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In celebration of the fact that next year, the Tonight Show will be hosted by someone who's actually funny, here's some clips from the king of them all, y'all. First up, my all-time favorite Tonight Show clip, featuring George Gobel. Being a comedian on Carson's show would be nervy enough but having to follow Dean Martin and Bob Hope? Yeah, I have to shampoo a dog. But Gobel is great. In fact, the line that the title of this entry refers to is one of my all-time favorites to quote.

Pearl Bailey and Johnny sing "Our Love is Here to Stay":

Snippets from appearances by Nixon, MLK, and RFK:

Ed is drunk:

Flip Wilson tells his famous "ugly baby" joke:

Ed Ames appears and does something that sparks one of the longest sustained laughs in TV history:

Something you just don't see on entertainment television today--Carson interviews Joe Newton, one of the infamous Newton boys (the most successful bank robbers in history who also pulled off the biggest train robbery of all time):

[This clip is from the end credits of the movie The Newton Boys.]

Carson and Dragnet's Jack Webb in a sketch about a curious theft:

Dolly. ♥

I can't find my favorite animal clip, but these two are some of the classics. Johnny meets a celebes macaque and a marmoset: