The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Buddy Hackett/Cindy Williams/Sander Vanocur (1977)
Johnny Carson: Self - Host, Floyd R. Turbo
Quotes
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Sander Vanocur : Here we are, four years after the first oil embargo, and this country still doesn't have an energy policy - and it's disgraceful.
Johnny Carson : Do you think they're gonna have one?
Sander Vanocur : No.
Johnny Carson : They can't go on forever; they're gonna be - they're in deep trouble now, and they're gonna...
Sander Vanocur : That's the one thing that Washington is great at: Making things go on forever.
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Johnny Carson : [on sometimes finding the eight consecutive nights of "Roots" upsetting] I tried to get away from it once. I turned over to watch The Jeffersons and, uh... they were watching Roots.
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Floyd R. Turbo : What right does Puerto Rico have to be a state? If anything, we should make Manhattan a state, too. It is an island, too, and has twice as many Puerto Ricans.
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Johnny Carson : Wouldn't you like to know that you descended from some prophet, uh, Biblical times, or some great philosopher or teacher, or early Egyptian comic - or early Jewish comic?
Buddy Hackett : I like the part about the Egyptian comic.
Johnny Carson : Oh, right - that's...
Buddy Hackett : I want to see the laughs they get when the plague was on all the houses.