Johnny Carson: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Johnny Carson : [on Governor Ronald Reagan dealing with spiraling food prices]  According to the governor, he is against a food boycott - because he said food prices are an act of God. Which, I understand, Ronnie may run for that office in '76.

• Johnny Carson : Look at the band - they're getting the horns up like, you know, they're gonna...

  Tommy Newsom : Uh, they're getting horny, actually.

• Brady Watt : In our Explorer post - there's an Explorer Post 431 - and they've got a couple of girls in there.

  Johnny Carson : Yeah. How do the fellows take that? Do they, uh... they think the girls are intruding, uh, too much?

  Brady Watt : No, I don't think so. They're older, anyway. They're around 15, 16.

  Johnny Carson : Oh - oh. Oh, yeah; those... Old bats like that are no fun to have around.

• McLean Stevenson : I was the town sissy.

  Johnny Carson : You came from a fairly well-to-do family, didn't you?

  McLean Stevenson : If I, if I'd get in trouble - yeah - Dad'd go down, beat the heck out of the neighborhood kid that picked on me, and stuff. I couldn't make a fist 'til I was 28.

  Johnny Carson : You missed a lot.

  McLean Stevenson : Yeah.

  [audience laughter over the innuendo] 

  Johnny Carson : ...I mean fighting with the other kids, and everything.