There are very few celebrity deaths of the past years from which I felt genuine emotion.

Chet Atkins,…Stephan Grappelli,… and now I must add…Johnny.

I’ve you weren’t a child of the 70’s/80’s then sure, why the hell should you care? But let me tell you kids, there was a time, a time before Conan, before Jay, when there was no Jimmy Kimmel, no Kilborn, no Arsenio, and Macanroe was just a tennis player. A time when the only players in town were Carson and Letterman. And it was a glorious time indeed.

Johnny as the king of late-night, and Dave his crowned prince. It might sound lame to say that the country was in love with Johnny, but I believe it to be true. Sure, he had 820 wives, but beyond that he was extremely charming, funny, and sincere.

“I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.”

-Johnny Carson