Paul Block

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Tonight Show talent coordinator/segment producer Paul Block joins Mark to discuss the difficulties of booking Alfred Hitchcock, why Billy Preston was a hit with the studio audience and not with the show, and Johnny’s pre-show backstage ritual.

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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.
0:20.3	But with Johnny, you know you knew you had a kid audience that you could really go great.
0:25.1	My wife at the curtain all held real loose backstage.
0:27.3	People were running up and she said, go back out, 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
0:34.0	a little circle up at the finger and I I am Mark Malkop. This week our guest is former Tonight Show, Talent Coordinator, and segment producer Paul Bloc.
0:57.0	Paul Bloc joined me by phone from his home in Portland, Oregon.
1:01.0	Enjoy.
1:02.0	Paul Bloc, thank you for talking to us.
1:06.0	Happy to be so.
1:08.0	I'm here sitting in Portland, Oregon watching the rain
1:11.0	and talking to you makes me feel like I'm back in television.
1:15.0	What years did you work for the tonight show?
1:18.0	1973 to 1978.
1:21.0	Previously you were an agent in New York City and you also were a talent booker for Mike Douglas?
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