Mark Malkoff

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Alison Rosen

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4.6 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Comic, stunt reporter, podcast host and author Mark Malkoff joins us to talk about his new book Love Johnny Carson: One Obsessive Fan's Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend. We discuss living on an airplane for a month, visiting 171 Starbucks in a day and more and then get into his what comedy and late night means to Mark, misconceptions about Carson, banned guests, the truth of what happened with Joan Rivers, when Carson got plastic surgery and his cover story went awry, Mark's staying up for 72 hours and so much more. Plus we did a round of JMOE, HGFY and Podcast Pals Product Picks.

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0:00.0	Allison, Rosen,
0:03.0	Allison is your new best friend.
0:06.0	Allison, Allison, with perfect good times never end.
0:12.0	Allison, too, and a way to get some pants and pants again.
0:17.0	Allison, Rosen, Allison's your new best friend.
0:22.9	Hey, everyone.
0:23.8	Hi, hello.
0:24.5	Welcome to another exciting episode of Allison Rosen is your new best friend.
0:28.2	I'm sitting here in Pod Cabin with comic filmmaker, host, stunt reporter, and author of possibly the definitive Johnny Carson book.
0:39.4	It's called Love Johnny Carson, One Obsessive Fans Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend.
0:45.5	Please put your hands together for Mark Malkoff.
0:48.1	Thank you, Allison.
0:49.0	It's good to see you again.
0:49.8	Good to see you, too.
0:50.9	Do you feel this is the definitive book?
0:53.5	I think it might be definitive in terms of
0:55.6	the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson from 62 to 92. In terms of Johnny's life, I don't know. People
1:01.7	that have read it have told me so. But, you know, I don't know. I talked to 400 people and I just,
1:07.7	I tried to put together a lot of things that people didn't know about Johnny
1:11.7	and the Tonight Show and, you know, a lot of people that had never talked publicly, his friends
1:16.7	and I probably talked to 60 or 70 Tonight Show staff members and just people that knew them
1:20.7	from Nebraska.
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