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When you're less likely to be fiddling with the remote control. >> when bobby kennedy was assassinated, it was really hard for -- for johnny. he was friends with kennedy. >> johnny carson did something, that he had never done before. and i don't know that he ever did, again. >> good evening, and thank you for joining us tonight. as i think no explanation's necessary, we don't plan to do the usual tonight show format, this evening. >> finally, got a glimpse of who johnny carson actually was, behind the, sort of, show-business veneer. >> the people who have been v assassinated like the kennedys ...

Battle for late night and saying nbc execs had doubts about letterman. >> you know, he's so experimental. can he do the tonight show format and jay had a guy would do anything, any they asked times ten and said we'll give leno tonight and keep dave. >> but dave would have none of it. and public jostling for "the tonight show" went on for months. >> we were on at 12:30 and we did okay and it was this odd dynamic, nbc and myself, jay leno and myself, you had an ongoing soap opera, the strategy of it, the big guy, the little guy, the one guy got the job, the other didn't. >> ultimately leno got t...