Deb Roccaforte

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Deb Roccaforte discusses working on Carson’s NY Tonight Show, booking guests for The Mike Douglas Show, Bette Midler, Paul Williams, Ginger Rogers, Paul Anka, George Carlin, & Albert Brooks.

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0:00.0	I knew this is where comedy was.
0:05.0	Goney 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 knew you had a kid audience and you could really go great.
0:25.0	My wife at the curtain all held real groups backstage.
0:27.0	People were running up and said, go back out, go back out, go back out.
0:30.0	Johnny, you want you back.
0:31.0	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 I am Mark Malkoff. Thank you to the
0:43.7	Carson Podcast. I am Mark Malkoff. Thank you to the
0:51.2	following listeners for their generous donations on the Carson
0:54.7	Podcast listener pledge to drive David Dornack Josh Hyatt, Rob Tate, Tom Gray,
1:02.2	and Bob Gasper.
1:05.0	Last week we were 72% funded, and this week we have gone up 3% points to approximately 75% funded.
1:14.8	We're $3,749 away from our goal.
1:19.8	To donate, you can go to Carson Podcast.com and hit the Go Fun Me logo.
1:26.1	If you're okay with it, I'd love to thank you by name here on the podcast.
1:30.0	This will allow me to host the podcast until at least the end of January 2021.
1:36.7	Any pledge of $50 or more will receive an oral history of Carson's Tonight Show in New York in PDF form. It is over 18,000 words
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