Looking back at Johnny

Some more coverage of Johnny Carson's passing: here, here, and here.

I can't really add too many of my own memories, since when he retired, I was still too young to stay up late enough to watch him every night. But those few times I did get to watch him, he was always funny. It's hard to imagine where TV, and popular entertainment in general, would be without him. The only one better than him was him, on the Krusty gets Kancelled episode of the Simpsons:
"Bart proposes a toast. ``To Krusty, the greatest entertainer in the world. Except for that guy.'' Bart points to Johnny Carson, tap-dancing and playing the accordion while balancing a board on his head atop which sit Grampa and Jasper. He plays ``Good Night Ladies'', then the Simpsons theme."