Norm Crosby on the Tonight Show in 1966 (audio only)

Comedian Norm Crosby, "The Master of the Malaprop", can be heard, but not seen, in this appearance on the Tonight Show, Starring Johnny Carson, in 1966. It is not likely that the video of this program has survived. In the 1960's, NBC routinely wiped and reused the expensive 2-inch video tapes which were used to record the program in the late afternoon for showing later the same evening (or on the following weekday evening when the program was visiting California). Long before there were VCR's, I recorded the audio from this routine of Norm's. However, I did not note the date that I recorded it. NBC's log shows that Norm definitely made a Tonight Show appearance on September 19.1966; and, he can be heard on this clip indicating to Carson that he recently appeared on the Jerry Lewis Telethon, the first of which occurred on Labor Day, September 5, 1966. Therefore, I'm reasonably certain of this air date. Norm's death on November 7, 2020 prompted me to post this recording, with the addition of a few photographs from the period.

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