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Sep 14, 2024 · Carson not only banned Rivers from his own show but made it clear that anyone who appeared on her show could forget ever being on the Tonight Show. That limited the guests Rivers could...
- Assessing Late Night TV’s Influence on Sentiment About Nixon and Watergate
- A Good Case For Carson’s Influence on Nixon’s Approval
- About The Authors
We address this gap by assessing the influence of perhaps the most famous American late-night television comedian in history—Johnny Carson—on public opinion about one of the most influential American politicians of the twentieth century—Richard Nixon during Watergate. In terms of legacy, Carson, who hosted NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Car...
We first estimate a model of Nixon’s Gallup approval ratings from February 1972 to August 1974 and controlling for national policy “mood,” the monthly number of “Watergate” mentions in The New York Times, monthly unemployment, and quarterly GDP. The punchline: A one-unit increase in Carson’s mentioning the Watergate scandal in some way lowered Nixo...
Brian R. Calfano – University of Cincinnati Brian Calfano is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Journalism at the University of Cincinnati. He has 50 peer-reviewed journal articles to his credit and is the co-author of God Talk: Experimenting with the Religious Causes of Public Opinion (Temple University Press, 2013), A Matter of Discr...
Aug 1, 2022 · And, though never assessed in a systematic, statistical way, there is theoretical reason to think that Carson's Tonight Show did affect public political perceptions (even if conditionally).
Sep 5, 2022 · He lacked an outsized political persona, making him a snug fit for a show celebrated for mocking leaders from both sides of the aisle. Except Team Fallon invited presidential candidate Donald Trump to his “Tonight Show” couch in the summer of 2016, and everything went south from there.
May 22, 2017 · Carson has proven to be Fallon’s biggest influence, a relentlessly chipper host who understood that any political stance he took was bound to lose him viewers. Carson, though, is painfully ...
May 13, 2012 · On why Johnny Carson didn't want to cooperate: "He did not want to cooperate. Over and over again he said, 'I'm going to let the Tonight Show speak for itself. All I wanna say...
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Occasionally, Carson interviewed prominent politicians such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Robert F. Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey, however Carson refused to discuss his personal political views on the show out of concern it might alienate his audience [6] and resisted efforts from his writing staff, particularly head writer and ...
