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
We have two kinds of air: regular and chunky style.
Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.
That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.
I see a lot of new faces. Especially on the old faces.
Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.
People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'
Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp.
An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.
It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money. I'm concerned about values - moral, ethical, human values - my own, other people's, the country's, the world's values. Having money now gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.
I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.
I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.
Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.
NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel.