Byron Allen

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Byron Allen talks to Mark about making his stand-up debut on Carson at 18 years-old, sitting as a teenager at Johnny’s desk in an empty studio interviewing NBC janitors, and writing for Jimmy J.J. Walker alongside Jay Leno and David Letterman.

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0:00.0	I knew this is where comedy was.
0:05.0	Gai Carson changed my life twice.
0:08.0	It was just like a dream. It was just like everything I had worked for 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 know you knew you had a kid in kid audience and you didn't really go great.
0:25.1	My wife at the Kirk, all hell, vocals backstage.
0:27.3	People were running up and she said, go back out, go back out.
0:30.1	Johnny, you want you back.
0:31.1	I walked back through the curtain very calm and Johnny, I took about, and Johnny put that little circle up at the finger, and I am Mark Malkop. This is the podcast where I talk to people whose lives were changed by going on the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
0:56.0	Individuals that worked on Carson guests who regularly appeared on the show and the top people in entertainment that were influenced by Carson.
1:05.2	My guest this week on the Carson Podcast is Byron Allen, who is the host of both Comics
1:10.8	Unleased and Entertainers with Byron Allen.
1:14.1	He is also the chairman and chief executive officer of Entertainment Studios.
1:19.3	Byron Allen made a stand-up debut on Carson at the age of 18. I am not exaggerating when I say the
1:26.0	story he is about to tell is out of a movie. Enjoy.
1:31.1	Byron Allen, you have a remarkable story. Before we get into it, you were born in Detroit.
1:38.0	Yes, born in Detroit, Michigan, April 22, 1961, which makes me 21.
1:45.0	Exactly.
1:46.0	Henry Ford Hospital, so I'm another product of Henry Ford.
1:50.0	And yeah, in the Motor City in Detroit was an unbelievable vibrant place in the 60s
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