- Johnny Carson: A great day for the Democrats. I mean, I'm not poli - I... I don't take political sides - look, the Republicans lost both houses. Big deal - I lost three!
- Johnny Carson: [noting Burt Reynolds' failed musicals] You did the, uh, Peter Bogdanovich - uh, "At Long Last Love".
- Burt Reynolds: Yes, they - they, they play that on airplanes, and people go right out the window.
- Dick Shawn: What used to be funny, today is very dangerous; that's why the younger comics act crazy. When I started out as a comic, you had to have ideas. Comics today are, like, crazy - they match the times. They match the times. Pee Wee Herman is not the kind of man that you hire as a lawyer to represent you in a brain damage case.