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The Carson Podcast

Wendy Perl

The Carson Podcast

Mark Malkoff

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Wendy Perl discusses photographing Carson and The Tonight Show, working at NBC, Bob Hope’s 90th Birthday, Joan Rivers, Brandon Tartikoff, & being in the audience for Carson’s final show.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I knew this is where comedy was.

0:05.0

Johnny Carson changed my life twice.

0:08.0

It was just like a dream. It was just like everything I had worked for

0:12.0

and dreamed about has come to fruition.

0:14.6

They said Johnny fell over laughing.

0:17.6

It makes me so happy.

0:19.4

I made him laugh.

0:20.3

But with Johnny, you knew you knew you had a kid audience and you could really go crazy.

0:25.0

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

0:27.0

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

0:30.0

Johnny, he wants you back.

0:31.0

I walked back through the curtain very calm and Johnny, I took about

0:33.9

and Johnny put that little circle up the finger and I knew I am Mark Malkoff. Thank you to Peter Baco and Farad Mohammed for their recent donations to the Carson

0:55.8

Podcast listener pledge drive on go fund me. Last week we were at 66% funded

1:02.3

and this week we are currently a little more than 67.8% funded.

1:08.0

Thank you to everyone who has donated. We're approximately $4, dollars away from our goal.

1:15.0

To donate you can go to Carson Podcast.com

1:19.0

and hit on the go-fundme logo.

1:21.0

If you're okay with it, I'd absolutely love to thank you by name here on the

1:24.4

podcast. This will allow me to host the podcast until at least the end of

1:28.6

January 2021. Any pledge of $50 or more will receive an oral history of Carson's Tonight Show in New York in PDF form.

1:39.0

It is over 18,000 words. Take it for me, it's a spectacular read featuring over 25 New York Carson

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