The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)

Mark & Carol Hebbard/Alan King (1989)

Johnny Carson: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Johnny Carson : [after a desk sketch bombs]  I'm, uh, leaving show business.

  [audience laughs] 

  Johnny Carson : We have, uh, a commercial or something before our next guest? Just to give them room to recover from the laughter. When you're at a peak like this all night, if you don't give the audience a chance to catch their breath... terribly dangerous. So this is your chance, the folks at home, to get the dip out...

  [Ed laughs] 

  Johnny Carson : and you folks here in the studio to see if there's anything taping here you'd like to see down the hall.