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JOHNNY CARSON: Well, there are probably more famous Americans, they say, born in the month of February than any-- how many-- [APPLAUSE] How many people here have their birthday in February? [APPLAUSE] ED MCMAHON: Hm. JOHNNY CARSON: You know, I'm going to try something to that. Now, I may get this wrong. I remember this from a long time ago. It has to do with the number of people in the room. Out of two people, how many people, would you say, that your odds would be that would be in the same room? How many people would you think would have to be in a room that your odds would be almost sure that they would have exactly the same birthday on the same day? ED MCMAHON: Because? JOHNNY CARSON: Something like 35 or 40. ED MCMAHON: That's all? JOHNNY CARSON: The odds are pretty good, if I remember. ED MCMAHON: Well, pick a day and see if we have it. Just pick a date. JOHNNY CARSON: Well, let's just check this audience here. Lady in the front row, what's your birthday? ED MCMAHON: August 9th. SPEAKER 1: August 9th. JOHNNY CARSON: Anybody else here have a birthday on August 9th? [SILENCE] [LAUGHTER] Get out of here, you're hurting this. Get out of here. JOHNNY CARSON: No, she's supposed to be at "The Merv Griffin Show." ED MCMAHON: That's right. JOHNNY CARSON: Nobody? We have 500 people there, nobody has August the 9th? OK, we missed there. All right, somebody else. ED MCMAHON: Let's try another one. JOHNNY CARSON: April 9th. ED MCMAHON: April 9th. JOHNNY CARSON: Or, hold it, April 9th. ED MCMAHON: Anybody else here have a birthday April the 9th? [SILENCE] JOHNNY CARSON: Well [BLEEP]. Look, I may have had my figures a little bit wrong. ED MCMAHON: I think you did. 35 people, that's impossible. JOHNNY CARSON: That's right. No, I know it doesn't sound possible. It doesn't sound possible. ED MCMAHON: I mean, there are 365 birthdays. JOHNNY CARSON: I know that. ED MCMAHON: How could you, with 35 people, cover 365 birthdays double? JOHNNY CARSON: No, but the law of probabilities still-- ED MCMAHON: The law of probabilities. JOHNNY CARSON: All right, now we're going try something-- forget you two dummies who obviously are making up phony birthdays. All right, let's try mine. ED MCMAHON: Let's try his birthday. JOHNNY CARSON: My birthday-- ED MCMAHON: October 23rd. JOHNNY CARSON: October 23rd. ED MCMAHON: Anybody? [SINGLE CLAP] SPEAKER 2: Yeah! JOHNNY CARSON: Your birthday October 23rd? How many? SPEAKER 2: Here! JOHNNY CARSON: You're the 23rd? SPEAKER 3: Yeah. JOHNNY CARSON: You're the 23rd?

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Clip from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Aired February 6, 1980.