Rolling Stone talks to Carson (1979)

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on February 15th, 2005

Tommy James sends along the URL of a Rolling Stone interview with Johnny Carson from 1979.

But everyone has a sense of humor. A lot of things that some people find funny, other people just don’t find funny, so that is the problem for comedians or people who do comedy — just trying to find some kind of common denominator if there is such a thing, or just reach as many people as you can. But it’s a very hairy problem. That’s why you have somebody who will say, “Gee, I think Laurel and Hardy are wonderful,” and somebody else will say, “They stink, I don’t understand them.”