MP3 of the Day
On this day in 1962, Jack Paar shot his final episode of The Tonight Show. Paar had hosted the show since July 1957 (six months after Steve Allen stepped down). Paar was known for his outbursts, which included walking off the set of The Tonight Show on February 11, 1960, to protest network censorship of one of his jokes. Johnny Carson took over as host of the show in October 1962. Today we have, All Of A Sudden by THE BRIGHT LIGHTS from their self titled CD on, 555 Recordings.
posted by Sean at 3:38 AM
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great song!
What was the joke that he walked off over? Do you know?
The joke in question involved a woman writing to a vacation resort and inquiring about the availability of a "W.C." The woman used that term to mean "water closet" (i.e. bathroom), but the gentleman who received the letter misunderstood "W.C." to mean "wayside chapel" (i.e. church). The full text of the joke reveals multiple double entendres that are tame by today's standards, but too much for the network to bear in 1960.
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