Here's a complete episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from near the end of that fabulous run. Mr. Carson did his last episode on May 22, 1992 and this hour is from March 5, 1992. It will perhaps remind you, as it reminded me, of Johnny at his best in his final years. The guests are Don Rickles and author Calvin Trillin, plus they have the cast of the Broadway musical, Five Guys Named Moe.
This was two weeks before that show started previewing in New York and the cast performed about ten minutes from it and, I suspect, sold a lot of tickets. Really great stuff. The show, which had its origins on London's West End, opened in New York on April 8 of that year and ran about thirteen months and 445 performances before going on tour for a long, long time.
If you just want to see the numbers from Five Guys Named Moe, click here. If you want to see this whole Tonight Show, click below unless there's one of those little banners there than I put up when a video embed becomes unavailable…