Pete Hammond

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Pete Hammond discusses being an NBC Page, Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon, working at the Arsenio Hall Show, Lauren Bacall, Mel Brooks, & Bette Davis.

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0:00.0	I knew this is where comedy was.
0:05.0	Johnny Carson changed my life twice.
0:07.9	It was just like that dream.
0:09.2	It was just like everything I had worked for and dreamed about has come to fruition.
0:14.5	They said Johnny fell overlapping.
0:17.3	It makes me so happy I made him laugh.
0:20.2	But with Johnny, you know you knew you had a kid or anything you could really don't create.
0:25.1	I might have been to cook all hell-vote books backstage.
0:27.2	People were running up and he said, go back out, go back out, go back out.
0:30.1	Johnny, why don't you back?
0:31.1	I walked back through the curtain very calm and Johnny, that I took about and Johnny put that little circle up at the finger.
0:35.7	And I knew I had a ride.
0:46.0	Welcome to the Carson podcast episode number 378.
0:51.0	I am Mark Malcoff.
0:52.4	This week's guest was a former NBC page and currently is the chief film critic for Deadline Hollywood.
1:00.9	And that is Pete Hammond.
1:03.4	He spoke to me from California.
1:05.4	Enjoy.
1:06.4	Pete Hammond, thanks so much for talking with us.
1:09.4	Sure, happy to be here.
1:11.2	How in when did you become an NBC page?
1:14.6	Oh God, in the 70s, actually, I didn't want to be a page.
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