The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Carol Burnett/Tim Conway/Robert Easton/Tracee Talavera (1979)
Carol Burnett: Self - Guest
Quotes
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Carol Burnett : Last night, I was sitting there, and I was watching Loretta Young dancing with Gregory Peck. And I'm sittin' next to Cary Grant - and James Stewart asked me to dance. I couldn't... There is a Santa Claus.
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Johnny Carson : [on Jimmy Stewart] Does Jimmy dance any faster than he talks?
Carol Burnett : No, he - he - he dances stutteringly.
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Johnny Carson : [recalling Carol Burnett singing on "The Ed Sullivan Show"] The first thing I ever saw you do.
Carol Burnett : I did it on the Paar show - excuse me - first.
Johnny Carson : That's - what do you mean?
Carol Burnett : On the Jack Paar show.
Johnny Carson : Oh, sure.
Carol Burnett : Yeah.
Johnny Carson : That's perfectly normal to say that.
Carol Burnett : Was it?
Johnny Carson : Sure.
Carol Burnett : OK.
Johnny Carson : Jack's up talking to a moose somewhere in Maine.
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Carol Burnett : [on her grandmother] She only admitted to me that she was married three times, but she *was* married six times. And, uh, when she passed away, she left me some trunks that I was scared to death to open...
Johnny Carson : Yeah.
Carol Burnett : For quite a while, because I wasn't quite sure what I'd find in there.
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Tim Conway : And then another one coming out. Another one with Don Knotts and I - where Don Knotts and I are...
Johnny Carson : [correcting his grammar] Don Knotts and me.
Carol Burnett : Don Knotts and me.
Tim Conway : No, no - you guys aren't in it.
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Johnny Carson : [explaining grammar to Tim Conway] If it's the subject, you say "Don Knotts and I"; if you say "with", it's "Don Knotts and me".
Carol Burnett : Right.
Johnny Carson : It's really not a...
Carol Burnett : See, what to do is you leave out "Don Knotts", and you say "with me", and...
Tim Conway : He's gonna get steamed about this. He's... I don't think we can cut him out of it!
