Quotes tagged ‘Johnny Carson’

(5 total)

“Here's Johnny!”

— Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, Jack Torrance, Jack Nicholson, imdb.com

“Tom Hartman: Did you think I was sexy then? Mary Hartman: Yeah, you were. You were just like Johnny Carson. You were just all boyish and proud of yourself. Tom Hartman: He's a comedian. I'm a Robert Redford, huh? Mary Hartman: [thinks a moment] Johnny Carson.”

— Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, Mary Hartman, Louise Lasser, imdb.com

“One time I did Carson and I made a joke about a black guy in the audience, and Carson stopped me and said, Show me a black guy. The camera panned the audience, and there was no black guy. And I said to Johnny, Did they laugh? The answer was yes. And that's all that matters.”

— Don Rickles, esquire.com

“Hi, dum dum….Where does it say you butt in, dummy? I'm fed up with you already, you know that? That's it, laugh it up. You're making $50 million a year and your poor parents are back in Nebraska eating locusts for dinner.”

— Don Rickles, chicagotribune.com

“The dreams of my life were to go on The Tonight Show and to have a small part in a movie. When I was 28, I had been on The Tonight Show a bunch of times, and Risa Bramon, who was casting Desperately Seeking Susan—I didn't know her, but she liked my stand-up—brought me to the attention of the directo…”

— Steven Wright, avclub.com