Johnny Carson
I was talking to my Dad today about Johnny Carson, and he told me my grandparents had met him before he did the Tonight Show. I knew they had gone on a TV game show when they were newlyweds, but I didn't realize that Carson was the host. Ed McMahon was the announcer, and when he left for the Tonight Show, he insisted that he get to bring his announcer along too. It was called Who Do You Trust?, and Carson would name a category, like baseball, and then ask Grandpa, "Who do you trust to answer this question, you or your wife?" The fun of watching the show happened when someone was overconfident in trusting themselves, and then sometimes they wouldn't know it and their partner would. They didn't win that much money on the show, but a few weeks later an anonymous stranger mailed them $500, because they said on the show that they wanted to have a large family and the stranger wanted to help them out. They went on to have eight children, due in some small part to Johnny Carson.