The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Richard Benjamin/Garry Shandling/Jan Stephenson (1981)
Johnny Carson: Self - Host
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Quotes
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Ed McMahon : Doesn't a shark continually swim? It never stops swimming... The shark never stops swimming. All its life!
Johnny Carson : What has that got to do with...
Ed McMahon : Well, because you say for the first three years - this is all its life, it never stops swimming!
Johnny Carson : But this bird is in the air!
Ed McMahon : This shark is in the water! Be silly to see a shark flying around!
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Richard Benjamin : I would stand there, and then I'd come out of these shadows, and in the most polite way I could possibly say, "I don't think that frying pan is real clean."
Johnny Carson : Ah.
Richard Benjamin : And she would say something like, "Uh - uh, well, since you're going to be wearing it in a minute..."
Johnny Carson : Why don't you...
Richard Benjamin : It doesn't matter how clean it is.
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Johnny Carson : Do you use coupons and all that? Or look for the specials?
Richard Benjamin : I do use some coupons, yes. Yes. I have a Sanka coupon right now that's worth forty cents.
Johnny Carson : [after audience laughing and cheering] ... Will - will you marry me? This is the one I've been lookin' for all my life! We're talkin' clean and neat. Well...
Richard Benjamin : You'll be very happy with me.
Johnny Carson : ...Thank you. As long as we can communicate - that's the main thing.
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Johnny Carson : Nice to see somebody new come out and really, uh, have some funny material. His name is Garry Shandling; we'll hear a lot about him.