I miss the days of watching Bob Hope entertaining the troops all over the world. His Christmas specials were the best, too.

The comedians of today will never match the talent during the era of Carson, Martin, Hope, Gleason, and the rest. I miss the good old days.

I miss Carnac the Magnificent.

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I saw this episode when it originally aired. I'm so glad that someone brought it back. I missed some of the original because I was laughing so hard. Every person in this video was a Giant in the buisiness. Today we have NO political or comedic talent.

I guess I always will. I had a very definite bedtime when I was a kid, especially during the school year. In the summer months, I went to bed a little later but still before "The Tonight Show" aired. I used to sneak out of my bedroom and crawl down the hallway and lay just outside of the living room and listen while my parents watched "Johnny." I loved his monologue. I used to fall asleep laying there in the hallway.

As I got older mom and dad would let me stay up late in the summer, so I watched "The Tonight Show" with them. We lived in the South and didn't have air conditioning, so a lot of times I was up that late waiting for the house to cool off enough to go to sleep (I know it's hard to believe that there was that kind of heat in the days before global warming).

Years later, I heard my mother telling a story to a neighbor about finding me asleep in the hall all the time. She was baffled by it, thought I sleepwalked. She got a laugh when I told her I was listening to Johnny Carson's monologue.

I always watched the guests on Carson's show. I've never watched the guests on Letterman's or Leno's shows. They're interviews are boring or a bunch of discombobulated political rhetoric. In the past six or seven years I've quit watching those shows completely.

By the way, I'm almost completely Hollywood illiterate these days. I have a tough time picking out famous people, especially if they're not from Kentucky. I know that sounds kind of "hickish," but that's how I am. I only know some of the "famous" Kentuckians because it's impossible not to. For instance, Ashley Judd is one of the finest pieces of eye candy I've ever seen -- I've met her personally -- but she's a nitwit when it comes to politics.

Heck, I find myself watching infomercials selling DVDs of old Dean Martin and Johnny Carson shows, but I wouldn't watch a second of the modern shows. Even though I was a kid when those shows aired (I was an adult and in a profession when Johnny retired), I can still name all the celebrities from those eras. Today, outside of Ashley Judd I'm clueless.

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Always remarked that during WWII, no Japanese plane got past Tulsa while he was flight instructor in Oklahoma.

Just seen a clip with him with Tennessee Ernie Ford, who is incredibly funny, on YouTube. Talent is hard to find anymore. 

Would love to see a TV show or movie that is extremely funny without using sexual innuendos, toilet jokes, or political potshots. It's possible. Benny Hill used sex sparingly, and Monty Python used toilet and sex stuff brilliantly.

Sadly, toilet and d*ck jokes are more or less crutches for those who claim to be comedy geniuses, like Jon Stewart.

He may be left-of-center, but Steven Wright doesn't resort to such crass material and still manages to make me laugh my ass off.

2010: A GOP Hill

Another booker cited Brzezinski's refusal to go on with Pat Buchanan—"probably because he thinks he's an anti-Semite."

That's odd...I have seen Dr. Brzezinski and Buchanan together twice on Morning Joe in just the past few weeks.  Both appeared comfortable.  Maybe it was a favor to his daughter.

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