In Britain, the Tonight show speaks an alien tongue
The Brits are baffled. Burbank? Governor Jerry Brown? Medflies? Orson Welles on a windy day? Cronkite? Rather? And what is that marmoset doing on Johnny Carson's head?
Well, as to that last, it is playing a supporting role in what may be the weirdest export since Dallas got dubbed and sent to Japan. The NBC Tonight show has been shipped to Britain, where a 40-minute version airs once a week, some days after its U.S. showing, to a bit of national befuddlement, considerable indifference and...
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