- Johnny Carson: [on the current lack of comedy teams] How many of you remember Wheeler and Woolsey?
- Johnny Carson: [to Ed, after minimal scattered applause] Nobody remembers Wheeler and Woolsey? You remember them, don't you? What was the one before that?... How many remember Moran and Mack?
- [dead silence from the audience]
- Johnny Carson: [stunned] ... Weber and Fields?... Sacco and Vanzetti?