{"id":20,"date":"2022-12-11T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/?p=20"},"modified":"2022-12-11T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T15:36:08","slug":"george-carl-performed-for-johnny-carson-at-age-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/20\/george-carl-performed-for-johnny-carson-at-age-79\/","title":{"rendered":"George Carl Performed for Johnny Carson at Age 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Evanier shares a link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/2011\/12\/01\/todays-video-link-577\/\">Tonight Show performance<\/a> by the prop comedian George Carl, who began his career traveling with circuses in the 1920s and was still performing for Johnny Carson in 1986:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you saw him live, Mr. Carl did about 20-30 minutes of solid comedy, all paced with about this laughs-per-second pace. When he was on TV, he always did \u2014 probably at the insistence of those who&#8217;d booked him \u2014 this six minute hunk. No matter. I could watch it again and again\u2026sheer poetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Evanier shares a link to a Tonight Show performance by the prop comedian George Carl, who began his career traveling with circuses in the 1920s and was still performing for Johnny Carson in 1986: When you saw him live, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/20\/george-carl-performed-for-johnny-carson-at-age-79\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oldtimeradio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}