Johnny Carson ... to talk to Bob about.” Carson grew increasingly frustrated with Hope’s Tonight Show appearances. The elder ...

For nearly 30 years, Johnny Carson sat behind the desk as host of The Tonight Show and interviewed thousands of guests. While he had his favorites, Carson also reportedly disliked one comedy ...

Viewers of The Tonight Show during the 1970s and '80s might have assumed that Bob Hope was one of Johnny Carson's favorite guests. No one appeared on the show more often than the comedy legend ...

Everybody give a big "hi-ho, Steverino" to the first "Tonight" host (1954-57). Talk is cheap, but all of his successors on the late-shift chatter circuit have benefited from the riches he ...

thousands of guests had appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Though they included no-names who got their comedic debut on the show — including eventual A-listers like Joan Rivers ...

The news of his death was announced by Howard Smith, who was a guest on Joe Sibilia’s “Nostalgia Tonight” podcast on Monday.

In 1968, Johnny Carson ... hesitant to take Carson up on the opportunity. But he said the host personally put him at ease and gave him control of the guest list — with the network’s final ...