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>> time to fly the cards. >> i think that he started to realize, you know what, yes, this is not getting me anymore. >> and i went through this for about six months and oh, my god. >> how were you able to work every day being depressed? >> i had to push through it. >> could you be funny? >> as funny as you can when youre depressed. >> nobody ef disliked anybody. dave did a lot of jokes about me and i did some about him. its fine. if its funny, everythings off. as long as the joke is funny, thats...

>> ill give it a shot. >> my heart dropped through my butt, exited my butt. hole [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> it makes every hair on my body stand up. >> what? nobodys a late night host until they are one . tomorrow we will drown out the negative voices. five people are dead. >> the end of an era. after ruling late night television for 30 years, johnny carson steps down tonight.

They can play okay for girls. we didnt understand why our gender mattered or why it defined us. >> "people" magazine this week says it will take an act of congress to keep this woman from becoming a megastar. whitney houston! ♪ how will i know if he really loves me ♪ ♪ i say a prayer with every heartbeat ♪ >> whether she was doing a dance song or she was doing a ballad ♪ the greatest love of all ♪ >> it kind of stopped in you your tracks because you couldnt believe one woman could be...

"billie jean" on mtv. ♪ she was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene ♪ >> when the rest of the world was going crazy and he cant get on mtv? michael jackson? come on. >> when he does that moonwalk, if you were sitting on the couch by the end of it you were on the floor in front of the tv. you couldnt believe what you were seeing. >> i would say the moonwalk was really one of the first viral moments that affected rock history. the next week "thriller" started selling a million copies a...

>> he became even more open to things as a person. and i think that translated to work, he became a different guy. and he was a sarcastic, biting guy. >> i couldnt be more proud. >> he used his pessimism, his emotional darkness and transformed it into comedy. >> when something terrible happens. >> these guys have to come on that night and do a show unless its just something off the charts terrible. ■5!ó[ñiñiw3

♪ its not michael jackson ♪ >> when run-dmc came out, they were taking rock and roll music and putting it together with hip-hop and making something brand new out of it. ♪ you cant touch me with an eight-foot pole ♪ >> run-dmc kind of led zeppelinized hip-hop because it was fit for an arena, knocking the scoreboard down. ♪ little skirt hanging way up her knee ♪ ♪ there were three young ladies♪ >> aerosmith had fallen off the map at that point. it brings them back into the fore an...

>> im just floored by the fact there are so few black artists featured on it. why is that? >> we have to try and do what we think not only new york and los angeles will appreciate but also some town in the midwest that will be scared to death by prince or a string of other black faces. >> interesting. okay. thank you very much. >> when are we going to see anybody of color on mtv, because you said music television. when are you going to start covering all genres of music? >> music shouldnt have c...

Once the preserve of cowboys and rednecks is a thing of the 90s. >> explosion was going on with country music. these acts were putting out good music. they were touring constantly around the country and building up a fan pace. ♪ ♪ blame my roots ♪ ♪ i shouldnt have ruined your black tie dress ♪ ♪ number one in the nation was garth brooks. were you surprised by that? >> yes, sir. i guess my family knew where they were going to be asking the questions and got there before everybody e...

♪ those guys are front-line brothers ♪ ♪ their lives depended on each other ♪ ♪ they were soldiers long before they were men ♪ ♪ came home, went on to bill their lives ♪ ♪ never chargin us a penny ♪ ♪ for the debt we owe to them ♪ ♪ but you can almost smell the gun smoke ♪ ♪ and the fox holes that they shared ♪ [♪♪♪] >> thank you so many. appreciate it.

I learned that jimmy kimmel was going to take the late-night slot at abc. >> the host of "the man show," jimmy kimmel! >> jimmy kimmel did "the man show." >> i never thought like, well, one day my career might go to this place and i might have to be careful. >> you know, im a busy guy and sometimes i just dont have time to get loaded. thats why i love shotgun beer. >> there was an everyman category to jimmy. there was a likability to jimmy. and these were all qualities that i felt were enormousl...