Quotes & Jokes by Johnny Carson / page 5

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.

Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry - that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

I can empathize with President George Bush. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp.

Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.

May a tse tse fly bite you where it counts.

Welcome to the Academy Awards, a glittering two hours of entertainment, spread out over four hours. For those of you taping this on Betamax, you're under arrest.

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

Only lie about the future.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."