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The "bleak and impoverished entertainment landscape" while Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show, a 
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Let& #39;s start with TV shows.
All In The Family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_Family">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_...
All In The Family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_Family">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_...
Saturday Night Live, with actors including Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, I could go on... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satu...
Star Trek: The Original Series, not terribly popular in its day but now of course a cult classic which launched perhaps the biggest media franchise of all time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star...
M*A*S*H https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*S*H_(TV_series)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*...
Monty Python& #39;s Flying Circus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont...
Hill Street Blues. As @TVWORTHWATCHING put it, the history of TV can be divided into before and after Hill Street Blues. The show changed TV forever. My family watched it religiously every Thursday at 9pm, followed by St. Elsewhere, another classic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Street_Blues">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill...
There are more, but this thread needs to end at some point, so let& #39;s move on to comedians.
George Carlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geor...
George Carlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geor...
Robin Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robi...
Jim Carrey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carrey ">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_...
Eddie Murphy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Murphy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddi...
Richard Pryor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pryor">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich...
(All of these comedians appears on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, most of them several times, and considered him a talented comedian.) What else is there, oh I know, how about ballet dancers?
Rudolf Nureyev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Nureyev">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudo...
Rudolf Nureyev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Nureyev">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudo...
Mikhail Baryshnikov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Baryshnikov">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikh...
Gelsey Kirkland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsey_Kirkland">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gels...
Anthony Dowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Dowell">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anth...
Sylvie Guillem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie_Guillem">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylv...
Ballet not your thing? How about Opera?
Luciano Pavarotti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luci...
Luciano Pavarotti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luci...
Maria Callas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Callas">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari...
Plácido Domingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C3%A1cido_Domingo">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C...
José Carreras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Carreras">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%...
Leontyne Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontyne_Price">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon...
Not doing it for you? There was some passable composers as well.
Aaron Copland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaro...
Aaron Copland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaro...
John Cage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage ">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John...
Leonard Bernstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon...
