How Johnny Carson Used ‘The Tonight Show’ to Expose a Self-Proclaimed Psychic

On August 1, 1973, Johnny Carson welcomed Uri Geller—an illusionist claiming to have both psychic and psychokinetic powers—onto The Tonight Show. Up until that point, Geller’s big claim to fame was demonstrating his so-called “ability” to bend spoons with his mind. Carson, having been an amateur magician in his early years, suspected Geller was a…