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Johnny Carson's Tonight Show established the modern format of the late-night talk show: [5] a monologue sprinkled with a rapid-fire series of 16 to 22 one-liners (Carson had a rule of no more than three on the same subject) was sometimes followed by sketch comedy, then moving on to guest interviews and performances by musicians and stand-up comedians, in no fixed order.
Carson's official Tonight Show website; Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress; The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson at IMDb The Man Who Retired a June 2002 Esquire article also available here; Johnny Carson, late-night TV legend, dies at 79, a January 2005 CNN article; A profile of Carson in The New Yorker from 1978
Season of television series List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes No. of episodes 64 Release Original network NBC Season chronology ← Previous Season 1961 Next → 1963 episodes List of episodes The following is a list of episodes of the television series The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson which aired in 1962: October No. Original release date Guest(s) Musical ...
Johnny Carson bids farewell to late night on his final episode of The Tonight Show, which aired 30 years ago.(Photo: Alice S. Hall/NBCU Photo Bank) (NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
On May 13th, 1994, beloved talk show host Johnny Carson made his last TV appearance ever on his friend David Letterman's "The Late Show." The last episode of Carson's "The Tonight Show" had aired ...
Desk- Johnny talks about 24 bike riders cycling from Anchorage, Alaska to Los Angeles in 80 days to benefit the Mental Health Society. The bicyclists are shown in the audience. September
The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has been broadcast on NBC since 1954. The program has been hosted by six comedians: Steve Allen (1954–1957), Jack Paar (1957–1962), Johnny Carson (1962–1992), Jay Leno (1992–2009 and 2010–2014), Conan O'Brien (2009–2010), and Jimmy Fallon (2014–present).
The day Carson returned to The Tonight Show, three weeks after Rick’s death, he dedicated the last few minutes of the show to a remembrance of his son — a rare public look into the host’s ...