Here's to you, Johnny Carson.
Jan. 24th, 2005 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ldhensonI only learned the news late last night, having been out all day.
If there's one word I'd associate with Johnny Carson, it's comforting.
Even when I was too young to stay up to watch The Tonight Show, or--later--when I was old enough but just couldn't stay awake, it was always comforting to hear the familiar theme music and the "Heeeeeere's Johnny" drifting in from the family TV. I rarely watched an entire episode--I had better sleep habits in those days--but watching him emerge from behind those curtains was comforting; listening to his monologue was comforting; his banter with Ed McMahon, his ready smile, his gentlemanly mannter--come rain or come shine, it seemed as though he was always there.
Even after he retired--and yes, I was in tears when Bette Midler sang, too--it was, somehow, still a comfort to know he was out there enjoying life, just not on our television screens.
So here's to you, Mr. Carson; you will be sorely missed.
If there's one word I'd associate with Johnny Carson, it's comforting.
Even when I was too young to stay up to watch The Tonight Show, or--later--when I was old enough but just couldn't stay awake, it was always comforting to hear the familiar theme music and the "Heeeeeere's Johnny" drifting in from the family TV. I rarely watched an entire episode--I had better sleep habits in those days--but watching him emerge from behind those curtains was comforting; listening to his monologue was comforting; his banter with Ed McMahon, his ready smile, his gentlemanly mannter--come rain or come shine, it seemed as though he was always there.
Even after he retired--and yes, I was in tears when Bette Midler sang, too--it was, somehow, still a comfort to know he was out there enjoying life, just not on our television screens.
So here's to you, Mr. Carson; you will be sorely missed.
