Hey Wayne...STFU. Johnny APOLOGIZED to you. Dead men can't apologize twice.

Wayne Newton: Johnny Carson ‘mean-spirited’

Singer confronted late-night host about jokes questioning his masculinity

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Access Hollywood
updated 11:08 a.m. PT, Fri., Nov. 30, 2007

Veteran entertainer Wayne Newton lashed out at the late Johnny Carson, branding the late-night legend a “mean-spirited human being.” Newton made the remarks during an interview Thursday night with CNN’s Larry King. Newton, who appeared on “Dancing With the Stars” this season and plans to go on tour with the group, told King he had a hard time when Carson began making fun of him.

“Well, what happened is I had done his show many, many times and considered him a friend of mine. And all of a sudden, a whole new brand of humor started to be displayed by him. And he was in that humor questioning my masculinity,” Newton said during the interview.
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The Las Vegas crooner said Carson ‘s barbs implying he was gay came very often. Newton told King he attempted to reach out to the “Tonight Show” host over the issue. “I called his agents, I called his manager, I called his attorney. I went through probably a year-and-a-half of trying to reach him,” he said. “And when none of that worked, I went to see him.”

Newton said he went to the NBC lot and confronted Carson, threatening him with physical violence. “I went to NBC, Burbank, and walked down the halls into his office, and Freddy de Cordova, his producer, was in the office with him. And I walked in, unannounced, I said to Freddy, I said, would you excuse us, please? He was so shocked that he did get up and leave,” he recounted. “And I said to Mr. Carson, I said, ‘I don’t know what friend of yours I’ve killed, I don’t know what child of yours I’ve hurt, I don’t know what food I’ve taken out of your mouth, but these jokes about me will stop and they’ll stop now or I will kick your ass’.”