Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson
John William "Johnny" Carsonwas an American television talk show host and comedian, best known for his 30 years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor's Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Johnny Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth23 October 1925
CountryUnited States of America
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?
There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.
I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.
The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.
Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.
I'm not one of those who spring up yelling, "Yippee! Another day!" I'll grumble and sulk around a couple of hours, reading newspapers and trying to pick out an idea I might do something with on the show. But I don't really start functioning until noon or later; then about two I go to the studio and the pace begins to quicken.
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.
A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?