I knew this is where comedy was.

Goney Carson changed my life twice.

It was just like a dream. It was just like everything I had worked for and dreamed about has come to fruition.

They said Johnny fell overlapping.

It makes me so happy.

I made him laugh.

But with Johnny, you know you knew you had a kid audience and you didn't really go great.

My wife at the curtain, all held real loose backstage.

People were running up and she said, go back out, go back out, go back out,

Johnny wants you back.

I walked back to the curtain very calm and Johnny, I took about, and Johnny put that little circle up at the finger, and I am Mark Malkoff. This is the podcast where I talk to people whose lives were changed by going on the Tonight Show

starring Johnny Carson. Individuals that worked on Carson guest who regularly appeared on the show

and that's how people in entertainment they were influenced by Carson.

My guest this week is former Johnny Carson writer and current executive producer and showrunner of The Simpsons, Al-Gee.

We got together at his office at the Simpsons on the Fox Lot in Los Angeles, California.

Enjoy.

Al, thanks for talking to us.

My pleasure.

How did you come to write in for Carson?

Well, I was working on a show called Not Necessarily the News.

I remember Stuart Pinkinen and Lucy Webb right?

That's right.

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