TV Quote of the Day (‘Tonight Show,’ With Steve Allen As ‘The Great Swami’)

Announcer [played by Gene Rayburn]: “My husband passed away twenty-five years ago. But when I go into the living room, I can still see him sitting there by the fire. What should I do?”

The Great Swami Allen [played by Steve Allen]: “Bury him.”— Tonight Show skit by Steve Allen quoted in Ben Alba, Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen and the Original Tonight Show (2005)