Showing posts with label Late Night Television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Late Night Television. Show all posts

Monday, October 20, 2025

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)

Monday, August 13, 2018