They learned that I enjoyed working with animals and it looked like it was fun and it was exciting. And that’s one of the things that those kids went away with. It wasn’t all the knowledge and the things I was saying, it’s how I acted with the animals and how the animals were related to me. Well, I think to a certain extent that was true on Johnny Carson. I could tell if things were going well, and I’ll tell you how I did it. (laughs) Johnny was so quick and he was so great at responding to a situation. I had to force myself to concentrate very carefully on what Johnny was saying. I had to separate the audience from anything that was happening between Johnny and me. But occasionally I would hear the audience laughing was what we call belly laughs.
