Television icon, Johnny Carson, concluded his Tonight Show monologues with a golf swing for 30 years. And following Carson’s death, co-host, Ed McMahon, revealed why the trademark move was ...

From Ed McMahon’s indelible introduction, “Heeeeere’s Johnny!” to the golf-swing pantomime that concluded each opening monologue, Carson turned “The Tonight Show”—pioneered by Steve ...

Key moments on Carson Johnny Carson’s legacy is not one of catchphrases or famous one-line jokes. It was his physical shtick — his trademark golf swing at the end of every monologue or the ...

We loved all of you. You and your golf swing will be greatly missed. Now, can we have Johnny Carson on ANY cable channel to lull us to sleep and remember a wonderful man and his contribution to ...

Johnny Carson, the smooth Nebraska-bred enigma who ... writers' jokes fell flat and ended his routine with a skillful golf swing. He spent the rest of the night, save for a "Mighty Carson Art ...

(ZUMA Press / The Spokesman-Review) LOS ANGELES – Johnny Carson’s legacy is not one of catch phrases or famous one-line jokes. It was his physical shtick – his trademark golf swing at the ...

Or, at the end of his opening monologue, the way he'd swing--with deliberate gracelessness ... That eventually we'd all go off to the clubhouse. While Johnny Carson was host of NBC's "The Tonight ...

and Zehme spends nine of them on the lunch that forms the centerpiece of “Johnny Carson: The Man Who Retired,” and four on the pantomimed golf swing with which Carson ended his nightly monologue.

Carson began each Tonight Show episode with a monologue, which he would cap off with a pantomimed golf swing. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson debuted on Oct. 1, 1962, and in this image ...