As host of "The Tonight Show" for 30 years, Johnny Carson was the king of late-night TV. But the public rarely saw his private side. A new biography, "Carson the Magnificent," examines the late-night ...

Of course,e he doesn't believe that. But he understands how that type of fame can make people difficult to deal with.

The comedy legend was a regular on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show Scott Huver is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been writing about entertainment, celebrity, pop culture, crime, fashion and the ...

But people would approach Johnny as if he were family.' 'There was nobody as big a star as Johnny,' she gushed. Cannon appeared on The Tonight Show with Carson in October 1985, where she ...

Summing up his remarkable run on that final show, Carson said “I am one of the lucky people in the world. I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.” By the ...

It was exactly 25 years ago tonight that Johnny ... people, a lot of them, people who were considered right on — and lot of people wished they had taken these stands previously. People watched ...

It was Johnny Carson vs. sleep, and sleep usually lost. "It did!" said Thomas. "I think Johnny brought a lot of people peace ...