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
I'm often asked, 'What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted The Tonight Show?' I really don't have just one. The times I enjoyed the most were the spontaneous, unplanned segments that just happened, like Ed Ames' infamous 'Tomahawk Toss' that produced one of the longest laughs in television history. When these lucky moments happen, you just go with them and enjoy the experience and high of the moment.
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.
I'm an entertainer, not a commentator. If you're a comedian your job is to make people laugh.
The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?
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.
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.
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.
What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?