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The gold standard of late night hosts


A late night legend. He would be ashamed of what late night TV has become what with talentless hosts pushing their extremist views while their cheering, paid off live audiences look on.

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^This. Steve Allen created The Tonight Show. Johnny Carson brought it to its zenith. He was on the surface a Wonderbread mild midwestern with a steel trap mind and a sense of humor unsurpassed by any other comic, before or since, and I love Groucho Marx, S.J. Perelman, W.C. Fields, Steve Martin, Gracie Allen, Chris Rock and Richard Prior before the crack fire. Carson made the hardest job in the world look easy.

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I'd say Platinum

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