Debbie Feder

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Former Carson staffer Debbie Feder discusses working on The Tonight Show, assisting guest hosts such as Diana Ross and David Letterman, & a staff memo from Fred de Cordova.

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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 overlapping.
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 that 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 she said, go back out, go back out, go back out.
0:30.0	Johnny wants you back.
0:31.0	I walked back through the curtain very calm and Johnny I took about
0:33.9	and Johnny put that little circle up my finger and I knew I was the man. Welcome to the Carson Podcast, I am Mark Malkup. Our guest today is former Tonight Show
0:52.3	starring Johnny Carson, staff member Debbie
0:55.6	Theater. Ms. Feeder spoke to me from her home in California. Debbie
1:00.2	Feeder, thanks for talking with us.
1:02.6	Thank you.
1:03.9	Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this.
1:05.6	I really love, and so do the listeners
1:07.8	when I talk to former Tonight Show staff.
1:10.8	How and when did you get hired on the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson?
1:16.0	I was hired, I believe it was March or April of 1979, and I worked there for two years.
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