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Original Airdate: 12-21-1984
Host: JOHNNY CARSON
Announcer: ED MCMAHON
Conductor: DOC SEVERINSEN
Director: BOBBY QUINN
Guests:
  • BENNETT, TONY
  • SHANDLING, GARRY
  • TWOMEY, JOHN
Writers: MICHAEL BARRIE BILL DALEY HAL GOODMAN AL JEAN BOB KEANE LARRY KLEIN JIM MULHOLLAND KEVIN MULHOLLAND MICHAEL REISS MICKEY ROSE RAY SILLER
Monologue: Christmas -'that's just what I wanted', PEOPLE'S COURT, Mike Hammer, Christmas' 3 Wise men decided to follow a star - Fred, Ed and Doc', LL Bean Company & Frederick's of Hollywood catalogue, New X-mas present 'Sony Squat Man', Palmdale California having snow , the Highway Patrol, Californians, Mike Wallace, Paul Williams being mistaken for a Cabbage Patch doll, Prince Harry, and Hong Kong.
Material: SKETCH - REAGAN READING 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS'
Topics: TONY BENNETT - Centerstage sings 'The Man She Loves' and 'Just One Of Those Things', panel and discuss: His favorite Christmas as a kid, his love for clothes, his trip to Rome and his love for painting, says it would be hard to choose between singing and painting, and then sings 'There'll Be Some Changes Made'. GARRY SHANDLING - Standup - Getting clothes for Christmas, buying gifts for dogs, meeting girls with hug boobs, using oysters as a sexual aid, taking a girl to bed, buying a Porsche, baby seats in cars, and traveling to Hawaii and Japan, panel and discuss: Their respective 'single' lives, marriage, being in love, trouble with relationships, Christmas gift giving and Gary's buying a computer in which to store his jokes. JOHN TOWNEY - (MANUALIST) John plays 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen', 'White Christmas', 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town', and 'Jingle Bells'.
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