Quotes about Johnny Carson

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I can remember sitting next to Johnny Carson for the first time, and I'm thinking, Holy God, this is like looking at Abraham Lincoln. You've seen him forever on the $5 bill. And now all of a sudden he's here. And that was too much for me.

David Letterman

My father never went to see my performances. I think he saw The Rose on television, and he saw me on the Johnny Carson Show., but he just wasn't interested. He didn't like popular culture. He thought it was garbage.

I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

Ellen DeGeneres

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.