Media executive Byron Allen on breaking barriers in show business

August 2024 ยท 1 minute read

Byron Allen:

I remember standing behind the curtain joking with you know, the crew, and I had my back to the curtain. And all of a sudden they stopped laughing and kidding with me. And then they said they clear their throats like, like Turn around, turn around and was Johnny Carson.

And he had gotten up from behind his desk, and he said, Hey, kid, don't worry, you're going to be great. And they said we'd been pulling the curtain for him for 30 years, whatever, years and they said he has never gotten up from behind the desk and said anything to anybody.

And at that moment, I said, Wow, this guy is one of my heroes. And I said, what I do in the next five minutes will change my life, and my mother's life, the trajectory of our lives forever. So I'm going to go out there, I'm going to have fun, and I'm just going to light it up.

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