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“When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.”

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Johnny Carson was an American television host, comedian, and producer. He is best known for hosting 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson' for 30 years, from 1962 to 1992. His innovative and witty interviews, along with his relaxed and conversational style, made him one of the most beloved and influential figures in American television history. more

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“Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and by the network brass - if you joke about doctors, lawyers, dentists, scientists, bus drivers, I don't care who. You can't make a joke about Catholics, Negroes, Jews, Italians, politicians, dogs or cats. In fact, politicians, dogs and cats are the most sacred institutions in America.”

“There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!”

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“Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in the process of taking a fresh look at the whole issue of morality. The only decline that's taking place - and it's about time - is in the old puritanical concept that sex is equated with sin.”

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“It's the lack of this kind of open and honest education about sex that causes so many kids to grow up with sexual hang-ups.”

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“Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.”

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“The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.”

“I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.”

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“I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.”

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“I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.”

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“I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.”

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