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Johnny Carson

Auteur(s): Henry Bushkin
Narrateur(s): Josh Bloomberg
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 “A close look at how show business power corrupts . . . The dishiest read of the year.” – Janet Maslin, “Ten Favorite Books of the Year,” New York Times
“Here’s Johnny!” Probably everyone in America knows the phrase, whether they watched every episode of The Tonight Show or none because they had to go to bed early on school nights. From 1962 to 1992, Johnny Carson and his Tonight Show dominated the American consciousness.

Henry Bushkin was Carson’s best friend and lawyer during that period, and his book is a tautly rendered and remarkably nuanced portrait of Carson, revealing not only how he truly was, but why. Bushkin explains why Carson, a voracious (and very talented) womanizer, felt he always had to be married; why he couldn’t visit his son in the hospital and wouldn’t attend his mother’s funeral; and much more. Johnny Carson is by turns shocking, poignant, and uproarious — written with a novelist’s eye for detail, a screenwriter’s ear for dialogue, and a knack for comic timing that Carson himself would relish.

“A fascinating book about a complex man.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Like The Tonight Show, the book has many a merry moment . . . [Johnny Carson] was also one of a kind, and is missed. This book brings a bit of him back.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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I wish I had searched all the reviews for this book before ordering it.

The pitfalls in Johnny Carson’s personal life are not news but Henry Bushkin claims that Johnny Carson was a man he loved, admired and called friend - so naturally I was looking forward to stories about happy times, bits of joy in an amazing career, maybe some stories about guests on the show.

I was sorely disappointed - I don’t even know how to describe the level of distaste in this book. By the middle of the 2nd chapter I was going to submit for a refund but I kept listening (at high speed) because I just couldn’t understand why Henry seemed to hate Johnny so very much that he would write a book like this.

I won’t do any spoilers of course, not that there really are any, but I will say that, in my opinion, it’s nothing more than a self serving, smarmy book where Bushkin takes every opportunity to namedrop, paint himself as the hero and scapegoat others for his own bad behaviour, especially Carson.

I didn’t return it because I did finish it -but I wish I’d followed my first instinct and turned it off. Don’t take my word for it - do yourself a favour and go read the reviews online.

Henry Bushkin is a Saint - Just Ask Him

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