Johnny Carson: [after a desk sketch bombs] I'm, uh, leaving show business.
[audience laughs]
Johnny Carson: We have, uh, a commercial or something before our next guest? Just to give them room to recover from the laughter. When you're at a peak like this all night, if you don't give the audience a chance to catch their breath... terribly dangerous. So this is your chance, the folks at home, to get the dip out...
[Ed laughs]
Johnny Carson: and you folks here in the studio to see if there's anything taping here you'd like to see down the hall.