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YoshidaYui

(44,939 posts)
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 08:59 PM 9 hrs ago

JOHNNY CARSON Asked David Carradine About BRUCE LEE on Live TV -- His Response Silenced Everyone

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JOHNNY CARSON Asked David Carradine About BRUCE LEE on Live TV -- His Response Silenced Everyone (Original Post) YoshidaYui 9 hrs ago OP
Great story I did not know. Thank youYoshidaYui. The TV show was one of my favorites. c-rational 9 hrs ago #1
read the disclaimer BootinUp 9 hrs ago #2
Not only fiction, but pretty poor fiction. sl8 19 min ago #5
AI? Bad Ed McMahon imitation. Audience did not sit behind guest couch Sneederbunk 7 hrs ago #3
Thank you YepYep 7 hrs ago #4
AI slop. nt sl8 19 min ago #6

BootinUp

(50,843 posts)
2. read the disclaimer
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 09:27 PM
9 hrs ago

Disclaimer: This narration is a dramatized interpretation. The letter and Tonight Show conversation are fictionalized explorations inspired by documented mutual respect between Bruce Lee and David Carradine.

sl8

(16,979 posts)
5. Not only fiction, but pretty poor fiction.
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 06:38 AM
19 min ago

A central part of this story is that Bruce Lee died a few months later, in 1974. Bruce Lee actually died on July 20, 1973.

The narative points out that Carradine was in a black suit, but the accompanying fake stills clearly show him in a denim jacket. The set looks nothing like The Tonight Show.

At least the video and channel descriptions point out that it's fiction:

Disclaimer: Narrations are dramatized interpretations based on publicly available biographies, interviews, and documented accounts. Some stories are fictionalized explorations of moments that could have happened, inspired by Carradine's documented philosophy and character.


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