Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180101:22:56:00
You are in a good mood tonight, and i tell you, we have put a great show together. it will be on a week from thursday. [ laughter ] >> johnny carson in the '80s is making the transition from being the king of late night to being a national treasure. he was a throw-back to the old show biz stuff. >> i've been on with you for a long time. >> a long time. >> well, you've been busy with other things. >> and the tide is starting to turn where terms of where late night television is going to go, and johnny was kind of holding out. he was not of his time in the '80s but he did sustain a certain timel...