Johnny Carson featured Rodney Dangerfield more than 70 times on the dominant Tonight Show. Rodney always delivered his best for Johnny, who adroitly set up each topic for Rodney once he was on the couch. This brilliant combination of talent is showcased above in January 1971. A year earlier, Rodney Dangerfield appeared on one of the final episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show where he was still fine tuning his bits. Rodney appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969 where he had to keep his jokes a little more sanitized for a more modest audience. Rodney always saved his best for The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Legend!
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Rodney! Rodney! Rodney!
Here are three of Rodney Dangerfield's visits to the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He'd get dragged on Twitter for 95% of these jokes today.
Rodney Dangerfield wouldn’t make it in the Wide World of Wanda
From Johnny Carson's NBC Tonight Show (1983) WARNING! There are no f-words because Rodney actually wrote jokes. DOUBLE WARNING! Rodney mentions that an (imaginary) girlfriend was fat and ugly. Today he would lose all of his sponsors, television appearances, and be vilified by SJW for being a misogynistic, white privilege, paternalistic villain. After weeping through a televised apology with a scolding Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, Rodney would be summarily whipped by the women of The View. Only after donating $100,000 to the Women & Pudgy Americans Restoration Council, Rodney would slowly reappear in feminist films as a stooge to be chastised by pure-hearted hipsters and MSNBC hosts. American comedy, circa 2015...lots of curse words and pontificating about evil white