At his wit's end after a year and a half of being unable to reach Carson directly, Newton finally paid Carson an impromptu visit at his NBC office:

"'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.'"

"Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being," continues Newton. "There are people he has hurt that people will never know about. And, for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me, and I refused to have it."

Newton tells Larry King that, while the gay jokes didn't ultimately hurt his career, Carson did have a hand in allegations towards 1980 that he was tied to the mafia, which resulted in his name being on a hit list, as told to him by the FBI.

"All of that emanated from Johnny Carson's influence," Newton says. He continues, "I'm just an indian boy from Virginia."

"I don't know about that kind of stuff."

Video from the November 29, 2007 episode of CNN's Larry King Live is available for viewing below.