- Jack Rabbit: I gotta go now.
- Johnny Carson: Well, I wish I could go with you. I'm stuck, the rest of the show.
- Johnny Carson: Isn't that the correct term? That you mount a butterfly?... Very gingerly, I might add.
- Johnny Carson: Mother's Day is dear to everyone's heart. Did you know that?
- Ed McMahon: That's true - yes.
- Johnny Carson: Western Union and the Florists' Telegraph Delivery association, mainly.
- [dead silence from the audience as they wait for a punchline that is not forthcoming, then sympathetic laughter]
- Johnny Carson: ...My god - I went deaf!... A tumor actually...