Dolly Parton has always been must-see TV. These are her best late night television appearances, including interviews with Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jay Leno and even Arsenio Hall.
Plus, do you remember Dolly Parton’s Top 10 list on the Late Show?
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The Taste of Country teamed scoured hours worth of Dolly TV moments and put together a highlight package of her time in the couch. It’s a tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it, right? Enjoy, and tell us what we missed in the comments.
These interviews go back 50 years to when Parton was first getting settled in as a guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Over the next two decades she’d become a regular and a favorite of the host. Do you recall what his favorite subject was?
Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno also cracked jokes about Parton’s buxom figure and she was mostly game for it. The No. 1 moment on her Late Show Top 10 list will leave you cackling. It’s a great punchline delivered brilliantly.
There are plenty of videos that show Parton on news programs or daytime television, and often she’s shooting down questions of politics. That’s not nearly as fun as watching her comment on the latest tabloids, which often included husband Carl (rest in peace).
Most of the dozen or so clips seen in this video are the singer talking to Carson, Leno or O’Brien. Arsenio Hall makes the cut at the very end however. She appeared on his TV show a few times during his five-year-run in syndication.
30 Photos of Dolly Parton Young
Dolly Parton has been a fixture in country music and really, all of entertainment, since the 1960s. The only thing that has changed about the icon is her age — she’s as radiant as she’s ever been! Check out these pictures of a young Dolly Parton.
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