Peter Jones

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Filmmaker Peter Jones talks to Mark about his PBS documentary ‘Johnny Carson: King of Late Night’, writing a letter every year to Johnny Carson, and his shock when he finally got a phone call from Carson himself.

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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 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 and you could really go great.
0:25.0	My wife at the curtain all held real loose backstage.
0:27.0	People were running up and she said, go back out.
0:29.0	Oh my God!
0:30.0	Johnny wants you back.
0:31.0	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 am Mark Malkoff. This is the podcast where I talk to people whose lives were changed by going on the Tonight Show
0:54.3	starring Johnny Carson. Individuals that worked on Carson, guests who regularly appeared
0:59.5	on the show and the top people in entertainment that were influenced by Carson.
1:04.0	Our guest today is Peter Jones, who is a two-time Emmy Award winning filmmaker, and the
1:10.0	director of producer of the PBS American Masters documentary Johnny Carson King of Late Night.
1:16.0	Peter has been a friend to me in this podcast since day one.
1:20.0	We got together at his office in Los Angeles, California.
1:24.0	Enjoy.
1:25.0	After we first taught, I was reminded of the letters I had written Johnny Carson through the years.
1:34.4	Oh my goodness, are these the letters that you wrote to Johnny?
1:37.0	Oh yeah, there are a few and I'd be happy to read.
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