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The Carson Podcast

Billy Vera

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Singer Billy Vera talks to Mark about his 9 Tonight Show appearances, his dad working as a NBC announcer in New York, and his band playing a Tonight Show anniversary party.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I knew this is where comedy was.

0:05.0

Golly 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.

0:25.0

My wife at the Kirk, all held real close backstage.

0:27.0

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

0:30.0

Johnny wants you back.

0:31.0

I walked back through the kribbrough very calm very common. I took about and Johnny put Thank you to everyone who has contributed on Patreon.

0:54.0

If you'd like to continue to keep the podcast going,

0:57.0

please consider going to Carson Podcast.com

1:01.0

and hitting the Patreon link and making a donation.

1:05.0

Also, some of you have messaged me

1:08.0

you'd rather make a donation supporting me and the podcast

1:11.0

by another method such as PayPal or even personal check.

1:16.3

If that's the case, feel free to reach out to me through the Carson Podcast site.

1:21.7

Thank you in advance.

1:23.0

Moving on this week, my guest is Musician, singer, and frequent Carson guest Billy Vera.

1:32.0

We got together at his home in Los Angeles, California.

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