"Lassally booked Wright on NBC's "The Tonight Show," where the comic so impressed host Johnny Carson and the studio audience that less than a week later Wright was invited to appear on the show again.In May 2000, Wright and other Ding Ho alumni including Lenny Clarke, Barry Crimmins, Steve Sweeney, Bill Sohonage and Jimmy Tingle appeared at a reunion benefit for comic Bob Lazarus who was suffering from leukemia.