Everybody who was anybody landed on Johnny's couch, clockwise from upper left: Richard Pryor, 1986; Drew Barrymore, 1982; Bette Midler, 1992; then-Gov. Jerry Brown, 1979. (Ron Tom, Gene Arias, Alice S ...

ED MCMAHON: And now, ladies and gentlemen, here's Johnny. It might be hard to grasp today just how big Johnny Carson was. He hosted "The Tonight Show" from 1962 until 1992, a bedtime companion for 9 ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Johnny Carson is ever the king of late night television, even over 30 years after his final "Tonight Show." Acclaimed Chicago writer Bill Zehme had unprecedented access to the host ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Author of Carson the Magnificent, Mike ...

For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson was the last face millions of viewers saw before they closed their eyes and went to sleep. Carson, the critic David Thomson once noted, ...

Johnny Carson, the man who made “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” an American institution, has been off the late-night air longer than he was on it. For people of a certain age — you can do ...