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
Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.
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.
Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.
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.
Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.
Having money gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.
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?
Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.
Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.