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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died. -- Victoria Jackson
The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson. -- Don Rickles
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues. -- Jim Fowler
According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work. -- Jim Fowler
There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode. -- Tom Leykis
As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain. -- Caroline Rhea
I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at the same time. -- Thomas F. Wilson
I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck. -- Kevin Spacey
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson. -- Tom Shales
I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor. -- Vince Vaughn
He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. -- Doc Severinsen
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first. -- Tom Brokaw
I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him. -- Tony Randall
After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom. -- Roseanne Barr
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. -- Dick Cavett
I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class. -- Neil Patrick Harris
I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business. -- Joan Rivers
I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me. -- Steven Wright
Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson. -- Criss Angel
Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them, they made a bit of a name for me at the time, so that part of my life was very good. -- Don Rickles
Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it. -- Wayne Newton
Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me. -- Dick Ebersol
An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth. -- Don Rickles
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.' -- Josh Homme
In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months. -- Jeff Dunham
When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it's a privilege of mine to be able to be in people's homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this. -- Jimmy Fallon
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent. -- Natalie Merchant
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me. -- Patti Smith
Johnny Carson is a comedian who is seen every night in millions of bedrooms all over America...and that`s why his last wife left him. -- Dean Martin
I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him -- Tony Randall
The Tonight Show didn't seem like an actual job that you could have. All you remember is you watched Johnny Carson, and you never thought he would retire. -- Jimmy Fallon
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
Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel. -- David Letterman
I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that. -- Don Rickles
There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am. -- Johnny Carson
I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time. -- Paul Reubens
Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him. -- Carson Daly

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