“All the guys I grew up with were funny, as were, probably, the people you grew up with. The only difference between them and me is that I typed out the funny comments I thought of.” -Jon Macks (from Monologue) In the early to mid 1980’s there were few options for TV after the 11 […]
Tag: The Tonight Show
Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $36)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.” -Johnny Carson Comedy-variety has always been my favorite television show format. And from 1962 to 1992 Johnny Carson was the undisputed master. I fondly remember the mid-eighties when NBC […]

