Johnny Carson: Self - Host, Aunt Blabby

Quotes 

• Burt Reynolds : [on his new house]  Right next to Barbra Streisand. Yeah.

  Johnny Carson : You run over every morning, and borrow a cup of ego?

• Johnny Carson : [to Burt Reynolds]  Would you stop that silly laughing? You're supposed to have a sexual, virile image, and you've got a laugh like Hermione Gingold.

• Johnny Carson : I would like to see women have equal rights. They should be equal to men, even if it means losing some of their power.

• Aunt Blabby : I decided to trace my family tree.

  Ed McMahon : That's interesting - tell us about your phyletic background.

  Aunt Blabby : ...The doctors cleared that up years ago. I haven't had that since '48!

  Ed McMahon : No - I meant did you go to a genealogist?

  Aunt Blabby : No! I don't like puttin' my feet up in them stirrups!

• Johnny Carson : [on Burt Reynolds' new house]  Why did you need, uh, larger quarters?

  Burt Reynolds : Well, I thought maybe I might, you know, have people over or something.

  Johnny Carson : Do - do you ever have people over?

  Burt Reynolds : No, never.

• Burt Reynolds : [on public response to his recent illness]  I've got about 125 Bibles - which is good, because I needed to read it, and I - I've been reading it, and I'm... I'm not gonna shove Pat Boone out of a job, but I - I do...

  Johnny Carson : I think that's very nice.

  Burt Reynolds : Have got it, and I want to thank people, and it helped. Thank you very much. And the crayon mail we won't talk about.

  Johnny Carson : You'll have a whole new image.

  Burt Reynolds : Yeah - I think so, and it's about time - 'cause you can't live up to all that other trash I was...

  Johnny Carson : Yeah, I was gonna ask you; you know, you - this super-...

  Burt Reynolds : You can't live up to that. I killed myself the other night tryin' to live up to it... You know how much a 3 looks like an 8.

  Johnny Carson : ...I - I wouldn't get entangled in that, at all.

• Johnny Carson : Comedians are the hardest thing to find in the entertainment business and, uh... you don't know what a spot on a show - a national show - means to somebody like that. And, uh, he came out and - and delivered. Jay Leno's his name; we're gonna have him back.