I think back to my influences of comedy in my life was Johnny Carson and as a kid I was sent to bed just half way into the news. But after minute I would sneak out of my room down the hall avoiding and squeaks in the floor (after doing this so many time you learn where these where) I would crawl up to back of my dad's recliner and lay there between the chair and stair banister. Being a kid some of the jokes just went over my head but what drawn me to it was being able to have every ones attention.
The one thing you don't see with these kinds of talk show that is never done that Johnny did you never see is a guest host. There was time where Johnny would take a four day weekend and invite some one to come on to host the show Joey Bishop (177 times, mostly in the 1960s), Joan Rivers (93, during the 1970s and 1980s), John Davidson (87), Bob Newhart (87), David Brenner (70), McLean Stevenson (58), Jerry Lewis (52, mostly in the 1960s), David Letterman (51) and one time Diana Ross. You don't see that any more it is all centered around the one host nothing more.
