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.
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Related In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Joh... JEFF DUNHAM I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at th... THOMAS F. WILSON When I first went on the 'Johnny Carson show', the band did not want me, and Carson did not ... TINY TIM It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent. NATALIE MERCHANT [Hackett] told it on the Tonight Show during a commercial and when they came back from commercial br... PAUL PROVENZA I've wanted to do it since I was 14 years old, from watching 'The Tonight Show,' watching Johnny (Ca... STEVEN WRIGHT Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson
.. do you think I am Oscar material?
Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybe
NB... TONIGHT SHOW CARSON WRITERS I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tabl... ELLEN DEGENERES My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81. GARRY SHANDLING Jack Paar t...
KLIPH NESTEROFF When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny C... JIMMY FALLON If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for d... ADAM CAROLLA It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent. NATALIE MERCHANT When I came out to Hollywood in 1985, I thought that I would be sitcom star. I'm a tall, skinny,... DOUG JONES My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to... KIRK DOUGLAS I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept of... BETTE MIDLER I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a ... TAB HUNTER I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that w... STEVEN WRIGHT 'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's th... ROB THOMAS In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so ... TOM BROKAW I had done about 60 television shows, from 'Ed Sullivan' to 'The Hollywood Palace,' ... ALBERT BROOKS Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You g... TYLER PERRY After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beaut... BUSY PHILIPPS I've said this before, but after 'That '70s Show' ended, I solely wanted do films th... MILA KUNIS If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day... CESAR ROMERO It's like replacing Bo Derek with Roseanne Barr. JOHNNY MILLER I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chas... BRIE LARSON My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag car... JUDY GOLD Man, I don't know how it was for other comics, but that one appearance has changed my life. Everyone... JO KOY I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come ... DARA HORN After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from L... BRITT ROBERTSON In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an ab... JANET JACKSON I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I'... JOSH HOMME I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teac... ANDREW SHUE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't u... ANDREA JUNG I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because ... MARA WILSON After I impulsively revealed that I have OCD on a talk show, I was devastated. I often do things wit... HOWIE MANDEL My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The onl... RUMER WILLIS I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year ... DREW CAREY When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they shoul... MAGGIE WHEELER I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who ... PERSIS KHAMBATTA My daughter recommended Chris O'Dowd to me after seeing him in 'Bridesmaids,' so I watch... CHRISTOPHER GUEST Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 10... DON RICKLES What I would really love is to be on a sitcom again, ... Everybody talks about Desperate Housewives ... KATHY GRIFFIN have to play a 22-year-old, and she's nearly 40. ... They said, 'How about Hilary Swank?' I said, 'G... NICOLE KIDMAN When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new... YUNA In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. P... JACKIE CHAN But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 19... DAVID BOIES Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me peo... DOUGLAS BOOTH Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembe... CHRISTOPHER LEE I was popular. Everyone wanted to know my thoughts, give me things. I was king of my universe. After... JUSTIN BERRY My favourite TV show is 'Pretty Little Liars,' and I actually made a guest appearance on it.... MADDIE ZIEGLER Even a liberal city will have a prehistoric homophobe. After a show in Washington State, this guy ca... JAMES ADOMIAN I was the only person at Univision who had complete creative control of my own show, by contract. Th... CRISTINA SARALEGUI It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I d... LARRY BISHOP He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, wh... JHUMPA LAHIRI According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work. JIM FOWLER I received a lot of complaints from parents who wrote and told me that their kids wouldn't go to... MILTON BERLE In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never ... OLIVIER MARTINEZ I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the wo... TONY BENNETT My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invit... JOJO MOYES I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMus... HANNAH SIMONE When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead. SEAN HAYES I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's goin... ACE FREHLEY As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain. CAROLINE RHEA 250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my... BARRY MCGUIGAN I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ... BARRY ZITO If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital... NICHOLAS KRISTOF I did, of course, eventually find my way into television, taking all kinds of jobs, climbing the ran... REGIS PHILBIN My swim was fantastic. It's always refreshing after you get pushed in after a meet like that. I told... SEAN FOLEY It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I want them (the agencies) to have a way to raise awareness and funds, ... I lost my publicist and a... ANGELA SHELTON My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch ... CHERIE LUNGHI My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King... GLORIA ESTEFAN I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Cra... AMANDA DONOHOE I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a ... MATT GROENING I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weigh... COCO AUSTIN The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan,... CALLIE KHOURI I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African Am... MALCOLM D. LEE I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You'... ERIC CLOSE I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I w... PATRICK DUFFY I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometim... AXL ROSE Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible... ROBIN LEACH My show in Egypt was called, 'The Show,' or, 'Al Bernameg' in Arabic. Basically, it ... BASSEM YOUSSEF Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy abou... CARSON DALY 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my... RANDY WEST I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that i... DANICA PATRICK Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues. JIM FOWLER 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they ... ADAM PALLY 'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't w... ESTHER ROLLE The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson. DON RICKLES I've never felt a strong urge to rush into Hollywood, so I bided my time and waited till I had a... TOM MISON I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish '70s', finish my contract on th... MILA KUNIS I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And ... BARBARA MANDRELL I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interva... DAMIAN LEWIS There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate tha... ALEXIS KNAPP When I was starring as Roxie Hart in 'Chicago,' I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet ... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN
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