The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Donald Sutherland/Martin Mull (1983)
Ed McMahon: Self - Announcer
Quotes
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Johnny Carson : [after Martin Mull's performance] Did a light go out when you were sitting out there? One of our lights also went out.
Martin Mull : How'd I look?
Johnny Carson : You looked very nice.
Martin Mull : Really?
Ed McMahon : Nice in shadows.
Martin Mull : Kind of a swarthy kind of quality?
Johnny Carson : Kind of gives you that, y'know, medieval type of quality. Is NBC trying to tell us something? The tape disappeared, the light...
Martin Mull : Yeah, I heard those tapes are missing.
Johnny Carson : This is the way, you know, when you're on your way out.
Martin Mull : I think what you ought to do is keep those tapes missing for weeks and weeks and weeks, get a lot of press behind it, and run it as a special.
Johnny Carson : [laughs] Just the two tapes.
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Johnny Carson : Bobby, the tape we were gonna play for The Mighty Carson Art Players?
[Bobby replies, "Yesss?"; Ed laughs]
Johnny Carson : Nevermind the Frank Nelson impression. "MMYESSSSS? What IS it?"
Ed McMahon : No no, he'll have a definitive answer, something technical. Probably technical.
Johnny Carson : Was it some kind of mechnical or technical problem?
[Bobby replies, "They lost it."]
Ed McMahon : "They". You wonder who "they" are.
Johnny Carson : Wonder who "they"...
[Bobby says, "They just FOUND it!"]
Johnny Carson : They what? They just found it?
[audience cheers]
Johnny Carson : All right, we'll do it fifteen or twenty minutes from now.
Ed McMahon : Oh! No one will leave now!
Johnny Carson : Okay.
[reading card]
Johnny Carson : I have a note here: They lost Martin Mull. Okay, my first guest... The Mighty Carson Art Players WILL appear here tonight, we THINK, unless somebody loses it between now and midnight. A distinct possibility the way things are going.