Johnny Carson Warned Us About Jimmy Kimmel

"Where would we be without Jimmy Kimmel?  We’d never know when the walls are closing in, our democracy was hanging by a thread or an East Wing renovation threatened world peace. Thankfully, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is there when we need it most. Or, so Kimmel thinks."

Jimmy Kimmel is on TV to hate President Trump: Bill O'Reilly | Katie Pavlich

Comments from readers at the above link: "Bill is 100% right. Not one word he said was even a millimeter off the bullseye. It is a shame we can't go back to a time where almost everyone in the USA had common sense instead of almost no body. I wish we could get along a little better. Each party gets a chance sooner or later to try to make America better. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't but this hate stuff as gone way too far and Jimmy Kimmel is not a comedian anymore and should be removed. As for Disney I am done with them. They don't have the values they had when I was growing up watching their cartoons and stuff."

O'Reilly had his moments as well: "Anybody remember when Bill demonized an abortion doctor for so long and so fiercely that a crazy guy killed the doctor? I do."

Johnny Carson Warned Us About Jimmy Kimmel   

"'Tonight Show' legend shared secret to his apolitical succes[s] decades ago"

. . . "Carson’s successor, Jay Leno, kept that bipartisan, upbeat spirit alive. Now, it’s a relic of the past trashed by the likes of Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Kimmel and the soon-to-be-unemployed Stephen Colbert.

"Wallace pressed Carson on that decision, and the talker had a ready, emphatic answer. It’s not my job, he insisted." . . .

. . . "“Tell me the last time a Jack Benny, a Red Skelton or any comedian used his show to do serious issues. That’s not what I’m there for. Can’t they see that?” Carson asked at the time. “Just because you have a ‘Tonight Show’ you must deal in serious issues. That’s a danger. It’s a real danger. Once you start that, you start to get that self-important feeling that what you say has great import, and you know, strangely enough, you can use that show as a forum. You could sway people, and I don’t think you should as an entertainer.”

"Why, you might repeatedly cry on the air and treat your showcase like a one-sided political screed." . . . President Reagan was also hated by Hollywood, yet Johnny Carson loved showing him this way:

"Johnny Carson was undoubtedly the very best late night variety show ever, but since he retired in May of 1992 with two of the funniest people Robin Williams & Bette Midler on the very last show or in other words the farewell show, things were never the same again in late night TV show beside Jay Leno & Letterman which they were O.K & a lot of fun to watch them too. But Carson surely was something else, he was the best of the best in late night show. there will never be another Johnny Carson ever again. RIP Johnny. You are missed very much so."

Johnny As Ronald Reagan in Classic “Who’s on First” Spoof | Carson Tonight Show

Horrible final hours of a city destroyed by a volcano

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Pompeii: The Last Morning | A Day in the Life of a Doomed City

Fading Lore  "On August 24, 79 AD, the people of Pompeii woke up to what seemed like an ordinary Tuesday morning. By sunset, their city would be buried under volcanic ash. This is the story of that last morning.

"Follow a single day in ancient Pompeii: the bakers lighting their ovens before dawn, children playing in the streets, merchants opening their shops, families gathering for meals. Experience the normalcy bias that kept most residents from fleeing, the warning signs that went unheeded, and the final hours of one of history's most perfectly preserved cities.

Based on archaeological evidence, historical accounts from Pliny the Younger, and decades of excavation findings, this reconstruction shows what daily life actually looked like in a Roman city and what it means that we can still walk those same streets today.

Wonderful storytelling. Put Pompeii on your bucket list. It's an incredible experience down to the burned rock smell which still wells up in the breeze. Go off season. I lagged behind my tour group and found myself alone near an intersection with just the wind. It's the closest to time travel I can imagine. It was like they were all at the arena and I was awaiting their return. The only disagreement I have, ( and this was after an enlightening discussion with my guide), is that most survived. Most did (eventually) leave the city but the final surge reached from Mycenium to Stabaei. He said the general consensus from the archeologists is thousands, with nowhere to go, in pitch darkness made there way south towards the river and Stabaei moving no faster than a slow walk. They believe the final surge overtook them and thousands died, buried by subsequent ash fall. The say that today during construction or road widening miles from Pompeii, remains are found routinely. Their guess, 80 to 90% perished and only a few thousand; those who left immediately, made it beyond that final surge.