If you weren't around at the time, it would be hard to convey to you the impact of Johnny Carson and "The Tonight Show" in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. It seemed like he'd been on forever and that he'd ...
Johnny Carson was America’s ultimate late-night host. The comedian’s most beloved gig was hosting “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” for 30 seasons from 1962 until his retirement in 1992. His ...
A new book revisits Johnny Carson’s uneasy relationship with Saturday Night Live, detailing how repeated SNL parodies may have influenced his decision to leave The Tonight Show in 1992 ...
Carson the Magnificent; By Bill Zehme and Mike Thomas; Simon & Schuster; 336 pp., $30.00 Johnny Carson was omnipresent on American television for three decades (1962 to 1992), flickering in the dark ...
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In his posthumously published new biography, Carson the Magnificent, Bill Zehme reports that “a recalculation of [Carson’s] small-screen hours cautiously translated, in conventional terms, to more ...