Plot
Buddy Hackett/Peter O'Toole/William Demarest/Victor Buono
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Buddy Hackett discusses superstitions; Peter O'Toole (The Stunt Man (1980)); William Demarest talks about golf and traveling, and performs on the cello; Victor Buono (play "The Last of the Marx Brothers Writers") recites his poetry.
- The comedy segment is various lesser-known phobias, as it is Friday the 13th. Buddy Hackett jokes about his phobias and superstitions. He then tells various funny stories from his nightclub act, and insists on doing one where the punch line has to be edited, so only the studio audience hears it. He then talks a bit about being on a vegetarian diet (no meat, poultry, fish) and notes that his stamina has improved. Peter O'Toole comes out, and Johnny recalls his visit to the show when he was exhausted and appeared to be drunk. O'Toole says that on that occasion, he had just returned from Japan, and at each stop it was the cocktail hour. When O'Toole lights a cigarette, Hackett explains he doesn't like cigarettes and doesn't allow them in his home, but doesn't tell other people not to smoke. O'Toole talks about making his film "The Stunt Man", and mentions that there were a series of accidents on the set the day before. O'Toole mentions that he's been trying to get the film made since 1974, and talks about how the title of the film is being contested by Warner Brothers. A significant part of the conversation is with Buddy Hackett, not Johnny. William Demarest is just shy of his 86th birthday. He and Johnny talk a bit about Frank Sinatra's New Year's party, and he talks about having very limited vision; he discusses his golf game and traveling to Damascus and Greece. He reads a humorous poem, and then plays a cello number, as he had done in vaudeville, with piano accompaniment. Victor Buono reads a lengthy funny poem about trying to lose weight. He then talks about the play he is doing, "The Last of the Marx Brothers Writers." He considers his poems "rhymed pratfalls" and reads various other short ones.—lenab9011
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