBS show.

[graylikethecolor]

Jakeyjuke, you're wrong.

go read the wiki page on David Letterman. There are interviews where Carson believed that The Tonight Show belonged to Letterman after he was done.

[MonkeyZorr]

@matthmatthmatth

Troll

[MonkeyZorr]

@matthmatthmatth

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[matthmatthmatth]

@MonkeyZorr Monkey Cum Guzzler.

[MonkeyZorr]

@matthmatthmatth

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[abehammy]

@swiggy58a Lol are you kidding me? Leno has the most writers employed by any talk show host!

[DarkridesDisney]

You can tell Johnny wrote all of the monologue jokes... :-)

[matthmatthmatth]

@RavenMichaels You're a fucking moron. Get the FUCK off my internet

[RavenMichaels]

@matthmatthmatth ...k.

[AWrulez]

@swiggy58a Leno a better interviewer than Letterman.... wowwwwwwww

Letterman not real humor.... people from Kimmel to Judd Apatow to Bill Simmons to Norm Macdonald call Dave the most important and revolutionary figure in comedy in the past few decades, but you probably wouldn't know anything about that