[dd74]

Truly, truly sad. He was late-night television to me when I was a kid. Carson was by far the funniest, most well-informed and engaging late-night host of any of them.

I loved his jokes about Burbank being as "dead" as it was at night -- which is true. That's what's great about Burbank.

The "Mighty Carson Art Players" was the funnier than anything Sat. Night Live or even Letterman could do. The Lab Mouse skit still cracks me up:

McMahon interviewing: "As a lab mouse, what happens to you when they test chemicals on you?" (sic)
Lab Mouse (Carson): "I get the urge every once in a while to eat cat...or something like that.

Hilarious!

He brought up Letterman by the way, did not particularly like Leno, and when he said "bye-bye" to television, he left for good.