you bullied that boy. one of the most recognizable faces on daytime television. nobody tells me who to put on my show, including you. is calling it quits. dr. phil, dr. phil! tonight, before dr. phil leaves the studio, he s sitting down with us. dr. phil, welcome. to talk about his 20 years as the on-call doc for on-camera drama. who do you get along with? just as the surgeon general releases a report on the harms of social media it is urgent that we take action. dr. phil digs into america s growing mental health crisis, especially among teenagers. young people started watching people live their lives instead of living their own lives. and later it s the tonight show with jay leno! comedian jay leno s road to recovery after surviving a garage fire and a motorcycle crash. i never thought of myself as a roast comic. who gives us the latest on his health. i got a new face and a new ear. can i see it? sure. and his return to the c
because you know, it s funny. now back in the day, i would say easily one-third of all the televisions, one-third or even half after 11:30, were watching johnny carson. now you re competing with the lord of the rings trilogy, watch all three godfather movies back to back, you ve got streaming everything. so it s a little different. when you re on tv, on the tonight show in those days, everybody saw you. the next day, you d have to do nowadays probably 10, 11 late-night appearances just to be reaching the same amount of people. then you get the tonight show. and this begins the tonight show saga about you and david letterman and who s going to get the job, and you get picked over him. i don t want to go through all of it. but what do you want us to understand about all of that? well, there are people who think i somehow stole the show from dave. johnny did want dave to do the show.
make the audience laugh. the key was to make johnny carson laugh. and take a look at this because after your bit, johnny calls you over to shake hands, which he didn t do most of the time. right, right. how big a deal was that? oh, it s a huge deal. it s funny. now, back in the day i would say easily a third of all the televisions are on, or even half after 11:30 were watching johnny carson. now you re competing with the lord of the rings trilogy. you can watch all three god father movies back to back, streaming. it s a little different. when you re on tv in those days, everybody saw you. nowadays you d have to do 10, 11 late night appearances just to reach the same amount of people. and then you get the tonight show, and this begins