The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)

Carol Burnett/Tim Conway/Robert Easton/Tracee Talavera (1979)

Tim Conway: Self

Quotes 

• Tim Conway : [on doing Carol Burnett's summer series]  It's an easy show to work - this new one, now. You work, uh, four weeks, and you're off forty-eight, which gives me a lot of time to do whatever I want.

• Tim Conway : [on getting his car stolen at a party]  If a guy comes up, and you're parking for a party, and they have ca- er, valet and everything - a guy comes up in a red coat and says, "Can I have your car?", wouldn't you give it to him?

  Johnny Carson : I guess so.

  Tim Conway : I did.

• Johnny Carson : You have made a movie - and you, uh, wrote one, and you...

  Tim Conway : Yeah - down in Tijuana, called, uh, "Peggy and Her Pony", which, uh, was a...

  Johnny Carson : No.

  Tim Conway : No? Oh - the one for, uh, Disney! Disney!

  Johnny Carson : Not the training film.

• 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.

• 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!

• Robert Easton : Again, the whole question of if you have an accent is all relative.

  Tim Conway : See if you can guess if I'm from Cleveland.

  Robert Easton : Yes, you are.