Heeeeeeeeeere's Johnny

Television used to be so simple! When choices were limited and every station signed off at Midnight you just watched Bonanza, Ed Sullivan and the Tonight Show. Little Joe, Hoss and Adam have long since ridden into the sunset for the last time and Variety shows have gone the way of Vaudeville but the Tonight Show lives on in the late night TV world.
I was 10 when Johnny Carson was introduced for the first time as the host of the Tonight Show. Each show started the same way with Johnny's sidekick Ed McMahon's "Heeeeeeeeeere's Johnny". Before Cable Television, millions of American waited every weeknight just to hear those words. Those millions of viewers made the Tonight Show one of the most popular programs on Television. I guess if it's not broke don't mess with it but NBC needs to come to it's senses and stop trying to decide who's most qualified to host the show. Why don't they just have a different guest host every night? That would be just as entertaining as Jay Leno or Conan O' Brien but then again NBC has never been noted for great programming. Oh they do show It's a Wonderful Life a couple of times each December and broadcast Sunday Night Football for five months a year so I guess the Peacock Network has it's moments. Anyone with an once of intellect is going to be watching the Charlie Rose Show at the hour the Tonight Show airs if they are even watching anything at all. Fighting over who's going to host the Tonight Show is about like watching Television in black and white.
Things were just a lot better when all we had to do was hope Mr Sullivan would invite the Beatles to be on his show, wonder what orders Pa Cartwright would issue to his sons and wait for Ed McMahon to holler Heeeeeeeeeere's Johnny.