| has gloss | eng: Carnac the Magnificent was a role played by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and later continued on Late Show with David Letterman, occasionally by Paul Shaffer. One of Carsons most well known characters, Carnac was a psychic with a large elaborate turban and a plethora of envelopes, all of which (according to Ed McMahon) "a child of four could plainly see" were "hermetically sealed" and had been kept in "a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnalls porch since noon" that day. On the way to his desk after arriving on stage Carnac would invariably trip and fall. (On one memorable occasion, Carson's desk had been replaced with a balsa-wood version and he smashed right through it.) |
