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The Carson Podcast

Andy Friendly

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Andy Friendly joins Mark to discuss working with Tom Snyder on Tomorrow, his friendship with Rick Carson, visiting Johnny’s home in Bel Air, booking David Letterman for his first time on network TV, and growing up the son of CBS news pioneer Fred Friendly. His new book, Willing To Be Lucky: Adventures in Life and Television […]

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0:00.0

I knew this is where comedy was.

0:05.0

Goy Carson changed my life twice.

0:08.0

It was just like a dream. It was just like everything I had worked for

0:12.0

and dreamed about has come to fruition.

0:14.6

They said Johnny fell overlapping.

0:17.6

It makes me so happy.

0:19.4

I made him laugh.

0:20.4

But with Johnny, you knew you had a kid audience that you could really go crazy.

0:25.0

My wife at the curtain all held real close backstage.

0:27.0

People were running up and he said, go back out, go back out, go back out.

0:30.0

Johnny wants you back.

0:31.0

I walked back through the curtain very calmly. I took about and Johnny put that little circle up the finger and I I am Mark Malkop. If you'd like to support me in the Carson Podcast,

0:47.0

I am Mark Malkop. If you'd like to support me in the Carson Podcast, please consider going to Carson Podcast.com and hitting the

0:56.4

Patreon link. There you can donate as little as a dollar per episode ongoing as well as five1, 10, 15, 25 or more. Thank you for considering it.

1:09.4

Before we get to this week's guest, once again, I want to say thank you to so many of you we're

1:15.2

about to start week four of our Carson podcast listener pledge drive it will get me

1:20.8

to Los Angeles Las Vegas and Palm Springs to conduct six more months worth of Carson Podcast episodes.

1:28.6

In order to do six full months of episodes, we need to hit our goal of $7,000 by Thursday, October 26th, which is 14 days

1:39.6

from when this episode is being released.

1:42.4

As I record this right now it is Monday night

1:44.8

October 9th we are at 4,243 dollars which is 60.6% of our goal. We now have $2,757 to go. Our goal next week is to be 75% funded.

2:04.0

We are at $1,07 away from that happening.

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