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S&C Coach at the Dutch Olympic Team - Team NL @teamNLtweets. Content Creator at @scienceforsport. I'm busier on Instagram! ⬇️
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A Daily Show Precursor Took on Johnny Carson in 1973—It Never Stood a Chance

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By Matt Solomon
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The ABC Comedy News team (Photo: ABC) Decades before The Daily Show, ABC built a satirical TV news show stocked with top-tier comics—and aimed it straight at Johnny Carson’s 11:30 stronghold. It lasted just eight episodes. “ABC-TV is trying to solve a riddle that has puzzled it and CBS-TV for a good many years,” reported the November 19, 1972, Lowell Sun: “How do you beat NBC-TV’s Tonight Show?” Taking down Carson wasn’t a realistic goal for last-place ABC—but the network kept trying anyway.
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How a Johnny Carson-Steve Allen Feud Set the Stage for David Letterman

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By Matt Solomon
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A chimpanzee could do Johnny Carson’s job, at least according to Steve Allen, the original host of NBC’s Tonight. Allen later told The Chicago Tribune that his comment wasn’t meant as a dig at Carson. His point, he said, was that The Tonight Show had become such a durable institution that a chimp could take over Carson’s chair and it would be months before the ratings dropped. Carson apparently did not appreciate the nuance.
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Colbert’s Only in Monroe Hosts Dish on Keeping ‘World’s Most Exciting Secret’

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By Matt Solomon
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The biggest surprise about Stephen Colbert returning to Only in Monroe, the Michigan public-access program that unofficially launched his Late Show tenure in 2015? It may be that hosts Michelle Baumann and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson managed to keep it quiet. “Kaye Lani and I are probably two of the worst secret keepers you’ll ever meet,” Baumann told LateNighter. But the two signed nondisclosure agreements, and they honored them.
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