Johnny Carson’s longtime friend and neighbor Howard Smith is reflecting on their friendship 20 years after the late-night ...

On the 33rd anniversary of the last episode of The Tonight Show, read an excerpt from 'My Friend Johnny: The Last 20 Years of ...

Complete with a foreword by legendary late-night talk show host Jay Leno, ‘My Friend Johnny’ is set to hit bookshelves on June 10.

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 ...

Johnny Carson presided over not just late night, but American popular culture. "Johnny Carson was the biggest star in America," said writer Mike Thomas. "Movie stars, rock stars, I don't think ...

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 ...

Johnny Carson dominated late-night TV for over 30 years, but when cameras stopped rolling, he privately struggled with drinking and three doomed marriages. The iconic host, who was known for being ...

Johnny Carson was so popular during his heyday that a late-night quip about a toilet paper shortage caused a run on the product at grocery stores across the country in 1973, nearly a half-century ...

The Tonight Show' host Johnny Carson was married four times before his 2005 death Archive Photos/Getty ; Marissa Roth/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Johnny Carson, beloved host of The Tonight Show ...

Not so with “Carson the Magnificent,” the long-awaited life of the late-night talk show legend Johnny Carson by Bill Zehme, completed by Mike Thomas. Its prologue, written by Thomas ...

One of television's best-known personalities, Johnny Carson, the iconic host of "The Tonight Show" for 30 years, was born on this day in history, on Oct. 23, 1925. Carson had Midwestern roots and ...