I knew this is where comedy was.

Goney Carson changed my life twice.

It was just like a dream. It was just like everything I had worked for and dreamed about has come to fruition.

They said Johnny fell overlapping.

It makes me so happy.

I made him laugh.

But with Johnny, you know you knew you had a kid audience and you didn't really go great.

My wife at the curtain all held real loose backstage.

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

Johnny wants you back.

I walked back through the curtain very calm and Johnny, I took about, and Johnny put that little circle up at the finger, and I knew I am Mark Malkop. This is the podcast where I talk to people whose lives were changed by going on the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.

Individuals that worked on Carson, guests who regularly appeared on the show and the top people and entertainment that were influenced by Carson.

My guest this week on the Carson podcast is comedy writer Marshall Brickman.

In addition to being Johnny Carson's head writer on the Tonight Show for nearly two and a half years,

Marshall Brickman won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as a co-writer on Annie Hall.

Also with Woody Allen, he co-wrote Manhattan, Sleeper, and Manhattan Murder Mystery.

In addition, he served as a producer on the Dick Cavett show.

In more recent years, he wrote the book for one of the most successful Broadway musicals of

all-time Jersey Boys. Marshall Brickman and I got together at his apartment in

New York City to talk about his time writing for Johnny Carson. We also touch

upon his work with Dick Cabot and Woody Allen.

Enjoy.

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