BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Erudite but boyish, sophisticated but self-deprecating, but, above all else, funny: That was legendary late night talk show host Johnny Carson, who would have turned 100 on Oct. 23.
If you paid attention, you could see that Carson was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, and yet he seemed utterly without pretension.
But did Carson, who died in 2005, have to make all of those cruel Bakersfield jokes in his “Tonight Show” monologues? What gives?…