“I've wanted to do it since I was 14 years old, from watching 'The Tonight Show,' watching Johnny (Carson) and the other comedians. Something clicked in me that I wanted to be one of those guys, someone who came out and made the audience laugh.”
Steven Wright
“If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”
Johnny Carson
“Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.”
“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.”
“[Hackett] told it on the Tonight Show during a commercial and when they came back from commercial break [Johnny] Carson was just busting a gut for like four minutes trying to get his **** together,”
Paul Provenza
“Mitch McConnell. Wasn't he the bandleader on Johnny Carson?”
Mitch McConnell
“[Letterman recalled how Carson was asked once by a] Tonight ... I started out in a gaseous state and then I cooled.”
