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Originally Posted by 6000
Ever since Carson, it's a tradition...Tonight Show is in California...
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Well, yeah, ever since Carson. But the proto-Tonight Show, "Broadway Open House," was based in New York, as was Steve Allen's "Tonight Show," Jack Paar's "Tonight," and even "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," which started in October of 1962 in New York.
Carson's occasional two-week forays to L.A. were so successful (including one memorable day after an earthquake when he started the monologue with a breezy "The God Is Dead rally has been cancelled") that he moved the whole show -- lock, stock and Ed McMahon -- to L.A. in 1972.
So there is substantial history in keeping Conan in New York. And with Conan keeping framed pictures of Jack Paar and Ernie Kovacs just off-camera, I think he knows that.
--t