I knew this is where comedy was Johnny 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 over laughing. It makes me so happy. I made him laugh.

But with Johnny, you know you knew you had a kid. What do you think? You really don't

know. I put the curtain on how broke we were backstage. People were running up and

said go back out. Go back out. Johnny wants you back. I walked back through the curtain very

calm and Johnny that I took about and Johnny put that little circle up at the finger and I knew I had a ride.

Welcome to the Carson podcast episode number 389. Hi, I'm Mark Malkoff. Special thanks to

Adrian P and Tim Schwap for the recent donations. It's an enormous help. I know I said a while back

that today's podcast would be the final episode. However, leading up to it, I had asked some potential

guests that I thought for sure were going to say no and a few of them said yes. So as of now,

after today's episode, we will have three more episodes moving on this week's guest.

And I really couldn't believe he said yes. It's the legendary Barry Gibb. We talk Carson,

the Bee Gees, his brother Andy, Dolly Pardon, Paul McCartney, and much more. Barry Gibb spoke to

me from Florida. Enjoy. Hello. Sir Barry, it's Mark Malkoff. So I'm doing great. This is such an

honor to talk to you. I've been watching all of your Johnny Carson appearance. I wish I could

have found the debut in 1968 because 1968 is when you really came over to the States and you

did Ed Sullivan. I think you did the Smothers Brothers, but you went on Carson and that was a big deal.

Does anything stand out about that? Oh, you know, listen, when you're going to America for the first

time in your life, you know, I think naivety, I think was probably the biggest issue for us.

Having never been to America, it was just mind blowing. So being on any show, specifically

Johnny Carson was a thrill, you know, but even more so, our father was like a Hollywood film fan.

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