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 over laughing.

It makes me so happy.

I made him laugh.

But with Johnny, you knew you knew you had a kid audience that you could really go great.

My wife at the curtain, all held real groups backstage.

People were running up and she said, go back out, 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 the finger and I I am Mark Malkov. I hope you are all doing okay.

This week our guest is former longtime letterman producer, writer Rob Burnett.

I really enjoyed our chat.

Rob Burnett, thanks for talking with us. Thanks for having me. Did you grow up watching

Carson? I absolutely did. I would watch it, you know, in my bed at night when I probably was too young to be watching it at first and

it that show is so hard to describe and explain to people what it meant. For me it was it was

show business. It was it was this glittery sophisticated world that you just wanted to marvel at and be a part of,

presented in such an entrancing way.

I love that show from top to bottom.

So you graduate Tufts in 1984. How did you come to write jokes for comedian Will Shriner?

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