BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Erudite but boyish, sophisticated but self-deprecating, but, above all else, funny: That was legendary late night talk show host Johnny Carson, who would have turned 100 on Oct. 23.

If you paid attention, you could see that Carson was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, and yet he seemed utterly without pretension.

But did Carson, who died in 2005, have to make all of those cruel Bakersfield jokes in his "Tonight Show" monologues? What gives?

We had to deal with one-liners like this:

Why do people in Bakersfield wear pointed shoes? To kick the cockroaches into the corner.

For that insulting little gem we can thank the one-time, longtime king of late-night, a man who reigned decades before Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Steven Colbert entered the pic

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