I knew this is where comedy was Johnny 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 know, you knew you had a kid. What do you think? You didn't really don't create it. I might put the curtain on how

real quick backstage people were running up and to go back out. Oh my god. Johnny wants you back

I walked back through the curtain very calm and Johnny that I took about and Johnny put that little circle up

With your finger and I knew I had a ride

Welcome to the Carson podcast episode number three hundred seventy five. I am Mark Malkopf this week

We have two episodes. The first is a shorter episode with former New York Carson staffer

Sandra McClain the second is with the architect of Carson's Malibu home

Ed Niles this particular episode was up briefly in June for a few days now

It's back up there. No changes to my chat with mr. Niles

It was a fantastic guest which brings us to this week's guest this first guest and that again is former New York staffer

Sandra McClain. Enjoy

Sandra McClain. Thanks for talking with us. Glad you to be here. I love talking to the New York staffers

I've been able to probably talk to maybe I don't know maybe 20 of them something like that and it's just so

I love just hearing about that, you know, the first 10 years. It was so different. It was in New York

How did you get hired at the tonight show and what year was that?

It was 1969. I was just out of college and

My first job was a guide debt actually at NBC studios and

They used to say I was the youngest. What is not the youngest the shortest lived guy debt in history

I was only there for like three weeks and I got a promotion upstairs

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