Heeere's Johnny - The Definitive DVD Collection from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson

When the price finally went down on this set, I decided to buy it. My original 3 VHS Tapes are buried in a storage bin so it was time for a DVD upgrade. It's a shame that most of Johnny's earlier years weren't saved, but all of the DVDs in this collection have some wonderful stars and terrific jokes. There can never be enough Mighty Carson Art Players, Carnac, or Johnny's adventures with animals! Jim Fowler and Joan Embry are perfect foils for Carson's sense of humor. All of these segments are paced very well with the TONIGHT SHOW guests.There are 2 drawbacks. Not enough music from Doc and The Band...along with the fact that a lot of the same stuff gets recycled over and over. It seems to me that some of the DVDs were padded...and even then, the running time for the segments bottomed out at 47 minutes.Ironically...the weakest collection is the 2-Disc Comedian Set. Most of the material is either topic sensitive or just isn't funny. I spent one morning watching Disc #1. Jerry Seinfeld, Garry Shandling and a few others tried to be hilarious...but they weren't! Carson was laughing in the background and I kept saying to myself: "This is not really FUNNY!" What surprised me was the fact that some of the lesser known comedians....who made only 1 or 2 TONIGHT SHOW appearances....made a better impression. Also...Roseanne Barr was really funny. [There's a separate segment on another DVD pitting David Letterman and Joe Piscopo together which is hilarious].What made me appreciate this set was the fact that I've just finished Henry Bushkin's "JOHNNY CARSON book. Bushkin was Johnny's Legal Representative and close friend for roughly 20 years. Johnny occasionally referenced him ("Bombastic Bushkin") in some of his monologues. There was definitely a public and private side to Johnny which I tried to decipher while watching this set.To sum it up..."Heeere's Johnny" is a good retrospective when it comes to 3 decades of late night entertainment. Carson set a high bar which few of his successors have been able to match. For those of us who appreciate and still miss Johnny...try and ignore the repetition. Take the set for what it is...a piece of comedic history performed by a genius who could coax a laugh out of practically anybody!

DVD collection looks new. Very good condition. Happy with my purchase. Would order from this seller again.

....this collection could have been MUCH better than it is.I got mine for around $20 on sale (used, very good) and for that price, it's still a bargain. But not for anything more than about $50 imo.Too many repeated segments. And some VERY lame choices included. Two examples...The Cowboy Poet is on at least 2-3 times and he is so boring. The guy who supposedly "crafted" jewelry from bird shit....come on!!! Johnny had so many amazing guests over the years, this was definitely not the best ones to share overall.On the plus side, I DID enjoy several segments, plenty of LOLs and his trip home to Nebraska was wonderful. Johnny was handsome and charming throughout.Sound and picture quality are both good as is packaging.

I was thrilled to see the "Heeere's Johnny" DVD collection released on Amazon.com. I was able to pre-order the set for $69.99 and I received it just one day after the official release date. My wife and I have been slowly working our way through the collection, one DVD at a time. Johnny is an icon and legend of late night television. This collection does a great job of spanning much of Johnny's years of being the Tonight Show host. However, the picture and sound quality is sometime quite bad. The overall picture quality is average at best. I would have thought that the old video would have gone through some sort of restoration process. Obviously this isn't the case in this collection. There are some scenes that flicker and have lines running through them, and the sound sometimes becomes garbled. Another dissapointment is that this collection has no specific order. There is no way to easily work your way from oldest to newest, or in any other manner. This collection is actually made up of several other collections. One of the included collections is made entirely of stand-up commedian guests that appeared on The Tonight Show. I bought this to watch Johnny, not to see a young Jerry Seinfeld, or the early (and yet still irritating) years of Rosanne Baar.Overall this is an excellent collection of Johnny Carson's golden years in television. I just wish it was better organized, had more clips of Johnny himself, and wish the video and audio had gone through some sort of restoration process. For the money this is definately a good buy, if you are a die hard Carson fan. =o)

Good quality dvds. Can't go wrong with Johnny. These are really his best shows.

descent price good communication, bought for my elderly neighbor, she loved it

great collection of a legends shows

Overpriced for what you get. Would only recommend it if it was on sale

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