Name: Colin Quinn Turned Down "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson" - CONAN on TBS
Uploaded: 2021-02-24T19:05:38.000Z
Duration: 2 min 14 s
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The comparative

It's hard to explain to young people today, but in the late 19 eighties, there was no bigger deal for a stand up comic than to be offered a slot on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show It Was It overnight change careers.

Future simple

You were doing well enough that the Booker for The Tonight Show saw you and said, Johnny is gonna love this guy and offered you a slot on the Tonight Show.

Past simple

I mean, you know, e have a lot of delusions of grandeur, But one of the things I was thinking was like, I'm not changing my act to go on the side because remember, even though people loved it, there was something What?

So even though they went on the tonight show, they kind of look down on it.

So I didn't notice that I wasn't prior or calling right.

And so I figured he told me, You just can't you know you can't curse on.

Forget it, then, s O, they said, Just calling.

It's gonna change your life overnight you'll be one of the biggest comics in America at such a young age.

You know, I don't need you know what I mean?

Like, I didn't need that wasn't gonna be on my meet.

When the Booker for the Tonight Show who's never heard anybody turned them down, had you on the phone.

You were talking to the book of the Tonight Show in person at the Improv in L.

Yeah, and they come up to you and they say, Okay, column.

He couldn't believe he just started laughing.