Tags for this video have been changed from '70s, television, late night, the tonight show, johnny carson, oliver reed' to '70s, television, late night, the tonight show, johnny carson, oliver reed, 70s' - edited by kronosposeidon

Ah, this is a classic, snoozie! Love it! There are several things that are very worthwhile in this video:

1. Watching Shelly Winters dump a drink on Oliver Reed, first and foremost. Not that I approve of bad manners on this order, but I also don't approve of chauvinism. Still, it's funny to watch her act impulsive like that.
2. Watching Oliver Reed's stereotypical British reserve. Regardless of how I feel about his opinions, I have to hand it to him - he was completely unfazed by Shelly's action. If the British taught the whole world one thing that is worthwhile to this day, it's the concept of grace under pressure. (Yes, I know Hemingway, an American, wrote stories whose exemplars embodied this concept to the point that the whole term "grace under pressure" was invented, but I still believe it was the English who inspired this concept.)
3. Watching Johnny do what Johnny does best - keep things rolling, in a humorous fashion. Johnny could have been the original Jerry Springer had he wanted that. This little episode could have provided ample fodder for it. Yet he didn't, because Johnny was a class act for his entire career.

By the time Johnny ended his career some people said he was boring or not edgy enough. Screw them. I like edgy stuff too, but not Jerry Springer. That isn't edgy; it's just a fucking circus. Johnny knew how to entertain without being mean-spirited or voyeuristic. He is missed to this day by me.

D'oh! That's twice in less than a week where I added a tag (70s) that was completely unnecessary because it was already there to begin with because I simply failed to read it the first time. God, I blame VS for my gradual yet inevitable descent into illiteracy.

Shelly Winters with the *femme attack!

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voted in support of Oliver Reed

To hell with British reserve - look at Carson's face during that entire scene... He's absolutely zen. An impish, charming zen master. Reed is clearly, and smugly, suppressing his outrage to make a somewhat foppish point, but Carson is absolutely unaffected. You could edit out Winters, Reed, and the audience, and just have him sit at his desk on an empty set, and he'd look perfectly natural with that same expression. Gold.

Different generation, really. I guess he wasn't being particularly rude, he just thought that the natural order (as it was, in england, for a long time) was for a woman to be taking care in a family sense, and the man to the be provider.

Ok, he was wrong.. but he wasn't rude in particular. You can tell by the way he put it that he wasn't trying to be vindictive.

And that is the most amazing handling of a situation i've ever seen.

Isn't it so ironic that, by his own admission, Carson was a VERY insecure man. Yet, his control of difficult situations, in front of millions, was so confident and masterful.

Unfortunately for women everywhere she as an example is horrendous... my god she was loud, grating, intrusive and obnoxious.

Indeed Reed was chauvinistic and absolutely had the opinion that women had their place and men had theirs and by god let men do all the 'real work' because women are unable to do so... an example of the old order.

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