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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
They have a few minutes here with Omaha's own Pat
Hazel and Entertainment Monster. Pat, welcome back to Omaha. Good morning,
Thank you. I've graduated to Monster. Thank you for Yeah.
That's right, that's right. You're living in what California?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
You know?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
To be honest, I'm in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
All yeah, and I rebounded there from Katrina many years ago,
and I'm just enjoying it very much, keeping it, keeping
it weird. It's very weird. I will give it that.
But I love coming back here. I can tell you
that air's better here at Omaha.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Indeed, well, we want to find out more about this event.
This sounds cool. Johnny Carson on October twenty third would
have been one hundred years old. That is correct. Nebraska
isoland native. That's strisifically about a Nebraska. They consider him
to be Nebraska's favorite son. Despite that. Indeed, and here
we go with a great event at the Lead Center
(00:50):
that you're hosting. Tell me about it. Well, I'm hosting it,
but more my responsibility producing it. So I brought together
all kinds of people that used to be on Johnny's show,
made many appearances on the show, including a woman named
Marilyn May who was on seventy he's a great friend
of ours.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, seventy six times. I believe she was on. One
of the singers they've been on the most. So she's
going to come sing live on the show. Comedians Will
Schreiner and Carol Leifer, the magician Lance Burton. So we
pulled together the best of his favorite acts kind of
he loved variety acts. He loved magic and juggling acts
and singers and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You've got a set like the Tonight show set, Well
we don't.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
We have We kind of have curtain, you know, We've
got lighting that gives us the rainbow curtain look. And
we have a twenty five piece orchestra playing all the
charts from Doc's music. So that's the unl Orches Jazz Orchestra.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Well, it's too bad you can't get Jim Fowler on
because the animal as the most exactly some of the
most popular Carson bits and fault animals. And it was
Johnny and the animal, not just some you know, piebald
goat showing up or you know, some African muskrat. It's
what Carson did with the African muskrat.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That was funny.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So what we did was I made short films in
between the acts, and I went into Joan Embry's she
was on ninety sometimes with all those animals, with the
you know, I think it was a marmoset on his
head and those things, and I put together the best
of Johnny's highlights. There's a guy named Jeff Satzing who's
the Carson Archives guy, and he lets me go into
(02:22):
those files and pull out Buddy Hackett clips and you
know whatever it is. Right, so we have we've put
together We're gonna use a couple of local folks.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
There's a singer here, Camille Motoya Morton. Yes, so she's
going to sing a custom song called Carson Tonight, which
is a takeoff on the comedy Tonight thing. And we're
gonna have montages of Johnny, you know, just almost getting
hit by a you know, an elephant trunk.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, that's that's the Jim Fowler story, and that you know,
he The act was that Johnny would ride out onto
the the set on the stage of the Tonight Show
dressed as Elvis Presley, singing rhinestone cowboy on a rogue elephant,
and Fowler was responsible for managing this elephant and the
trucked it in created it in well, there was a
(03:11):
mirror backstage and this elephant almost saw his own image
in the mirror with Carson on top of him, which
would have impelled the elephant to charge the mirror and
that would have been the end of Johnny Carson told
that story right here.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
One of the great highlights though, in the joone Everything
is there's this giant snake. I don't know what kind
it was, but it was really really a big snake
and they wrapped it around Johnny and he was trying
to sort of manage it, and the tail came up
between Johnny's legs really high and kind of waving it Joe,
and there was like a snake regularly there and Johnny
just had the greatest, like the very sheepish his facial
(03:51):
reaction sold everything.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And he was like, oh if only.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, you know you wrote for the show for a while, right, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Did stand up as as so I made seven appearances
on the Tonight Show, which was the highlight, of course,
of every comedian's career is to get on with Johnny
and get the okay. So and to be from Nebraska
was you know, I'm not the heir apparent to the
Tonight Show, but I will say when you live in Omaha,
all you hear as a comedian is when.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Are you going to be on Johnny? When's Shohnny going
to give the okay?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Nobody liked that anymore and probably never will be.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
No, he was not only a great you know, comedian
and writer and all the other distancs, but his his
skills as an interviewer. He always made the guests. It
didn't matter what they did. He made him look good.
If they had potatoes shaped like President's head, he'd make
it into a story.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You know that's a Chaers episode.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yeah, well, and you know he was He not only made,
he made Late Night because this is what people were
looking at before they went to bed.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fun.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
There was never any biting criticism, no political commentary. He'd
have Ronald Reagan on, but he'd talk about Ronald Reagan
the actor.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, he didn't do commentary.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He did and he was very specific about being non political. Right.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I mean, whatever his opinions were, which you could have,
he never took them on the show because I think
he felt like, you know, his job in late night
was to take a break from the news, like to
put everybody to bed at night, you know, and that's
I think a lot of children were born from that.
You know those Johnny Carson episodes.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He said, I'm a night light.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Oh yeah, that's interesting. Were you ever called over to
the desk, you know what with Johnny? I didn't make
it over because there was a woman who dressed up
chickens that was on before.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Me and she went a little long.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That was it for you?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, But I did go over with Jay a few times,
and it was funny. My mom used to say, are
you going to be on the bench tonight? Yeah, which,
as you know in sports, is not good, but you're
not going to get in the game.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Getting on that couch was a big deal.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Be fun to have people do Johnny Carson imitations. You
could screen him ahead of time, make sure they were good.
That'd be funny.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
There's a lot of older comics that still have a
Johnny voice. I did have the pleasure of meeting him
back stage, which I didn't know. Every comedian didn't get.
But he called me into his office and we spent
about forty minutes. Wow, which is a lot of time
for a lady. And it was because I did magic
when I started, and he here at Omaha. Course, he
worked at WWT at one time, and there was a
(06:16):
guy named Pete Patroshak over there who told Johnny I
was really good with a deck of cards.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So I got called in his office. We did card tricks,
coin trick and we're just loved magic. He loved it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He was a drummer and he did magic, and he
played tennis. That was like his his things he would
do on the off time. And when we got caught
up in doing these tricks, and a guy who was
banging on the door, hey, john you got a show
to do. And I thought every comedian just hung out
with Johnny. So when I told my friends afterwards, oh,
that was fun being in his office, right, they go,
I never met the guy.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, I just walked out with the curtains. Well, what
a thrill too.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Having grown up, you were a kid when that show
was big here in Omaha, you're growing up with it.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It was the greatest.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
And my dad would let me stay up if there
was a comedian on, like, he'd call me in.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
He'd go, hey, check out this guy, Pete bar beauty
or whoever it was.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, you got the old tape from his days in
Channel six.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Is any of that's still around there is? In fact,
he did a he hosted a show called.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
The Squirrel's Nest Right, which was just a dinky little
you know, almost like a cable access version of you know,
Johnny's first broadcast job as KFA b KF.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He was in a linkout and then wow, okay radio,
okay later.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You know what I do have.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I don't know if you've ever heard, I have Johnny
Carson's uh college thesis, which he did on audio. You know,
he was a broadcast guy, so he was. I mean,
he's still got Johnny's voice and mannerisms, and he talks
about how comedy works on the radio and you know what,
how it worked on TV and what you need to
do and he was awesome, referenced to Jack Benny and
(07:44):
all kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Bad thanks, Uh Lead dot com No, it's the Lead
Center dot Org, the Lead twenty thirty. Yeah, please join us.
It'd be super fun. So good to see again.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Man. Thanks
It's great.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
They have a few minutes here with Omaha's own Pat
Hazel and Entertainment Monster. Pat, welcome back to Omaha. Good morning,
Thank you. I've graduated to Monster. Thank you for Yeah.
That's right, that's right. You're living in what California?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
You know?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
To be honest, I'm in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
All yeah, and I rebounded there from Katrina many years ago,
and I'm just enjoying it very much, keeping it, keeping
it weird. It's very weird. I will give it that.
But I love coming back here. I can tell you
that air's better here at Omaha.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Indeed, well, we want to find out more about this event.
This sounds cool. Johnny Carson on October twenty third would
have been one hundred years old. That is correct. Nebraska
isoland native. That's strisifically about a Nebraska. They consider him
to be Nebraska's favorite son. Despite that. Indeed, and here
we go with a great event at the Lead Center
(00:50):
that you're hosting. Tell me about it. Well, I'm hosting it,
but more my responsibility producing it. So I brought together
all kinds of people that used to be on Johnny's show,
made many appearances on the show, including a woman named
Marilyn May who was on seventy he's a great friend
of ours.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, seventy six times. I believe she was on. One
of the singers they've been on the most. So she's
going to come sing live on the show. Comedians Will
Schreiner and Carol Leifer, the magician Lance Burton. So we
pulled together the best of his favorite acts kind of
he loved variety acts. He loved magic and juggling acts
and singers and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You've got a set like the Tonight show set, Well
we don't.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
We have We kind of have curtain, you know, We've
got lighting that gives us the rainbow curtain look. And
we have a twenty five piece orchestra playing all the
charts from Doc's music. So that's the unl Orches Jazz Orchestra.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Well, it's too bad you can't get Jim Fowler on
because the animal as the most exactly some of the
most popular Carson bits and fault animals. And it was
Johnny and the animal, not just some you know, piebald
goat showing up or you know, some African muskrat. It's
what Carson did with the African muskrat.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That was funny.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So what we did was I made short films in
between the acts, and I went into Joan Embry's she
was on ninety sometimes with all those animals, with the
you know, I think it was a marmoset on his
head and those things, and I put together the best
of Johnny's highlights. There's a guy named Jeff Satzing who's
the Carson Archives guy, and he lets me go into
(02:22):
those files and pull out Buddy Hackett clips and you
know whatever it is. Right, so we have we've put
together We're gonna use a couple of local folks.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
There's a singer here, Camille Motoya Morton. Yes, so she's
going to sing a custom song called Carson Tonight, which
is a takeoff on the comedy Tonight thing. And we're
gonna have montages of Johnny, you know, just almost getting
hit by a you know, an elephant trunk.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, that's that's the Jim Fowler story, and that you know,
he The act was that Johnny would ride out onto
the the set on the stage of the Tonight Show
dressed as Elvis Presley, singing rhinestone cowboy on a rogue elephant,
and Fowler was responsible for managing this elephant and the
trucked it in created it in well, there was a
(03:11):
mirror backstage and this elephant almost saw his own image
in the mirror with Carson on top of him, which
would have impelled the elephant to charge the mirror and
that would have been the end of Johnny Carson told
that story right here.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
One of the great highlights though, in the joone Everything
is there's this giant snake. I don't know what kind
it was, but it was really really a big snake
and they wrapped it around Johnny and he was trying
to sort of manage it, and the tail came up
between Johnny's legs really high and kind of waving it Joe,
and there was like a snake regularly there and Johnny
just had the greatest, like the very sheepish his facial
(03:51):
reaction sold everything.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And he was like, oh if only.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, you know you wrote for the show for a while, right, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Did stand up as as so I made seven appearances
on the Tonight Show, which was the highlight, of course,
of every comedian's career is to get on with Johnny
and get the okay. So and to be from Nebraska
was you know, I'm not the heir apparent to the
Tonight Show, but I will say when you live in Omaha,
all you hear as a comedian is when.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Are you going to be on Johnny? When's Shohnny going
to give the okay?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Nobody liked that anymore and probably never will be.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
No, he was not only a great you know, comedian
and writer and all the other distancs, but his his
skills as an interviewer. He always made the guests. It
didn't matter what they did. He made him look good.
If they had potatoes shaped like President's head, he'd make
it into a story.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You know that's a Chaers episode.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yeah, well, and you know he was He not only made,
he made Late Night because this is what people were
looking at before they went to bed.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fun.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
There was never any biting criticism, no political commentary. He'd
have Ronald Reagan on, but he'd talk about Ronald Reagan
the actor.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, he didn't do commentary.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He did and he was very specific about being non political. Right.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I mean, whatever his opinions were, which you could have,
he never took them on the show because I think
he felt like, you know, his job in late night
was to take a break from the news, like to
put everybody to bed at night, you know, and that's
I think a lot of children were born from that.
You know those Johnny Carson episodes.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He said, I'm a night light.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Oh yeah, that's interesting. Were you ever called over to
the desk, you know what with Johnny? I didn't make
it over because there was a woman who dressed up
chickens that was on before.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Me and she went a little long.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That was it for you?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, But I did go over with Jay a few times,
and it was funny. My mom used to say, are
you going to be on the bench tonight? Yeah, which,
as you know in sports, is not good, but you're
not going to get in the game.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Getting on that couch was a big deal.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Be fun to have people do Johnny Carson imitations. You
could screen him ahead of time, make sure they were good.
That'd be funny.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
There's a lot of older comics that still have a
Johnny voice. I did have the pleasure of meeting him
back stage, which I didn't know. Every comedian didn't get.
But he called me into his office and we spent
about forty minutes. Wow, which is a lot of time
for a lady. And it was because I did magic
when I started, and he here at Omaha. Course, he
worked at WWT at one time, and there was a
(06:16):
guy named Pete Patroshak over there who told Johnny I
was really good with a deck of cards.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So I got called in his office. We did card tricks,
coin trick and we're just loved magic. He loved it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He was a drummer and he did magic, and he
played tennis. That was like his his things he would
do on the off time. And when we got caught
up in doing these tricks, and a guy who was
banging on the door, hey, john you got a show
to do. And I thought every comedian just hung out
with Johnny. So when I told my friends afterwards, oh,
that was fun being in his office, right, they go,
I never met the guy.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, I just walked out with the curtains. Well, what
a thrill too.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Having grown up, you were a kid when that show
was big here in Omaha, you're growing up with it.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It was the greatest.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
And my dad would let me stay up if there
was a comedian on, like, he'd call me in.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
He'd go, hey, check out this guy, Pete bar beauty
or whoever it was.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, you got the old tape from his days in
Channel six.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Is any of that's still around there is? In fact,
he did a he hosted a show called.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
The Squirrel's Nest Right, which was just a dinky little
you know, almost like a cable access version of you know,
Johnny's first broadcast job as KFA b KF.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He was in a linkout and then wow, okay radio,
okay later.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You know what I do have.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I don't know if you've ever heard, I have Johnny
Carson's uh college thesis, which he did on audio. You know,
he was a broadcast guy, so he was. I mean,
he's still got Johnny's voice and mannerisms, and he talks
about how comedy works on the radio and you know what,
how it worked on TV and what you need to
do and he was awesome, referenced to Jack Benny and
(07:44):
all kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Bad thanks, Uh Lead dot com No, it's the Lead
Center dot Org, the Lead twenty thirty. Yeah, please join us.
It'd be super fun. So good to see again.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Man. Thanks
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