In 2006, the cable channel TV Land surveyed the greatest catchphrases in American television. The winner? “Heeeeerrre’s Johnny!” the nightly words, spoken by sidekick Ed McMahon, that brought out Johnny Carson to start another episode of The Tonight Show, the still-running NBC late-night franchise that he hosted for 30 years and which remains indelibly identified with him. Even today, 32 years after Carson presided over his last Tonight Show and nearly 20 years after his death, the phrase endures, no doubt assisted by Jack Nicholson’s sinister spin on it in The Shining.
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