Talk:Carnac the Magnificent

Fair use rationale for Image:Johnny as carnac.jpg
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Excessive list of jokes
I'm pretty sure that there only need to be a few jokes to illustrate what kind of humor Johnny Carson provided as Carnac. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. An encyclopedia article should not be just a huge repository of jokes. At this point, the jokes on this page take up more space than the actual article. I have removed them once, but they were replaced without explanation. I will remove them again. If somebody wishes to replace them, please provide an explanation here of why you feel they improve the article. Cheers,--Aervanath (talk) 15:15, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

I beg to differ. For me as a German it was quite instructive to read the few examples of Carson's humor, and more would have been even more so, as humor cannnot be explained but only demonstrated. His name is often quoted in american literature as a "known known" and therefore the character never filled in. Nientepane Solovino (talk) 13:48, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

9W
I heard this joke long before Johnny Carson was popular on TV. It was attributable to the Kennedy's. JFK, RFK and others used to play a version of the game in the 50s.

Kovac's "Mr. Question Man"
According to the wiki entry on Ernie Kovacs: "Mr. Question Man, who answered viewer queries, was a satire on the long-run (1937–56) radio series, The Answer Man." 68.84.79.242 (talk) 18:59, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

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