It’s Friday night, August 6th, 1982. You’re watching The Tonight Show. Johnny Carson introduces a new comic who’s making his first appearance not only on Carson but on network television. Carson says something cryptic about how the audience is about to see something…unusual. And then Steven Wright comes out and
On Friday I posted a wonderful clip of then 71 year-old Joan Rivers doing an appearance on BBC host Michael Parkinson’s show. Today we roll back the clock thirty five or so years from that interview and watch the Joan that first appeared in front of national audiences. Above is
Yesterday I posted one of Rodney Dangerfield’s greatest appearances on Johnny Carson. Today we’re seeing him on The Mike Douglas Show in 1969. This is one of his earliest TV appearances (it’s shortly after his breakthrough opening for Dionne Warwick at The Sands) so it’s important to view it through