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The Carson Podcast

Joan Benny and Dan Gingold

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Joan Benny, daughter of Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, joins Mark to discuss her childhood, her famous parents, and Johnny’s love for her father. Carson’s Cellar stage manager, Dan Gingold, joins Mark to discuss working with Johnny.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I knew this is where comedy was.

0:05.0

Gowing 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.

0:20.4

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

0:25.0

My wife at the curb, all held real close backstage.

0:27.0

People were running up and he 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 and I took about and Johnny put that little circle up at the finger and I I am Mark Malkoff. Thank you to William Dent and Matt Rogina for the recent support of the Carson

0:56.3

podcast on Patreon. If you like to support me and the Carson Podcast, please consider going to

1:02.1

Carson Podcast.com and hitting the Patreon link.

1:06.0

There you can donate as little as a dollar per episode ongoing as well as five, ten, 15, 25 or more. Thank you for considering it.

1:17.0

Moving on this week we have two guests. We start with Joan Benny. We got together at our home in New York City.

1:26.0

Enjoy.

1:27.0

Joan Benny, thank you for talking to us.

1:36.0

I'm very pleased to be talking to you, Mark.

1:38.0

It's a pleasure.

1:39.0

So who were your parents and where were you born?

1:43.3

My parents are Jack Benny and Mary Livingston, not their real names, and I was born in New York.

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