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George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

Johnny Carson

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Johnny Carson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 23
Died: 2005
Died: January 23
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I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.
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Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.
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Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.
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The only issue cash presents you is the independence of not stressing about funds.
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I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours.
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In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.
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An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
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Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.
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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
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