What is your one great goal in life? The one vision that fires you up and stirs you to transcend the daily grind? Well, for John Searing, an arts-supplies salesman from New Jersey, it was to yell, "He-e-e-ere's Johnny!" on the old "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. Searing had watched "The Tonight Show" since he was a child, and he had always thrilled to the sound of Ed McMahon bellowing the introduction. So, in 1980, John wrote to "The Tonight Show," asking if he could have the chance some night of standing in for Ed. He received an autographed picture in return.

But this didn't discourage John Searing. For the next six years, he wrote over eight hundred letters to "The Tonight Show," asking if he could introduce Johnny Carson. Searing even sent audio tapes of himself doing impersonation…