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The Carson Podcast

Marcy Carsey

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Marcy Carsey joins Mark to discuss working on The Tonight Show, Carson producer John Carsey, talent coordinator Shirley Wood, and the amazing persistence that got her hired as an NBC page.

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.

0:20.4

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

0:25.1

My wife at the curtain all held real close backstage.

0:27.3

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

0:30.1

Johnny, you want you back.

0:31.0

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

0:33.9

Johnny put that little circle up at the finger, and I am Mark Malkup. Thank you to Hope Sears for supporting us on Patreon.

0:54.0

If you can, please consider going to Carson Podcast.com

0:58.0

and hitting the Patreon link.

1:00.0

There, you can donate as little as a dollar per episode ongoing as well as five, ten,

1:07.0

15, 25 or more.

1:10.0

Some sad news back on August 3rd Mike Barnes from the Hollywood reporter let me

1:16.9

know that former guest Shelly Cohen had passed away Shelly was the

1:22.0

assistant musical director for the entire time Johnny hosted the tonight show.

1:26.0

Shelly Cone was a very nice man.

1:30.0

After I interviewed him, we kept in touch, we talked on the phone several times, he sent me books and a CD of his really, really talented nice person, prayers to his family and friends.

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