@Nick West I'm your age and hate all those things. Social media has ruined society

They had Conversations in those days.not a bunch one liners

Amen, Cavett and Carson were the very best.

@@Bossrich6287 No dumb games and the host Johnny let the guests shine.

Definitely. Well said 👏🏼

*Piers Morgan has entered the chat*

tucker also lets his guests to speak. .

It’s not called interviewing today. It’s just following along with the narrative. And that’s it that’s the only guests you have on and that’s your monologue copy paste repeat what the liberals want you to say

Brian Rose at London Reel also

Joe Rogan

@@notfiveo Nah he always said that memoir story was his biggest con.

Most men were sleeping at that time because they had to work to feed their families. Most audience in front of the boob tube were females

No. In 1978 The Tonight Show was 60 minutes in length.

​@@MikeSmithEnterprisesSeptember 1980 was when it went to 60 mins.

LONG TIME CARSON FAN HERE​@@MikeSmithEnterprises, IT was 90 minutes then, changed to 60 in 1980.

The 3 late night idiots we have now have zero class and zero talent. Carson was and will always be the king of late night.

Agreed

So true

Majority of that generation were legends. We had war heroes living in our houses without knowing it.

Where I live, if you force-laugh like Fallon, people will say "your teeth will fall out". Because it's unbearable 😂

👌☀️

Fallon would be giggling like a school girl and trying to make everything about him.

Fallon should be given The Joker treatment…... ….💥🤯🔫🤡

No Fallon and the rest would blame Trump...........

@@buddmannable orange man lost

What a simplistic view of real life.

Frank’s entire tale is itself a con. He’s been conning people into believing his con stories, which is kinda awesome in a meta way

Fatherlessness and broken homes are major societal ills.

@@triarb5790, is it simplistic to say that if your cells do not receive water, you will die?

We taped that Conference I believe. What one are you talking about?

“Sell me this pen”

He has sucked in many people , with his fake story .

wtf was your school trying to do make you all con artists?

What high-school?

Alan C Logan investigated Frank and Frank's story is all fake .

🎯 Bingo

Exactly. The late night "comics" today are way too political. They are toxic.

This type of entertainment was so laid back, reminiscent of the 1950s to 1970s era. It's too bad that it's lost and forgotten by now, I wish it would come back.

I think you are giving too much credit to dinner parties, or your inviting skills are Machiavellian!

Part of the Jimmy Fallon problem...he "thinks" he's funny and laughs at his own jokes.@@josephpeeler5434

NBC joke at the start

A few used to be, Craig Ferguson was hilarious on the Late Late show and David Letterman was a great show too, but Johnny will always be the aster. Probably the only TV show (host) I actually miss. He was the perfect end to any kind of day. 🙂

Sounds like a very Republican thing to say.

Now, most of them are just mouthpieces for politically woke propaganda as they tell the same stale political jokes ad nauseum.

A time when late nite shows didn't have to be political every night.

People like Kimmel and Fallon and that swine Colbert are something Carson might step in while golfing.

So true. Greatest Generation were the most naturalistic entertainers.

Johnny Carson was classy. Frank Abagnale is BS. Instead of being a master con artist, he is a failure. Alan C Logan of the book, "The Greatest Hoax on Earth", debunked Abagnale's exploits with records of arrests and jail during supposed impersonations.

Well I think Carson interrupts a lot in this interview.

Johnny was one of a kind.

Thank you-I didn't know what he said!

Actually I think the word Johnny used started with an "F".

Yes! The noise killed the punch line fer me too. So thanks, also stories he tells mirror the movie starring Leonardo and Tom Hanks

I get where Johnny was going with the joke, but it doesn’t quite work. Surely he meant that she got screwed twice, rather than they both got screwed?

Thanks for clarifying that punchline. The sound dropped out so I wasn’t sure what Johnny said. Did Frank say that the hooker was a well known model, in the beginning of that story?

Hello Kate how are you doing over there?

greatest ever

But I did also enjoy Leno after Johnny was off the air.

HE IS DEAD YOU KNOW

@@thatguy-art6229 Why, no! How tragic. Was it covid?

Most of the stories he tells are BS.

@@fjccommish what makes you think that?

@@marksteve8373 You think a career liar, con man was suddenly telling the truth?

@@fjccommish You've got a point, but u still don't know for sure.. he may have exaggerated his stories, but to say they're completely unfounded, that i'm not too sure of.

@@marksteve8373 Son, he's a self proclaimed con man. If you want to believe, believe. His hooker check story made no sense. He gave the woman a check that the hotel would cash for him because he was (conned her into believing) he was part owner. Why would she think they would cash the check for her? It makes no sense because it's a lie.

No he’s not

Yeah and now we have these left wing political activists like Kimmel and Colbert on their late night "comedy" shows.

@@shanehollister8976 ? What’s that about?

On UKposts , check The Truth About Frank Abagnale jr .It is all lies.

Frank lied about his whole life. Not sure why so many people believe a con-man, he is basically telling u he is a liar and people believed him. 😐

@@Ru4444 thats the point he was a conman and then he changed his ways, Im not here trying to be friends with him, I am pointing out that the topic is interesting

@@billie0429 He didnt change his ways, he lied about all his cons, none of it happend. I do agree with u that the show was funny and interesting, but educational it is not.

@@Ru4444 it is educational because i learned something and its my opinion

​@@billie0429 Not sure if you understood what he said. He meant as in Frank might have made up most of his stories (about impersonating a doctor, about making 2 million plus dollars during his schemes, and such). Essentially he might have conned everyone about his cons.

We now know through some good investigative reporting that Abagnale made up almost everything he has been telling audiences for the last forty years.

He made everything up and is a liar, none of it's true just do a little research.

@@dragonchaserkev1737 Sounds like you're a little upset that you got conned!

Frank said somewhere that he was supposed to be only 4 minutes with Johnny and there was a next guest waiting but Johnny wanted more of Frank and pumped the other guest for an another show. He also said that he was a quest on Carson for total of 9 times. Hopefully those other times are uploaded to this channel too.

@@Olaz1 , I hope the other episodes on Carson are available.

@@Olaz1, yes you could really see how J. Carson was intrigued by this guy's lifestyle. Also I can see why J. C. brought this guy back for more. It's intriguing but also against the law. And the audience was lapping it up. Carson knew his audience at home were likely into this story as well.

Yes! And no dumb singing games or eating games.

He goes into more depth in his books.

🤣🤣🤣

@Spencer Clayton no it's because Tom Hanks didn't want to f*** John Lovitz but he did want to do Leo....

one of the most bizarre comments... but funny also ;)

The most bizarre thing is to actually think I was serious.

​@@aels7 I really like Jon Lovitz (he's great in stepmothers an alien).. But, apart from a slight resemblance to Frank Abagnale, is not cut out to play the role. Leo pulled it off really well. Sometimes the director has to go with the right person for the role, rather than someone who resembles a person.

Exactly, Fallon and the others today, mostly, can't seem to acquire that step.

Yes. The art of silence seems to have disappeared with talk show hosts.

@@Wooley689 Conan O'Brien Sux He is the worst always over talking

Only Johnny did interrupt him a few times. He didn't get a chance to talk about his work with the Secret Service and how he legitimately makes millions of dollars a year stopping check fraud.

wish Jordan Peterson would study him

Johnny wasn't perfect, but he was extremely bright and seemed to have a natural curiosity about a lot of stuff.

One of the things that makes Sean Hannity one of the worst interviewers is that he doesn't listen. He's more interested in what he has to say than his guest.

@@TimothyOBrien1958 yeah well he speaks the truth.

@@KB-ke3fi Sure he does. He's a parrot.

Johnny never went through the motions. He listened intently to each and every guest like they were most important person on the planet. Which is why the show was never boring.

That's it. Johnny was the king of late night, and super smart, and had mid-west nice manners, so he was perfect for this.

huh? most of his story is a lie. he is a con man after all. you people are so gullible.

@@brianlacroix822 Carson shows none of the skeptic approach he took with Uri Geller. Though James Randi played a big part in that.

@@brianlacroix822 it's everything in is criminal records. Not everything is a lie.

@@lorenzodossantos1111 well some fools trust thieves. like you

@Richard weber. I split my sides laughing 😃 again and again he was and. Is the king 🤴 of. Late 🌙

Way back in the early 70’s I remember watching the Tonight Show with this guy on it. Interesting.

I was thinking the same thing. not only that I've watched a few of Frank Abignails talks as well as dozens of Carson's interviews and I've never seen this. crazy!

You guys have to have watched Catch me if you can, the movie of his exploits is great.

@@treestandsafety3996 it sure is! Leo, Hanks AND Walken!

Pretty Joe Rogan does this. I mean, that's why he's the biggest interviewer/podcaster in the worlf

Late night shows are so formulaic now. The hosts would not be able to approach the abilities of Johnny Carson in this interview. They couldn't even do this kind of interview nowadays.

Watch an episode of Graham Norton - nobody does it better than him right now

@@TicTaxx in those days a talk show host was half man, half DESK!

The biggest problem TV producers face today is the public's short attention span -- particularly those who have grown up with the internet and social media. When I was a kid, we had 6 channels -- the 3 networks and 3 local stations. That was it. And it was fine. At night, I watched a couple of the network shows, Honeymooner re-runs at 11 p.m., and Johnny Carson at 11:30. We couldn't pause shows or skip through commercials. "Cable" was a word that came before "car" and "stream" was something you swam in. Today we have 500 channels, endless streaming options, millions of videos and dozens of social media outlets, all vying for our time and attention. That's why the networks and cable TV make their shows as glitzy and fast-paced and controversial and edgy as possible -- all while appealing to the lowest common denominator. Everyone's trying to push the envelope and quality suffers as a result. I hate to sound like the old guy in the room (I'm 56, so maybe I am) but the internet has not only shortened everyone's attention span, but has also made society more cynical, malicious, desensitized and ignorant -- and I'm afraid it's only going to keep getting worse.

No, read some of the comments. He did none of this stuff. Presidential pardon my a$$. It’s all fiction.

He was really young at the time, people like Biden are lifelong criminals.

But his claims have never been verified. One commentator said that most of Frank's claims never happened, they were complete fabrications. So the world has been conned by a great con man

@@roderick2105 interesting, but what about the jail time was that ever verified?

@@davidradovsky7405 In his early life, Frank spent time in the navy. He was arrested several times and ended-up in jail, although this part of his young life doesn't match-up with Frank's story. He did pass several bad cheques,supposedly issued by Pan Am. But incredibly used his own name on each dud check, making it easy to track him down. There is a UKposts channel - Most Notorious- which refutes most of his claims.

His whole story/book is nearly all lies. He made up most of it just to profit from gullible people who believe it. He was no genius, just a con man who did very little of what he claims. His real con is the fake story.

I wouldn't go that far, Much was trial and error and the rest... Blind luck 🤔

U would fail on 1st try​@@blessedmslady7341

hate to break it to you: The guy made the whole thing up. That's his greatest con. None of it was true. Still a great movie. Love it. But ya, no one bothered to do any research to see if the story was actually true. Why bother, it's a great story.

You have not heard? Frank is a total fake , check UKposts Alan C Logan and Frank Abagnale . Sorry .

Leo thinks he's still playing him today.

The television show White Collarbis also based loosely on his life story

I met Frank when he gave a speech at my college in 1980 here in Texas. He was a super nice guy. I was working on my lithography and printing degree followups in criminal justice, and he said, you know, getting busted for printing money is an automatic 20 years first offense in federal prison. I've been honest ever since.

Spot on. It was genius of Johnny to realize he had to keep him over beyond his time. He knew this was a once in a lifetime guest and interview. There will never be another Carson!

NmNnmmmnmmmmnmm keep k no ko mom most all the Money

frank is a fraud his whole stories are proven to be false

yep ... cuz that's what a con man does ... tells a good story

Johnny looks like he's thinking "now why didn't I think of that?"

It's that strange moment, always, where it's a great story but then reality pops in at the last second: this is horrible! :) Strange dichotomy

This man's story has been debunked by some journalists. Read his Wikipedia article. But some of the debunking work is very old and can't be found on the Internet anymore.

@@brinckauyea his stories to get on tv back then were mostly fake and somehow became a great movie all these 50 some odd years later

All lies.

@@tml184 ALL?

all@@Genious.

That's the way you do it . To many night show guys keep stepping on the guests stories and don't listen .

Johnny was the best. My whole family would watch -us kids, mom/dad and grandma and everyone enjoyed the show. Dang, miss those days.

my gramps loved Carson. i bet he's got a front row seat at the big Tonight Show in the sky.

Such a master that he let Abagnale lie for nearly 20 minutes without challenge.

Not on TV so much, but plenty of the biggest podcasts are just two people having an in-depth chat.

Listening is an art

Johnny was NOT an interviewer. He was a host that listened to his guest. It was perfect entertainment.

I miss Johnny Carson. He was one of a kind!

great storyteller none of his stories are true

@@thewkovacs316 you think?

I heard that he once took a laundry bag , stood in front of an ATM machine in an airport With a sign that said, " Machine out of order, please deposit money with the security guard" Walked out with $75,000 at the end of the day.

Hello Linda how are you doing over there?

Oh , so many people believed Frank's story including me .His story is just a story , Alan C Logan investigated Frank and Frank's entire story is all fake . Frank stole from people's homes and stole from a children's camp .@@frankmoyer5822

Too bad it was all made up

Most of it was all lies. The con is the con.

All very entertaining until he described impersonating a physician supervising residents in a hospital. Can you imagine being a patient in that ward?? I’m shocked at how lightly Carson treated that. So incredibly unethical and DANGEROUS.

​@@calisongbird I I thought that,too! Even worse, I once read that something like 10% of all hospital staff are drug addicts. Anytime I am in the hospital, I remember that and it scares me completely!

​@@calisongbird He was trusting that the residents knew how to treat the patients. Remember... residents have finished med school and have spent another 2 or 3 yrs as interns. So they are not stupid. But, yes, my first thought was that it was very dangerous, too!

Agree. no one comes close to Carson. Truly one of a kind. I always loved his shows .

@@jaynecampbell4396 Hospitals cause about 100,000 deaths a year.

@Bobby Woods that’s so cool. I’d love to meet him. Well I wonder if he’s still alive now 2022.

@@paulahunt3508 Most likely still alive. Frank Abagnale did a Google Talks about his life.

A good talker.

Best bad check seminar I ever went to was Frank's in the 80s.

@@dwaynehall6356 so, uh, how many 'bad check seminars' did you attend? 😀

Read Abagnale’s books too. Lots of amazing stuff in there that they didn’t have time to work into the movie.

Also watch his google talk. I found it far more interesting than the movie. Haven't read the book yet.

Jesus Christ would've indeed been a great interviewer.

My husband always said Frank would be one person he would like to be on a deserted island with. Loved his stories. And we had an opportunity a few years ago to go to one of his talks through the AARP. We were in a hallway looking for the auditorium and accidentally got directed by someone into a small room when we were able to meet him personally and speak with him. It was a total accident. I think they thought we were AARP officials. But my husband is still thrilled to this day. (Frank’s talk was great too!)

@@emb74 that's so cool, i agree with him about the island thing. He would convince the natives he was a God and they'd build him a boat..

Exactly. Well stated.

Well, couldn't have been that lonely when he could scam a prostitute who charged $1000 a night!

His whole story is a lie. Including the part you mention.

@@DanielOkulitch Do you have any evidence to support that claim?

He's just like my brother, except my brother convinces himself that his lies are true. It's so sad to see people reacting to emotional trauma in such unhealthy ways.

"Frank is after all a true story" lmao. Frank still conning people after all these years.

Ditto, only not the stairs part. I just crept down the hallway.

@@TERoss-jk9ny Awesome! I see Richard Pryor as a link on this page. He lived in Northridge when he lit himself on fire. My buddy saw him running down the street when it happened. I grew up in what was Canoga Park and is now West Hills. In the 60's there were Condors in the N.W. corner of LA County and we saw them flying all the time. Too many people destroyed it all. Blessings

@@paulmikoll5186: Born and raised in Victorville. Not a lot of celebrities lighting themselves on fire up there… Richard Pryor was probably the greatest comedian of his generation. So sad how his life ended.

Oh my goodness Paul!! You just described my early childhood memories to a tee!!!! Yes, Johnny was the absolute BEST!

I did the same, exactly only a couple years older

All very entertaining until he described impersonating a physician supervising residents in a hospital. Can you imagine being a patient in that ward?? I’m shocked at how lightly Carson treated that. So incredibly unethical and DANGEROUS.

Too bad its all made up

It would have been a fab movie had it not been for Leonardo di Caprio. Can’t stand him although he’s gotten better recently.

I had never heard of this movie but 1 night I went drop off a movie in blockbusters overnight mailbox and this movie was stuck in the slot and I've had it ever since Great movie.

Love that movie as well. Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in that movie.

The movie was good as a movie, but Abagnale's book of the same title was fantastic. Put the movie to shame... Also, the story of the time he did in the French prisons, which were barbaric beyond belief, leave no doubt that he paid his debt.

“Catch Me If You Can”…obviously came out after this…you think…duhhhh??!?

No reply.

Check out Britain's The Graham Norton Show, M Daley, if you haven't already but want to LYAO!! There are clips from Graham's 20+ yrs of talk shows all over UKposts to confirm HIM as the king of late night, IMHO (at least, pre pandemic). But I don't disagree about wonderful Johnny & his positive impact upon our generation. And yes, I, too, miss him a lot.

@@cherylh4688 I very much agree with you about Graham Norton.

I cant and don't watch what's called late night today. I have tried several times, I find it much to political and its just not entertaining. In fact in most cases I find it down right stupid.

Absolutely correct, especially about today's talk shows !!!

Great point.

Johnny should have fact checked him. Abagnale made it all up--his stories are lies. Carson as a magician should have smelled a phony.

The movie 'Catch me if you can' starring Leonardo is based on his life..🙂

He's coning Johnny Carson right now.

unfortunately its all a lie.

All made up bullshit.

@@seanogary1205 what do you mean? I'm curious thanks

Research, he did con his way through life as all his stories are fake and lies. Con man and a liar, nothing more.

@@dragonchaserkev1737 and this affects my comment how?

I agree. His book was fascinating and the movie didn’t overindulge.

He’s a lying scumbag. The con was the fake story of being a con man. He never did any of those things. Read “The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can,” by Alan C. Logan.

@@andyschultheiss5128 Frank says the movie was about 80 % correct. However the book goes into a lot more detail that the movie could not.

@@richlaue None of it was correct, the movie or the book. All fiction. The con was the story of the con.

@@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo thathis not what Frank claims

Not informative, just more con. Catch Me If You Can turned out to be all fantasy.

@@TheDigMe It's a movie not a biography. Relax..lol

@@wallstbull1 the book Catch Me If You Can is called “the true story of a real fake.” This movie is based on that book.

I just finished reading the book and that part of it was one of the 2 most fascinating parts that he not only had the balls to attempt, but easily pulled it off.

@@Genious. funny how frank is blaming the co-writer for all the lies. He was in prison when all these stories didn’t happen. Read the book. Not franks book

@@Bone89 Alan C Logan is the author who investigated Abignales claims and wrote a book debunking most of them.

@@Genious. I believed him also , it is a bull.Check Alan C Logan and Frank Abagnale .

Seriously? I mean, how would you like this guy overseeing a surgery or medical procedure of a family member? Good thing that none of this is true.

Yup

There is no public record of any "Johnny Carson" on any NBC payroll, nor is there any record of him on any on its affiliates, nor at G.E. ("General Electric"), NBC's parent company. There is no public record of any "Johnny Carson" being being involved in aviation in any capacity. There is no record of any "Johnny Carson" in the Navy, or in any of the military branches. As a matter of fact, Johnny Carson was never on TV.

An absolute gem of a guy. Loved it . A good sum up mate.

Ed McMahon was a Colonel in the US Marine Corps and a fighter pilot.

@@larrysmith6797 An amazing amount of service just from these two guys!

No it’s not!

@@shanehollister8976 why not ?

I bet if he interviewed Charles Manson the lies told would have been zero

Interesting comment. What is a creativity researcher ? Who do you work for ? How did you get into that work ?

I mean, its not like his questions wrote the movie. It was Abagnale's stories that the movie was based off of. Even if this interview had never happened, every single plot point of the movie still would have.

@@CUStudioFilms no, Abagnale had started telling his fake life story a year prior, in 1977, even had a press kit where the fantastical tale was laid out, had appeared on To Tell the Truth prior to Carson, and in 1980 he published his fake biography. All while this was going on, several reporters in different papers published a few articles where his whole story was debunked (I think Carson saw the article in the San Francisco Chronicle about how Carson had been conned and stopped having him on), but by the time the film came out, no one seemed to care.

Colbert, Fallon, and Kimmel are half weights. Not worthy to sharpen his pencils.

Kimmel is a dullard

to be fair Abagnale is someone that Jon Stewart probably would have booked back in his Daily Show days

Way too much politics with the current late night hosts.

Withed with?

Mary Meek. do you remember what airline? In the film with DiCaprio it was TWA I hope you reply ty even if you don’t! The scene with the flight attendant in the film was TWA..here he says he worked for PanAM..

@@HowardLuken I'm guessing he meant "worked with". Only guessing, of course.

@@uptick888 I’ll have to check and I’ll get back with you. 😁

@@HowardLuken Not in any illegal activity.

He was a good interviewer but a total cv#t otherwise.

I like Jimmy Fallon. He's very talented but he's not a great host. He's always injecting himself in to everything. All of the "bits" he does with guest are designed around his own talents. His show isn't really a "Talk show," it's more of a "Participation" show. It's interesting and entertaining but in no way is it the "Johnny Carson show."

Rachel Ray isn't an interviewer. She cooks. Lol. No comparison.

Rachel Ray interviewing Jacques Pepin would be like Justin Bieber interviewing Mozart. It's an insult to the profession.

Elon, is that you?

Yeah, 'unbelievable'. Perfect word to describe Frank Abingnale.

All bull , Frank's story is a total fabrication , he was in jail as a teen , it is a matter of public record . Do not let the truth get in the way of a good story .

THOMMGB-Oh Yeah! I never did read the book, but there was a movie that came from that book under the same name, “ Catch Me If You Can! “

Wish they would make a movie

@@JB.924 They did. "Catch Me If You Can" starring Leo Dicaprio and Tom Hanks.

@@JB.924 Lol

All very entertaining until he described impersonating a physician supervising residents in a hospital. Can you imagine being a patient in that ward?? I’m shocked at how lightly Carson treated that. So incredibly unethical and DANGEROUS.

@@calisongbird might have saved several lives. Did you consider that? Multiple times encountered doctors who where so full of themselves (and supported by a major pharma company) that they would ignore multiple red flags that their diagnosis was wrong.

I recall enjoying Tom Snyder as well back then, similarly engaging, demonstrative and very relatable.

@@davenelson8187 excellent point and I agree! I also love watching old Dick Cavett show episodes, Dick was so masterful in his questioning, always supremely prepared yet never stole the show from his guest's. Sadly, it's an artform that's nearly extinct today.

@@calisongbird The thing is, he never tried to diagnose anything or prescribe anything himself. He used the brains of the highly trained residents, so the patient got the best treatment available at that time and place, and the residents got the best type of training because he made them use their skills to the full.