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well you know there've been a lot of books about johnny carson but nothing like this the definitive

ultimate johnny carson book came out last year. I urge you to get it.

It's the greatest book ever on Carson. It's uncovered everything you could ever know about him.

It's called Love Johnny Carson. It's by Mark Malkoff. He also does the Carson podcast. There's about 400 episodes you can listen to with anybody and everybody that was ever

involved with The Tonight Show. But get the book, Love Johnny Carson by Mark Malkoff. You won't be

able to put it down. And he's with us now. Mark Malkoff, how you doing? Mark, I'm doing. Great. Nice

to talk to you again. Hey, the Oscars last night that made me think of Carson.

He has been, how many years was the Oscar host?

Many years.

It was four or five years.

He was the only Oscar host in history.

No teleprompter, no Q cards.

He memorized everything, the opening monologue.

He would edit the jokes in his head depending on how he did with the crowd with each joke. I mean, that guy was on a different level as a host, probably the greatest Oscar host of all time. Yeah, he did that with the Tonight Show. You know, a guy like Jay Leno had to work on the monologue to get the jokes in just the right order. But Carson, you're right. On the Tonight Show would just jumble up jokes, move them around, switch, whatever he had to do.

And I think the only host ever that'd do that, right?

Everyone else had the cue cards.

Yeah, I mean, Johnny was effortless.

I mean, he took a photo, a memory class, and he could learn, he learned Russian, he learned Swahili.

He took Spanish classes and between shows

in Las Vegas I mean the guy was unbelievable in terms of his intellect yeah now you should get the

book love Johnny Carson and the book is wonderful you're gonna love Johnny Carson even more when

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