I knew this is where comedy was.

Goney 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 knew you knew you had a kid audience that you could really go great.

My wife at the curtain all held real groups backstage.

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

Johnny wants you back.

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 knew I am Mark Malkoff. This week our guest is Ed McMahon's former

assistant Corrine Madden.

Miss Madden was the assistant to Ed in both New York and Burbank.

Corrine Madden and I got together in Moor Park, California. Corrine Madden, thanks for talking with us.

It's my pleasure.

Always happy to talk about my days on the Tonight Show.

How did you get to the Tonight Show and what year was it? It was about late 60s showing my age

but that's okay. I graduated college and did the perfunctory year teaching to satisfy my parents and then decided it was time to get into the city because I was a Bronx girl and

So I was always interested in advertising so I got a job at an advertising agency.

The agent who got me the job said you've heard of Leoban and advertising and I said no, but

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