When I first went on the 'Johnny Carson show', the band did not want me, and Carson did not want me. If the audience had not received 'Tiptoe' so overwhelmingly, I do not believe Carson would have let me come over to be on the panel after the song.
My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.
She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.
I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'
I like Johnny Carson because he doesn't hold anything back when he's going for a laugh. Johnny will do anything, say anything, to get his laugh.
Johnny Carson was king of the kings, in my opinion.
I'm not slim and trim like Johnny Carson.
The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.
I was watching Johnny Carson when I was way too young to be awake that late.
There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.
I had to find a way to get off the streets because it was too windy. So I started organizing variety shows of street performers. I would rent a hall, cafe or bar so I could put on a show. I did that for years before the 'Tonight Show With Johnny Carson' heard about this odd thing I did with bubbles.
According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.
I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at the same time.