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The Carson Podcast

David Tolley

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Pianist/composer David Tolley joins Mark to discuss being in the Tonight Show audience when he was randomly chosen by Johnny to play piano, the phone ringing off the hook with offers, and the show tracking him down to make a second appearance.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I knew this is where comedy was.

0:05.0

Goni 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.

0:20.3

But with Johnny, you knew you had a kid audience and you could really go great.

0:25.1

My wife at the curtain all held real close backstage.

0:27.3

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

0:30.1

Johnny wants you back.

0:31.1

I walked back through the curtain very calm and Johnny, I took about

0:33.8

and Johnny put that little circle up at the finger and I knew I knew I am Mark Malcop. Thank you to everyone supporting me and the podcast on Patreon.

0:55.0

If you are currently not supporting the podcast

0:58.0

and are interested in helping to get me to Los Angeles in the spring,

1:02.0

you can do so by going to Carson Podcast.com

1:07.1

and hitting the Patreon link.

1:09.2

Or if you'd rather contribute a financial gift by another method such as PayPal or personal check,

1:16.1

feel free to get in touch with me through the Carson Podcast site.

1:20.8

Every bit helps. Also, this is not a commercial.

1:25.0

Tonight on CNN, I'm really excited to check this out,

1:29.0

it's the premiere of the history of comedy.

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