830- Backstage At NBC with Television Writer/Author Shelley Herman
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Television Writer/Author Shelley Herman ("My Peacock Tale: Secrets From An NBC Page") shares stories about Johnny Carson and working backstage at NBC. If you love Hollywood talk, this is the show for you!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Storyworthy. |
| 0:01.8 | Today on the show, television writer and author Shelley Herman talks about Johnny Carson and backstage at NBC. |
| 0:09.1 | I got to tell you, being a page at NBC, you learn what not to do as much as you learn what to do. |
| 0:16.9 | And observing Johnny Carson was a graduate school in how to be the best broadcaster, best personality on television. |
| 0:25.1 | I would purposefully position my tour group when Johnny Carson would arrive. |
| 0:30.7 | At the time, he had a corvette, and he would pull into the midway area between the studios and the administration building to see |
| 0:38.6 | Johnny Carson in his car and he's wearing street clothes. |
| 0:43.4 | Today on the show, television writer and author Shelley Herman talks about Johnny Carson and backstage at NBC. |
| 0:51.6 | Hey, it's Shelley Herman and you're listening to Storyworthy. |
| 1:06.9 | Welcome to Storyworthy. |
| 1:07.7 | My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:12.1 | Whether you're a longtime fan of the show of almost 14 years or you're a brand new listener, welcome to Storyworthy. |
| 1:19.3 | I hope you guys had a chance to listen to the show last week with musician and comedian Dave Hill. |
| 1:24.9 | Dave talked about going to a prison in Mexico. I didn't say he was in a prison |
| 1:31.4 | in Mexico. I said he went to a prison in Mexico to play some guitar, you know, to entertain |
| 1:38.2 | the inmates as it will, as you will. And it's a great story. Dave Hill is a very accomplished person. And, you know, |
| 1:47.3 | he's just such an amazing guitar player and a fantastic comedian. He's always touring. He's |
| 1:52.9 | always out and about. And so go back, you guys. Listen to Dave Hill last week. But not today. Stick with me |
| 1:59.4 | now because today I'm here with a very interesting |
| 2:01.7 | person who I just recently met. Her name is Shelly Herman and she is a TV writer and an author. |
| 2:10.5 | She's a brand new book out now called My Peacock Tale, Secrets of an NBC page. So today she brings us backstage secrets at NBC. |
| 2:21.0 | So I'm dying to hear about that. |
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