Johnny Carson: UFO

Sadly Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon and Carl Sagan have all passed away. Nothing and no one lasts forever.

"If you wait long enough everything changes" - Carl Sagan

"I never said it...It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said 'billion' many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said 'billions and billions.' For one thing, it's imprecise. How many billions are 'billions and billions'? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? 'Billions and billions' is pretty vague... For a while, out of childish pique, I wouldn't utter the phrase, even when asked to."

No, Sagan was a good sport. He even named his last book Billions and Billions as a tongue in cheek joke.

Show me once. Should be easy, right?

this is just rude - very disrespectful to Dr Sagan

Man, you are so wrong.

I think Sagan appreciated this actually...

CanadianRunner is VERY correct. See Chapter 1, pg 1 from Sagan's book 'Billions and Billions'. Here's an excerpt:

"I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billions galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars...But I never said "billions and billions". But Johnny Carson - on whose Tonight Show I'd appear almost thirty times over the years -said it...He created a rough imitation of me, a kind of Doppelganger, that went around saying "billions and billions' on late-night television."

(Excuse the typo in the first sentence...it should say "100 billion galaxies" and not with the added 's').

Excellent Clip!! A timeless classic clip from October 1980 would be the best one that I have seen on "Carson's Comedy Classics." Rest In Peace -- Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson!! They were two of a kind!! A Fat 6!!