13. His Standoff With Wayne Newton
Having had enough of the taunts, Newton rolled up his sleeves and barged into Carson’s office while he was in the studio. Newton threatened violence if the taunting didn’t stop. Whatever else he said, the taunting came to halt. “Johnny Carson is a mean-spirited human being,” said Newton on Larry King Live years later. “And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.