Mark Interviews Writer And Comedian Mark Malkoff.

Mark Simone

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Both Marks dive into some history of The Late-Night Talk Shows. Johnny Carson was a huge success for Late Night TV. Mark Malkoff is the Founder and Producer of The Carson Podcast.

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0:00.0	The Mark Simone Show on 710 W.O.R.
0:05.1	Well, I don't remember where I first heard about the Carson podcast, but I started listening to it.
0:12.0	I knew everything there was to know about Johnny Carson.
0:15.7	Then I started listening to the Carson podcast.
0:17.8	I learned 1,500 things I didn't know.
0:19.9	It's about 600 episodes. It's got every
0:23.6	celebrity superstar that was ever on the show. It's got everybody ever worked on the show.
0:28.2	You'll learn everything about the Carson podcast. Start listening to it. Now, all of this
0:33.8	turned into a major book coming out. You can pre-order it right now. It's called Love Johnny Carson. The guy behind all of this turned into a major book coming out you can pre-order it right now it's called love
0:38.7	johnny carson the guy behind all of this is the brilliant mark malcoff the book is coming out
0:44.8	order it now love johnny carson get the parson carson podcast and he's with us now mark malcoff
0:51.4	how you doing i'm doing great mark thanks for having me on okay now people are listening to say wait he sounds how you doing? I'm doing great, Mark. Thanks for having me on.
0:55.6	Okay, now people are listening. He said, wait, he sounds kind of young. We all grew up watching
0:59.5	Johnny Carson. You weren't really around at the time. You're kind of young. What started this
1:03.9	interest in Johnny Carson? My dad just got me into comedy when I was really young. He showed
1:10.1	me Jonathan Winters and believe it or not, Johnny Carson, and he would bring in the animals with Jim Fowler or Joan Embry, and it definitely played on a different level. I didn't really get all the politics necessarily, but there was just something about this guy that was so likable, the
1:28.1	likability of Johnny Carson. It really transcended ages, generations, demographics. He played
1:35.4	everywhere into everyone. Yeah, that's the key to it. And he was, so you weren't around
1:41.3	back then, but at the time, he was uh in the madmen don draper era he was
1:46.7	like the ideal you know kind of an executive in the office everybody related to him he was like
1:51.5	the suburban neighbor father he was uh but you're right and he was very very funny and he had
1:59.1	people don't realize uh you've covered this
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