“Catcher in The Sky”

Your Pop Quiz ties in with this Date in History, on this date in 1962, NBC introduced Johnny Carson as their new host for the Tonight Show. Johnny is dead, along with all his guests that night except one. Name the guest of his who was on that first show and is still alive, Kirk Douglas, Betty White, Tony Bennett, or Zsa Zsa Gabor?

TV News: Hard to believe that Nikki Minaj will produce and star in a ABC Family Network show about her life growing up in Queens. Question, who cares. … Keeps getting louder, next season is the last for the Simpsons. …  Jimmy Kimmel is killing Steven Colbert in the ratings, not even close. … 62% of American’s say they don’t believe the main street news ABC, NBC, FOX, CNN, CBS. It should be 100%, NBC, ABC, CNN, CBS, lean left, FOX leans right.

Odds and Ends: Jeremy Irons, Laurence Fishburne, Lauren Hutton and Jay Leno plan a coast to coast motorcycle trip together next summer. … Brad Pitt and Angelina already own 9 homes from Los Angeles to Italy, but they are buying another one in a English Village, 100 miles from London, a get away from everybody and everything, a 100 acre working farm. … Have you seen Kanye West’s clothing line? Seriously, they look like cloths for homeless with bad taste. Gray, drab, too big and dirty.

NY Post Headlines: Reporting on NY Yankee great catcher Yogi Berra’s funeral, Headline screams, “Yogi Plays for the Angels Now.” When you open the paper the second headline over Yogi’s picture screams, “Catcher in The Sky.”

Date in History and Pop Quiz Answer – The guest that night were, Groucho Marx, Rudy Vallee, and Joan Crawford, the only guest that night is still alive is Tony Bennett.