I’m wondering if they were getting ready to do a publicity photo and maybe someone cracked a joke as the camera clicked, maybe there are more, but they don’t seem to exist.
I wonder if he’s Michael Zannella, Carson’s talent coordinator. Here’s a blurb from the Sumter Daily Item about Carson broadcasting 13 shows from LA starting Nov. 11, 1970 with most of the people in the photo scheduled to appear. A full paragraph is devoted to Zannella, as though his participation in booking guests for the show was a fairly big deal.
Won’t help much if he is though, because there doesn’t seem to be a single photo of him anywhere online. That also is strange because he was apparently an actor and producer in addition to his Tonight Show work, and several articles on Carson show up under his byline. Yet not a photo is to be found anywhere.
I’m British myself, and remember the early 70s tolerably well. I’m pretty sure that any Briton who could have been a guest Johnny Carson’s show would have been an instantly recognisable household name here in the UK, no matter how obscure he might have been in the US. And I really don’t recognise him.
Though as others have said, he does seem maddeningly familiar.
That does seem a bit odd, but they would have been honored for separate achievements and probably not introduced in that order. Ted and Marlo, on the other hand, were co-stars of a nominated TV series and likely would have come out together.
Question about Richman’s daughter: All she said was “No, that’s not my father”? On what does she base this belief? Childhood memories? Scrapbook collections? Could she have asked dad himself?
My dad was a dead ringer for John Wayne, and if you showed me an anonymous picture of the young Duke, I would be hard pressed to differentiate between the two.
Yes. He looks at Dean Martin and Bob Hope, whom he followed on the show, and says “Did you ever feel like the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?”
