One of my favorite bits from later in the run, Johnny eulogizes the editor of a thesaurus, taking time to list off every last possible euphamism for death imaginable.
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My favorit is: He’s kicked the button. The english language is full of pictures, where you get an exact illusion about the things happening. e. g.
to be over the moon, to win the highway, to produce a key out of the pocket, ect. I just fell in love with this little pics you’ll get in your mind. And thanks a lot to all of you who gave me a part of the difficult transcription.
@ironhorselunatic
Ma favorit is: He’s kicked the button. The english language is full of pictures, where you get an exact illusion about the things happening. e. g.
to be over the moon, to win the highway, to produce a key out of the pocket, ect. I just fell in love with this little pics you’ll get in your mind. And thanks a lot to all of you who gave me a part of the difficult transcription.
Only Johnny could make something as mundane as a thesaurus into laugh out loud comedy.
LMAO!
What Johnny says is, “Flying the marble kite, signing for the Lower-Me-Down Bouquet, tipping the dirt major D, pushing up Miss Dazy, parking the bronze bus, shopping at the Mahogony Mini-Mall.” Just thought I’d let you know. LOL!
this is beautiful
And my personal favorite, “He’s taking a spin in the brass handled sedan”
He’s bitten the dust, he’s in limbo city, riding in the soil side-car, renting the grass tuxedo, going to the slant prom.
Crashing the six handled pool party, he’s staying at Club Mud.
He’s passing the grey *Don’t know*.
He’s in the taper tanning booth.
He’s doing the worm wave at stiff stadium, he’s on the sod subway wearing the toe-tag turtleneck, testdriving the wooden Buick, he’s eating moss muffins.
Dead as a doornail, gone out with the tide, taking the final curtain, serving a major in pine penalty box.
Standing in line at the sod sizzler, dancing the hoakey-croakey (Spelling?), riding a satin pony, playing hell hockey. *I can’t make this part out.*
Flying the marble kite, signing for the *can’t make out* bouquet, tipping the dirt maître d’, pushing up his daisy.
Parking the bronze bus, shopping at the Mahogany Mini-Mall.
Here’s the best I can make out for all of them, in order:
Joe’s bought the farm, cashed in his chips, kicked the bucket.
He’s been deep-sixed, he’s doing the lawn limbo right now.
Time-sharing the oblong-condo, he’s making a call from the horizontal phone booth.
He’s deceased, departed, hard as a carp.
He’s in the marble mail-box, he’s booked into the Motel Deep Six, taking a spin in the brass-handled sedan.
Trolling for top-soil trout.
Oh my god, I loooooooooooove this.
Thanks for that.
I think what makes it even more difficult is that he’s compressing a lot together here to get the right timing for the gags.
Man, he’s so fast at some points, too fast for me at least.
He’s making a call in a horizontal phone booth.
He’ writing his symphony.
He’s test-driving the wooden Buick.
He’s trolling for topsoil trout.
Wearing the toe-tag turtleneck (?)
I’ll try to help with the other statements. I’ll have to listen to it again. Hope this helps. My sister-in-law is from Romania, and we helped her for years with colloquial English. This is tough even for native speakers.
He’s standing in line at the Sizzler? (sizzler is/was cafeteria-style steak restaurant…apparently a jab at the service)
He’s booked a cruise in the dirt submarine.
He’s time sharing the oblong condo.
He’s playing in the subterranian sandboxes.
He’s standing in line for Art Sissler (Who’s that?)
He’s booked on a cruise in the dirt sub maroon. (Isn’t that a tree?)
He’s time sharing the up long condo he’s making up (isn’t condo a sth. like flate? How can I make it up?)
He’s playing in the sub drainian sandboxes.
Thanks a lot for your help in advance
English is not my mothertongue and I so want to get some phrases right he said. Please help me out, correct my misspelled things and describe me the meaning behind.
He’s making a cop and a horse on a phoone booth
He’s serving a mayor and fine panel debox
He’s writing his sensepony
He’s signing for the loaming down bouquet
He’s doing the warm way with Stiff Stadium. (Who is that?)
He’s on the sorts of wearing totac, totalneck, testdriving, woodenbeauic…
He’s drooling for TraxOil traud
Brilliant as always.
But they added the crying family.
Toooo Funny! I’m breathless from laughing so hard! Maybe I haven’t been around long enough to actually see Johnny Carson’s work on the Tonight Show, but hey, any age group can appreciate the clasics if they so choose! R.I.P Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon!
I didn’t know Rod Blagojevich worked at Roget’s Thesaurus….
As a skit, this was, as I said, stolen from Python. It was purloined… pinched… taken without consent of the owner… obtained surreptitiously… acquired without acknowledgment… ripped off… swiped…
It is the delivery of Carson that puts the bit over the top! Recognise the genius of Johnny!!!
Johnny stole the idea from Monty Python. I love Johnny, but theft is theft… and not uncommon among comedians.
haha
As brightav said…please let this one stay. It is such a classic. There will never be another one like Johnny Carson…