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
The Champagne they have stored is getting more valuable every year.
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
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.
The price of Christmas toys is outrageous - a hundred dollars, two hundred dollars for video games for the youngsters. I remember a Christmas years ago when my son was a kid. I bought him a tank. It was about a hundred dollars, a lot of money in those days. It was the kind of tank you could actually get inside and ride in. He played in the box it came in. It taught me a very valuable lesson. Next year he got a box. And I got a hundred dollars' worth of scotch.
To this day I can't get aroused until I see a pair of rubber dice hanging from the mirror
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say ""Storms suck!
guess what they want for a new four-door Chevy?
If variety if the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam
Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he'll sing it to me.
I play my life straight - the way I see it. I'm grateful to audiences for watching me and for enjoying what I do - but I'm not one of those who believe that a successful entertainer is made by the public, as is so often said.
I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.
When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.