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The Carson Podcast

Larry Miller

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Larry Miller talks to Mark about the chaos backstage before his Johnny Carson debut. In addition he tells one of Johnny’s favorite all time jokes.

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 overlapping.

0:17.6

It makes me so happy.

0:19.4

I made him laugh.

0:20.3

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

0:25.1

My wife at the curtain all held real loose backstage.

0:27.3

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

0:30.1

Johnny, you want you back.

0:31.1

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

0:34.0

a little circle up with a finger and I knew I had the money. Welcome to the Carson Podcast. I am Mark Malkoff. This week our guest is

0:51.7

comedian Larry Miller. He joined me by phone from Los Angeles, California.

0:57.0

Enjoy.

1:00.0

Larry Miller, thanks for talking to us.

1:02.0

Well, the same here, this is one of the things that frankly constantly amazes me in show business and all businesses that we can just talk cross country and go on the air.

1:14.0

It's true. What is your first memory of watching Johnny Carson?

1:19.0

Well, I was a kid, a child, and I was watching with my parents, I guess, and because you don't stay up that

1:31.1

late.

1:32.1

That was, the show is on at 1130 good lord it sounds

1:36.1

like i'm talking about the 15th century

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