Of course we said yes. The first person i called was johnny carson. He slammed the phone down. I called again, slammed it down again, and never spoke to me again ever. I think he was furious. He felt betrayed. I was now a competitor. He literally had me blacklisted and to this day i have not been on nbc late night ever. Billy as she drove off the nbc lot, she lost her confidence. Oh my god, what have i done . It was such a bad period. Joan the fox show, even before we went on the air, was just a nightmare. Edgar did not like Rupert Murdoch and barry diller, and from the day we walked in, there were fights. About everything. About whether we should have a coke machine or a pepsi machine, m ms or hershey kisses. Finally they called me in on a thursday night, and they said, youve gotta fire edgar. I couldnt do it. I couldnt, uh, i couldnt, couldnt do it, couldnt, couldnt do it. Man the woman who asked, can we talk . Joan rivers is apparently through as permanent host of her late night tal