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Kid Nemo
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host  Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:13 pm |
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Last time,Johnny ran away with this(nice trick,considering the state he's in)
This time,you get 2 votes making this a "Johnny and..." poll.
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Mike Howell
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:53 pm |
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It's Johnny by a wide margin for me. Loved watching his show and it was one of the few shows my parents and I would watch together too. Steve Allen would be second for me. I can see that Jack Paar was a good host but I never connected with him the times I have seen him. Jay Leno can DIAF and I like Conan but I'd forget his name when making a list of Tonight Show hosts.
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Zaki Hasan
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:54 pm |
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Haven't seen enough of Steve, so I'm gonna go with Johnny. He made TONIGHT such an institution and such hallowed ground that it sparked not one, but two succession battles.
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:23 pm |
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Bigger and Better!
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Steve Allen is on my comedy Mt. Rushmore.
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:26 pm |
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:46 pm |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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Floyd R. Turbo, American. 
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:54 pm |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:59 pm |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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Steve wrote: Conan. Better than JOHNNY? 
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:02 pm |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:41 pm |
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As dull and repetitive as they are
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:52 pm |
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Steve wrote: Yep. Stupid is as stupid does. 
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:18 pm |
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:08 pm |
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Update.
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:18 pm |
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I only used one vote, for Johnny Carson. He towers over the others.
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 7:06 pm |
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I never saw the older ones before Johnny, so I can't really say about them. Easily Carson though. The later hosts don't even come close.
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:56 am |
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Howzabout starting a poll for "Best Tonight Show GUEST Host" ?? (Yes, I realize they now show repeats instead having a guest host, but there was a time when "the show must go on" even when the host went on vacation)
I'd vote for Garry Shandling as the best fill-in for Johnny, with Richard Pryor running a close second
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 4:29 am |
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NoPhoneNoPoolNoPets wrote: Howzabout starting a poll for "Best Tonight Show GUEST Host" ?? (Yes, I realize they now show repeats instead having a guest host, but there was a time when "the show must go on" even when the host went on vacation)
I'd vote for Garry Shandling as the best fill-in for Johnny, with Richard Pryor running a close second I remember liking Leno a lot as a guest host. Then once he got the regular gig, he seemed to immediately become unfunny. 
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Dr. Brian Fever
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:56 am |
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Go ahead..I dare ya!
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:02 am |
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Go ahead..I dare ya!
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Ocean Doot wrote: I remember liking Leno a lot as a guest host. Then once he got the regular gig, he seemed to immediately become unfunny. This. He became disturbingly whitebread.
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:36 am |
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Johnny's in a whole higher dimension. Parr and Allen were good but Johnny made it an art form. Leno was a hack/whore. Conan's an excellent writer but he's not host material and Fallon's playing dress up. Those last three are also just trying to do their Carson imitations whenever possible.
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:02 am |
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Ocean Doot wrote: NoPhoneNoPoolNoPets wrote: Howzabout starting a poll for "Best Tonight Show GUEST Host" ?? (Yes, I realize they now show repeats instead having a guest host, but there was a time when "the show must go on" even when the host went on vacation)
I'd vote for Garry Shandling as the best fill-in for Johnny, with Richard Pryor running a close second I remember liking Leno a lot as a guest host. Then once he got the regular gig, he seemed to immediately become unfunny. When he was guest, he was doing his stand up, basically. He was funny, edgy, and entertaining. By the time he finally got the gig, he wasn't any of those things anymore.
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Post subject: Best Tonight Show Host Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:04 am |
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Dr. Brian Fever wrote: Ocean Doot wrote: I remember liking Leno a lot as a guest host. Then once he got the regular gig, he seemed to immediately become unfunny. This. He became disturbingly whitebread. He was also hilarious as a recurring Letterman guest. Maybe he was simply a better sprinter than a long-distance runner.
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