Talk Show Hosts Collection on Letterman, Part 3a of 7: Johnny Carson

This is my own supplementary material to the sixpart documentary The Story of Late Night that will air on CNN. I selected seven talkshow hosts who had guested on Dave. Third up: Johnny Carson. This is the first of two parts: The Late Night years. Part 3a: The Late Night Years, 19851993 1. May 16, 1985. May 16, 1985. Johnny makes his first appearance on Late Night on the show s last evening in Los Angeles. But before he does, he sets up a joke on his own show before delivering the punchline on Dave s: There s an accident at a beer factory. Man goes to Mrs. O Hara s house, and he says, There s been a terrible accident, I have some news: your husband drowned in a beer And Mrs. O Hara says, Oh my poor husband, he didn t have a And the man said Preceded by a promo.