https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2013/02/18/johnny-carson-1978/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 02:45:35 -0400<![CDATA[Last month, in a post titled &#8220;Notes from Atlantis,&#8221; we looked at Civilisation, the BBC series produced in 1968, just as the lights were going out on postwar middlebrow culture. On both side of the Atlantic, the &#8220;culture&#8221; that succeeded it in the following decade was alternately garish, plastic, violent or all three, as once-confident postwar liberals had pretty much talked themselves into a permanent malaise by 1968; the American public choosing Richard Nixon simply sealed the deal. But on American late night TV, one man was a reassuring constant through both eras. Kathy Shaidle links to a lengthy and for the most part beautifully written* 1978 New Yorker profile of Johnny Carson by Kenneth Tynan. This lengthy 580 word paragraph &#8212; longer than many entire Web articles these days &#8212; explains much about the inner workings of the Tonight Show and its host:]]>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:00:40 -0500<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2013/02/18/johnny-carson-1978-n256614