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The Carson Podcast

Ed Sommerfeld

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ed Sommerfeld discusses managing Rodney Dangerfield and why he had trouble originally getting booked on Carson, Joan Rivers, David Frye, Judy Garland, & booking acts at the Copacabana.

Transcript

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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 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 she said, 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

0:33.8

and Johnny put that little circle up at the finger and I knew I am Mark Malkup.

0:47.0

Thank you to James Thompson for his recent donation to the Carson Podcast listener pledge drive on go fund me

0:57.5

Last week we were 61.8% funded this week we are 62.8% funded. This week we are 62.8% funded. Thank you to everyone who was donated.

1:07.0

To donate you can go to Carson Podcast.com and hit on the go fund me logo.

1:13.0

If you are okay with it, I'd absolutely love to thank you by name here on the

1:18.0

podcast.

1:19.0

This will allow me to host the podcast until at least the end of January 2021. Any pledge of $50 or more

1:27.3

will receive an oral history of Carson's Tonight Show in New York in PDF form. It is over 18,000 words. Take it for me, it's a spectacular

1:36.9

read featuring over 25 New York Carson Staphers and guests from 1962 until 1972 in New York that were on the

1:46.2

podcast. Any donation of $250 or more will get a phone call with me. We can

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