What is your favourite late night talk show comedy sketch?

[applegrove]

David Letterman's "suits" was the best sketch comedy I've seen. The velcrow suit was the first one I saw. I laughed hysterically when he jumped up against that velcro wall and stuck. Then there was the alka seltzer suit, the sponge suit. But my favourite one must be the vegetable suit where they put David Letterman in a cage with a bunch of barn animals and they started eating that suit right off of him.

[7wo7rees]

1. Trampo-Velcro.

[applegrove]

2. Yes. I just reworked my question. The velcro suit was the skit that had me laughing.

[7wo7rees]

3. I swear Conan saw that at age 14 and said "THAT!"

[Joe Fields]

4. Johnny Carson's Art Fern Matinee Movie sketch w/Carol Wayne.

[HERVEPA]

6. YES!

[MerryBlooms]

7. Oh man, Carson did some of the best stuff ever. I still miss him. n/t

[hifiguy]

10. Oh, I fondly remember those -

mostly for Carol Wayne, who blew my teenaged mind the first time I saw one of those sketches. :wow: Though Art Fern's sheer smarminess and those hysterical movie titles always made me :rofl:.

Carnac the Magnificent was always a hoot, too.

No one will ever even approach Johnny Carson, much less top him. The once and forever king of late night teevee.

[hibbing]

16. Slauson Cutoff

Hi,
Loved me some Johnny. You drive to the Slauson Cutoff, get out of your car, cut off your Slauson

Peace

[hifiguy]

18. And "The Fork in the Road"

(couldnt find the real graphic)

Art Fern and The Matinee Lady (Carol Wayne)

[LeftinOH]

5. Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter's old fashioned staring contest. n/t

[Graybeard]

8. Johnny Carson/Ed Ames tomahawk throw.

They threw tomahawks from across the stage at a chalk outline of a man on a board. Ames first try hit the outline in the crotch with it's handle pointing upwards in an "erect" manner.

Ames wantes to rush over and pull it out of the board but Carson stopped him, letting the laughs build. Best lines: "You really know how to hurt a guy." and "I didn't know you were Jewish."

[hifiguy]

11. I once heard somewhere

that that was the longest sustained audience laugh in the history of television. Quite possibly the funniest thing that was ever on the teevee, and it NEVER gets old.

[OriginalGeek]

17. Wasn't Carson also the one who

was interviewing a lady who had potato chips that looked like people and when she wasn't looking he snuck in a regular chip and loudly crunched down on it? I think I remember seeing it but I may just be imagining it having heard of it....

[Graybeard]

20. The look on the old lady's face was priceless.

It happen alright and another Carson classic.

[Richardo]

9. Carson - Karnak the Magnificent

"Sis boom bah"














"What sound does a sheep make when it explodes?"

[Maccagirl]

13. Whacka-do Whacka-do Whacka-do

What do you step in when you follow three Wackas?

[6000eliot]

12. Chris Eliot as Marlon Brando

especially doing the "Banana Dance."

[bookworm65t]

14. TDSWJS's Even Stevphen

especially when Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert "debated" Christianity vs Islam and found that they only had common ground on their mutual hatred of Jews

:rofl:

[bookworm65t]

15. how about unintentional sketches?

many, many years ago I remember Charlie Rose was interviewing a woman who wanted to discuss her book on Gypsies. It soon became clear that he was attracted to her and was asking an unusual number of personal questions. The author kept trying to bring him back to her book, and had to keep using the phrase "my boyfriend" far more than you would expect a CR guest to utter.

[Graybeard]

19. Carson's Jolly Green Giant skit.

On stage is a set that looks like a farm with corn and crops and two huge green legs that go up into the rafters out of sight. Carson comes out dressed as "The Little Green Sprout", walks between these big legs and yells up, "Hey Green Giant show us your niblets!"

[pokerfan]

21. Floyd R. Turbo, American!

This is how brilliant Johnny Carson was: He was making fun of Tea Baggers forty years before the Tea Bagger party even existed.

Carson once told Rolling Stone reporter Timothy White, "He's the epitome of the redneck ignoramus. I find the things (characteristics) each week when I go out to do... his gestures at the wrong time, his not knowing where he's supposed to be, his feeble attempts at humor, his talks about things he doesn't quite understand."



(The "R" in Floyd R. Turbo is said to stand for "Arthur.")

:rofl:

[hifiguy]

22. Carson anticipated the Palins by thirty years.

:rofl: