8 Insane Urban Legends About Famous TV Shows
7. The Tonight Show Featured A Legendarily Dirty Joke
These days watching the host of a talk show being flirtatious and suggestive with female guests is fairly normal, and not particularly surprising. What is surprising, however, is how little this has supposedly changed in the last fifty years, specifically when you look at one instance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
For decades now the story has persisted that actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (who is famous for the likes of 1952's Moulin Rouge, The Naked Gun 2 and The Hollywood Squares) showed up for an interview with Johnny Carson with a cat on her lap. She then asked Carson if he would like to pet her pussy, to which Carson is said to have replied I'd love to, but you'll to remove that damn cat."
This particular urban legend is in a rather unique position, because there are many, many people who swear by its validity, claiming to have been watching on the night it all took place. Yet practically all of the tapes from the first decade of The Tonight Show were erased, meaning there's no way of actually proving anything. It's for this reason that this particular legend is unlikely to ever lose its legendary status.