I knew this is where comedy was.

Goni 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 overlapping.

It makes me so happy.

I made him laugh.

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

My wife at the curtain all held real loose backstage.

People were running up and she said, go back out, go back out, go back out.

Johnny, you want you back.

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 knew I am Mark Malkoff. This week our guest is Pulitzer Prize

winning writer and TV critic Tom Shales.

He was the longtime TV critic for the Washington Post.

He is also the co-author of the New York Times best selling book Live from New York

an uncensored history of Saturday Night Live.

Tom Shales joined me by phone from his home outside of Washington, D.C.

Enjoy.

Tom Shales, thanks for talking to us.

Well, it's a pleasure, I hope.

It is, for sure.

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