"This is like something that lives rent free in my head," he says. "I don't know anything about Johnny Carson sort of in particular outside of this book where he seems like a real fucking piece of shit, if I'm honest" The former Tonight Show host never speaks to Ed McMahon ever again after he leaves the show. He would fire workers for making one mistake and then not even do it to their face Like guys that have worked for him for like 10 or 15 years. There's lots of other stuff too. But when he was on break from the tonight show, he would go to Vegas to do these comedy shows and he just did the same comedy act like word for word