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2005-01-24|7:49 a.m.
Johnny Carson passed away on Sunday. Like anyone who used to watch him, this made me very sad.
As a child, I used to steal my dad's work tape recorder so I could play Johnny Carson with my sisters. I would be Johnny, and my sisters would be my guests.
After asking them a couple of questions, they would usually put a record on and sing along with it on the tape recorder.
Sometimes this made my dad angry - on at least on occasion I know I taped over important things of his with a little song I wrote about Phyllis Diller's hair. My dad recorded another song in the same tune telling me that I was in trouble and waited for me to find it (He knew I would.)
I remember getting permission to stay up late on Friday nights to watch Johnny Carson. I remember laughing hysterically (again with my dad) at so much that he did.
They have showed part of his interview with the potato chip lady on local news shows - but, at least as far as I have seen, they have not shown the best part. At one point in the interview with her, he pulled out a bowl of 'normal' chips and tricked her by eating one. The audience saw this coming, but the potato chip lady didn't.
Johnny pulled it off brilliantly. The scared look on her face for just a second was priceless - and Johnny was able to get her to laugh about it within a few seconds. I am not sure anyone else could pull that off.
I remember being in college when he retired. I knew that I would miss his charm and grace long after he went off the air.
A few years ago my mom got me "The Johnny Carson Collection" for Christmas. The night I got it, I stayed up until the early hours of the morning watching it. I don't think late night TV will ever have another host like Johnny. Today I am reminded just how much I miss him.
