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monitor overhead shows what's on air. odied Person to Person and Whafs My Line? on our first two shows, for in¬ stance, but then we skipped parodies for a while. If we’d done many more, y. the audience would start looking for them—and how many shows can you parody? We’ll do them as the occa¬ sion demands. But not too often.” He also plans to go easy on the husband-and-wife sketches. “That’s an even worse trap,” he says. “You’ve got to do that sort of thing brilliantly at this point, to get away with it at all. We’d rather keep trying to make the show as different as possible.” Carson does plan, however, to use his wife, Jody, on the show on what might be called an irregularly regular basis; and, imtil he signed singer Jill Corey for an eight-week stint, she was the only girl with any reasonable ex¬ pectation of sticking. Carson already had run through several singers try¬ ing to find one who fitted, and even considered using a different one every week. “Who knows?” Johnny says almost cheerfully, when queried about plans for specific dates. “We may not even be on the air by that time.” Carson was bom in Corning, Iowa, moving at the age of 8 to Norfolk, Neb., where he later made himself a small reputation as a mail order-tu¬ tored magician and ventriloquist. He had a hitch in the Navy during World War II, went through the University of Nebraska on the GI Bill and got his early 'TV experience, beginning in 1948, on WOW-TV, Omaha. An old family friend, CBS-TV pro¬ ducer Bill Brennan, talked him into coming to Hollywood. Carson moved in 1950. He and Jody, whom he met in college and married in 1949, now have three yoimg boys—^Kit, five; Ricky, three, and Cory, just pushing two. Carson spent his first year in Hol¬ lywood as a staff announcer with the local CBS station, KNXT, meanwhile working up a format for something of his own. In the fall of 1951 he started a local show, Carson’s Cellar. It lasted 26 weeks and was pronounced reason¬ ably successful. Later, CBS gave him a crack at emceeing a summer show. Earn Your Vacation. He did all right. He also continued writing on the side, including monologs for Red Skel¬ ton—and that was one thing that didn’t get knocked out of Skelton’s head when he hit that breakaway- proof wall. He hollered for Carson, and Carson came running. Which is as good a way as any for a young comedian to be pushed into his own show these days. “I have sent Red,” Carson says gratefully, “a large bottle of aspirin.” 15