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Career Killers - 2/9/2014 5:46:08 AM   
jlf1961


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Status: offline 		Seriously, Johnny Carson hosted the show, and has anyone heard anything from him lately? (okay so he died in 2005, but still....)
Johnny had the show thirty years, and then "POOF!" he disappeared.

I promise you, Jay Leno is going to vanish too.

The tonight show ended the promising career of Johnny, it will end Leno.

It is just like having a hit song on the charts.

Artists have gotten a hit and then they vanish, never to be seen again.

What happened to the guy that tamed rocks so they could be pets?

Think about it.

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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 5:56:05 AM   
ShaharThorne


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Status: offline 		Leno is gone...Fallon is taking over after the Olympics.

I keep all my pet rocks outside so them can be used to the weather. Pet books, on the other hand, stay inside.

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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 6:36:42 AM   
angelikaJ


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Status: offline 		You are forgetting that both Steve Allen and Jack Paar hosted The Tonight Show before Carson had his stint.

Steve Allen left after a couple of years and had a long career.
Jack Paar didn't fade away either.

The Pet Rock guy won a competition for bad writing ("Purple Prose") and beat out 4,000 other entries with this:
"The heather-encrusted Headlands, veiled in fog as thick as smoke in a crowded pub, hunched precariously over the moors, their rocky elbows slipping off land's end, their bulbous, craggy noses thrust into the thick foam of the North Sea like bearded old men falling asleep in their pints."
He also wrote Advertising for Dummies.


However, on the topic of one hit wonders... you are quite right.


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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 6:43:57 AM   
hlen5


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Dahl, an advertising executive from Los Gatos, California, was sitting in a bar listening to friends complain about their pets. He got the idea of creating the perfect pet.[1] This led to the idea of selling rocks to people as pets, complete with instructions. The instruction book was the real product, which was full of gags and puns. The 1975 fad only lasted about half a year, but that was enough to make Dahl a millionaire....

Proof positive that all it takes is one good idea sometimes!!

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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 6:52:35 AM   
DomKen


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Status: offline 		Never was a huge Leno fan but caught his sign off and really liked the way he acknowledged his crew. A real class act.

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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 7:04:04 AM   
Kana


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The tonight show ended the promising career of Johnny

Well give him some due-he was 68, had helmed the TS for 30 years, had more money than Croesus, a bevy of ex-wives and starlets, a never ending supply of poon and zero desire to work anymore after being The King of Late Night for 3 decades.
I'm not sure saying that the TS ended his "promising" career is entirely accurate :-)

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Never was a huge Leno fan but caught his sign off and really liked the way he acknowledged his crew. A real class act.

Hmmm, considering how he stabbed Letterman (His long term BFF) in the back to get the TS job and then absolutely fucked Conan to get back on, I'm not sure classy is ever the way I'd refer to Jay Leno.
Arrogant self obsessed asshole-yes.
but classy-naaaah
(Though giving the devil is due, he does have some classy ass fucking cars)

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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 7:23:14 AM   
DaddySatyr


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ORIGINAL: Kana

quote:

Never was a huge Leno fan but caught his sign off and really liked the way he acknowledged his crew. A real class act.

Hmmm, considering how he stabbed Letterman (His long term BFF) in the back to get the TS job and then absolutely fucked Conan to get back on, I'm not sure classy is ever the way I'd refer to Jay Leno.
Arrogant self obsessed asshole-yes.
but classy-naaaah
(Though giving the devil is due, he does have some classy ass fucking cars)



There have also been some reports (again) of Leno claiming that he's being "pushed" out. I don't remember the original source but it was on a yahoo, within the last couple of weeks. Not "classy".





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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 8:20:20 AM   
jlf1961


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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 8:54:06 AM   
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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 1:11:20 PM   
Kana


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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

The art of sarcastic humor does not transfer to the printed word.

I got that you were being sarcastic :-)

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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 3:09:32 PM   
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Seriously, Johnny Carson hosted the show, and has anyone heard anything from him lately? (okay so he died in 2005, but still....)
Johnny had the show thirty years, and then "POOF!" he disappeared.

I promise you, Jay Leno is going to vanish too.

The tonight show ended the promising career of Johnny, it will end Leno.

It is just like having a hit song on the charts.

Artists have gotten a hit and then they vanish, never to be seen again.

What happened to the guy that tamed rocks so they could be pets?

Think about it.


Well, Johnny specifically chose to leave public life and refused every ovation to make speeches, do other shows and in all that, only did one show after retirement: Dave Letterman. Then, he went boating and golfing and stayed out of the lens.

(Plus, that whole death thing slowed him down as well).

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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 5:07:23 PM   
NuevaVida


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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie


Well, Johnny specifically chose to leave public life and refused every ovation to make speeches, do other shows and in all that, only did one show after retirement: Dave Letterman. Then, he went boating and golfing and stayed out of the lens.

(Plus, that whole death thing slowed him down as well).

Was going to write this but you beat me to it.

He wanted nothing more to do with the public lime-light and chose to keep his remaining years very private.

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RE: Career Killers - 2/9/2014 10:09:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		"He's no Jack Parr but that Carson fellow is kinda funny." .... my Grandfather's take on my Grandmother lamenting the demise of the tonight show when they brought on some young upstart.

Just sayin'... things change

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