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The Carson Podcast

Bill Scheft Returns!

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Bill Scheft returns to discuss Johnny sending in jokes to Letterman, talking to Johnny about writer Nick Arnold, and the backstory of Bill Hicks’ 1993 Letterman appearance being edited out and replaced with Scheft’s standup.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I knew this is where comedy was.

0:05.0

Gonna 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 over laughing.

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.

0:25.1

My wife at the curtain all held real groups backstage.

0:27.3

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

0:30.1

Johnny wants you back.

0:31.0

I walked back to the curtain very calm and Johnny Johnny I took about and Johnny put that little circle up at the finger and I I am Mark Malkoff. Thank you to everyone supporting us on Patreon.

0:54.0

If you can, please consider going to Carson Podcast.

0:58.0

and hitting the Patreon link.

1:01.0

There you can donate as little as a dollar per episode ongoing as well as five,

1:07.0

10, 15, 25 or more.

1:10.4

Moving on this week, our guest is former longtime Letterman writer, Bill Sheft, who returns to the podcast.

1:19.0

I have heard from so many of you that loved Bill's first episode were excited to do the second

1:24.4

episode in the second episode we talked a lot more Carson as well as the

1:29.4

Bill Hicks story we did not get to the last time. Bill Sheft and I once again got together at

1:35.0

showbiz studios in New York City. Enjoy.

1:40.0

Bill Sheft. You are the only guest I think that I've ever had and I've done

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