Heeere's Johnny - The Definitive DVD Collection from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson

Gave it as a gift to my mom. She laughed. Loved it so much. Recommend it to anyone who likes classic tv.

This collection is great, and my husband and I are really enjoying watching old favorites as well as some episodes we had missed back in the day. Well worth the investment!

It really is cool to have virtually everything ever released on DVD by Carson's Tonight Show all in one package...but, it would have been even nicer to include another large collection of as-yet-unreleased material. This box is a compilation of Carson Country, Animal Hijinks, the 3 DVD Ultimate Carson set, Stand Up Comedians and the Timeless Moments collection that was previously available to the Carson club members (some of these Timeless Moments can all be found in the recent release The Best Of Carson Volume 1).I can also confirm that the 3 DVD Ultimate Carson set has been edited from it's original release, because I own the original release and was able to see what was cut out, most notably the montage of music stars that appeared on The Tonight Show over the 30 years from the very last show on May 22, 1992. For those of us who abhor things like that, the loss of that montage is a major disappointment! I have a feeling that it was cut out for some kind of music licensing reasons...but if it was put in the original, come on!!For those of you who have never bought any of the other releases, this box set is the bomb-diggity...go for it!But Respond2 or some other DVD releasing production company (Carson Productions perhaps?) needs to get extremely busy and release more of the gems from the more than 2500 available shows that are sitting on shelves out there somewhere (I'm not counting the 1500 shows from the 60's that are permanently lost). There's a lot of money to be made from the release of much more material (How about starting with the 120+ Carson Comedy Classics that were aired in syndication in the 80's?).Vroom Vroom folks...let's get some more of this stuff out there!!!

! It's a walk down memory lane!

My earliest memories of television (we did not get TV in our house until my high school years) were watching two things with my Dad: The Six Day War in 1967, and watching Johnny Carson on Friday nights and during school vacations. I learned about politics and humor, and how to play nice while being funny, from watching The Tonight Show with Mr. Carson. He introduced so many of today's greatest comics, but none were as consistently funny and fresh, without being mean. And several of his characters are still classically funny and relevant. In his day the guests stayed and interacted with each other, which added to the fun. His final episode was as touching as the last episode of M*A*S*H.My parents are in their 80's now, they have been married for over 60 years, and this past year I bought them collections of Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, and M*A*S*H for Christmas and their anniversary. Both Mom and Dad are having problems with their memories, and they are enjoying these collections immensely, and they are helping Mom and Dad remember some of the fun times and sad occurrences of the last 75 years. I hope I will get a chance to see the DVDs later on.

When the price finally went down on this set, I decided to buy it. My original 3 VHS Tapes are buried in a storage bin so it was time for a DVD upgrade. It's a shame that most of Johnny's earlier years weren't saved, but all of the DVDs in this collection have some wonderful stars and terrific jokes. There can never be enough Mighty Carson Art Players, Carnac, or Johnny's adventures with animals! Jim Fowler and Joan Embry are perfect foils for Carson's sense of humor. All of these segments are paced very well with the TONIGHT SHOW guests.There are 2 drawbacks. Not enough music from Doc and The Band...along with the fact that a lot of the same stuff gets recycled over and over. It seems to me that some of the DVDs were padded...and even then, the running time for the segments bottomed out at 47 minutes.Ironically...the weakest collection is the 2-Disc Comedian Set. Most of the material is either topic sensitive or just isn't funny. I spent one morning watching Disc #1. Jerry Seinfeld, Garry Shandling and a few others tried to be hilarious...but they weren't! Carson was laughing in the background and I kept saying to myself: "This is not really FUNNY!" What surprised me was the fact that some of the lesser known comedians....who made only 1 or 2 TONIGHT SHOW appearances....made a better impression. Also...Roseanne Barr was really funny. [There's a separate segment on another DVD pitting David Letterman and Joe Piscopo together which is hilarious].What made me appreciate this set was the fact that I've just finished Henry Bushkin's "JOHNNY CARSON book. Bushkin was Johnny's Legal Representative and close friend for roughly 20 years. Johnny occasionally referenced him ("Bombastic Bushkin") in some of his monologues. There was definitely a public and private side to Johnny which I tried to decipher while watching this set.To sum it up..."Heeere's Johnny" is a good retrospective when it comes to 3 decades of late night entertainment. Carson set a high bar which few of his successors have been able to match. For those of us who appreciate and still miss Johnny...try and ignore the repetition. Take the set for what it is...a piece of comedic history performed by a genius who could coax a laugh out of practically anybody!

I miss Carson; like an old friend. Didn't miss a single episode when I was growing up. Used to sneak into the living room on school nights and watch while my dad was watching. He never noticed my being there, but my parents always wondered why I was always sleepy in the morning and didn't want to go to school.

Good quality dvds. Can't go wrong with Johnny. These are really his best shows.

Doc SeverinsenのＣＤを探して検索をかけたときに出てきたので、演奏映像が見たいと思い購入しましたが、Severinsenの演奏はほとんどありませんでした。検索にだまされた感じです。

descent price good communication, bought for my elderly neighbor, she loved it

great collection of a legends shows

Overpriced for what you get. Would only recommend it if it was on sale